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28 October, 2016
But this year, Google quietly erased that last privacy line in the sand — literally crossing out the lines in its privacy policy that promised to keep the two pots of data separate by default. In its place, Google substituted new language that says browsing habits "may be" combined with what the company learns from the use Gmail and other tools. The change is enabled by default for new Google accounts. Existing users were prompted to opt-in to the change earlier this year. The practical result of the change is that the DoubleClick ads that follow you around on the web may now be customised to you based on your name and other information Google knows about you. It also means that Google could now, if it wished to, build a complete portrait of a user by name, based on everything they write in email, every website they visit and the searches they conduct.
Labels:
Catholic Worldview,
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
Privacy
IBM’s chief engineer has revealed the simple trick that could have avoided the national online Census fail altogether. IBM Australia managing senior engineer Michael Shallcross said turning the router “off and on again could have detected the problem earlier, which could have avoided the 40-hour shutdown.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
ICT Capability
Apple has announced restyled MacBook Pros with a Touch Bar feature that redefines how we interact with notebooks. In an event overnight in Cupertino, it unwrapped new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros that replace the function keys across the top of the keyboard with a totally configurable touch strip that can display keys with variable icons that automatically display context sensitive choices.
When I first learnt coding in the late 1960s it was a long, tedious process. I was at a school which luckily had an “in” with the Victorian Education Department and Monash University to use Minitran, a cutdown version of the widely used Fortran programming language used for general scientific applications.
Labels:
Education,
History,
ICT Capability
27 October, 2016
24 October, 2016
HSC: Maths teachers in revolt over proposed new syllabu. Dr Pender is one of several prominent mathematicians who have signed a letter demanding the board withdraw the draft syllabuses. Another signatory is the principal of SCEGGS Darlinghurst, Jenny Allum. He said the proposed changes to assessment, which would include an increase in the number of take-home projects, would cheapen mathematics in the eyes of most students. "HSC courses with projects already have huge problems with plagiarism, with assignments being traded on the web, and assignments being completed by tutors or parents."
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