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21 September, 2018
Google’s Chinese Search Engine Reportedly Links Results to Phone Numbers. “This is very problematic from a privacy point of view, because it would allow far more detailed tracking and profiling of people’s behavior,” said Cynthia Wong, senior internet researcher with Human Rights Watch, told The Intercept. “Linking searches to a phone number would make it much harder for people to avoid the kind of overreaching government surveillance that is pervasive in China.”
Labels:
Asia Connection,
Ethical,
Privacy
19 September, 2018
17 September, 2018
14 September, 2018
Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms. Last week Victor Stinner, a Python developer who works for Red Hat, published four pull requests seeking to change "master" and "slave" in Python documentation and code to terms like "parent," "worker," or something similarly anodyne.
Labels:
Catholic Worldview,
Ethical,
History
13 September, 2018
11 September, 2018
A new front in the education wars is set to break out over whether schools should focus on skills such as problem solving over teaching facts and figures as the state government begins the biggest overhaul of the curriculum in a generation. Advocates of so-called soft skills such as critical thinking argue they are more relevant in an age when facts can be easily found on the internet, but opponents say hard knowledge is an essential foundation of higher-order thinking.
30 August, 2018
28 August, 2018
NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes has scrapped the state's most controversial education policy and will no longer force year 9 students to score three band 8s in NAPLAN to qualify for the HSC. Under the changes, HSC students will still have to meet a minimum standard through short online tests in reading, writing and numeracy.
27 August, 2018
The HSC will go online for the first time next year in a move that has been described as "keeping up with the times". The NSW Education Standards Authority has decided a computer exam is the best way to conduct the final assessment for the new, high-level science extension course, in which students will answer questions about their research project.
Labels:
Education,
ICT Capability,
research
23 August, 2018
21 August, 2018
13 August, 2018
Three potential suppliers of equipment to Australia’s next generation 5G network have connections to China’s Communist Party. While the Turnbull Government has been strongly lobbied by federal MPs and security officials to ban Chinese-owned Huawei from involvement in the 5G network, there has been little focus on the Chinese-connections of two other likely 5G participants, Nokia and Ericsson.
07 August, 2018
01 August, 2018
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