This map shows the distribution of people over the age of 60 in Mexico.
“High Resolution Population Density Maps These are the most accurate population datasets in the world. They are available to download for 169 countries, right now, by anyone, on UN OCHA’s Humanitarian Data Exchange here or Amazon AWS Open Data Sets here. You can find a tutorial video here for how to work with Population Density Maps in QGIS, a mapping software. ”
“The Social Connectedness Index measures the strength of connectedness between two geographic areas as represented by Facebook friendship ties. These connections can reveal important insights about economic opportunities, social mobility, trade and more.”
Source : Social Connectedness Index – Facebook Data for Good
“In principle, the concept of a « Corona App » involves an enormous risk due to the contact and health data that may be collected. At the same time, there is a chance for « privacy-by-design » concepts and technologies that have been developed by the crypto and privacy community over the last decades. With the help of these technologies, it is possible to unfold the epidemilogical potential of contact tracing without creating a privacy disaster. For this reason alone, all concepts that violate or even endanger privacy must be strictly rejected. In the following, we outline social and technical minimum requirements for such technologies. The CCC sees itself in an advisory and observation role in this debate. We will not recommend specific apps, concepts or procedures. We however advise against the use of apps that do not meet these requirements.”
Source : CCC | 10 requirements for the evaluation of « Contact Tracing » apps
“Facebook representatives approached controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group to try and buy a tool that could help Facebook better monitor a subset of its users, according to an extraordinary court filing from NSO in an ongoing lawsuit. Facebook is currently suing NSO for how the hacking firm leveraged a vulnerability in WhatsApp to help governments hack users. NSO sells a product called Pegasus, which allows operators to remotely infect cell phones and lift data from them.”
Source : Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims – VICE
“Now that a large portion of the world is working from home to ride out the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom’s popularity has rocketed, but also has led to an increased focus on the company’s security practices and privacy promises. Hot on the heels of two security researchers finding a Zoom bug that can be abused to steal Windows passwords, another security researcher found two new bugs that can be used to take over a Zoom user’s Mac, including tapping into the webcam and microphone.”
Source : Ex-NSA hacker drops new zero-day doom for Zoom | TechCrunch
“Il est problématique qu’un État soit en mesure d’imposer ses règles aux citoyens d’un autre pays (par exemple, le droit européen empêcherait des internautes chiliens de voir certains liens dans Google), surtout s’il s’agit de liens licites. Car dans ce cas, il faut s’attendre à la mécanique inverse, y compris d’États autoritaires ou dictatoriaux qui imposeraient leurs vues sur la recherche en Europe. Par ailleurs, un droit à l’oubli appliqué de façon trop large et automatique pose de vrais défis à un autre droit légitime, celui de l’accès à l’information. D’ailleurs, Google était soutenu dans sa démarche par la fondation Wikimédia, qui pilote l’encyclopédie en ligne Wikipédia, mais aussi le comité des reporters pour la liberté de la presse, l’ONG Article 19 et l’association de défense des libertés numériques EFF.”
Source : La CNIL n’a pas réussi à imposer un droit à l’oubli mondial à Google – Société – Numerama
“Last week Buzzfeed News and the Los Angeles Times featured street-level visualizations of how COVID-19 is affecting traffic patterns in major cities around the world. The visualizations were generated from Mapbox Traffic data. For this post, we dug further into our telemetry data to show how much and where movement and local travel patterns have changed around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Source : Where and when local travel decreased from COVID-19 around the world
“Safari continues to pave the way for privacy on the web, this time as the first mainstream browser to fully block third-party cookies by default. As far as we know, only the Tor Browser has featured full third-party cookie blocking by default before Safari, but Brave just has a few exceptions left in its blocking so in practice they are in the same good place. We know Chrome wants this behavior too and they announced that they’ll be shipping it by 2022.”
“Asking people to choose between privacy and health is, in fact, the very root of the problem. Because this is a false choice. We can and should enjoy both privacy and health. We can choose to protect our health and stop the coronavirus epidemic not by instituting totalitarian surveillance regimes, but rather by empowering citizens. In recent weeks, some of the most successful efforts to contain the coronavirus epidemic were orchestrated by South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. While these countries have made some use of tracking applications, they have relied far more on extensive testing, on honest reporting, and on the willing co-operation of a well-informed public.”
Source : Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus | Financial Times
“For well over a decade, identity thieves, phishers, and other online scammers have created a black market of stolen and aggregated consumer data that they used to break into people’s accounts, steal their money, or impersonate them. In October, dark web researcher Vinny Troia found one such trove sitting exposed and easily accessible on an unsecured server, comprising 4 terabytes of personal information—about 1.2 billion records in all.”
Source : 1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server | WIRED
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