Day archives: May 31st, 2020

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues May 31, 2020

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them; Johns Hopkins releases report on digital contact tracing to aid COVID-19 response; Coronavirus stimulus payments mistaken for junk mail; IRS issues clarification; and Reality bites: Data privacy edition.

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cyberlaw, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Government Resources, KM, Legal Research, Privacy, Technology Trends, Viruses & Hoaxes

LLRX New Issue – May 2020

Articles and Columns for May 2020 How not to fall for coronavirus BS: avoid the 7 deadly sins of thought – Luke Zaphir, Researcher for the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project, posits that amid the panicked flurry of the pandemic, employing concepts from the field of critical thinking called vice epistemology can be demonstrably useful. …

Subjects: KM