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White House Proposes an American GDPR
The White House is working on a proposal for an American GDPR. Over the past month, the Commerce Department has met with representatives of over 80 companies, trade associations, and consumer groups.
The government’s goal is to release an initial set of ideas this fall that outlines Web users’ rights, including general principles for how companies should collect and handle consumers’ private information, the people said. The forthcoming blueprint could then become the basis for Congress to write the country’s first wide-ranging online-privacy law, an idea the White House recently has said it could endorse.
A spokesperson for President Trump said that the administration wanted to achieve “the appropriate balance between privacy and prosperity.” Here’s the Orr Translation: Corporations will continue to erode our privacy with Trump’s blessing.
Apple Offers Free Product Repairs for Devices Damaged in Japan Floods
Japan has had record amounts of rain recently, with widespread flooding, burst riverbanks, landslides, and collapsed buildings.
We Gladly Buy Technology Used Against Us
We gladly buy technology used against us. That’s what FastCompany‘s Henry Cowles-Aeon writes about. Because of certain political events happening under the current administration, sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have surged.
Snowden was right. Re-reading 1984 in 2018, one is struck by the “TVs that watch us,” which Orwell called telescreens. The telescreen is one of the first objects we encounter: “The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.” It is omnipresent, in every private room and public space, right up until the end of the book, when it is “still pouring forth its tale of prisoners and booty and slaughter” even after Smith has resigned himself to its rule.
Mr. Cowles-Aeon gives an insight into the book that isn’t usually picked up on, and his article is worth reading.
This Instagram Account Shows How Alike Photographers Are
I discovered an Instagram account last night called @insta_repeat. The account posts collages of photos from all of the cookie cutter “adventure photographers” on Instagram. Don’t get me wrong. I follow some of these photographers and they are really good. I don’t want to diminish or disparage their skills. But they’ve fallen into the Instagram trap, where they post popular photos that people like, and other photographers see that popularity and post similar photos to get on the bandwagon. I think a lot of them are independent artists, and they don’t have the luxury of choice that photographers who get sponsored or have a business do. The account does it with class. No calling people out, or public shaming. Just simple collages of similar photos.
Stalk Your Ex Using Tracer from DataBytes
In the wrong hands, many technologies can be dangerous. But some technology makes it easy to be dangerous.
Under the Hood with iPhone Cellular Data, Uninterrupted Power Supplies - TMO Daily Observations 2018-07-27
Dave Hamilton and John Martellaro join Jeff Gamet to go under the hood with iPhone cellular data management along with uninterrupted power supplies, or UPS, for our computers.
Investors Say Amazon will Hit $1 Trillion Market Cap Before Apple
Apple may be making money faster than the government can print it, but institutional investors think Amazon will be the first company to hit a trillion dollar market cap. That’s what a poll conducted by CNBC at the Delivering Alpha Conference. CNBC said,
Nearly 70 percent of those surveyed said Amazon will reach the trillion-dollar value milestone first, followed by Apple and Alphabet. Currently Amazon has a market cap of $888 billion versus Apple’s $949 billion and Alphabet’s $870 billion as of Tuesday’s close, according to FactSet. Nearly 100 investors were polled at the conference.
Investors think Amazon will grow faster than Apple, and both companies are in a stronger growth position than Google’s parent company Alphabet. It’s interesting how investors always question Apple’s growth potential.
Apple Redesigns Apple Store App with New Search Features
Apple released Apple Store 5.1 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on Thursday with a redesigned interface that supports voice-based product searches.
Jony Ive Speaking at WIRED 25th Anniversary Event
Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive is slated as one of the guest speakers at WIRED’s 25th anniversary celebration in October.