Viele Digitalprojekte seien mit dem Einsatz elektromagnetischer Felder verbunden und führten so zu einer höheren Strahlenbelastung der Bevölkerung, warnt das Umweltministerium. Es will Forschung dazu fördern.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Unterhosen gegen Handystrahlung, Drohnen für Selfie-Freaks, Mülleimer-Scanner: Auf der CES gibt es allerlei Nützliches, aber auch viel Merkwürdiges. Wir haben 21 interessante Gadgets zusammengestellt.
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Autonome Fahrsysteme und Elektroautos erobern wieder die Elektronikmesse CES in Las Vegas, aber auf deutschen Straßen bleiben sie die Ausnahme. Wie der Stand der Dinge ist und die Erwartungen aussehen, besprechen wir in einer neuen #heiseshow.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
As we flip the calendar ahead to 2017, it’s time to look forward to the big trends that we believe will shape the next 12 months. These aren&8217;t “predictions”, but rather an amplification of trends that the OpenShift team has seen emerging in 2016 and we believe will become more mainstream in 2017.   Vertical Industry Collaboration Whether […]
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“The government wants to know where you’re headed … on every ride.”
That’s the subject line of an email New York City Uber passengers received from the company today. The message goes on to warn riders that city taxi regulators want to start collecting private data about where individual Uber rides begin and end, and it encourages recipients to send an auto-generated tweet that includes the hashtag #TLCDontTrackMe. (TLC is the Taxi and Limousine Commission, which regulates cabs and ride-hail services in New York City.)
Uber first warned riders about the proposed rules in late December.
New York City already collects data on Uber rides. But now, in order to better monitor the issue of driver fatigue, the city wants to collect even more information, recording where riders get off as well as where they get picked up.
Uber says it is happy to provide the city with information on trip duration, but that regulators asking for specific locations of drop offs is an overreach.
“Several independent privacy experts have said this policy creates ‘serious privacy risks,’” Uber’s email reads. “And that it would give the government 'and anyone else who accesses this information a comprehensive, 360-degree view into the movements and habits of individual New Yorkers.&039;”
The part about “anyone who accesses this information” is a direct reference to a data privacy blunder New York taxi regulators made a few years ago. A 2014 blog post by a former Twitter engineer (which Uber’s auto-generated tweet links to) revealed that the city failed to properly anonymize the data it collected on taxi pick ups and drop offs, making it very easy to decode. The point Uber is trying to emphasize is that this type of mistake could happen again, leaving Uber passengers vulnerable.
TLC Deputy Commissioner for Public Affairs Allan Fromberg said the error that made the anonymized data identifiable back in 2014 was immediately corrected, and that it wouldn’t have impacted any Uber data collected by the city. He also noted that yellow cabs have been required to provide their pickup and dropoff locations to the city for a decade already. On Twitter, transportation experts concurred that the city’s data request is within normal regulatory bounds.
Some people on Twitter also noted the irony of Uber framing itself as a champion of data privacy, given the ways the company has attempted to leverage its riders’ private data in the past, including threatening to monitor individual users. And just last month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation called on Uber to offer passengers a way to opt out of a controversial new feature that tracks their location for up to five minutes after a ride ends.
Uber has a well-established strategy of leveraging its user base to fight back against regulations it doesn’t want to comply with. Before ultimately pulling out of Austin, Texas, for example, Uber sent both texts and emails urging customers to vote against legislation that would require drivers to be fingerprinted. In NYC, the company added a tab to users’ Uber apps that projected how long ride wait times would be if an unfavorable law supported by Mayor Bill DeBlasio was passed. (It wasn’t.) And in India, Uber also rallied users to oppose government rules that would change how ride-hailing apps could operate in the country.
A hearing regarding the proposed rules on data collection will be held Thursday morning. At time of publishing, dozens of Twitter accounts had already tweeted Uber’s warning in an effort to resist the city’s plan to collect the information it says it needs to keep them safe.
“Today, New York City requires Uber and other companies to hand over a lot of sensitive personal passenger data, including where you&039;re picked up on every trip. Now, New York City wants more. They&039;re trying to force companies to tell them where you’re dropped off, as well.
In other words, they want to piece together the full details of every trip you ever take. Several independent privacy experts have said this policy creates &039;serious privacy risks.&039; And that it would give the government &039;and anyone else who accesses this information a comprehensive, 360-degree view into the movements and habits of individual New Yorkers.&039; Click below to send a clear message that enough is enough.
Yours is the most powerful voice in this debate. We need your help. New York City doesn’t need this data and they’ve shown in the past that they cannot prevent it from becoming public.”
Quelle: <a href="Uber Sent Riders A Creepy Email About NYC’s Plan To Track Their Trips“>BuzzFeed
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Amazon is looking to make and sell its own branded workout apparel.
Recode first reported that Amazon had listed several “brand manager” jobs on its site that called for people with experience in the clothing industry “to build authentic activewear private label brands.” Sources familiar with Amazon's plans tell BuzzFeed News that this is indeed the case.
The rise of fashionable athletic wear brands like LuluLemon, which people wear not only in the gym but everywhere, has been one of the biggest fashion trends in recent memory. Competition and product saturation may be cutting individual brands&039; market share, though.
Amazon has already developed a suite of eight other clothing brands like the high-end womenswear brand Society New York, the kids clothing line Scout & Ro, and the men&039;s shoe company Franklin and Freeman, among others. According to fashion news site WWD, these eight private labels account for 1,800 products sold on Amazon. Most recently it rolled out a brand of men&039;s shirts under the label Buttoned Down. Creating an athleisure clothing line to add to its other collections makes sense for Amazon. And because the e-commerce giant has a trove of data on customer browsing and purchasing habits, it has an advantage over many of its athleisure competitors.
Amazon also sells a number of branded consumer goods — from diapers to batteries — under the name AmazonBasics. It sells packaged foods through private-label brands, including Happy Belly, Wickedly Prime, and Mama Bear.
Amazon declined comment on its plans for a line of workout apparel.
Quelle: <a href="Amazon Wants To Make Yoga Pants“>BuzzFeed
Mit dem Zenfone 3 Zoom hat Asus ein neues Android-Smartphone mit zwei Hauptkameraobjektiven vorgestellt. Wie beim iPhone 7 Plus können Nutzer zwischen den Objektiven umherschalten – und so dank der höheren Brennweite der zweiten Linse einen Zoomeffekt erzielen. (CES 2017, Smartphone)
Quelle: Golem
Sie sollen eine Helligkeit von bis zu 2.000 Nits erreichen und fast den kompletten DCI-P3-Farbraum abdecken: Samsungs QLED-Fernseher nutzen einzeln angesteuerte Nanokristalle statt solche mit Hintergrundbeleuchtung. Das ist wichtig für HDR. (Samsung, OLED)
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The Department of Labor sued Google today over the search behemoth's failure to provide the government with data about its employees&039; compensation, among other things.
As a federal contractor, Google is required to provide compensation information to the government, but has refused to do so since 2015, according to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
In a press release, OFCCP Acting Director Thomas M. Dowd said, “Like other federal contractors, Google has a legal obligation to provide relevant information requested in the course of a routine compliance evaluation. Despite many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily, Google has refused to do so. We filed this lawsuit so we can obtain the information we need to complete our evaluation.”
The press release specifically says Google was unwilling to provide data regarding its equal opportunity program. When Google released its 2016 diversity numbers in July, the percentage of female versus male employees had increased 1% from the previous year, for a total of 31% women. 91% of Google&039;s employees are White or Asian, while 5% are Hispanic or Black. At the time, the company said it was “still far from where we need to be.” In Silicon Valley, Google&039;s lagging employee diversity numbers are not an anomaly. Many of its fellow tech companies, from Apple to Facebook, also employ more white men than any other group.
In a statement, Google said it’s committed to diversity, and has worked to comply with the OFCCP. “However, the handful of OFCCP requests that are the subject of the complaint are overbroad in scope, or reveal confidential data, and we&039;ve made this clear to the OFCCP, to no avail,” a Google spokesperson wrote via email. “These requests include thousands of employees’ private contact information which we safeguard rigorously. We hope to continue working with OFCCP to resolve this matter.”
In addition to the DOL’s lawsuit, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is also investigating Google in response to reports of age discrimination. The company was also recently sued by an employee known as John Doe, whose suit alleges that the company exercises unfair control over employee information, including a rule that bars workers from writing fictional novels about their time at Google.
Google did not immediately respond to request for comment. If it fails to comply, the Department of Labor has asked that Google&039;s current government contracts be revoked, and that the company be barred from winning government contracts in the future.
You can read the full lawsuit here.
Quelle: <a href="The Department Of Labor Is Suing Google Over Equal Employment“>BuzzFeed
Project Tango und Daydream in einem Gerät: Asus hat das neue Android-Smartphone Zenfone AR vorgestellt. VR-Inhalte können über Googles Daydream-Plattform genutzt werden, das Tango-Kamerasystem verpasst dem Smartphone AR-Fähigkeiten. Das Zenfone AR ist zudem das erste Smartphone mit 8 GByte RAM. (CES 2017, Smartphone)
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