Der Trend, Sportgeräte zu vernetzen, hat auch Ski erreicht: Die Rossignol Hero Master zeigen auf der Oberseite mit LEDs wichtige Daten während der Abfahrt an, die von Sensoren erfasst werden. (Sportspiel, Technologie)
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Am weltweiten Tag für das sichere Internet wird in Deutschland das Thema Cybermobbing in den Vordergrund gestellt. Besonders betroffen sind Jugendliche, an die sich verschiedene Angebote richten.
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Laut eines Berichts des Marktforschungsunternehmens Canalys kommt Amazons AWS 2016 auf einen höheren Anteil am IaaS-Markt, als die drei größten Konkurrenten zusammen. Auch der Gesamtmarkt ist stark gewachsen.
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If you bought a Vizio smart TV within the last two years, there's a good chance that TV automatically tracked what you were watching without asking for your permission, according to a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission and the State of New Jersey. Today, the California-based TV manufacturer agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle the charges and to more prominently disclose when and how it collects user information.
Since February 2014, software installed on the televisions allowed Vizio to continuously collect customer&039;s viewing history through software called “ACR,” or automated content recognition. This software captures a selection of pixels displayed on Vizio smart TV screens and sends that data to the company&039;s servers, where those pixels are compared to a database of different TV shows, movies, and commercials. ACR can also collect information like your Wi-Fi signal strength, nearby Wi-Fi access points, and IP addresses.
The complaint alleges that over 100 billion data points per day (information like what content you&039;re watching and how long you&039;re watching it) from more than 10 million Vizio televisions have been collected, and the company planned to store this data on their servers indefinitely. A stipulated federal court order requires that Vizio delete all data collected before March 1, 2016. An anonymized version of the data that did not include customers&039; name or contact information was sold to third parties for advertising and audience measurement purposes.
In a provided statement, Vizio&039;s general counsel Jerry Huang said, “The ACR program never paired viewing data with personally identifiable information such as name or contact information.” Huang also stated that, “Today, the FTC has made clear that all smart TV makers should get people&039;s consent before collecting and sharing viewing information and Vizio is now leading the way.”
As a part of the settlement, Vizio did not admit or deny the FTC&039;s allegations.
The FTC charged Vizio for violating Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits deceptive and unfair acts affecting consumer privacy. In September, the FTC clarified this section as it relates to smart TVs. New guidelines for smart TV manufacturers include explaining data collection practices up front, requiring consent before collection, and making privacy settings easy to understand.
According to the FTC&039;s complaint, Vizio did not make it clear to customers that they intended to collect their TV viewing history, and the collection was turned on by default, which did not give customers a chance to opt out. A key part of the complaint is that Vizio promised customers recommendations based on the data collected, but never provided them to owners of older Vizio TVs.
In a separate statement, acting FTC Chairperson Maureen Ohlhausen said she agreed Vizio should have been more explicit about its data collection, but is further investigating if those practices are likely to cause “substantial injury.” Ohlhausen tweeted that she intends to start a dialogue about whether TV viewing history should be considered sensitive information, like health care or financial records.
If you own a Vizio TV, you can disable data collection by going to your TV&039;s Menu > Settings > Smart Interactivity, or any option with Automated Content Recognition, and turning it off.
Quelle: <a href="Here&039;s How To Prevent Your Vizio TV From Spying On You“>BuzzFeed
We are pleased to announce support for three new pre-defined security policies ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-1-2017-01, ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-2017-01 and a default security policy, ELBSecurityPolicy-2016-08 for the Application Load Balancer to support your TLS workloads. The new policies give you the flexibility to pick the TLS ciphers and protocols for your workloads on the Application Load Balancer.
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Two dozen Democrats in Congress will send a letter to the president Monday, urging him to rescind his refugee and travel ban — and they are highlighting the risks to American tech to make their case.
“Like millions of Americans, we deeply object to your recent Executive Order barring the entry of residents and refugees of seven predominantly Muslim countries into the United States,” the letter begins, which was authored by Rep. Robin Kelly. “In addition to Constitutional concerns, the stance this Order takes is in contradiction of American values.”
The 24 lawmakers argue that the travel ban poses “great risk of lasting damage” to the US economy, with a focus on tech industry recruitment. They argue that Trump’s executive order undermines the ability of American tech companies to hire the world’s most talented workers. “This is a recipe for disaster,” the representatives write.
The lawmakers quoted Apple CEO Tim Cook, who told his employees soon after the executive order took effect, “Apple would not exist without immigration, let alone thrive and innovate the way we do.” And they noted the personal background of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, “We would not be ‘Googling’ had Sergey Brin’s parent’s never left the Soviet Union for American shores,” states the letter. The representatives are also seeking to protect so-called high-tech work-visa programs that allow tech companies to hire skilled workers for temporary stays.
President Trump has criticized the programs in the past. And a leaked draft of an executive order has raised concerns in Silicon Valley that the president may soon extend immigration restrictions to them. Critics of skilled-immigration visa programs say they are abused by outsourcing companies who place lower-paid foreigners in positions that Americans could otherwise fill. Proposals in Congress that would increase the salary requirements for these positions have already sent shock waves through India, where several outsourcing tech firms lost billions in market value last week.
But the representatives tell President Trump that the demand for STEM workers currently outpaces supply, with jobs in the fields of science, engineering, and math only expected grow.
“We have an obligation to continue beating the drum and fighting back against this reckless, unconstitutional and un-American Executive Order,” Rep. Kelly told BuzzFeed News in a statement. “The American people deserve to understand how much Trump’s Muslim ban endangers our morals, our economy, and our security.”
Reps. Barbara Lee, John Conyers, Ted Lieu, and Sheila Jackson Lee were among the letter’s signatories.
Quelle: <a href="House Democrats Highlight The Risks To US Tech In Letter Opposing Trump’s Travel Ban“>BuzzFeed
Snap's departing head of creative strategy, Greg Wacks
Greg Wacks
Greg Wacks, Snap&039;s head of creative strategy, has left the company ahead of its forthcoming IPO, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Wacks, who joined Snap in 2014, worked closely with advertising agencies on creative and strategy for ads, dealing with lenses, geo filters, and Discover. Snap declined comment.
Leadership turnover has been a problem for Snap in the past, which at one point in 2015 lost eight top execs within a span of 12 months. In its S-1 IPO filing last week, Snap listed leadership turnover as a risk factor that could cause the company serious harm. “The loss of key personnel, including members of management and key engineering, product development, marketing, and sales personnel, could disrupt our operations and seriously harm our business,” the company&039;s S-1 document stated.
Quelle: <a href="Snap&039;s Head Of Creative Strategy Leaves Company Ahead Of IPO“>BuzzFeed
Today, we are excited to announce the preview of Storage Service Encryption (SSE) for Azure File Storage. When you enable Storage Service Encryption for Azure File Storage your data is automatically encrypted for you.
Azure File Storage is a fully managed service providing distributed and cross platform storage. IT organizations can lift and shift their on premises file shares to the cloud using Azure Files, by simply pointing the applications to Azure file share path. Thus, enterprises can start leveraging cloud without having to incur development costs to adopt cloud storage. Azure Files now offers encryption of data at rest capability.
Microsoft handles all the encryption, decryption and key management in a fully transparent fashion. All data is encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption, also known as AES-256, one of the strongest block ciphers available. Customers can enable this feature on all available redundancy types of Azure File Storage – LRS and GRS.
During preview, the feature can only be enabled for newly created Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Storage accounts.
You can enable this feature on Azure Resource Manager storage account using the Azure Portal. We plan to have the Azure Powershell, Azure CLI or the Microsoft Azure Storage Resource Provider API for enabling encryption for file storage by end of February. There is no additional charge for enabling this feature.
Find out more about Storage Service Encryption. You can also reach out to ssediscussions@microsoft.com for additional questions on the preview.
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We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest edge location in Vienna, our first edge location in Austria.
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Like many other businesses, banks are increasingly adopting digital transformation. Why? They want to provide compelling customer engagement, retain all their customers and fend off defections to competitors. Now more than ever, it’s important that banks provide a differentiated, tailored experience that draws customers in, both online and in-person.
Banks are finding ways to deliver innovation in the customer experience, and they need a way to deliver that experience quickly. I’d say the global banking community sees speed of innovation as a top priority, while continuing to maintain strong governance, controls and risk mitigation.
BPM Wave helps banks worldwide navigate and accelerate their digital transformation. The company offers packaged and tailored digital applications that can help banks quickly launch new products, processes and services. New solutions can be deployed on a private cloud or as cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) applications that can easily fit into any existing environment.
BPM Wave’s applications and services are built on top of an IBM private cloud foundation, including IBM Business Process Manager (IBM BPM), IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and IBM PureApplication. The company uses this foundation to help banks quickly set up and deploy new applications across their private or hybrid cloud landscape. Let me get specific:
IBM BPM helps automate and execute processes that involve a lot of human intervention and complex dependencies between stage activities. It easily integrates into banking IT systems.
IIB provides connectivity and universal data transformation to help simplify connectivity between new and existing applications, web services and data assets.
IBM PureApplication System (renamed IBM Bluemix Local System) and PureApplication Service provide a high performing and scalable private cloud application platform across a hybrid landscape.
Watch what Jon Wiener, a partner at BPM Wave, says about how to accelerate digital and process transformation for banks:
Interested in learning more about the software that helps BPM Wave deliver transformation to banks? Learn more about IBM BPM here.
Check out all the business transformation stories to be shared at IBM InterConnect 2017 in March.
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