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silence7 OP , to technology in Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.

At some point, that car won’t be cost-effective to repair, and you’ll want to replace it. Be a lot better to have strong privacy legislation in place when that happens.

silence7 OP , to technology in Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.

More that peoples’ movement data isn’t worth much, so it wouldn’t be a big deal to impose legal requirements on keeping it private.

As Sen. Wyden says:

This is timely in light of JD Vance’s comments about wanting to surveil the body of every woman in America. I just dropped a new investigation into car companies selling off your private location data to shady data brokers. The case for federal privacy legislation has never been stronger.

silence7 OP , to technology in An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her.

per the article, it’s rather better than that.

silence7 OP , to technology in An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her.

Pretty much anything trying to predict human behavior is a heuristic; people using them as if they’ve got some kind of certainty is a problem.

silence7 OP , to technology in An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her.

My impression from the article is more that they’re not doing any kind of garbage-in assessment: nobody is making sure they’re getting answers about the right person (eg: some women date more than one guy) and some women don’t feel safe giving accurate answers to the police, and there aren’t good failsafes available for when it’s wrong; you’re forced to hire legal counsel and pursue a change via the courts.

silence7 OP , to news in New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fall

Yes, they’ve been updating the vaccine every year to match currently-circulating virus strains. This is about an additional update coming out this fall.

Pretty much the same thing is done with flu vaccines, where you need a periodic update for it to be effective.

silence7 OP , to news in New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fall

No, not yet. There will probably be one in September or October.

silence7 OP , to world in Game-Changing HIV Shot Can’t Get to High-Risk Groups Fast Enough | Lenacapavir proved it's possible to prevent 100% of infections in women. Access and affordability are the next big hurdles.

Historically, the answer on this has involved charging very different amounts in different countries. This both enables some level of access by the poor and maximizes profits.

silence7 OP , to world in More than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50C | At least 320 of the dead are from Egypt and Saudi officials report treating more than 2,000 people for heat stress

That Saudi. The plan there seems to be to sell off all the oil, and then have the royal family decompress to a more northern latitude with their harems while the rest of the population cooks to death.

silence7 OP , to news in How our brain tries to beat the heat — and why heatstroke is dangerous | Not only does heatstroke have a relatively high mortality rate, but those who recover still may face future health problems

About a week ago, the Washington Post started requiring registration in order to access the gift link. You need to give up an email address (eg: a burner for just this purpose) in order to access gifted articles for free.

silence7 OP , to news in Chemical Makers Sue Over Rule to Rid Water of ‘Forever Chemicals’

There’s no way this one ends up being only billions; they literally coated the entire surface of the ocean.

silence7 OP , to news in Chemical Makers Sue Over Rule to Rid Water of ‘Forever Chemicals’

Unless your well is drawing from an uncontaminated aquifer that isn’t recharged by rainwater, that doesn’t really help you. This class of chemicals wound up pretty much everywhere.

silence7 OP , to technology in Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

Not in the same detailed minute-by-minute tracking of where you’ve been.

silence7 OP , to technology in Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored? The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

They’re also buying tracking data from phone apps, so you’d need to make sure you’re not running any of those either.

silence7 OP , to news in UN Secretary-General Urges Ban on Fossil Fuel Ads as Planet Warms

Hence the need to push attendees to take actions like this, instead of expecting them to just happen on their own.

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