Category «AI»

Finding Email Addresses

Across most sectors, customer support is no longer provided by human contacts but rather leads customers into endless telephone loops of menus, dealing with chatbots, or receiving emails from “no-reply” addresses. Finding email addresses for actual people is very difficult but Michael Ravnitzky’s article features proven tools and techniques to locate and use the email address of individuals within organizations who should be responding to your issues and complaints and providing you with a satisfactory resolution.

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Subjects: AI, Business Research, E-Commerce, Email, Search Engines, Search Strategies

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 8, 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: This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition; NSA Releases Guidance on Limiting Location Data Exposure; Lawsuit claims TikTok steals kids’ data and sends it to China; and Data isn’t just being collected from your phone. It’s being used to score you.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email, Email Security, KM, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 1, 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: New ‘Shadow Attack’ can replace content in digitally signed PDF files; Election admins vulnerable to email attacks; A Test and Trace Strategy for Reconnecting to Government Networks; and Is That ‘Contact Tracer’ Really a Scammer? How to Tell.

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Subjects: AI, Competitive Intelligence, Computer Security, Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Healthcare, KM, Privacy, Social Media

How to hide from a drone – the subtle art of ‘ghosting’ in the age of surveillance

Drones of all sizes are being used by environmental advocates to monitor deforestation, by conservationists to track poachers, and by journalists and activists to document large protests. As a political sociologist who studies social movements and drones, Prof. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick documents a wide range of nonviolent and pro-social drone uses in his new book, “The Good Drone” and shows that these efforts have the potential to democratize surveillance.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Civil Liberties, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 18, 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: Google Sued for Allegedly Tracking App Users After They Opt Out; Twitter hack reveals national security threat as election approaches; EFF Launches Searchable Database of Police Agencies and the Tech Tools They Use to Spy on Communities; Utility company calling? Don’t fall for it.

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Subjects: AI, Business Research, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Healthcare, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues July 12, 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: Your Smart Speaker Is Listening When It Shouldn’t; The U.S. is ‘looking at’ banning TikTok, cites Chinese surveillance; How Google Docs became the social media of the resistance; and Google Maps Launches New Features To Help People Navigate Coronavirus Hotspots.

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Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Comparative/Foreign Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Health, KM, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Technology Trends

2020 Directory of Directories

This new guide by Marcus P. Zillman is a comprehensive listing of directory, subject guide and index resources and sites on the Internet. The guide includes sites in the private, public, corporate, academic and non-profit sectors and spans the following subject matters: Academic/Education; Economics/Business; Government and Statistics; Humanities; Information and Information Science; Law; Medicine; News; Science and Engineering; and Social Sciences.

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Subjects: AI, Business Research, Competitive Intelligence, Digital Archives, Economy, Education, Federal Legislative Research, KM, Legal Research, Librarian Resources, Libraries & Librarians, News Resources, Reference Resources, Search Engines, United States Law

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues June 27, 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: How to make sure Google automatically deletes your data on a regular basis; Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm; Library officials warn: Stop microwaving books to kill COVID-19; and Making .gov More Secure by Default.

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Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Government Resources, Healthcare, Legal Research, Libraries & Librarians, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues June 14, 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: COVID-19 has increased risks, costs for November presidential election; It’s Time to Talk About Police Use of Facial Recognition Tech; Webinar on Regulating the Use of Technology to Combat COVID-19; and Best VPN services: Reviews and buying advice.

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Subjects: AI, Big Data, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Financial System, Government Resources, KM, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues June 6, 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: How to take back the information you’ve given to all your favorite apps and websites; More Cyber Training Does Not Mean Fewer Data Breaches; Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking ‘private’ internet use; and COVID-19 Complicates Already Challenged FDA Foreign Inspection Program.

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Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Encryption, Energy, Government Resources, Health, Healthcare, KM, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media
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