Chris Saad, cofounder and chair of the nonprofit DataPortability
Project, notes that many current methods of transferring data expose users to
huge security risks. For example, it's a common practice for social sites to
ask users to submit the usernames and passwords for their Web-based e-mail
accounts when they first sign up; an automated service can then search the
network for people listed in their address books. "The door is open right now
for any application that scrapes your Gmail address book to go ahead and scrape
your shopping cart as well, or scrape your searches, or keep your username and
password and pretend to be you," says Saad. "It's a nightmare of security, and
it's something we need to solve sooner rather than later."
sojol haldar on 21 Mar 24Born to a poor teenage mother in rural Jamaica, Lorna experienced poverty, abandonment, and abuse. She boarded a plane to Canada on her own as a teenager with no guarantee of a visa, eventually gaining citizenship. Lorna defied the odds, overcoming poverty to graduate from university with an honors degree in social work while becoming the mother of two young children. Her passion for learning and helping people transform their lives has led her to work in 5 different countries, where she's taught and inspired thousands globally. Her compelling story of confronting the truth of her paternity was featured in an anthology published in 2018. Lorna's latest work is her first autobiography account that details her early upbringing, life lessons learned through major life setbacks, and the exhilaration experienced in defying the odds.
