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List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 1 views

  • the HP Color LaserJET 8500 series
    • dr tech
       
      The IT System is printers - and how they place yellow dots to assign dates and times...
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    Ooh this is interesting - how printers are being used to trace us and information.
BOB SAGET

Emails spark woman's sacking - National - NZ Herald News - 0 views

  • emails
    • BOB SAGET
       
      The IT system used is E-Mailing service.
  • sacked for sending "confrontational"
    • BOB SAGET
       
      The social and ethical issue is Policies and Standards.
  • unfair dismissal
    • BOB SAGET
       
      unfair dissmissal SUCKS
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • Vicki Walker
    • BOB SAGET
       
      This is the first Stakeholder, the one who was sacked...
  • ProCare Health
    • BOB SAGET
       
      This is where she worked, this is the second Stakeholder.
  • Auckland
  • 4:00 AM
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    BOB SAGET. While in class with you, I mentioned this article and for some reason (probably to annoy me) you stole it before I could get to it. I'm upset and disapointed in you BOB SAGET.
BOB SAGET

Couple who took £61,000 from faulty ATM sentenced | UK news | The Guardian - 0 views

  • faulty cash machine
    • dr tech
       
      So can you explain how that machine works - input process output and storage? Is it an expert system?
  • the fault arose owing to the machine being very old
    • dr tech
       
      What issues would this be?
    • BOB SAGET
       
      RELIABILITY>> DUH
BOB SAGET

Faulty light worries riders - The Oakland Press News: The best place for news in and ar... - 0 views

  • faulty traffic light
    • BOB SAGET
       
      The IT system is a Traffic Light. The light is faulty therefore the social and ethical issue is reliability.
  • equestrians
    • BOB SAGET
       
      The stakeholders are the people who use the Light.
  • rider and pedestrian safety
    • BOB SAGET
       
      Security is another social and ethical issue.
BOB SAGET

Beware: Employee Monitoring Is On The Rise -- Monitoring -- InformationWeek - 0 views

  • MailSweeper and PornSweeper
    • BOB SAGET
       
      These are the two IT systems Mailsweeper and Pornsweeper hehe...
dr tech

Leaving a Vulgar Comment Online Might Cost You Your Job - 1 views

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    Interesting article -what do you think should have happened?
Max van Mesdag

iPhone 'malware' writer gets job - 0 views

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    The writer of a worm that can enter jailbroken iPhones has accepted a job to be a hacker full time. Although he will be doing his work for good, are iPhone owners so happy about the situation?
dr tech

What jobs will still be around in 20 years? Read this to prepare your future | US news ... - 0 views

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    "More and more independent thinkers are realizing that when being an employee is the equivalent to putting all your money into one stock - a better strategy is to diversify your portfolio. So you're seeing a lot more people looking to diversify their career." Faith Popcorn, a futurist, echoes the idea that we will all have to become as agile as possible and "have many forms of talent and work that you can provide the economy".
dr tech

Tech workers are downing tools and refusing to work on unethical projects / Boing Boing - 0 views

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    "Tech workers are in demand: companies find it easier to raise cash than to hire engineers; this gives workers enormous bargaining power, and they're using it. From the Google uprisings over a Pentagon babykiller project and a Chinese surveillance project to the Microsoft uprising over ICE contracts, tech workers are emerging as part of the solution -- while their secretive, shareholder-haunted bosses are more and more the problem."
dr tech

Bank of England investigating dramatic overnight fall in pound | Business | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "The Bank of England has previously highlighted the impact of trading algorithms. "Some markets appear to have become more fragile, as evidenced by episodes of short-term volatility and illiquidity over the past couple of years," Threadneedle Street said last December, warning of a move towards "fast, electronic trading." "
dr tech

The world's most automated country moves toward setting a 'robot tax' - 0 views

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    "A new proposal could see the country reduce the amount of tax benefits for companies that invest in automated machinery."
dr tech

The Era of Ownership Is Ending - 0 views

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    "Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is a model for traffic without ownership. You pay a monthly fee for it, like with Spotify, tell the app where you are going and get instant access to taxis, Ubers, buses, and so on. Everything is available on-demand and ownership is no longer needed."
dr tech

JetBlue is the latest to use facial recognition technology in airports - 0 views

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    "However, there is some concern about how accurate these new procedures will be. Apparently the facial recognition technology doesn't recognize all people will the same accuracy. White women and black people aren't as easily recognized as white men, meaning there could be some mismatching of identities. Some are also concerned that this is crossing the line in terms of passenger privacy."
dr tech

Working from home was fine for 6 months. Now it's not - 0 views

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    "Although a few companies (tech firms, largely) have decided that work from home is a long-term solution, others are realizing that simply won't work for them. JPMorgan says its internal data show workers are not as productive from home. The result is a decision to make the investments to bring people back as safely as possible in this new normal. "
immapotaeto

Apple's Climate Plan Will Cut Carbon Footprint - Bloomberg - 1 views

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    "Apple Inc. captured headlines last week for declaring it would be carbon neutral by 2030. "
dr tech

Why Are Good Jobs Disappearing if Robots Aren't Taking Them? - 0 views

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    " To be clear, workers are regularly replaced by automation, but the speed and impact of robots taking jobs is routinely overstated in public discourse; very unlikely to accelerate during a recession; and is one of many other factors that affect or change the nature of work."
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