WiFi 6e
What Is Wi-Fi 6E?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-is-wi-fi-6e
Wi-Fi 6 vs. Wi-Fi 6E
Archive of ‘technology literacy’ category
surveillance and police
Local police are often able to access very powerful surveillance tools — including cellphone tracking devices, automatic…
Posted by NPR on Wednesday, January 27, 2021
On police use of automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs
invasive technologies
Stingray IMSI Catcher (international mobile subscriber information)
Notifications
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We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53402901-we-see-it-all
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more on surveillance in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=surveillance
Tik Tok data exposure
Researchers find new flaw that left TikTok user data exposed, including phone numbers and profile information https://t.co/9scLgdQgTs
— Business Insider Tech (@SAI) January 26, 2021
https://www.businessinsider.com/check-point-researchers-tiktok-user-data-exposed-second-time-2021-1
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more on tik tok on this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=tik+tok
more on data privacy in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=data+privacy
social media censorship Russia
Tens of thousands took to the streets across Russia, sharing photos and videos on social media faster than they could be removed, urging others to join.
Posted by NPR on Sunday, January 24, 2021
But the Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor quickly jumped to pressure social media platforms to remove videos that it said called for minors to participate in protests, warning that it was illegal for them to do so. On Friday, the government claimed that 38% of all offending videos on TikTok, 50% on YouTube and 17% on Instagram had been removed. By Saturday Roskomnadzor said more messages had been deleted on TikTok and Russian social media app Vkontakte. Facebook and Google, the owners of Instagram and YouTube respectively, expressed uncertainty about the accuracy of the numbers, Gizmodo reported.
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more on censorship in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=censor
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/microsoft-teams-is-getting-a-new-feature-and-zoom-should-be-worried
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more on video conferencing in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=videoconferencing
New FCC Chief
New Acting FCC Chief Jessica Rosenworcel Supports Restoring Net Neutrality from r/technology
Rosenworcel has long supported net neutrality, and opposed most Trump FCC policies, be it the steady dismantling of the agency’s consumer protection authority, or efforts to eliminate decades-old media consolidation rules designed to protect public discourse and smaller companies from massive media monopolies.
In 2019, Rosenworcel pressured telecom giants to come clean on their collection and sale of sensitive user location data to third parties, and consumer groups say she’s been a steady advocate of consumer rights throughout her tenure.
Roughly 42 million Americans—double official FCC estimates—lack access to any broadband connection whatsoever. Another 83 million only have the choice of one provider, usually Comcast or Charter. This lack of meaningful competition directly results in high US broadband prices, spotty coverage, and routinely terrible customer service.
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more on netneutrality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netneutrality
Comast data cap
Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states from r/technology
Comcast data cap blasted by lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states
Data cap harms poor people and isn’t needed to manage network, Mass. reps say.
Comcast charges an extra $30 per month for unlimited data, or $25 for the “xFi Complete” add-on package that includes the Comcast gateway device and unlimited data. Customers who don’t upgrade to unlimited data and exceed the 1.2TB cap must pay $10 for each additional block of 50GB, up to a maximum of $100 each month. Comcast is phasing in the charges gradually, so customers in newly capped areas could start getting overage charges for their April 2021 usage.
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more on netneutrality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netneutrality
SenseGlove
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more on haptic in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=haptic
Quantum computer makers
categories: information technology, technology literacy
Quantum computer makers like their odds for big progress
Error correction could make these revolutionary machines more practical sooner than expected.
https://apple.news/AVdsyLybaRMOjkkvtzWn_jw
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more on quantum computer in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=quantum
US Internet
In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet: We pay twice as much as Europe for high speeds, assuming we can even get them from r/technology
IN 2021, WE NEED TO FIX AMERICA’S INTERNET
We pay twice as much as Europe for high speeds, assuming we can even get them
https://www.theverge.com/22177154/us-internet-speed-maps-competition-availability-fcc
Across the country, the FCC and internet service providers are pretending there’s competition in an unimaginable number of places where it doesn’t actually exist.
As FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel wrote for The Verge last March, as many as one in three US households doesn’t have broadband internet access, currently defined as just 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up — which feels like the bare minimum for a remote learning family these days.
early 12 million children don’t have a broadband connection at home, the Senate Joint Economic Committee reported in 2017. And the “homework gap” hits harder if you’re poor, of course: only 56 percent of households with incomes under $30,000 had broadband as of last February, according to the Pew Research Center.
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more on netneutrality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netneutrality