Tag Archives: privacy

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* AVG Innovation Labs developed a clever way to leverage the same technology that does facial and image recognition, so that faces are automatically blurred. This could protect a degree of privacy while letting the others sell/advertise their experiences. (Courtesy: AVG Innovation Labs)

* More than 40,000 millionaires left France between 2000 and 2014. (Courtesy: Michael Stothard/FT)

* The Confucius family tree is the longest lasting and most documented lineage. (Courtesy: Amy Qin/NYT)

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:
* There are 500 demonstrations per day in China. (Courtesy: New York Review of Books)

* The Chinese pioneered goldfish. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)

* There’s no obvious way to get around the new USPS requirement to enter a destination address into a computer system to mail a package. (Courtesy: Personal experience)

* At least some USPS employees deny the existence of the Mail Isolation and Tracking system. (Courtesy: Personal experience)

Things I Learned this Week

Among the things I learned this week:

* The Amen Break‘s waveform has peak intervals that fit the golden ratio. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)

* This past week’s experience is that it is increasingly common for Web sites to not discuss and/or provide options for deleting one’s account. (Courtesy: Various service-oriented Web sites)

* Towns in Appalachia are passing fracking bans. (Courtesy: Local Media)