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EFF: What We Mean When We Say “Data Portability”

What We Mean When We Say “Data Portability” “Data portability” is a feature that lets a user take their data from a service and transfer or “port” it elsewhere. This often comes up in discussions about leaving a particular social media platform and taking your data with you to a rival service. But bringing data to a competing service is just one use for data portability; other, just-as-important goals include analyzing your data to better understand your relationship with a service, building something new out of your data, self-publishing what you learn, and generally achieving greater transparency. Regardless of whether you are “porting” your data to a different service or to a personal spreadsheet, data that is “portable” should be easy to download, organized, tagged, and machine-parsable. EFF supports users’ legal right to obtain a copy of the data they have provided to an online service provider. Once you move beyond that, however, the situation gets more complicated. Dat...

EFF: Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach and It Only Took Public Pressure

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EFF: Offline: Activists and Technologist Still Face Grave Threats for Expression

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Offline: Activists and Technologist Still Face Grave Threats for Expression A decade ago, before social media was a widespread phenomenon and blogging was still a nascent activity, it was nearly unthinkable outside of a handful of countries—namely China, Tunisia, Syria, and Iran—to detain citizens for their online activity. Ten years later, the practice has become all too common, and remains on the rise in dozens of countries. In 2017, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that more than seventy percent of imprisoned journalists were arrested for online activity, while Reporters Without Borders’ 2018 press freedom barometer cited 143 imprisoned citizen journalists globally, and ten citizen journalists killed. While Tunisia has inched toward democracy, releasing large numbers of political prisoners following the 2011 revolution, China, Syria, and Iran remain major offenders, and are now joined by several countries, including the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. When w...

HMI and its implications in advanced process controls

The accelerated rate at which industries have grown in the current day-and-age is nothing to scoff at, and one need only witness the tremendous growth in the manufacturing sector to understand why this statement holds so much weight. With the rapidly escalating growth of technology, the manufacturing sector needs to adopt the latest tools that will help augment their functionality and help them stay ahead of the times by practising proper machine control . Automation will prove to be crucial in achieving this goal, and HMI software will help you do so with ease. As more and more industries adopt the latest technology to make the most of the digital age, it’s imperative to provide employees with a basic idea of how these machines will augment business processes in the long run. After all, machine control is not exactly a simple concept to grasp, and companies need to take the means required to ensure that their employees are informed about these complex mechanics. However, there’s on...

Electrical motors and their modern day role in industries

Machine control has become the need of the hour in modern times, since the applications of technology has become a must. The sheer number of applications this service has enabled are nothing short of immense, reaching a point where the industries of today can’t even imagine functioning without the proper implementation of the latest innovations – they have revamped business functioning by leaps and bounds. Take the examples of servo motors – it has been augmented to an extent that was never thought of before. The concept of motor starting needs to be taken into account if you want to achieve the goal of optimising factory processes. It might sound simple at first, but the fact that almost every mechanical process requires a motor proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that motor protection systems have become the need of the hour. Without the implementation of these systems, it’s only a matter of time before these industrial functions break down and harm the flow at which work is done. T...