Reinvention of Spending: The pandemic forced millions to change the way they buy products almost overnight, leading to an e-commerce boom and new ways to pay for just about anything. This is your guide to the post-pandemic future of consumer finance. https://www.protocol.com/manuals/reinvention-of-spending/

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we worked with the National Network to End Domestic Violence to put together a factsheet on why encryption matters to survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, stalking, and trafficking. https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/12/how-strong-encryption-can-protect-survivors-of-domestic-violence/

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Empresas de espionagem estão a usar o sistema telefónico instalado em pequenos países para vigiarem pessoas em todo o mundo, incluindo em Portugal. Segundo uma investigação do Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) e do jornal The Guardian, algumas operações de vigilância foram dirigidas a alvos em Portugal e efectuadas a partir das ilhas Jersey ou Guernsey, no Canal da Mancha.... http://tictank.pt/2021/01/06/cidadaos-em-portugal-sao-alvo-de-espionagem-telefonica-privada/

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Over the last two weeks, Facebook has repeatedly allowed a top Republican Super PAC, American Crossroads, to run dishonest attacks against Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock — in violation of Facebook's own misinformation rules. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Georgians have been exposed to misinformation about Warnock on Facebook in the critical days leading up to the January 5 run-off election. https://popular.info/p/facebook-fails-georgia

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O novo site da CIA: https://www.cia.gov/

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The science events to watch for in 2021 Se querem medir responsabilidades, o funcionamento da democracia está mais ameaçado pelos jornais do que pelas redes sociais. Mapping TradeTech: Trade in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: This report aims to shed light on the landscape of emerging trade technologies and consider the opportunities and challenges for each, ranging from AI to IoT to 3D printing.... http://tictank.pt/2021/01/04/breves-do-dia/

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This article offers four contributions to improve our understanding of consent in the digital world. First, we offer a conceptual vocabulary of “the pathologies of consent” — a framework for talking about different kinds of defects that consent models can suffer, such as unwitting consent, coerced consent, and incapacitated consent. Second, we offer three conditions for when consent will be most valid in the digital context: when choice is infrequent, when the potential harms resulting from that choice are vivid and easy to imagine, and where we have the correct incentives choose consciously and seriously. The further we fall from these conditions, the more a particular consent will be pathological and thus suspect. Third, we argue that out theory of consent pathologies sheds light on the so-called “privacy paradox” — the notion that there is a gap between what consumers say about wanting privacy and what they actually do in practice. Understanding the “privacy paradox” in terms of consent pathologies shows how consumers are not hypocrites who say one thing but do another. On the contrary, the pathologies of consent reveal how consumers can be nudged and manipulated by powerful companies against their actual interests, and that this process is easier when consumer protection law falls far from the gold standard. In light of these findings, we offer a fourth contribution — the theory of consumer trust we have suggested in prior work and which we further elaborate here as an alternative to our over-reliance on consent and its many pathologies. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3370433

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2020 ficou obviamente marcado pela crise pandémica e alguns dos artigos mais vistos registam essa tendência. Mas outros mostram o interesse pela novidade dos livros publicados este ano sobre as TIC também em Portugal, a privacidade ou a cibersegurança. Escolhendo o artigo mais visto para cada mês, a lista é um conjunto diverso de temas a que o TICtank presta atenção.... http://tictank.pt/2021/01/04/os-12-trabalhos-mais-vistos-do-ano/

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* O que esperar de 2021 * Cinco forças de disrupção * Tendências e mais tendências * 24 ideias que podem mudar o mundo * Riscos e oportunidades para o próximo ano * Tecnologias a moldar o futuro humano (por exemplo, os implantes híbridos) * Previsões para o jornalismo e os media pela Kantar * Como será a…... http://tictank.pt/2021/01/04/2021/

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A New Year's Eve tradition of scarfing down 12 grapes for good luck. (https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/twelve-grapes-new-years-eve)

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