Victor Skinner reports: John Hopkins Medicine researchers will track the physical activities and daily diet of 50 overweight freshman from Lakewood High School as part of a pilot project using Fitbit – an electronic wristband that records activity and sleep patterns. The effort, funded by a $100,000 grant from insurer Florida Blue, is focused more…
Month: September 2014
America’s ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Fight Heats Up
H.O. Maycotte writes: …. For Google, and for many Americans, this issue hits close to our constitutional home. And while Internet-savvy civilians are currently preoccupied with the net neutrality fight on the homefront, the right to be forgotten is about to become law in at least one state in 2015 – likely pointing to a country-wide…
Frenchman in Court Over Dubai ‘Upskirt’ Pics
CairoScene reports: A Frenchman is facing a trial for taking upskirt photos of shoppers at a packed Dubai mall. Cops claim they found almost 300 sordid upskirt snaps after arresting the 39-year-old company manager at Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates in May last year. The seedy sex snooping first came to light when a 26-year-old…
DoE Preps Privacy Standards For Smart Grid
Jai Vijayan reports: The US Department of Energy (DoE) is betting on a voluntary set of standards to guide privacy practices within the smart grid industry. Earlier this month, the Department publicly released for comment a draft Voluntary Code of Conduct listing a set of privacy recommendations for smart grid owners, operators, and other third parties. Read…