Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook called on the Federal Trade Commission to track data brokers and monitor how they use people’s digital information, the latest privacy push by the iPhone maker.

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Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/apple-ceo-calls-for-data-broker-clearinghouse-in-privacy-push

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In the Incubator.org Community area, you can tag people based on a various different parameters and cases, depending on the friendship status, privacy, replies, group or event membership and many other factors.

Tagging Cases

1. When you compose a new post from post box on profile or home page, you will only be able to tag yourself and your friends.
2. When you reply to activity stream item on the home or profile page, you will be able to tag yourself, all your friends and everyone who participated in that particular story.
3. In public group or public event, you will be able to tag yourself, all your friends, and all members of that particular group or event.
4. In private group or private event, you will only be able to tag yourself and members of that group or event.
5. In private messages, when there are more than two (2) people in conversation, you can tag all participants in the conversation.
6. Tagging on photo, video and album comments is also available and you can tag the owner of the item, as well as existing commenters.
7. You can not tag same person more than once in single item.
8. All tagged people will recieve a proper notification that they are being tagged.

In the Incubator.org Community area, you can tag videos that you have uploaded, as well as videos uploaded by your friends.

Simply navigate to the video you want to tag, and if you have permission to tag the video, "Tag this video" option will show up.

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In the Incubator.org Community area, you can tag photos that you have uploaded, as well as photos uploaded by your friends.

Simply navigate to the photo you want to tag, and if you have permission to tag the photo, "Tag this photo" option will show up .

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There's a Whole List of Popular Apps Sending Your Data Off to Facebook

Popular Android apps send off your data even if you never log in to Facebook with them.

The new study from Privacy International sheds light on a slew of popular Android apps that provide user data to Facebook without the explicit consent of users who don't necessarily have to be logged in to Facebook or even maintain an account to have their data snagged.

Of the 34 apps examined in the study, 20 were found to share data with Facebook, sometimes at the exact point of activating the app. The apps examined, which include the language study guide Duolingo and the travel-booking giant Kayak, were built using the open-source Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK). Sixty-one percent of the apps tested were found to transmit data back to Facebook "from the moment a user opens the app," according to the study.

SOURCE: https://www.privacyinternational.org/report/2647/how-apps-android-share-data-facebook-report

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Women are key to solving the workforce shortage, which is expected to reach 3.5 million open jobs by 2022.

As the cybersecurity industry continues to struggle to meet a workforce gap – an estimated 3.5 million jobs are expected to remain unfilled by 2021 – it’s clear that encouraging women and those from diverse backgrounds to pursue careers in the field will be a key factor in staying ahead of the threat landscape. Changes at the RSA conference, scheduled for February in San Francisco, along with a handful of large companies stepping up to the plate with training and recruitment efforts, show that the industry may finally be getting serious about addressing the issue.

While diversity in general is an issue in tech, women are particularly underrepresented. They hold about 26 percent of tech jobs according to a research report by The American Association of University Women (AAUW), and in cybersecurity specifically that drops to just 11 percent of roles globally being held by women according to the (ISC)2 2017 Global Information Security Workforce: Women in Cyber Security study.

SOURCE: https://threatpost.com/women-in-cyber/139770/

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This is a story about how to perceive the population of cities.

Matt Daniels has created a way of showing where each dot on the map represents 1,000,000 square meters and the areas with the most people show as deeper shades of red. Then he shows another way to look at population, by growing each dot into a 3D block appearing as Population Mountains.

Check it out: https://pudding.cool/2018/12/3d-cities-story/

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This simple map shows the biggest employers in each state.
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In a recent edition of their ‘Chart of the Week’ feature, Visual Capitalist released a fascinating map of every state’s biggest employer.

While a lot of the data isn’t exactly mind-blowing (MGM is number one in Nevada, for example), what is surprising is Walmart’s absolute domination. While Amazon may rule supreme in online sales, a brick-and-mortar retail chain is America’s biggest private employer in almost half of the states (22, to be exact).

Walmart currently employs around 1.5 million people in the U.S. By comparison, Amazon has a little over 500,000 workers.

As you can see in the map, state universities make up the majority of the remaining areas in the country.

The data, compiled from 24/7 Wall Street, excludes public administrative bodies, like state governments.

SOURCE: https://visualcapitalist.com/walmart-nation-mapping-largest-employers-u-s

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1. REASONS WHY YOUR ONLINE PRESENCE WILL REPLACE YOUR RESUME
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1. REASONS WHY YOUR ONLINE PRESENCE WILL REPLACE YOUR RESUME
2. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CYBERSECURITY
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The field of cybersecurity is largely mysterious to those outside of it, even as it becomes more important than ever.

There is something tantalizing about a lone hacker using a single computer and a big brain to take down the bad guys or stick it to the man. The archetype of the hacker has a cultivated ethos of freedom, individuality, and subtle craftiness that cannot be denied. From the ’90s cult classic Hackers to the more modern (and realistic) Mr. Robot, the hacker has long held a special place in pop culture. Despite this fascination with hacking, hackers, and cyberwarfare, the field is poorly understood outside of industry professionals.

As the software industry continues to “eat the world,” the software security industry has grown alongside it. As more software is deployed, it stands to reason that more software is vulnerable to attack. Indeed, there is growing concern among professionals that cybersecurity firms are seriously understaffed, and there aren’t nearly enough of them to combat the growing number of cyberattacks. Making matters worse, the continued drive toward accelerated training programs for software developers means that more developers are deploying code who have not had any formal security training.

CONTINUE READING SOURCE ARTICLE ON MEDIUM.COM: Cybersecurity Is About Much More Than Hacking

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