@vmcntosh.bsky.social
Freelance information & #privacy professional in Halifax, NS. Geek, history & caffeine enthusiast. MLIS, CIPT. I work hard so my pets live the good life. @vmcntosh on the old bird site. Skeets on a little bit of everything.
"People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next"
AI is being used by intelligence agencies for counter-terrorism. But what they end up building is automated surveillance, which can wrongly flag individuals as threats.
We spoke at the United Nations about how technical failures become human rights issues.
privacyinternational.org/advocacy/574...
Art 🥰
…. and it’s still only MARCH.
Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character, wrong answers only:
Good still exists
leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"
So, this isn't just a state or federal privacy law issue and Grammarly has good enough lawyers to know that. This is also a state privacy tort issue and they're banking on the fact that no one will sue them for unauthorized use of their name.
California has very strong laws on this bc Hollywood.
Have a Super Mar10 everyone!
Halifax, we gotta up our game. Can you imagine getting something this amazing by the waterfront at the height of summer?
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
She’s a grass/normal type.
"Google's Play Store will now flag apps that could cause excessive battery drain, which might make you think twice before downloading them—and encourage developers to fix the problem." www.pcmag.com/news/google-...
I too would like to order a billion dollars with my fries. 🍟
JUST LET ME PRETEND I'M SAVING THE PLANET YOU NO-GOOD DISOBEDIENT CREATURE
Usually there’s some level of discussion on complexities behind the situation.
Not this time.
Not sure people in the U.S. understand how the rest of the world views the current military and pending financial crisis as the fault of “those two dumbasses in the White House.”
March is Women’s History Month. I am going to try to highlight a related book each day. I say try because March is also the beginning of Spring when a garden witch’s heart turns to the outdoors. I’ll try to keep it up sharing recommendations and my current reading list.
Please share your recs!
Hope not. Fingers crossed all the snow Jan & Feb keeps things from drying up. 😓
“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
It’s bright, sunny and nearly t-shirt weather in Halifax, and it’s early March. What’s the catch?
Been here long enough to know spring this early is an illusion.
Niiiiiice!
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
Also I need to do a serious overhaul of my profile & website, but I’ve been sitting on that since the COVID lockdowns. 😅
I mean how? Am I still here? And crazy busy?
A large part has to do with luck, repeat business and some amazing contacts I frequently work with as a subcontractor but still….
Flipping through LinkedIn and realized I will have been freelancing / consulting for 13 years one month from now, and honestly that feels all kinds of insane.
It recently came to my attention that a friend who escaped an abuser wasn’t familiar with DARVO, an acronym for understanding how abusers operate. So we’re all going to have a little education tonight:
It’s like Shoppers asking if you want to donate to charity every purchase.
No. I’ll make a donation where I’m the one who gets the tax receipt.
This is exactly what you do in a province with the highest growth in seniors.
NS Gov: We're cutting the caregiver benefit because we'll have more long term care homes so families can send they're loved ones away instead of caring for them at home.
Also NS Gov: The care in long term care homes is too good. Cut some of those staff out.