BigVig209 - Slashdot User

Submission + - License plate cameras help police, privacy concerns raise call for regulations (chicagotribune.com)

Submitted by BigVig209 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @06:17PM

BigVig209 writes: An article from the Chicago Tribune (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-automated-license-plate-readers-in-suburbs-20210629-nlrvjbfwwjal7gu4ihnwlv4tua-story.html) on how suburban police departments in the Chicago area use license plate cameras as a crime-fighting tool. Some police departments have discontinued using license plate cameras saying they did not work as advertised and had too many problems.

Some suburbs and leaders expressed serious concerns about privacy and misuse of private information. The story describes how many police officers have abused license plate databases (https://apnews.com/article/699236946e3140659fff8a2362e16f43).

Submission + - Healthcare organizations under siege from cyberattacks, study says (chicagotribune.com)

Submitted by BigVig209 on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @07:43PM

BigVig209 writes: A new study set to be officially released Wednesday found that networks and Internet-connected devices in places such as hospitals, insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies are under siege and in many cases have been infiltrated without their knowledge.

The study was conducted by Norse, a Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm, and SANS, a security research institute. In the report, the groups found from September 2012 to October 2013 that 375 healthcare organizations in the U.S. had been compromised, and in many cases are still compromised because they have not yet detected the attacks.

Submission + - Datawind not blowing smoke - $38 tablet coming to the U.S.

Submitted by BigVig209 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @01:13PM

BigVig209 writes: In a follow-up to story submitted by symbolset back on May 4, 2013, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that London-based Datawind it will begin selling its $38 UbiSlate tablet computer in the United States early next year.

"The $38 7-inch touchscreen UbiSlate 7Ci tablet runs on Google's Android 4.0 and features a 1-gigahertz, single-core processor. It has 4 gigabytes of storage with microSD card slots for additional storage. The 7-inch display offers a resolution of 800x480 pixels."

The specs are not the greatest, the fastest, the most powerful, but, for under $50, they're still pretty good, no?

Submission + - Univ. of Minnesota compiles database of peer-reviewed, open-acces textbooks (insidehighered.com) 1

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BigVig209

on Thursday May 10, 2012 @12:31PM

BigVig209 writes: "Univ. of MN is cataloging open-access textbooks and enticing faculty to review the texts by offering $500 per review. Despite the author calling the open-source rather than open-access, this may be the first time a land-grant, public university makes this kind of resource available to faculty and students."

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