Now that the US Navy is bringing back celestial navigation, we might want to ask ourselves what other technologies we depend on without a backup, and what would happen to us if those technologies failed.
Daily Archives: October 22, 2015
Online pharmacy fined for selling user data to lottery company and others
The ICO has fined an online pharmacy company that not only sold on user data without proper consent, it also made some astonishingly crass choices of customers to sell it to, including a lottery company.
Snapchat makes users happier than Facebook, apparently
A study suggests that it’s nice not to have Major Life Events plastered on your phone. Better to have them poof into non-archived land. 
Your face could be sucked off Facebook and on to a national biometric database
Australia’s government is happy to jump on the high-quality, highly accurate imagery captured and linked to identities on social media. 