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It is not as clear as it may seem. The question of who owns data generated by cars is important because of the "gold mine of connectivity" that the age of 'connected cars' promises to bring, Appt said. Most of the current discussion around connected cars is based around the health and safety benefits that such connectivity could offer. The European Commission, which has just announced the finalising of standards by the European Telecoms Standards Institute ETSI and European Committee for Standardisation CEN for vehicle-to-vehicle connections, has said that connected cars could allow for drivers to be notified about accidents, traffic problems and other road conditions.
However, Appt said that there is the potential for information providers to offer services to people in connected cars, from details about available parking spaces nearby to personalised advertising and entertainment and social networking services. Car manufacturers are increasingly expressing an interest in tapping into the potential offered by connected cars, but Appt said there is uncertainty about data ownership. Even if manufacturers could be said to own the data, those companies would generally be required to obtain the consent of car owners and other drivers of the vehicle before sharing personally identifiable data with third parties, such as insurance companies, due to privacy laws.
Appt said that the manufacturers themselves as well as insurance companies may have an interest in some of the "technical data" generated in connected cars, such as about speed, driving habits, use of brakes and all sorts of other telematics data that sensors in the car collect. He said, though, that there is an ongoing debate about whether even some technical data could be said to constitute personal data, and therefore fall subject to rules set out under data protection laws.
The situation is to some degree analogous to the debate over whether IP addresses can be linked to individuals," he said. Consent would almost certainly be needed from individuals before companies could collect and use other personal data that could be generated in connected cars, such as geolocation data or a log about those individuals' use of entertainment services, for example," Appt said.
The expert said that many connected car manufacturers also run websites where users can configure infotainment and driver assistance services. Those websites require users to register and set up an account, meaning that manufacturers may not even need the vehicle identification number to link technical data to the person using the car, he said.
Appt said that manufacturers could adopt 'privacy by design' to overcome privacy law concerns. They should consider whether they need to be able to link data generated through certain services to individuals and, for those services that do not, could deploy anonymisation techniques and other privacy by design measures to allow them to make use of the data generated without having to obtain individuals' consent to do so or having to comply with the other requirements of data protection law.
Where it is essential to use personal data, manufacturers and providers should consult with individuals over rights in the data and obtain consent for making use of the data where use goes beyond merely providing the services those individuals have requested or paid for together with the car. This may mean for purposes such as personalised advertisements or other marketing proposals, Appt said.
Appt also warned about the challenges that could arise in attributing liability for accidents involving connected cars. If the accident was caused by a mechanical defect, this might be easily established. This causes issues with determining where fault lies and who is liable for any damages to people or property," he said.
If there was a connectivity problem caused with network issues, can the network provider be held liable? Appt said that uncertainty in determining the cause of accidents and the potential difficulties in recovering all the damages from those at fault may cause insurance companies to reconsider the terms of their policies. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes the media has made "a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company".
In prepared remarks [PDF] delivered along with the company's Q3 results, Zuckerberg told investors that reporting on recent leaks — collectively known as "The Facebook Papers" — doesn't honestly reflect the company's efforts to stem misinformation, and that Facebook is not the main driver of societal polarisation. Zuckerberg felt the need to make that argument before revealing rapid revenue growth for Q3 The outage struck the carrier on Monday at , and meant that subscribers had no internet access and struggled to make phone calls or accept payments.
Service for some customers resumed 85 minutes later, though the downtime was felt nationwide and restoration times varied. The telco initially cried DDoS, and news that it was under attack was taken seriously — as is proper when your nation is technically still at war with hostile neighbors.
Korean media reported that the authorities rushed to investigate the attack and the nation's Ministry of ICT even invoked its emergency warning system and rated the incident as a SEV-3 on a five-point scale. Blue Origin is leading a consortium hoping to put the first commercial space station into orbit. The craft is set to combine research and tourism facilities, and provide an office address in space for businesses. Dubbed Orbital Reef, the two initial partners are Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, which will get the platform into orbit atop the as-yet unflown New Glenn reusable rocket, and Sierra Space, developers of a mini-shuttle spacecraft and the inflatable habitats the space station will need.
Bezos just lately enjoyed a brief, incredibly expensive trip to space , so obviously the tech tycoon's next step is to create a sub-WeWork in orbit. On Monday, a group representing workers at Amazon's warehouses on Staten Island, New York, electronically delivered a petition with at least 2, signatures to America's National Labor Relations Board in an effort to demonstrate there's enough employee support to hold a vote on whether to unionize.
The board did not yet have a count of the signatures in the petition but the National Labor Relations Act of NLRA requires at least 30 per cent of the workers who would be represented by the proposed union to ask the NLRB to oversee an election.
With Amazon's Staten Island workforce estimated to be around 7,, about 2, people would need to support the petition to hold a unionization vote. To establish a union, at least half the workforce will need to vote in favor. The package, which is fetched nearly eight million times a week, is used by software to extract information about users' browsers, operating systems, and host hardware from their clients' user-agent strings.
It's useful for web apps to predict or figure out the devices connecting to them. The NPM account hosting it was seemingly compromised by miscreants, who modified the package so that when installed, it would bring in various bits of malware on whatever system was running the code. Prosecutors said Kyriakos 'Rick' Kapiris, 35, of Northborough, Massachusetts, was indicted on two counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Online greeting cards in the U.
Since , the online segment of the industry has been growing at an average rate of 6. About businesses are currently creating online greeting cards in the U. The Wall Street Journal. Since , digital card website someecards. Huffington Post. Although greeting cards have long been part of the way we communicate with one another, the industry is seeing fewer repetitive customers stop by to purchase a card.
It is an industry that is within its declining life-cycle stage because there are more digital options for communication today than ever before. Far from it. There are still many dedicated consumers who will purchase between greeting cards each year for distribution. The one variable which is difficult to predict for the industry is the Millennial shopper. Young Millennials especially, coming from homes that have incorporated high levels of technology, are sometimes placing more emphasis on handwritten messages than previous generations.
In some geographic regions, such as the U. If more Millennials embrace this trend, the greeting card industry may do more than survive. It will begin to thrive once again. Home » Statistics » 30 Greeting Card Industry Statistics and Trends With the growth of online communication, one might think that the greeting card industry is all but dead.
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