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Amnesty International Calls Google and Facebook a Threat to Human Rights
Tech Note: Data & Business Intelligence
We recently covered Google’s lackadaisical approach to data privacy in the context of its partnership with Ascension, a US healthcare giant. Last month, Google was under fire again, along with Facebook, from Amnesty International.
The report contains recommendations for businesses, too, urging them to: Replace the current surveillance-based business model with a model that is respectful of human rights.Stop lobbying to relax data protection and privacy legislation.Take action to remediate human rights abuses they have caused or contributed to.
Alphabet Draws Shareholder Ire Over Human Rights – Again
Software Reviews: Data & Business Intelligence
Alphabet is facing backlash from its shareholders over its approach to digital privacy, reports the Financial Times. And not for the first time. This time, however, things will need to change.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Expands Talent and Human Resources Functions
Software Reviews: Applications
Microsoft has acquired the rights to talent and human resources intellectual property from vendors FourVision and Elevate HR.
Microsoft has acquired the rights to talent and human resources intellectual property from vendors FourVision and Elevate HR, according to an October 2 blog post. With FourVision, Microsoft will expand Microsoft Dynamics 365’s functionality to provide leave and absence, time and attendance, and sickness management.
The Workday Negotiation Playbook
Note: Vendor Management
Organizations considering a Workday solution or a contract renewal struggle to gain leverage and information during the negotiation process, as Workday excels in masking costs by combining many modules into one large bundle and assigning a price to that bundle. Organizations also find that...
Workday has many SKUs (modules) such as Human Capital Management, Payroll, Recruiting, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence Management, and Finance that can be purchased, and each impacts your total cost.
There's a New World Coming
Note: Trends and Predictions
It's time we addressed the elephant in the room. The human race is operating within outdated, brittle social contracts and economic systems that are driving us toward our ultimate destruction. Consider this report a rough draft of an alternate future for humankind.
Published May 31, 2022 By Berit Anderson "We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Pandemic Containment: Contact Tracing and Data Privacy in Times of COVID-19
Note: Applications
Can we pursue an aggressive policy of technology-driven contact tracing without infringing on people’s fundamental right to privacy? In this moment of human history, should civil rights be ignored in favor of saving lives?
This application serves multiple purposes, useful for both diagnosed and healthy individuals. The app uses government data to alert healthy individuals they are within a 100-meter radius of location(s) visited by a diagnosed patient(s). Along with this alert, users are also sent case numbers, ages, and genders of the patients.
Secure Software Development in Government
Note: Industry Coverage
In today’s world, where information is power, where technology is permeating every corner of our lives, new security and safety concerns of the people must be at the forefront of all government actions.
In today’s world, where information is power, where technology is permeating every corner of our lives, new security and safety concerns of the people must be at the forefront of all government actions. Governments exist to make and enforce laws. These laws are society’s safety net.
Federal Government Human Resources Management Systems Report
Industry: Industry Coverage
Federal Government Human Resources Management Systems Report
Federal Governments employ a large number of people with varying levels of skills and certifications across large geographical areas internationally.Maintaining these agreements and the specific terms and conditions that include specific wages, benefits, pensions, and hours of work is daunting.Learn about what a human resource management system is, the state of the market, key features, and leading vendors to see how this technology can transform your IT strategy and the ability to deliver.
Individuals Matter
Note: Trends and Predictions
There is an illusion afoot in the technology world that technology matters more than those who work with it; that the mousetrap is more important than those who create, market, and sell it. Those greybeards who have been around a while know the absolute falsehood of this belief. In...
While the world faces many challenges today, there is one challenge, to my mind, that rises above all others in its threat to humanity: the idea that we can’t change things, that the individual has lost her power to affect the largest-scale painting of our future.
Surveillance, Cities, and Facial Recognition
Note: Trends and Predictions
In this week's transcript from FiRe, our members will have a chance to understand the experience of the Uyghur population in China on a personal level as Ilshat Kokbore and David Brin discuss the nightmarish facial recognition and AI systems used to track Chinese citizens in real time.
We know - the US or Europe - our technology, advancement and also invention, is based on our freedom of thinking, freedom of expression, freedom of all we should have, as a human being.
Special Letter: Don't We Want the Best and Brightest to Come and Stay?
Note: Trends and Predictions
In this piece, the authors attack a key question that faces the United States today: should we let anti-immigration feelings, fired up by the 9.11 attacks and fueled by the invasion of southern border "visitors," affect our global international policies?
In this piece, the authors attack a key question that faces the United States today: should we let anti-immigration feelings, fired up by the 9.11 attacks and fueled by the invasion of southern border "visitors," affect our global international policies?.
Develop and Deploy Security Policies
Blueprint: Security
Informal, un-rationalized, ad hoc policies are ineffective because they do not explicitly outline responsibilities or compliance requirements, and they are rarely comprehensive. Without a strong lifecycle to keep policies up to date and easy to use, end users will ignore or work around poorly...
Human Resource Security Policy Template
Templates And Policies: Security
Info-Tech's Security Policy templates allow you to easily develop new policy documents.
How to Recruit and Retain People of Color in IT Organizations
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The challenge is in how to best elicit the different thoughts, backgrounds, and opinions that ethnically diverse talent can bring.Often organizations focus on gender diversity, and while this does improve company performance, ethnic diversity has an even larger impact on business outcomes.
Embed Privacy and Security Culture Within Your Organization
Blueprint: Security
A strong security program and privacy framework are fundamental to successful organizations and require a proactive approach that embeds principles in the operational seams of the organization. But building a privacy and security culture extends beyond projects, controls, and metrics, and it...
Embed Privacy and Security Culture Within Your Organization – Executive Brief
Note: Security
Privacy and security are two heavy-hitting items that all organizations need to account for. Technical controls are a start, but privacy and security need to become part of the organizational culture.
Administrative Rights Policy
Templates And Policies: Templates & Policies
The administrative rights policy grants access to individuals’ desktop, laptop, or other end-user devices within a company for those who are qualified and cleared to use these assets within the company.
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Arts & Culture Human Resource Information Systems Report
Industry: Industry Coverage
Arts & Culture Human Resource Information Systems Report
Workforce planning elements are also important and are addressed by human resource information system (HRIS) capabilities.Learn about what an HRIS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver..
Develop a Security Awareness and Training Program That Empowers End Users
Blueprint: Security
Cyberattackers target your end users, who remain today’s weakest link in organizational security. Design and deliver an effective and up-to-date training program to properly prepare your end users to effectively defend your organization against security threats.
Develop a Security Awareness and Training Program That Empowers End Users – Executive Brief
Note: Security
Read this Executive Brief to understand why a human-centric security program is needed to raise your security culture and prevent end users from being your largest vulnerability.
The Brief - Twitter Pushes Developers to Join the Diversity Movement"
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Government – Building & Communicating Your CIO Strategy for COVID-19
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Government – Building & Communicating Your CIO Strategy for COVID-19 . live-webinar. CIOs in Government will play a critical role during the COVID-19 crisis. This is an opportunity to shine..Join this webinar to learn how to build and communicate a clear strategy for the next 30-90 days, helping your organization and your department thrive in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Consultation on the OPC Proposals for Ensuring Appropriate Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Note: Security
In an effort to assist the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in regulating the use of AI in business contexts, Info-Tech Research Group has put forth a proposal with a set of six comprehensive recommendations.
Progress in one area must not lead simultaneously to regression in another, specifically in the area of data privacy rights.In an effort to assist the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in regulating the use of AI in business contexts, Info-Tech Research Group has put forth a document with a set of six comprehensive recommendations.
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