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I tried to look through tumblr new guidelines to deactivate some data collecting, personalised ads etc. and it’s designed so confusing and hard to find you can physically feel how nobody gives a shit about your privacy.

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Ethics & Data Use: Case Study

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Surgisphere issues public statement defending integrity of coronavirus study published in the Lancet

More than 120 researchers and medical professionals from around the world have written an open letter to the editor of the Lancet raising serious concerns about a large and widely publicised global study that prompted the World Health Organisation to halt several Covid-19 clinical trials.

On Thursday Guardian Australia revealed that the Australian data in the study, published last week, did not reconcile with health department records or databases.

The study found Covid-19 patients who received the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine were dying at higher rates and experiencing more heart-related complications than other virus patients. The large observational study analysed data from nearly 15,000 patients with Covid-19 who received the drug alone or in combination with antibiotics, comparing this data with 81,000 controls who did not receive the drug.

Questions about the paper’s statistical modelling were also raised by Columbia University in the US, prompting Surgisphere, the company that manages the database of patients used to inform the study, to issue a public statement defending the integrity of the study.

Trump will probably seize on this to further his WHO vendetta and make more money from the sale of the drug.

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Tip of the Week: Restrict your Data Use When Traveling With a Foreign SIM Card

Hello, readers. I’m back from a vacation in Canada, where I got inspiration for this tip.

In a recent newsletter, I mentioned that one of the best ways to save money when taking your smartphone to a foreign country is to use a foreign SIM card instead of paying your carrier for international roaming. Buying a generous amount of cellular data from a foreign carrier usually costs $20 to $30, whereas paying your domestic carrier for international roaming typically costs upward of $100. (If you need a refresher, read my past guide on traveling with a smartphone.)

Here’s Part 2 of that advice: You will need to watch your data use. Normally when you’re at home, you have lots of applications downloading data in the background over a cellular connection. If you leave those apps alone when using a foreign SIM card, you could quickly burn through all the data you just bought for your trip.

That almost happened to me. I was in Vancouver for only three days and purchased a SIM card with one gigabyte of data for $30 from Bell Canada. I checked my data use after one day and discovered, to my surprise, that I had already used half of the gigabyte (or 500 megabytes). When I looked at my cellular settings I saw that my apps for podcasts, Spotify and Apple News had consumed hundreds of megabytes of data in the background. I then went through my settings and disabled the majority of my apps from using data over a cellular connection.

Here’s how to do that on an iPhone: Open the Settings app and tap Cellular to load a switchboard for apps using cellular data. Toggle off cellular access for all but the ones you need for travel. Similarly on Android, open the Settings app, tap data usage, and then select cellular data usage. From here, select the data-hogging apps and disable background data.

— Brian X. Chen

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No matter what phone company you have, find out how much wireless data you've used and avoid overages or speed reductions.

Your internet access data plan renews itself once a month.

If you use your internet data plan too quickly on your mobile phone, iPad, laptop or computer before your data plan renews each month, then your phone company will either provide slower internet access to help you save money, or they’ll be forced to cut off your internet access on your wireless data plan until your data plan renews itself.

You can check if your internet usage is about to go overboard or run out by downloading your phone company’s app onto your mobile phone or computer.

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So I’m interested in the specifics of the upcoming update for Pokemon Go.

While I like that it’ll be allowed to track steps even without the app in active mode (much like the 3DS in sleep mode), I’ll have to see how it draws on that data before I decide to enable it.It would be nice since I don’t always have the app active when I’m walking around, especially when I don’t want it to buzz me and distract me, but I’d still like the steps counted since I do a lot of walking. However, I’ll have to see what it gets the data from, how it’s stored and for how long, what the benefits are, and so on.

I’m pretty picky about what apps get info from me. Go, Weather Channel, and GPS are the only ones I ever let use my location from my phone, and all only when active. I’ll have to see how Go safeguards its GPS data before I consider letting it passively use mine.

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