Short Takes – 4-21-23

How Citizen is trying to remake itself by recruiting elderly Asians. TechnologyReview – article. Pull quote: “He says he has Citizen on his own phone and has been taken aback by how biased some user-generated comments submitted around certain incidents were. “What kind of impact does that really have on the psyche of our community?” he asks. “And it’s clear that this can get out of hand really quickly.””

What’s Perfectly Round, Made Of Metal, And Keeping Russia From Replacing the 2,000 Tanks It’s Lost In Ukraine? Forbes.com article. Pull quote: “So maybe Russia eventually ramps up tank-production by swapping good bearings for bad bearings. Having also traded modern digital optics for inferior analog optics, these tanks no longer are state-of-the-art.” For want of a nail….

DRONES4SEC files simultaneous complaints with The DutchData Protection Authority and the Bavarian Data ProtectionAuthority against DJI for lack of GDPR compliance. sUASNews.com article. Pull quote: “DJI’s apps contain hidden dangerous features that do not comply with the data protection principles of the GDPR, in particular, the principle of fairness and transparency and the principle of data protection by design and default. As an example, several mobile apps from DJI have been sending for months private data from tens to hundreds of thousands of users to a Chinese intelligence data platform, MobTech (mob.com), whose goal is to collect as much personal data as possible. This feature was hidden to final users and DJI used obfuscation techniques to prevent cybersecurity researchers to identify such collection of personal data.”