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How Zip Code is used for price discrimination.

Online pricing policies are generally not transparent to customers, and are based on parameters that we completely ignore. This opens up a series of opportunities for online price discrimination. Zip Codes and user’s location data are usually used to this end, and it is scientifically demonstrated.

In this article I have reviewed different price discrimination cases in different areas where you can realize that you actually are also a victim.

April 26, 2020 No Comments

Article 13.3.1. RESOLUTION of June 28, 2018. PROHIBITED to transmit or host information of the Generalitat Valenciana in external information systems, such as the cloud, except with the express authorization of the Conselleria, and prior risk analysis. Publication of student data in Social Networks: Unambiguous consent of the people involved. Informe about: Data to be published In which social networks Purpose Who has access the data How to exercise the rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition The Conselleria of Education, Culture and Sports makes available to schools: ITACA-Web Family 2.0. Platform for contact with family managers. Teaching Module 2.0. (OPEN SOURCE OWNED PLATFORMS OF THE CONSELLERÍA). Article 13.3.a) Resolution July 5: "The use of social networks that include any type of advertising or that can be used for a different purpose of communication is expressly unauthorized." The use of Telegram is allowed as a channel for communication with parents, BUT NO PERSONAL DATA CAN BE INCLUDED. In addition, they have an enormous awareness of the danger of using applications in the educational field, expressing this concern, in the same article 13 the Resolution of July 5: "...The apps that contain more personal data of the students are teacher's notebooks, which maintain their progress and their qualifications. Therefore, any application that include the identification of the student can lead to the elaboration of profiles according to the functionalities and the typology of the data collected. With browsing habits, together with data of other users with whom you contact and their educational behavior, you can create user profiles that can be treated without the user's consent, under the excuse of improving the operation of the service." And they add something really revealing in a Public Administration: the claim that the devices given by tech giants SPY THEIR STUDENTS: "...It should be borne in mind that non-assisted installation applications on smartphones access to a large amount of personal data stored in the device itself, such as the terminal identification number, contact book, images or videos. In addition, these applications can access the device's sensors, and obtain geographic location, capture photos, video or sound through them. For all these reasons, platforms and applications (known as ‘apps'), other than those provided, or authorized, by the Conselleria responsible for education, are forbidden, which have the purpose of: a) Both communication with families and with students. b) The follow-up of the students through notebooks of progress notes and their qualification." The main goal of public administration is THE COMMON GOOD, and protect citizens, and even more, children and minors. The Comunidad Valenciana sets an example for Spain and Europe. In Spain, Secretary of State Carme Artigas in an interview in one of the main newspapers in Spain, El País, proposes to lead in Europe the debate of technological humanism. It is nothing other than acquiring the ethical mentality of the GVA, ahead of its time.

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Comunidad Valenciana, the only region in EUROPE that has designed Open Source tools to protect their students’ privacy.

Did you know that the Comunidad Valenciana is the ONLY EUROPEAN REGION that protects their student’s privacy in public schools through OpenSource tools and platforms?

April 8, 2020 No Comments

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What Open Source tools Comunidad Valenciana has implemented, and what aspects should be improved.

What Open Source tools the Comunidad Valenciana has implemented in the education area, and what are the improvements that must be implemented to protect, even more, their students’ privacy.

March 10, 2020 No Comments

Data Ethics

Historical sentence of the Court of The Hague striking down the collection of data and profiling for Social Security fraud (SyRI).

On February 5th, the Court of The Hague issued a historic sentence striking down the data collection, in the poorest neighbourhoods, and profiling in order to detect Social Security fraud in Holland (SyRI).

It is a significant sentence, with an international impact, for algorithmic decision-making in the public sector, which will mark a before and after.

February 15, 2020 No Comments

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Matomo, the Open Source analytics platform and the ethical option to Google Analytics.

Today, I’m going to talk to you about a web analytics platform, and ethical alternative of Google Analytics, called Matomo. Matomo is a Premium web

November 16, 2019 No Comments

Technology and Society

How Big Data was created, or why we have neither privacy nor transparency.

Why are we currently in a situation where privacy and lack of transparency have become central legal issues? Obviously, it is because of rapid technological

July 7, 2019 No Comments

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How Zip Code is used for price discrimination.

Comunidad Valenciana, the only region in EUROPE that has designed Open Source tools to protect their students’ privacy.

What Open Source tools Comunidad Valenciana has implemented, and what aspects should be improved.

Historical sentence of the Court of The Hague striking down the collection of data and profiling for Social Security fraud (SyRI).

Matomo, the Open Source analytics platform and the ethical option to Google Analytics.

How Big Data was created, or why we have neither privacy nor transparency.