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A junior-college center who grew up in France plans to join the Virginia Tech women's basketball team.Alexandrine Obough-Fegue of Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne, Florida, said in a phone interview that she signed Thursday with Virginia Tech.Obough-Fegue, a 6-foot-4 sophomore from Paris, said she plans to graduate from Eastern Florida State in December and enroll at Tech for the spring 2019 semester. She said she will redshirt the 2018-19 season, then play the following two seasons for the Hokies.She averaged 16.2 points and 9.8 rebounds this year, earning Division I All-America honorable mention from the National Junior College Athletic Association. She had 12 points and 17 rebounds in the semifinals of Florida's state JUCO tournament, helping her team reach the final for the first time in its history.Obough-Fegue, 21, said she visited Virginia Tech last week. She also visited Minnesota and UC Riverside. She also had an offer from Texas Tech."I like the feeling with the … [Read more...] about Blog: Virginia Tech women sign JUCO center

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Dr. Debarati Halder April 30, 2018 5:32 pm Change Font Size Very recently, in the wake of news about social media giant Facebook’s data policy lapse, billions of Facebook users were made to realize that no private information could be ‘secured’ even within under the click-wrap agreement between Facebook and the user which promises no exposure of data to third party.  As if this was not enough, the news about possible privacy breach by Facebook by way of application of photo scanning and facial recognition tool has further created an impression that personal images that are uploaded by the users in their own profiles/albums or shared albums are neither safe even in the hands of the ‘company’ i.e., the Facebook itself. This situation arose because of a recent order passed by an Illinois court in a 2015 case whereby the concerned judge opined that Facebook users can go for a class suit against … [Read more...] about FB, Its Content Regulation Policies & Photo-Matching Tech: Boon Or Bane For Indian Women From Privacy Law Aspects

Former Sen. Al Franken, in his first public appearance since leaving office in January, called for more government regulation on tech industry giants, the Washington Examiner is reporting. The former comedian from Minnesota had been a rising star in the Democratic Party, but left office following sexual misconduct allegations against him. According to the Examiner, Franken spoke on Tuesday at the Xchange Forum 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. "Facebook talks about Cambridge Analytica … as if they are isolated bad actors," Franken said. But as we know… the vulnerabilities that Cambridge Analytica exploited were well known within Facebook and within the developer community." And the StarTribune reported he said: "Facebook doesn’t have to care about the privacy and security of their users’ online information because there’s no mass exodus when it violates those rules. They have no real competitors … and that means users have no defense." The Examiner noted he … [Read more...] about Franken Pushes for More Regulation on Tech Industry

People in Moscow on April 30, 2018 release paper planes, the symbol of the Telegram messenger, during a protest against a court decision to block the messenger because it violated Russian regulations. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva World China has its own great firewall. Turkey has been blocking swaths of the internet, including YouTube, for at least a decade. So until last month, Russia was a glaring standout among authoritarian nations in allowing its people relatively free access to the World Wide Web.No longer. In what is shaping up to be a historic showdown, the Russian state has mounted its first major assault on cyberfreedom. On April 15, Russian internet regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) began trying to block Telegram, a secure messaging service and blogging platform used by more than 15 million Russians. Its crimes? Refusing to comply with a new law that obliges all internet companies to physically store their data on Russian users in the country, and failing to hand over secure … [Read more...] about Russia’s New Internet Crackdown—and How Tech-Savvy Citizens Are Trying to Thwart It

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Aasavri Rai May 8, 2018 8:06 pm Change Font Size ASSOCHAM, in collaboration with Ministry of Law and Justice & Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, is organizing an Indian Tech­-Law Conference 2018, Decoding Technology for Indian Law. Date: 12th May 2018 Venue: Shangri­La Hotel, New Delhi, India. Registration fee: Rs. 5,000 (inclusive of taxes) per delegate Key Areas of Discussion: Would technological innovations in law & judiciary help reduce pendency in court cases in India? Can technology help legal profession to transform so as to get their best & affordable legal services in a country like India? Will smart technology affect favourably/adversely to the employment in legal profession? Chief Guest: Ms. Gita Mittal, Hon’ble Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Delhi Eminent Speakers: Shri C Hari Shankar, Hon’ble Judge, High Court of Delhi Shri Jayant Nath, Hon’ble … [Read more...] about ASSOCHAM’s Indian Tech-Law Conference on Decoding Technology For Indian Law [12th May; New Delhi]