Long-time Slashdot reader Futurepower(R) shared this investigation from the Washington Post’s technology writer: When I spot-checked what a couple dozen apps claim about privacy in the App Store, I found more than a dozen that were either misleading or flat-out inaccurate… Apple’s big privacy product is built on a shaky foundation: the honor system. In tiny print on the detail page…
Tag: Nutrition
Apple Launches New App Store Privacy Labels So You Can See How iOS Apps Use Your Data
Apple is officially launching its so-called “nutrition label” privacy disclosures for all iOS device owners running the latest version of iOS 14. The Verge reports: Apple says the new labels will be required for apps on all of its platforms — that includes iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — and they will have to be up to date and accurate…
‘We Need a Broadband Internet Pricing Equivalent of Nutrition Labels’
An anonymous reader shares an article that’s part of the Future Agenda, a series from Slate in which experts suggest specific, forward-looking actions the new Biden administration should implement. Here’s an excerpt: Consumers in the U.S. face an infuriating lack of transparency when it comes to purchasing broadband services. Bills are convoluted, featuring complex pricing schemes. Roughly 7 in 10 U.S….
How to land a good letter of recommendation: Advice from an admissions expert
by Mary Beth Carroll, Assistant Director of Student Affairs in the Office of Student Engagement and Practice at the University of Michigan School of Public Health Most graduate school applications require two to three letters of recommendation, which provide another dimension to your application and, when viewed alongside other factors such as your GPA, professional experience and […]
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Apple Says New ‘Nutrition Labels’ For App Privacy Will Be Required Starting December 8
Apple has announced today that developers will be required to provide new privacy details to users in the App Store starting December 8. From a report: These privacy “nutrition labels” were first introduced at WWDC over the summer, with Apple saying the goal is to better inform consumers of the privacy practices of individual applications. In a post on the Apple…
Why there is no such thing as a healthy diet that works for everyone
What is good for us to eat varies so much from person to person that a universally wholesome diet is a fiction. Instead, the science of nutrition is hot on the heels of a new recipe for healthy eating Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732990-600-why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-healthy-diet-that-works-for-everyone/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Nutrition memes forget that there is no such thing as a ‘healthy food’
Shareable online graphics give easy to understand breakdowns of the nutritional content of food, but they may be misleading, says James Wong Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732940-200-nutrition-memes-forget-that-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-healthy-food/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Hidden nutrition: We don’t know what makes up 99 per cent of our food
We know next to nothing about the vast majority of compounds in our diet. Now researchers are finding ways to study this “nutritional dark matter” – and what it could mean for our health Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732920-700-hidden-nutrition-we-dont-know-what-makes-up-99-per-cent-of-our-food/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Aggregate Data From Connected Scales Shows Minimal Weight Gains During Lockdowns
“Data from connected scale users suggests Americans, on average, are not gaining weight during lockdowns,” writes long-time Slashdot reader pfhlick. The Washington Post reports:
Withings, the maker of popular Internet-connected scales and other body-measurement devices, studied what happened to the weight of some 450,000 of its American users between March 22 — when New York ordered people home — and April 18….
Does a Vegan Diet Affect Your Intelligence?
“The vegan diet is low in — or, in some cases, entirely devoid of — several important brain nutrients,” argues the BBC. “Could these shortcomings be affecting vegans’ abilities to think?” omfglearntoplay shared their article:
According to the latest statistics, there are around 375 million vegetarians on the planet. In the West, veganism has ditched the hippie stigma to become one of…