Google: cookie replacement floc for testing, for developers and ignorant users

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Google: Cookie replacement Floc for testing, for developers and ignorant users

The Federated Learning of Cohorts, FLOC called, goes to the start. Google makes his idea of replacement for third-party cookies as Developer Origin Trial in Chrome. It is blackmold Google from "and" the new web technology, because with FLOC, it is possible at the same time possible to protect the privacy of the users and to give advertisers a tool for existential business models. So far, however, the method does not rely on rough enthusiasm.

After tracking cookies are increasingly bad for users and also browser providers such as Apple and Mozilla they were banished, ordering Google, also to be borne by third-party cookies. First, however, a replacement had to come and this comes in the first test phase. Floc is part of the Privacy Sandbox, Google’s Map Sensing Bundle for better privacy and more security for continued prolonged advertising.

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In a blog post, Google now explains how Floc is allowed to. Already known that, as the name implies, cohorts in the browser are formed and this matching advertisement is displayed instead of personalized advertising based on personal profiles. Cohorts defines Google About similarities in browsing history. If users miss the even more targeted advertising, you can still register on websites and share their data with the provider.

The browser history is not passed on to Google by FLOC, it will continue to be called. In the browser itself, the decision that cohort can be found. All side operators receive an ID of the cohort displayed to display it based on advertising. Chrome will not create groups of sensitive areas – to pay medical, political and religious topics – or otherwise deal with these. As the browser meets these decisions, can be read in a separately published paper. It’s about avoiding potential discrimination.

No tests in Europe

As subjects first serves a small percentage of users from Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines and the USA. Europe is therefore not yet – which is no coincidence. The local data protection and other laws make the approval of Floc at least insecure. Anyone who has blocked third-party cookies in Chrome in the participating countries has also excluded from the test. An explanation of why it requires the consent to third-party cookies, Google does not provide.

Especially the US NGO Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) criticizes the vorstob Google’s sharply. On the one hand, the activists Floc for a basic "terrible idea", Because she mainly helps Google. On the other hand, however, they also announce the test without the test persons be informed about them that is being tested at them. External tracking blockers are not aligned on Floc – Homes, these could block third-party cookies, but not Google’s tests. Who enabled chromes synchronization functions and thus releases your own browsing history, Google offers this velvet ID.

Child protection expert sees worldwide movement on abuse © shutterstock

Pontifical Gregorian University's Child Protection Center sees worldwide movement on abuse ie. This is also true in places where combating abuse and protecting children have not been ies so far, says expert Sister Karolin Kuhn.

From year to year, there is an increased interest in what the center has to offer, she told the Catholic News Agency (KNA) in Rome.

Much disparity of experience

At the same time, the nun reported a lot of disparity in experiences. So one cannot start from zero to one hundred with persons "from a country, in which abuse only slowly comes into the consciousness". In extreme cases, even for those who have been trained, "it can become life-threatening when they come back and address scandals with their new knowledge.".

The CCP offers six-month diploma courses as well as two-year licentiate courses for church workers involved in the fight against abuse. In addition, there are online courses with around 70 partner institutions worldwide.

Kuhn, a theologian, social worker and educator from Munich, has been working there as a lecturer since the beginning of 2018.

Some worry how they will be received at home with their newfound insights, the nun explained. In some countries, she says, sexuality is not even talked about, let alone sexual abuse. Men's and women's roles are still distributed completely differently, as is "the understanding of what a child is.

Domestic and school violence

A major topic of mediation is also domestic and school violence. It is not enough, says Kuhn, "to say from above, as it were, from a Western point of view: You are not allowed to do that, it is harmful." It is also necessary to "make this understandable and offer methods of setting limits differently" and "taming a class of 80 children".

"When our students come back to their countries now, it's less likely to be held against them that they're just bringing back some isolated Western opinion from Rome," Kuhn said. Instead, they could now prove: "This is the state of things, general church thinking."

The expert cited the following as key target questions for the center: "Where is the church vulnerable as a system? Who is responsible for what exactly? What is the responsibility of, for example, the bishop, the religious superior, the head of an institution, the teacher, the priest?? And what are they not responsible for?"

Also to be asked, "Who lacks training and competence for the responsibilities they bear?? Who can hold whom accountable? Where did someone take power that was not his or her due, or where did he or she not exercise the power that was his or her due, that is, where did he or she fail to do something??" All these questions, she said, are too often still unresolved.

Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx has warned against drawing the wrong conclusions from the decision to separate the Catholic Church from the Weltbild publishing group. This was "not a signal that we want to withdraw from the public," emphasized Marx on Wednesday in Munich. He said that the Church would have no future if it did not keep initiating new communications. The German Bishops' Conference now wants to set up a media ethics working group.

Cardinal Marx spoke at the farewell ceremony for the long-time director of the St. Michael's Association, Erich Joob (65). It would be "short-sighted to rely only on electronic media" and neglect the book, Marx said. Books are central to church education work and the acquisition of reading skills. Joob expressed concern about the future of the Catholic Church in Germany in his farewell speech. The temptation to "stew in one's own juice" is currently very great in the company. In order to maintain its social power, it must above all remain in dialogue with artists and literary figures. He learned from priests that being Catholic also means being comprehensive, spiritually broad and inviting, without forgetting one's own origins.

Media ethics working group
Regarding the discussion about Weltbild, Joob said he understands the anger. At the same time, he pointed out that the company was a "mass mailer" where the books ordered would not be touched again. What is annoying in the debate is "the unquestioned equation of eroticism with pornography". Here the church must pay attention to differentiation, he said.

As a first reaction to the debate about Weltbild, the German Bishops' Conference wants to set up a media ethics working group. The committee is to be made up of journalists, academics and media lawyers, and will support the Bishops' Conference's Journalism Commission, according to the commission's chairman, Rottenburg-Stuttgart Bishop Gebhard Furst. He expressed himself in an interview with the association magazine "AKSB-Inform". The Bishops' Conference is also planning a conference on media ethics.

Weltbild management does not expect sale until 2013
The sale of Weltbild Verlag is not expected to take place until 2013, according to Carel Halff, Chairman of the Weltbild Management Board. "Experts expect the process to take no less than 18 to 24 months for companies of this size," Halff told the "Augsburger Allgemeine" newspaper. "With sales of 1.7 billion euros a year, a sale doesn't happen that quickly."

Halff emphasized that the 6.400 employees would have no reason to fear for their jobs. He did not give any details about possible investors or buyers. The Catholic Church had decided to sell the publishing house. The publishing group is criticized within the church because it also sells erotic and esoteric literature. Halff said he could understand the church's decision to sell. The book business, as it is run today, cannot be completely reconciled with their basic attitude. The plenary assembly of the Association of German Dioceses (VDD) dealt with Weltbild GmbH in Wurzburg on Monday. The VDD holds 24.2 percent of the shares in the publishing group. The Weltbild publishing group emerged from the Catholic magazine publisher Winfried-Werk GmbH, founded in 1948.

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