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Don’t Hand Over Your Zip Code to Retailers

It’s the question that often comes when you hand over your credit card at the store: what’s my zip code? Next time you’re asked, you may want to think twice before handing over the information. You have to do it when you pay at the pump, but inside a store you have no obligation to give up your zip code.



New Analysis Offers More Evidence Against Student Evaluations of Teaching

There’s mounting evidence suggesting that student evaluations of teaching are unreliable. But are these evaluations, commonly referred to as SET, so bad that they’re actually better at gauging students’ gender bias and grade expectations than they are at measuring teaching effectiveness? A new paper argues that’s the case, and that evaluations are biased against female instructors in particular …


Major Record Labels Forced to Pay CAD$45M to Ripped-Off Musicians

This is the day that Congress votes on whether to give “fast track authority” on the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership, ending any meaningful debate about a treaty that will prohibit America from passing environmental, labor and Internet laws that interfere with multinational corporate profits.





Are Health Hackers the New Cyber Security Threat?

Last January an administrator at health insurer Anthem noticed an unusually complex query running on the computer network. It looked like a colleague was responsible, but a quick check revealed that it was coming from somewhere else. Minutes later, Anthem was in crisis mode.



Don’t Hand Over Your Zip Code to Retailers

It’s the question that often comes when you hand over your credit card at the store: what’s my zip code? Next time you’re asked, you may want to think twice before handing over the information. You have to do it when you pay at the pump, but inside a store you have no obligation to give up your zip code.