For want of a co-author:
In 1975, a cat co-authored a physics paper. Just as Jack H. Hetherington prepared to publish his work, a colleague pointed out that he'd used "we" rather than "I", despite being the only author. Not wanting to edit his paper, he added his cat (pictured) as a second author. pic.twitter.com/ffmWvLXu5f
— Anna Hughes (@AnnaGHughes) April 29, 2018
And here’s a link to the actual paper: Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc ^{3}He
Inundated by privacy policy updates?
If you are a member of a social network (and many people are members of more than one) you may have noticed updates to your social media provider’s privacy policy. Why are social media sites suddenly interested in clarifying their privacy policies?
In Why All the New Terms of Service?, J. D. Biersdorfer explains that it’s because of stricter (better?) privacy rules taking effect in Europe:
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (G.D.P.R.) goes into effect on May 25 and is meant to ensure a common set of data rights in the European Union. It requires organizations to notify users as soon as possible of high-risk data breaches that could personally affect them. It also gives citizens the right to obtain copies of the data companies have compiled about them and codifies their right, under certain circumstances, to have their personal data erased (also known as the “right to be forgotten”). – J. D. Biersdorfer
The US has more lenient privacy rules–meaning, for example, it is easier for US companies to sell on the open market the private information you post on their networks (eg the Cambridge Analytica scandal with Facebook recently). However, US companies who have European customers must abide by the European laws for those customers.
Unfortunately your data is probably not covered by the stricter privacy rules–unless you live in Europe that is.
And if you are wondering if this applies to the UK, since there seems to be a question of whether or not they are in the EU–according to What is GDPR? The summary guide to GDPR compliance in the UK, yes, the UK will also follow the GDPR privacy rules.