The Dutch benefits scandal: a cautionary tale for algorithmic enforcement – EU Law Enforcement
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Dutch anti-fraud system violates human rights, court rules
A Dutch court ruled Wednesday that a government system that uses artificial intelligence to identify potential welfare fraudsters is illegal because it violates laws that shield human rights and privacy.
Dutch court rules AI benefits fraud detection system violates EU human rights
SyRI was used to predict who may be at high risk of conducting housing or social security fraud.
Oakland police say they won’t pursue use of ‘dystopian’ armed robots
Facing pushback, the Oakland Police Department this week said it would no longer seek...
The Chinese surveillance state proves that the idea of privacy is more “malleable” than you’d expect
The authors of "Surveillance State" discuss what the West misunderstands about Chinese state control and whether the invasive trajectory of surveillance tech can still be reversed.
TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens
The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.
Jay Van Bavel on Twitter
A massive new study of over 400,000 college students finds that #Facebook exposure increased depression, especially among those who were most susceptible to mental illness, and reduced academic performance, by fostering unfavorable social comparisons. https://t.co/0GddnmTcAc pic.twitter.com/cwjjI1kE50— Jay Van Bavel (@jayvanbavel) October 20, 2022
Location data could be exposed in WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema
Security researchers have found a surprising method for exposing location data in otherwise secure messaging apps WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema. While the method sounds imprecise, tests showed that it provided greater than 80% reliability … Restore Privacy reports. A team of researchers has found that it’s possible to infer the locations of users of popular […]
ssoɯpuosɐɾ@ 🇨🇦 on Twitter
A really great interview with @mer__edith, president of @SignalApp"...we are not in the business of compromising on #privacy, and we are not in the business of handing people who want and need #Signal a compromised version of it..."@verge @recklesshttps://t.co/tkUJk9WDVi— ssoɯpuosɐɾ@ 🇨🇦 (@jasondmoss) October 20, 2022
Inside effective altruism, where the far future counts a lot more than the present
The giving philosophy, which has adopted a focus on the long term, is a conservative project, consolidating decision-making among a small set of technocrats.
Ethics, Bias, and Fairness in AI - A TWIML Playlist
The ML community has a unique responsibility to ensure the technologies we produce are fair, responsible and don’t reinforce racial & socioeconomic biases.
Nobody Wants Touch-Screen Glove Box Latches And It Needs To Stop Now - The Autopian
I’ve been seeing some absolute nonsense online recently, nonsense showing some actual real-world car features, and I’ve realized it’s my duty to take a moment and let the whole world know what’s going on here is very much not okay. It’s not okay. I’m not going to sit back and just let it happen, let …
Scientists Propose Putting Giant Googly Eyes on Self-Driving Cars
Researchers at the University of Tokyo attached giant googly eyes to the front of an autonomous golf cart to see if they improve pedestrian safety.
Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
AI framework is a ‘soft stick’ to guide govt: Oppermann - InnovationAus via inkl
The New South Wales Government’s new artificial intelligence assurance framework is a “soft stick” intended at providing the guard rails…
Sven Nyholm on Twitter
"What, if any, harm can a self-driving car do?" - blog post by Fiona Woollard (@f_woollard), which summarises the ideas in her great recent article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy about what she calls "the new trolley problem": https://t.co/tQxZ8z7ztu— Sven Nyholm (@SvenNyholm) October 12, 2022
TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging
Children are among those pleading for hours for digital gifts, as the company takes a cut of up to 70%.
New iPhone Crash Collision Feature Is Calling 911 For People On Rollercoasters
The only emergency here is needing a change of pants.
The EU wants to put companies on the hook for harmful AI
A new bill will allow consumers to sue companies for damages—if they can prove that a company’s AI harmed them.
Tech firms say laws to protect us from bad AI will limit ‘innovation’. Well, good | John Naughton
For too long, the industry has escaped legal liability in the pursuit of its own interests – and the EU has had enough
Instagram still hosting self-harm images after Molly Russell inquest verdict - The Guardian via inkl
Online content was blamed for the 14-year-old’s death yet some harmful posts remain live on site, including suicide-related content
There’s something missing from the White House’s AI ethics blueprint
Can we get some laws, please?
Overperception of moral outrage in online social networks inflates beliefs about intergroup hostility
As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, it is important to understand how the affordances of social media shape social knowledge of morality and politics. Here, we propose that social media users overperceive levels of moral outrage felt by individuals and groups, inflating beliefs about intergroup hostility. Utilizing a Twitter field survey, we measured authors’ moral outrage in real time and compared authors’ reports to observers’ judgments of the authors’ moral outrage. We find that observers systematically overperceive moral outrage in authors, inferring more intense moral outrage experiences from messages than the authors of those messages actually reported. This effect was stronger in participants who spent more time on social media to learn about politics. Pre-registered confirmatory behavioral experiments found that overperception of individuals’ moral outrage causes overperception of collective moral outrage and inflates beliefs about hostile communication norms, group affective polarization and ideological extremity. Together, these results highlight how individual-level overperceptions of online moral outrage produce collective overperceptions that have the potential to warp our social knowledge of moral and political attitudes.
17 ways to make your website more energy efficient
We provide a a handy list of the top things you can do to minimise wasted energy and ensure the products you create are as energy efficient as possible.
Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms
Exclusive: Epic has revamped its widely criticized sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy, according to documents obtained by STAT.
Alice Wong: I Still Have a Voice - KQED
Alice Wong can no longer speak. But she still has a voice.
The White House just unveiled a new AI Bill of Rights
It's the first big step to hold AI to account.
SafeGraph to Close Digital Shop That Sold Abortion Clinic Location Data
Motherboard previously revealed that SafeGraph was selling location data related to visits to Planned Parenthood facilities.
Transcript of We Went Back to See How These Reforms Worked | 70 Million
Mitzi Miller: I’m Mitzi Miller, and this is 70 Million. Over three seasons so far, 70 Million has covered the country f
Surveillance shift: San Francisco pilots program allowing police to live monitor private security cameras
The trial would give law enforcement access to live footage by consenting residents, a departure from the city’s previous stance