I’ve been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die. I’m more hopeful than ever | Cory Doctorow
Facebook is struggling to retain users, fending off regulation, trying to pivot to VR, and paying a massive wage premium to attract the workers it needs to make any of this happen. The company is on the ropes
J. Nathan Matias on Twitter
A de-centralized web will only be safer, more understanding, & more equitable if we invest in those things—including the needed labor, representation, ethics, & social science.Without that, decentralization will be more dangerous, increase misunderstanding, & amplify inequality— J. Nathan Matias (@natematias) February 23, 2022
Concoda.oof 💥 on Twitter
And if a cryptocurrency is not pledging to create financial liberation, it's instead trying to merge with the legacy system. Among the altcoins, memecoins, and shitcoins, other quasi-cryptos like XRP (Ripple) were touted to be part of a new global payments system...— Concoda.oof 💥 (@concodanomics) February 23, 2022
anildash on Twitter
If you didn't care about helping the poor until you were convinced it was an opportunity for shilling crypto? I don't believe you. If you didn't care about gov't seizing assets of the vulnerable, but suddenly cared when it happened to white supremacists? I don't believe you.— anildash (@anildash) February 21, 2022
Grindr hit with € 6.2 million fine in response to complaint from the Norwegian Consumer Council
\u003cstrong\u003eThe Norwegian Data Protection Authority confirmed that Grindr has been sharing personal data without a legal basis and fined the dating app 65 million NOK (€ 6.2 million).\u003c/strong\u003e
Tinder anmäls - misstänks prisdiskriminera sina användare - Sveriges Konsumenter
En ny granskning av dejtingappen Tinder visar att en användare kan betala upp till 12 gånger mer än en annan - för samma tjänst. Vad de varierande priserna bygger på är omöjligt för användaren att veta. Sveriges Konsumenter misstänker nu att det kan h...
Can Spyware Be Stopped?
Hello, friends,You may not believe me when I say this, but every year, spies and cops from governments around the world gather at a secretive trade show known as the “Wiretappers Ball.” There they buy spyware, surveillance software and hacking tools they use in spycraft and often on their own citizens.I first encountered the market for off-the-shelf surveillance software in 2011, when my team at The Wall Street Journal obtained the marketing brochures for companies exhibiting their wares at the…
The Boys Who Cried ‘Dox!’
When Danny Casale tells me he is “completely, fully doxxed,” a series of nightmare images flash through my mind: videogame designers bombarded with rape and death threats, SWAT teams swarming the homes of innocent people, journalists inundated with crude photos. For me, and I imagine for most ...
Is the Face the Final Frontier of Privacy? | Revue
Hello, friends,The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has begun requiring users of some of its online services to submit a selfie to a private company, ID.me, to verify their identity using facial recognition technology.The move marks one of the largest rollouts of the controversial technology and has been decried by critics as a violation of privacy. Activists at Fight for the Future called for the IRS to halt the use of ID.me: “This is creating a massive database that government and law enforcemen…
Jenna Burrell, PhD on Twitter
At a Duke administrative law conference (yes, this is how I spend my Saturdays). Cass Sunstein says the **most pressing issue** in law / public administration is (1) to reduce the impact of cognitive bias and (2) eliminate noise. For the record I absolutely disagree … (1/n)— Jenna Burrell, PhD (@jennaburrell) February 12, 2022
Salesforce empowered an AI ethics team to keep it honest. Dealing with third-party apps is trickier.
Kathy Baxter and her product design ethics team at Salesforce have a lot of sway over when tech is ready to ship and when it’s not. But there are lots of technologies living on the Salesforce platform beyond their control.
It’s Time for Police to Stop Using ShotSpotter
Update (October 22): Earlier this month, SpotSpotter filed a lawsuit alleging that the Vice report linked below contains false and defamatory statements.Court documents recently reviewed by VICE have revealed that ShotSpotter, a company that makes and sells audio gunshot detection to cities and...