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Privacy campaigners warn of UK facial recognition 'epidemic'
Investigation uncovers widespread use in museums and shopping centres
Three things digital ethics can learn from medical ethics
Ethical codes, ethics committees, and respect for autonomy have been key to the development of medical ethics — elements that digital ethics would be advised to emulate.
Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic
Exclusive: Hannah Fry says ethical pledge needed in tech fields that will shape future
Key Considerations for the Ethical Use of Facial Recognition Technology
Facial recognition technology has grown tremendously in both capability and availability over the last few years. It can help us solve difficult problems,
People Are Starting to Realize How Voice Assistants Actually Work
The secrecy surrounding AI products makes even basic information about them a scandal.
Facebook Transcription Opt-In Says Nothing About Human Listeners
Facebook Inc. this week confirmed that it ran a program to allow contractors to listen to and transcribe some users’ audio clips. The social network said that the only people who were affected were those who agreed to have their audio messages transcribed.
Machine – power – morality: Why digitization requires ethics
The first Swiss think tank for digital ethics explores the risks of digitization.
Next European Commission takes aim at AI
Artificial intelligence will be the next GDPR.
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.
Major breach found in biometrics system used by banks, UK police and defence firms
Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
Men are still propositioning women on LinkedIn, because nowhere is safe
“There is something specifically exhausting about receiving sexual advances and explicit messages on LinkedIn.”
Matt Haig on Twitter
No, Duolingo. I didn’t make you sad. Because you don’t have emotions. You are an app. A corporate non-feeling entity. And the reason I wasn’t using you to learn French was because I was actually IN FRANCE. Which is an even better app for learning French. Now piss off, in French. pic.twitter.com/K4Xs7n26AS— Matt Haig (@matthaig1) August 12, 2019
Machine – power – morality: Why digitization requires ethics
The first Swiss think tank for digital ethics explores the risks of digitization.
Researchers find security flaws in 40 kernel drivers from 20 vendors
Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more.
Whoops Apocalypse
The problems of Normal today are embedded in history.
How a Tool to Help Judges May Be Leading Them Astray
In Cook County, Illinois, 99 percent of defendants deemed ‘high risk’ for pretrial violence don’t reoffend.
As summer camps turn on facial recognition, parents demand: More smiles, please
Debate may be raging about government uses of facial-recognition technology, but the technology already is an accepted part of Americans’ everyday lives. Now hundreds of summer camps across the United States have tethered their rustic lakefronts to facial-recognition software, allowing parents an increasingly omniscient view into their kids’ home away from home.
Good news and bad about that Capital One data breach
We keep deploying new technologies that rely on data to fly airplanes, drive cars, manage security, conduct surgery, etc.
Instagram's lax privacy practices let a trusted partner track millions of users' physical locations, secretly save their stories, and flout its rules
More than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook is still struggling to protect user data.
Deepfakes: Teaching Critical Consumption
The technology to create fully synthetic vidoes is rapidly improving. Teaching the five Cs of critical consumption is becoming increasingly important.
Evan Selinger on Twitter
1/ If you care about surveillance, you really should listen to @geoffreyfowler on @nprfreshair discuss what he’s learned from investigating the secret life of data. https://t.co/5Pb7a0hibz Here’s why. Spoilers. Surveillance sounds scary, very Big Brother. But many surveillance— Evan Selinger (@EvanSelinger) August 2, 2019
DeepMind’s Latest A.I. Health Breakthrough Has Some Problems
The Google machine learning company trumpeted its success in predicting a deadly kidney condition, but its results raise questions around…
Opinion | Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd
Once, it was easy to be obscure. Technology has ended that.
The Facebook Antagonist Inside the FTC
Rohit Chopra got off on the wrong foot less than two weeks into his new job last year at the Federal Trade Commission. That was when he fired off a memo to the entire agency, including his four fellow FTC commissioners, titled “Repeat Offenders.”The memo suggested the agency was at risk of ...
Alexa users can now disable human review of voice recordings
Amazon is not following Apple and Google in suspending practice altogether
Can algorithms be racist? Trump’s housing department says no
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is circulating new rules that would make it nearly impossible for banks – or landlords or homeowners insurance companies – to be sued when their algorithms result in people of color being disproportionately denied housing. The rule would overturn 50 years of precedent, upheld by the Supreme […]
switching.social – Ethical alternatives to popular sites and apps
The missing pieces: teaching the legal side of web development
We are creating architects who have never heard of building codes, drivers who have never heard of the Highway Code, and doctors who have never heard of the Hippocratic oath.
Google’s File on You is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook’s
Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are all central players in “surveillance capitalism” and prey on our data.