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Former policy manager Marika Tedroff talks nudity, China, and a "very toxic" work culture

Forget mobile apps – headsets and smart glasses will be able to harvest so much data

A recent AI tool can restore vintage photos in a few seconds, and for free..

Despite what Meta has to say.

The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong.

Interacting online today means being besieged by system-generated recommendations. Do we want what the machines tell us we want?

Human rights groups said Meta failed to take responsibility for exacerbating political tensions and sidestepped its biggest criticisms.

The corporate giant has purchased a company that uses robots to map the interior of people’s homes. Also, it vacuums.

DuckDuckGo tries letting good not be the enemy of perfect with new limitations on Microsoft web trackers

Facebook has given information to Nebraska police to prosecute a teenager for abortion despite claims to encrypt user data.

Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager’s private chats about her abortion. Cops then used those chats to seize her phone and computer.

Regulators are close to stopping Meta from sending EU data to the US, bringing a years-long privacy battle to a head.

Good morning to everyone, especially the Facebook https://t.co/EkwTpff9OI researchers who are going to have to rein in their Facebook-hating, election denying chatbot today pic.twitter.com/wMRBTkzlyD— Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) August 7, 2022

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‘Black-box’ AI-based discrimination seems to be beyond the control of organisations that use it

Amazon keeps sneaking in into our homes with its aggressive acquisitions of smart device companies.

Remember when we called software that recorded what you were doing "spyware" Now that's pretty much every piece of software

Detailed in a proposed class action settlement.

Police should be able to monitor passengers who spend hours on the railway network in case they are pickpockets or sex offenders — or are in need of help — a chief constable has said

Blocking third-party cookies in Chrome gets another delay. This time until 2024.

Aussie cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0 pulled apart TikTok’s source code and found the staggering amount of phone access the app grants itself.

Relations are basic building blocks of human cognition. Classic and recent work suggests that many relations are early developing, and quickly perceived. Machine models that aspire to human-level...

Can you afford an adversarial attack on autonomous car object detection algorithms? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/AVg6pVquuC— Evil AI Cartoons (@EvilAICartoons) August 3, 2022

The pressure on schools to keep students safe, especially to protect them physically and support their mental health, has never been greater. The mental health crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and concerns about the increasing number of school shootings have led to questions about the role of technology in meeting these […]

“The idea is that if enough people get hurt, they’ll stop coming.”

Beyond the current news cycle about whether AIs are sentient is a more practical and immediately consequential conversation about AI value…

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.