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How normal am I?
In this test face detection algorithms will determine how normal you are. 100% privacy friendly.
Responsible Tech Summer Reading List — All Tech Is Human
All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Summer Reading List
AI & Human Rights report — All Tech Is Human
AI and Human Rights: Building a Tech Future Aligned With the Public Interest
All Tech Is Human's latest resource is AI and Human Rights: Building a Tech Future Aligned With the Public Interest, which you can freely read and download a...
Hacker claims to have obtained data on 1 billion Chinese citizens
Personal information allegedly taken from Shanghai police database would be one of biggest data breaches in history
China bank protest stopped by health codes turning red, depositors say
A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters.
Why Kenyans should say no to biometrics for SIM card registry - Access Now
Your Kenya SIM card should not come with a demand for your personal biometrics.
The Good Web (SSIR)
It’s not enough to fix existing social media, we must imagine, experiment with, and build social media that can be good for society.
Cruise robotaxis stop operating, block traffic on San Francisco street – TechCrunch
More than a half dozen Cruise robotaxis stopped operating and sat in a street in San Francisco late Tuesday night, blocking traffic for a couple of hours until employees arrived and manually moved the autonomous vehicles. Photos and a description of the Cruise robotaxi blockade were shared to a Red…
Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments
Clinics offering debunked cancer treatments are still allowed to advertise, despite the company’s stated efforts to control medical misinformation.
Anti-abortion activists are collecting the data they’ll need for prosecutions post-Roe
Body cams and license plates are already being used to track people arriving at abortion clinics.
Opinion | We Need to Take Back Our Privacy
In a post-Roe America, women will bear the costs of letting data collection undermine our liberty.
The Personal Brand Is Dead
Gen Z would rather be anonymous online.
The number of posts today about deleting menstrual tracking data from startup apps is a very good reminder that you should never trust data you don't store yourself is safe. Whether it's a scrappy startup, a big megacorp, or a FOSS dude with a server: if someone extracts money to store your data they will, at some point, prioritize their gain over your privacy
The number of posts today about deleting menstrual tracking data from startup apps is a very good reminder that you should never trust data you don't store yourself is safe. Whether it's a scrappy startup, a big megacorp, or a FOSS dude with a server: if someone extracts money to store your data they will, at some point, prioritize their gain over your privacy
EFF's Statement on Dobb's Abortion Ruling
Today's decision deprives millions of people of a fundamental right, and also underscores the importance of fair and meaningful protections for data privacy. Everyone deserves to have strong controls over the collection and use of information they necessarily leave behind as they go about their normal activities, like using apps, search engine queries, posting on social media, texting friends, and so on. But those seeking, offering, or facilitating abortion access must now assume that any data they provide online or offline could be sought by law enforcement.
WSJ News Exclusive | Lawmakers Want FTC to Investigate Apple, Google Over Mobile Tracking
Identifiers built into iOS and Android facilitate the collection and sale of personal data, four Democrats said in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission.
Important: there was a Barbie Dream Supercomputer in the 60s A vintage toy package. "Floor model computer for 11½ fashion dolls"
Attached: 1 image Important: there was a Barbie Dream Supercomputer in the 60s
The spectacular implosion of Instagram’s No White Saviors
The group — known for canceling missionaries and aid workers for alleged misdeeds — is embroiled in some very ugly scandals of its own.
The State of Consumer Data Privacy Laws in the US (And Why It Matters)
Digital privacy laws help control how your data is stored, shared, and used by big businesses—but those protections vary wildly depending on where you live.
TechScape: What the crypto big freeze means for your money
In this week’s newsletter: Crypto giant Celsius is freezing out users as it tries to solve a mammoth lending crisis. So what happens if money in the bank isn’t really there?
Pluralistic: 21 Jun 2022
Pluralistic: 21 Jun 2022
This Children’s Hospital Network Was Giving Kids’ Information to Facebook – The Markup
When parents scheduled an appointment for their children on the Nemours page, Facebook received that information
Don’t Just “Do Something.” Don’t Make Things Worse.
While some tech tools might indeed be helpful, they should be considered in conjunction with, not as replacement for, regulations that address the role of guns.
What if Algorithms Worked For Accused People, Instead of Against Them? | News & Commentary | American Civil Liberties Union
We created an algorithmic tool to find out what risks the criminal legal system poses to the people entering it, rather than their risk to "public safety."
The Algorithmic Imprint | Upol Ehsan, Ranjit Singh, Jacob Metcalf, Mark Riedl @ FAccT 2022
When an algorithm causes harm, is discontinuing it enough to address its harms?
This paper introduces the concept of the **The Algorithmic Imprint** to show how algorithmic harms can persist long after the algorithm is discontinued. It chronicles the 2020 Ofqual Algorithmic Grading Scandal, not from the UK, but from a Bangladeshi perspective. The concept of the Algorithmic Imprint helps us understand how the algorithm's impact lives on in the algorithm's afterlife much the remnants of palimpsest remain. Critically examining our current conception of algorithmic impact, it expands how we may view algorithmic impact, especially in the algorithm's afterlife (after being discontinued). It also offers practical and actionable guidance on how an imprint-aware mindset can inform algorithmic design.
This is a presentation of the paper "The Algorithmic Imprint" to be presented at the ACM Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) conference.
Here is a quick tweetorial covering the key points: https://bit.ly/AlgorthmicImprint_Tweetorial
Fair Game — Real Life
Commonly used by researchers and journalists, data scraping is an underacknowledged privacy concern
What Google’s “Sentient” A.I. Is Really Thinking
The language used by AI is the reflection in the mirror.
I’m done with Wyze
Why are we only hearing about a huge security flaw now?