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CSS-Based Fingerprinting | CSS-Tricks
CSS-Based Fingerprinting | CSS-Tricks
Fingerprinting is bad. It's a term that refers to building up enough metadata about a user that you can essentially figure out who they are. JavaScript has
·css-tricks.com·
CSS-Based Fingerprinting | CSS-Tricks
AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios
AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios
In interviews with AI experts, IEEE Spectrum has uncovered six real-world AI worst-case scenarios that are far more mundane than those sci-fi robot apocalypses depicted in the movies. But they’re no less dystopian. And most don’t require a malevolent dictator to bring them to full fruition.
·spectrum.ieee.org·
AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios
Andrew Ng X-Rays the AI Hype
Andrew Ng X-Rays the AI Hype
AI pioneer says machine learning may work on test sets, but that’s a long way from real world use
·spectrum.ieee.org·
Andrew Ng X-Rays the AI Hype
European parliament backs big limits on tracking ads – TechCrunch
European parliament backs big limits on tracking ads – TechCrunch
The European Parliament has definitively backed major limits on behavioral advertising during a plenary vote on amendments to the pan-EU Digital Services Act (DSA). The move looks set to crank up pressure on Big Tech business models that rely on pervasive tracking and profiling of users to target a…
·techcrunch.com·
European parliament backs big limits on tracking ads – TechCrunch
Meta removes Iran-based fake accounts targeting Instagram users in Scotland
Meta removes Iran-based fake accounts targeting Instagram users in Scotland
Facebook parent Meta Platforms removed a network of fake accounts that originated in Iran and targeted Instagram users in Scotland with content supporting Scottish independence, the company's investigators said on Thursday.
·reuters.com·
Meta removes Iran-based fake accounts targeting Instagram users in Scotland
Jason Kint on Twitter
Jason Kint on Twitter
A federal judge just ordered 13yrs of targeted discovery on all communications by Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg related to a cover-up on their largest breach of trust in company history. I bet anyone this ends up badly for them considering they paid the FTC $5B to avoid it.
·twitter.com·
Jason Kint on Twitter
YouTube
YouTube
Max Schrems (NOYB) delivered a talk for UCL's Institute of Brand and Innovation Law in January 2022. Chaired by Professor Sir Robin Jacob (UCL) with an introduction by Amanda Harcourt (UCL) You can see the work of NOYB and support them at: https://noyb.eu/en
·youtube.com·
YouTube
Current AI Practices Could Be Enabling a New Generation of Copyright Trolls
Current AI Practices Could Be Enabling a New Generation of Copyright Trolls
A new research collaboration between Huawei and academia suggests that a great deal of the most important current research in artificial intelligence and machine learning could be exposed to litigation as soon as it becomes commercially prominent, because the datasets that make breakthroughs possible are being distributed with invalid licenses that do not respect the […]
·unite.ai·
Current AI Practices Could Be Enabling a New Generation of Copyright Trolls
The Californian Ideology
The Californian Ideology

 
 'Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will' - Naum Gabo
·metamute.org·
The Californian Ideology
Cory Doctorow on Twitter
Cory Doctorow on Twitter
This is fucking wild. Norton "Antivirus" now sneakily installs cryptomining software on your computer, and then SKIMS A COMMISSION. https://t.co/6s2otyCd78— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) January 4, 2022
·twitter.com·
Cory Doctorow on Twitter
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can
·theguardian.com·
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen
Crime Prediction Keeps Society Stuck in the Past
Crime Prediction Keeps Society Stuck in the Past
So long as algorithms are trained on racist historical data and outdated values, there will be no opportunities for change.
·wired.com·
Crime Prediction Keeps Society Stuck in the Past
The Third Web
The Third Web
(This text is very long. Maybe too long. You can find a PDF and an EPUB of it below.The current version of this text will always live at https://web3.tante.cc) By tante tante@tante.ccVersion 1.0Date: Dec 17th 2021License: CC-BY-SA 4.0 Introduction I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this thing, that blockchains and NFTs and […]
·tante.cc·
The Third Web
Privacy Matters on Twitter
Privacy Matters on Twitter
Just re-upping this from Sept 21. Apple & Google remove, at the request of the Russian govt, Navalny's Smart Voting app. This interfered with a number of human rights.We should be asking Apple & Google about their commitments to human rights. Cos clearly $$$$$ is the priority. https://t.co/Q9WbQzQ16E pic.twitter.com/5fH8Yawqlo— Privacy Matters (@PrivacyMatters) December 23, 2021
·twitter.com·
Privacy Matters on Twitter
The Future of Robot Nannies
The Future of Robot Nannies
A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them.
·wired.com·
The Future of Robot Nannies