Apple iPhones Can Soon Hold Your ID. Privacy Experts Are On Edge
Privacy experts worry the convenient feature will open the door to surveillance, data tracking and Apple's turning interactions involving state-issued IDs into a new revenue stream.
As companies increasingly apply artificial intelligence, they must address concerns about trust. Here are 10 practical interventions companies can employ.
10 Ways to Prevent and Manage Technical Debt—Tips from Developers | Hacker Noon
Developers deal with technical debt every day, and they know how to prevent and manage it better than anyone else. Here’s just some of what they had to say.
Ep 111 Dismantling White Supremacy in Design by Antionette Carroll
The fourth of the #ShareTheMicNow episodes was created by Antionette Carroll in conversation with David Clifford the founder of Design School X and Liberatory Design, and Timothy Bardlavens co-founder of &Design and Product Design Manager at Facebook discussing Dismantling White Supremacy in Design.
How Amazon’s assistant made being a girl called Alexa a pain
Amazon’s Alexa is causing girls with the same name the butt of teasing, jokes, even sexual harassment. Parents have written to Amazon, set up social action sites, changed their children's’ schools and even their names.
Popular Alibaba-owned app UC Browser caught monitoring user browsing data | AppleInsider
UC Browser, a popular web browser developed by Alibaba subsidiary UCWeb, was found to be tracking user habits on both iOS and Android, and sending the data back to company servers.
WhatsApp won't limit accounts that don't accept new privacy policy
WhatsApp is no longer going to limit the accounts of users who do not accept the updated privacy policy, with the Facebook-owned iOS app now saying it wont be harming anyone's usage of the service for the moment.
Automated Proctors Watch Students. Now Senators Are Watching These Companies. | EdSurge News
Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Led by ...
Big Ed-Tech Is Watching You: Privacy, Prejudice, and Pedagogy in Online Proctoring - Brown Political Review
In the pandemic-era scramble of digital education delivery, the line between public and private has been unduly blurred. Remote learning has brought one particular learning tool — remote invigilance, or more colloquially “online proctoring” — to the fore.
The legal identity of on-demand platform workers has become a central site of conflict between labor and industry. Amidst growing economic inequality, labor rep
Last week, "Marina" - a piano teacher who publishes free lessons her Piano Keys Youtube channel - celebrated her fifth anniversary by announcing that she was quitting Youtube because her meager wages were being stolen by fraudsters.https://t.co/6tZpJpcyt51/ pic.twitter.com/uDKWcpbVtK— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) May 8, 2021
Protecting Our Mental Autonomy From New Technologies
Technology has blurred all sorts of boundaries we used to take for granted. One we still treat as sacrosanct is the one around our own minds, which allows us to think for ourselves and keep those thoughts private. But technology may now be challenging this mental independence, too, with potential implications for our autonomy.