On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
Digital Ethics
Facebook apps used to groom 24 children every week
Revelation comes as whistleblower Frances Haugen prepares to give evidence in parliament
Alastair Somerville on LinkedIn: #codesign
Needed to define #codesign for a new youth culture project. This definition really exists to enable me to validate the feeling of uncertainty that people...
Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets
Home feed promotes rightwing tweets over those from the left, internal research finds
Pilot testing 'Policy Guidance on AI for Children'
Case studies | Gathering real experiences from the field
Amazon’s AI Cameras Are Punishing Drivers for Mistakes They Didn’t Make - VICE
Amazon delivery drivers say surveillance cameras installed in their vans have made them lose income for reasons beyond their control.
Facebook Political Problems
Facebook’s political problems stem directly from its size and drive for growth; they are societal issues, not antitrust ones.
Faces
This Person (Probably) Exists. Identity Membership Attacks Against GAN Generated Faces.
Do Your Digital Design Choices Take Advantage of Customers?
Options that manipulate consumers into spending more can also hurt you in the long run.
The Real Reason Tech Struggles With Algorithmic Bias
Opinion: Humans train the machine-learning and AI systems at Facebook, Google, and Twitter to filter out bias. The problem: they don't know what they're looking for.
Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do
Facebook outlines ambitions for augmented reality glasses
Facebook clamps down on its internal message boards.
The social network, which has been under increased scrutiny after a former product manager turned into a whistle-blower, is trying to prevent leaks.
We need to talk about Apple’s surveillance empire
Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us
Analysis | Lawmakers’ latest idea to fix Facebook: Regulate the algorithm
Whistleblower Frances Haugen says the software that decides what we see in our social feeds is hurting us all. But reforming it won’t be easy.
The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?
How Should We Limit Facebook’s Power?
Here are two proposals for regulating the platform.
It’s time for a rethink on financial inclusion – new principles show how
A new set of principles offers a vision that makes digital inclusion a natural outcome of an innovative and competitive financial system.
TechCrunch is now a part of Verizon Media
Facebook whistleblower testifies platform has "not earned the right to just have blind trust in them"
While the hearing touched on a wide swath of Facebook's problems, it focused on the platform's impact on children.
How Frances Haugen Left Mark Zuckerberg Speechless
Facebook’s whistleblower, who leaked tens of thousands of documents about the company’s algorithms, could succeed where others failed.
Facebook Is an Authoritarian State - The Atlantic
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.
Facebook could face hefty fine in Russia over banned content, says regulator
Russian authorities on Thursday warned social media giant Facebook it faces a fine of up to 10% of its annual turnover in the country unless it deletes content Moscow deems illegal.
Zuckerberg: the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election is ‘crazy’
After a day of criticism over his company’s role in spreading fake news about political candidates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected the idea that the News Feed had tilted the election in...
A Hospital Hit by Hackers, a Baby in Distress: The Case of the First Alleged Ransomware Death
An Alabama medical center was in the midst of a hack when Teiranni Kidd arrived to have her baby. A lawsuit says the computer outages from the attack led staff to miss troubling signs, resulting in the baby’s death, allegations the hospital denies.
3 lessons from IBM on designing ethical AI
A new case study, co-authored by the World Economic Forum, delves into the lessons learned at IBM in the company's quest to develop ethical AI technology.
Ethics in Tech - A Conversation Series
The third event in our series features Dr. Safiya Noble and Dr. Achuta Kadambi.
Privacy Matters on Twitter
pic.twitter.com/sHiF9KdFjL— Privacy Matters (@PrivacyMatters) September 27, 2021
This Man Single Handedly Stopped All Out Nuclear War - The Man Who Saved The World - War Documentary - YouTube
On 26 September 1983, the computers in the Serpukhov-15 bunker outside Moscow, which housed the command center of the Soviet early warning satellite system, ...
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Cell Phone Surveillance at Protests
As uprisings over police brutality and institutionalized racism have swept over the country, many people are facing the full might of law enforcement weaponry and surveillance for the first time. Whenever protesters, cell phones, and police are in the same place, protesters should worry about cell...
Gotta Catch 'Em All: Understanding How IMSI-Catchers Exploit Cell
Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction Section 2: Necessary background info Section 3: Overview of attacks Section 3.1: Basic IMSI-catcher Section 3.2: Communication interception Section 3.2.1: Spoofing authentication Section 3.2.2: Dealing with encryption Section 3.2.3: Why aren’...