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.
The Data Delusion: Protecting Individual Data Isn't Enough When The Harm is Collective DOWNLOAD (PDF) Author: Martin Tisné, Managing Director, Luminate Editor: Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director, Cyber Policy Center The threat of digital discrimination On March 17, 2018, questions about data privacy exploded with the scandal of the previously unknown consulting
The European Parliament has adopted legislation to allow EU consumers to defend their rights collectively. The measure, which is to become law within two years, aims to give individuals more power against corporations.
We know what you did during lockdown. An FT Film written by James Graham | Financial Times
We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19, can we get it back? An FT film starring Lydia West and Arthur Darvill in collaboration with Sonia Friedman Productions and supported by Luminate. An interrogation scene explores how Covid-19 has exposed the tension between the need for data to track and trace, and the right to privacy and justice
Twitter's Photo Crop Algorithm Favors White Faces and Women
A study of 10,000 images found bias in what the system chooses to highlight. Twitter has stopped using it on mobile, and will consider ditching it on the web.
What makes these two cases so gobsmacking is that the women’s voices are literally RIGHT THERE, in our ears, while companies deny their contribution and erase their names from history😫— Mar Hicks (@histoftech) May 17, 2021
There aren’t well-established national guidelines for police use of facial recognition software. A 2019 report found surprising practices at some police departments, including editing suspects’ facial features before running their photos in a search. https://t.co/zNkAi53NT5 pic.twitter.com/YRvPRPmwaV— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 16, 2021
Leaps Talk #8 | Why Do We Fear Innovation? | With Yuval Noah Harari & Mayim Bialik @ SXSW 2021 - YouTube
From the printing press to vaccines to artificial intelligence, the introduction of almost any transformative technology has been met with wonder as well as ...
Facebook Loses Bid to Block Ruling on EU-U.S. Data Flows
The social-media company lost a bid to block a European Union privacy decision that could suspend its ability to send information about Europeans to the U.S., opening a pathway toward a precedent-setting interruption of its data flows.
Three months after the company banned vaccine misinformation, CNBC has found evidence of people using one of Facebook's own features to skirt its policies..