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huck on Twitter
huck on Twitter
chants of “fuck the algorithm” as a speaker talks of losing her place at medical school because she was downgraded. pic.twitter.com/P15jpuBscB— huck (@HUCKmagazine) August 16, 2020
·twitter.com·
huck on Twitter
Who’s Responsible for Preventing Dark Patterns?
Who’s Responsible for Preventing Dark Patterns?
Dark patterns are as old as the internet itself. For over 30 years, the web has served as a breeding ground for manipulative design—and we’ve been attempting to stop it for nearly as long. In an impressive act of foresight, Rolf Molich and Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group started creati
·eyeondesign.aiga.org·
Who’s Responsible for Preventing Dark Patterns?
Ethics Is More Important than Technology
Ethics Is More Important than Technology
If engineers don’t apply ethical thinking to the design process, regulation will be required in the future.
·scu.edu·
Ethics Is More Important than Technology
Crime-Tracking App Citizen Now Alerts Users to Infection Risk
Crime-Tracking App Citizen Now Alerts Users to Infection Risk
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, contact tracing was considered the best hope for getting people back to offices and schools safely without a vaccine. The tech industry was optimistic that apps would provide a faster, more effective alternative to the usual painstaking human process of calling and interviewing the networks of infected people to figure out possible sources of exposure.
·bloomberg.com·
Crime-Tracking App Citizen Now Alerts Users to Infection Risk
The Pinterest Paradox: Cupcakes and Toxicity
The Pinterest Paradox: Cupcakes and Toxicity
Pinterest has always been about aspiration. It is a platform for sharing beautiful images, curating galleries of an idealized world. Users…
·medium.com·
The Pinterest Paradox: Cupcakes and Toxicity
The hack that could make face recognition think someone else is you
The hack that could make face recognition think someone else is you
Researchers have demonstrated that they can fool a modern face recognition system into seeing someone who isn’t there. A team from the cybersecurity firm McAfee set up the attack against a facial recognition system similar to those currently used at airports for passport verification. By using machine learning, they created an image that looked like…
·technologyreview.com·
The hack that could make face recognition think someone else is you