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ACLU on Twitter
ACLU on Twitter
“BREAKING: We're filing a complaint against Detroit police for wrongfully arresting Robert Williams, an innocent Black man — all because face recognition technology can't tell Black people apart. Officers hauled him away in front of his kids and locked him up for 30 hours. https://t.co/84XJs0XWq...
·twitter.com·
ACLU on Twitter
AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms
AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms
The news: An open letter from a growing coalition of AI researchers is calling out scientific publisher Springer Nature for a conference paper it reportedly planned to include in its forthcoming book Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. The paper, titled “A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing,” presents a…
·technologyreview.com·
AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms
Robert Osazuwa Ness on Twitter
Robert Osazuwa Ness on Twitter
An image of @BarackObama getting upsampled into a white guy is floating around because it illustrates racial bias in #MachineLearning. Just in case you think it isn't real, it is, I got the code working locally. Here is me, and here is @AOC. pic.twitter.com/kvL3pwwWe1— Robert Osazuwa Ness (@osazuwa) June 20, 2020
·twitter.com·
Robert Osazuwa Ness on Twitter
High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
Police forces across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national intelligence services. The digitization of bias and abuse of power followed.
·theconversation.com·
High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
All I don't wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom on Twitter
All I don't wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom on Twitter
A few weeks ago, Zoom admitted that they literally NEVER CONSIDERED how their product would be used to harm vulnerable populations, but now they see us, so that’s progress ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/2bRk3IFFi4— All I don't wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom (@hypervisible) June 1, 2020
·twitter.com·
All I don't wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom on Twitter
Fever-Detecting Drones Don’t Work
Fever-Detecting Drones Don’t Work
You’d get basically the same results if you mounted a thermal camera on a pole next to the grocery store.
·slate.com·
Fever-Detecting Drones Don’t Work
Abeba Birhane on Twitter
Abeba Birhane on Twitter
You want to replace books with laptops? You might be doing more harm that good unless you have these contingent issues covered in advance. #edtech #edtechknow #Broussard pic.twitter.com/3bdyNZESfG— Abeba Birhane (@Abebab) April 11, 2020
·twitter.com·
Abeba Birhane on Twitter
HU facial recognition software predicts criminality
HU facial recognition software predicts criminality
A group of Harrisburg University professors and a Ph.D. student have developed automated computer facial recognition software capable of predicting whether someone is likely going to be a criminal. With 80 percent accuracy and with no racial bias, the software can predict if someone is a criminal based solely on a picture of their face. The software is intended to help law enforcement prevent crime. Ph.D. student and NYPD veteran Jonathan W. Korn, Prof. Nathaniel J.S. Ashby, and Prof. Roozbeh Sadeghian titled their research "A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Pro...
·harrisburgu.edu·
HU facial recognition software predicts criminality
We Need to Talk About Digital Contact Tracing
We Need to Talk About Digital Contact Tracing
Over the past few weeks, Apple & Google have floated the idea of developing and distributing a digital contact-tracing app that will inform people when they’ve been exposed to someone who’s contracted COVID-19, and communicate to people that they’ve been exposed to you if you later test positive yourself (edit: since writing this, Apple has released a beta of iOS 13 that includes the SDK necessary to begin using this system). Writing this in late April and early May, it feels like we’re desperate for information and weary from not knowing who’s caught COVID-19, who’s still vulnerable, who g...
·ali-alkhatib.com·
We Need to Talk About Digital Contact Tracing
Doug Collins on Twitter
Doug Collins on Twitter
Making the user agree to legalese they haven't yet probably isn't great #UX, @Ferrari. #DarkPatterns #design pic.twitter.com/0SrmPr6biN— Doug Collins (@DougCollinsUX) May 1, 2020
·twitter.com·
Doug Collins on Twitter
Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing
Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing
Former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani argues it's time for Silicon Valley companies to formalize and test not just their products' security, but its "abusability."
·wired.com·
Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing