Surprising results after activists tests facial recognition technology on denver city council

Digital Ethics
Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad on Twitter
1. [thread] We are filing legal complaints against six companies based on our research, revealing systematic breaches to privacy, by shadowy #OutOfControl #adtech companies gathering & sharing heaps of personal data. https://t.co/qGsiNSe7gJ #privacy pic.twitter.com/f1ReGIgUUn— Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad (@finnmyrstad) January 14, 2020
Some of San Francisco's robot-run restaurants are failing. It could simply be that we still want to be served by humans, not machines.
There could be multiple reasons why some of them have flopped, but perhaps we're simply not ready to be served by robots in lieu of humans.
How Amazon’s Ring is creating a surveillance network with video doorbells
Here’s everything we know about Amazon’s video doorbell and the controversies surrounding it.
Amazon Ring workers fired for accessing user video
Four employees watched video footage from customers, exceeding "what was necessary", the company says
We've spent the decade letting our tech define us. It's out of control
Technology has grown from some devices and platforms we use to an entire environment in which we function
Blackbox AI – State Regulation or Corporate Responsibility?
“In the past a lot of S&P 500 CEOs wished they had started thinking sooner than they did about their Internet strategy. I think five years from now there will be a number of S&P 500 CEOs that will wish they’d started thinking earlier about their AI strategy.” Andrew Ng Introduction Artificial intelligence changes our […]
How “Good Intent” Undermines Diversity and Inclusion
Telling people to “assume good intent” is a sign that if they come to you with a concern, you will minimize their feelings, police their reactions, and question their perceptions. It tells marginal…
Ethics is Objective
Ethics is a funny topic. It runs deep with a lot of people.
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents
What Happens When We Let Industry and Government Collect All the Data They Want
In the fall of 1769, Thomas Jefferson lost a slave. His name was Sandy, and he was a runaway. Sandy was “about 35 years of age.” He worked as a...
Schools are using facial recognition to try to stop shootings. Here’s why they should think twice.
Facial recognition is just one of several AI-powered security tools showing up at schools.
Think FaceApp Is Scary? Wait Till You Hear About Facebook
The idea that FaceApp is somehow exceptionally dangerous threatens to obscure the real point: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny.
Amazon threatens to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies
The e-commerce giant warned workers who participated in environmental protests that future comments regarding company business practices could lead to termination.
Silicon Valley Is Helping Turn Immigrant DNA into a Lucrative Industry
Arresting and deporting undocumented people has become lucrative because their biological, biometric data can be mined, harvested, and used to generate profit.
I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left.
The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed.
How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence.
Our collective privacy problem is not your fault
Blame the companies surveilling you instead.
iAfrikan.com on Twitter
It is important that we write, podcast, and vlog on our own African digital content platforms that no one can censor or ban us from.https://t.co/VparyJVOoy— iAfrikan.com (@iafrikan) January 2, 2020
Operation Vula
Encryption played a key role in South Africa’s political liberation.
Phones, Electric Cars and Human Rights Abuses - 5 Things You Need to Know
The phone you’re using or the electric car you’re driving could be linked to child labour. Lithium-ion batteries powering most electric vehicles and cell phones contain the mineral cobalt. According to our research, cobalt mined by children and adults in appalling conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is entering the supply chains of some of the world’s biggest brands. Short of stopping the use of phones and electric cars, is there anything you can do?
Industry giants fail to tackle child labour allegations in cobalt battery supply chains
Are smartphone and electric vehicle companies doing enough to cut human rights abuses out of their cobalt supply chains?
Ai now 2019 report
Lack of guidance leaves public services in limbo on AI, says watchdog
CCTV commissioner says he gets many queries about facial recognition and other tools
I created my own deepfake—it took two weeks and cost $552
I learned a lot from creating my own deepfake video.
The smartphone tracking industry has been rumbled. When will we act? | John Naughton
Shadowy firms collect detailed data on where we go and who we meet through our apps. Yet where is the protest that would fuel change?
How to (Hypothetically) Hack Your School's Surveillance System
This week, hacktivist and security engineer Lance R. Vick tweeted an enticing proposition along with a gut-punch headline: “Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands,” read the Washington Post link. The report revealed nearly instantaneous and sweeping adoption of smartphone-tracking platforms implemented in roughly 60 campuses, ranging from limited classroom attendance check-ins to pervasive 24/7 surveillance, mostly with fuzzy consent policies.
Government exposes addresses of new year honours recipients
Cabinet Office apologises after details of more than 1,000 people posted online in error
Myles Lewando 🥀 on Twitter
Inspired by the work of @aral and @LauraKalbag and their Small Tech Foundation ethos, I've started actually reading privacy policies.Today I read @NotionHQ's, as I was planning to use their service more next year. Emphasis on the was. pic.twitter.com/BaAWN7L36q— Myles Lewando 🥀 (@codemacabre) December 28, 2019
Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint
Russia's neighbor has developed a blueprint for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?