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Pinboard on Twitter
Pinboard on Twitter
It appears that Apple has rejected an app that warns Hong Kongers about police activity. The Hong Kong police force shot a high schooler in the chest yesterday and put seventy people, from 11 to 75, in the hospital. That app saves lives in Hong Kong. Let me tweet about it a bit https://t.co/APsQK6XRsP— Pinboard (@Pinboard) October 2, 2019
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Pinboard on Twitter
Facebook says Trump can lie in his Facebook ads
Facebook says Trump can lie in his Facebook ads
This is the online version of the Popular Information newsletter. You can get independent accountability journalism in your inbox every week. Sign up here: Last week, Facebook quietly changed the language of its advertising policies to make it easier for politicians to lie in ads.
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Facebook says Trump can lie in his Facebook ads
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agency’s quiet embrace of big data.
·nytimes.com·
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
Your Next Vacation Is Written on Your Face
Your Next Vacation Is Written on Your Face
Travel companies are using facial recognition and other sophisticated tech to better predict how and why their customers shop the way they do.
·wsj.com·
Your Next Vacation Is Written on Your Face
Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk
Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk
Nearly two decades ago, a company called Interpeak created a network protocol that became an industry standard. It also had severe bugs that are only now coming to light.
·wired.com·
Decades-Old Code Is Putting Millions of Critical Devices at Risk
Sarah Jamie Lewis on Twitter
Sarah Jamie Lewis on Twitter
A statement on the necessity of surveillance resistant systems.https://t.co/eOdTOBZK0q pic.twitter.com/icb0OTWXtg— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) November 8, 2018
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Sarah Jamie Lewis on Twitter
Josh Seim on Twitter
Josh Seim on Twitter
I was beginning to think Foucault’s writings on the “disciplinary society” were becoming irrelevant. But then my niece started the 5th grade. Her teachers add and subtract behavioral points in an app shared with her mom. Note that she lost a point for using the restroom today. pic.twitter.com/3nXJ9Mdbyo— Josh Seim (@JoshSeim) September 27, 2019
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Josh Seim on Twitter
Excavating AI
Excavating AI
An investigation into the politics of training sets, and the fundamental problems with classifying humans.
·excavating.ai·
Excavating AI
Privacy Matters on Twitter
Privacy Matters on Twitter
The FTC Facebook agreement reminded me of a question I asked Facebook at the #ARDPPC Ghana after they advised they had 150 million users in Africa (FYI 98% access FB via mobile in Africa). I asked why Facebook changed the Terms of Service for African users from Ireland to the US https://t.co/WDY5IlINdC— Privacy Matters (@PrivacyMatters) July 25, 2019
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Privacy Matters on Twitter
Fanny Hidvegi on Twitter
Fanny Hidvegi on Twitter
Ethics is not the answer when our norms and rights are violated. Rule of law must prevail in regulating #ArtificialIntelligence. We need meaningful access to information, oversight and research in the public interest, @MarietjeSchaake #tptalks2019— Fanny Hidvegi (@infofannny) September 19, 2019
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Fanny Hidvegi on Twitter
🌈ChanceyFleet🙈🍏 on Twitter
🌈ChanceyFleet🙈🍏 on Twitter
Each year, Blind people who upgrade to the new version of iOS face severe accessibility bugs. Those of us who know to be cautious check this thorough, reliably accounting before we decide whether the update is worth our annual double-dose of friction https://t.co/Hcc5BKaVQd— 🌈ChanceyFleet🙈🍏 (@ChanceyFleet) September 19, 2019
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🌈ChanceyFleet🙈🍏 on Twitter
This is your phone on feminism
This is your phone on feminism
Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones.
·conversationalist.org·
This is your phone on feminism