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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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.
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.
A statement on the necessity of surveillance resistant systems.https://t.co/eOdTOBZK0q pic.twitter.com/icb0OTWXtg— Sarah Jamie Lewis (@SarahJamieLewis) November 8, 2018
AI used for first time in job interviews in UK to find best applicants
Artificial intelligence (AI) and face recognition technology is being used for the first time in job interviews in the UK to identify the best candidates.
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
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
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
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
The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and Resolved in iOS 13 for Blind and Low Vision Users | AppleVis
iOS 13 will be released to the public on 19 September, 2019. This post contains details of the VoiceOver and braille bugs which we believe to have been introduced in iOS 13; as well as details of the pre-existing bugs which we believe have been resolved.