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"EPIC Files Complaint with FTC about Employment Screening Firm HireVue Today, EPIC filed a complaint with the FTC alleging that recruiting company HireVue has committed unfair and deceptive practices in violation of the FTC Act. EPIC charged that HireVue falsely denies it uses facial recognition. EPIC also said the company failed to comply with baseline standards for AI decision-making, such as the OECD AI Principles and the Universal Guidelines for AI. The company purports to evaluate a job applicant's qualifications based upon their appearance by means of an opaque, proprietary algorithm. EPIC has brought many similar consumer privacy complaints to the FTC, including a complaint on Facebook's facial recognition practices that contributed to the FTC's 2019 settlement with Facebook. Last year EPIC also asked the FTC to investigate the Universal Tennis Rating system, a secret technique for scoring high school athletes"

"Open Business sets a new bar for disclosures in anti-corruption and governance and provides an aspirational but achievable roadmap to better corporate practice. By demonstrating the value of harnessing transparency in these areas, this report shows how companies can embrace transparency to reduce corruption risk while also building consumer and public trust, protecting and building their reputation and gaining a competitive advantage. Informed by extensive research including in-depth interviews with legal and compliance figures from FTSE 100 companies, insight from some of the world's biggest institutional investors, and Transparency International's own anti-corruption expertise, this groundbreaking research: Sets out the business case for greater corporate transparency Fills the current 'guidance gap' by providing companies consolidated guidance on how to disclose policies and procedures publicly offers solutions to the most frequently cited legal challenges to greater disclosures"

The only way out of our Big Tech problem is up and through. If our future is not reliant upon high tech, it will be because civilization has fallen. Big Tech wired together a planetary, species-wide nervous system that, with the proper reforms and course corrections, is capable of seeing us through the existential challenge of our species and planet. Now it's up to us to seize the means of computation, putting that electronic nervous system under democratic, accountable control.

Inventor of the World Wide Web, professor at the MIT, director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation, named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century. Launched Contract for the Web, a campaign initiative to persuade governments, companies and citizens to commit to nine principles to stop "misuse"

Founder of Fairphone, then went into TADA (data ethics manifesto), Founder & Host at "What if We get it Right?" (podcast), now Member of the Board of Advisors at "Creatives for Climate", a non-profit global network of creative thinkers from all over the world,

Three talks (check out comments) 1) position of academics with regards to Wikipedia 2) case study of 8 projects of encyclopedias which failed 3) taking offline wikipedia to schools (wikipedia as an educational tool in developing countries)

Knowledge management ( KM) is the process of capturing, developing, sharing, and effectively using organizational knowledge. It refers to a multi-disciplinary approach to achieving organizational objectives by making the best use of knowledge. An established discipline since 1991, KM includes courses taught in the fields of business administration, information systems, management, library, and information sciences.

Free as in Freedom is a free book licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License about the life of Richard Stallman, written by Sam Williams and published by O'Reilly Media on March 1, 2002. Williams conducted several interviews with Stallman during the writing of the book, as well as with classmates, colleagues of Stallman, and his mother. The book has received positive reviews.

"Why shouldn't refugees in Germany be able to live in shared flats (or other normal housing situations) instead of mass accommodation? We thought the same & found a way to make it possible."

Le Massachusetts Institute of Technology ou MIT, en français Institut de technologie du Massachusetts, est un institut de recherche et une université américaine, spécialisée dans les domaines de la science et de la technologie

video en anglais sur la lecture de la déclaration d'indépendance du cyberespace de la version du discours de John Perry Barlow en 1996.

"The full version of Amazon's union-busting training video that was sent to Whole Foods management in 2018. It was then leaked by Whole Worker to the media. "

"The full report details how and why open source solutions are making their way into enterprises with such remarkable momentum. And it explains some of the ways companies are turning to enterprise open source solutions to modernize their approaches to IT and digitally transform their businesses."

Our grins are not as simple as they seem. There are a myriad different ways to smile - and some of them can conceal some less than happy feelings.

Co-founder of Cygnus Solutions, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks, the DES Cracker, and the Internet's "alt" newsgroups. Advocate of encryption policy. Currently on the boards of EFF, Usenix Association, CodeWeavers, and ReQuest.

reddit: the front page of the internet Reddit is an entertainment, social networking, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system

opne pad for simple wiki-alike workspaces, for example excellent for collaborative note-taking of a course, or co-writing synchronously an article

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