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Ian Forrester

Troy Hunt: Data from connected CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids... - 0 views

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    "Only a couple of weeks ago, there were a lot of news headlines about how Germany had banned an internet-connected doll called "Cayla" over fears hackers could target children. One of their primary concerns was the potential risk to the privacy of children:"
Ian Forrester

Tech Weekly podcast | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

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    "Julia Powles and Jat Singh from St Johns College Cambridge discuss why the internet of things poses huge risks to online privacy. Julia and Jat discuss their recent article on the issue and why the law needs to catch up with these technological developments."
Ian Forrester

[1607.06520] Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Emb... - 0 views

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    The blind application of machine learning runs the risk of amplifying biases present in data. Such a danger is facing us with word embedding, a popular framework to represent text data as vectors which has been used in many machine learning and natural language processing tasks. We show that even word embeddings trained on Google News articles exhibit female/male gender stereotypes to a disturbing extent. This raises concerns because their widespread use, as we describe, often tends to amplify these biases. Geometrically, gender bias is first shown to be captured by a direction in the word embedding. Second, gender neutral words are shown to be linearly separable from gender definition words in the word embedding. Using these properties, we provide a methodology for modifying an embedding to remove gender stereotypes, such as the association between between the words receptionist and female, while maintaining desired associations such as between the words queen and female. We define metrics to quantify both direct and indirect gender biases in embeddings, and develop algorithms to "debias" the embedding. Using crowd-worker evaluation as well as standard benchmarks, we empirically demonstrate that our algorithms significantly reduce gender bias in embeddings while preserving the its useful properties such as the ability to cluster related concepts and to solve analogy tasks. The resulting embeddings can be used in applications without amplifying gender bias.
Ian Forrester

Facebook blocks Admiral's car insurance discount plan - BBC News - 0 views

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    Facebook has blocked plans by an insurer to view young drivers' profiles to help set car insurance premiums.
Ian Forrester

Admiral to price car insurance based on Facebook posts | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "Insurer's algorithm analyses social media usage to identify safe drivers in unprecedented use of customer data"
Ian Forrester

Nintendo's Charming 'Miitomo' Could Be the Most Brilliant Data Mining App Ever | Mother... - 0 views

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    It sounds innocent enough. But users are growing suspicious of the app's whimsical, canned questions, many of which read like a marketing survey.
Ian Forrester

WebUSB API - 0 views

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    Describes an API for direct access to Universal Serial Bus devices from web pages.
Ian Forrester

Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You | WIRED - 0 views

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    "When a rogue researcher last week released 70,000 OkCupid profiles, complete with usernames and sexual preferences, people were pissed. When Facebook researchers manipulated stories appearing in Newsfeeds for a mood contagion study in 2014, people were really pissed. OkCupid filed a copyright claim to take down the dataset; the journal that published Facebook's study issued an "expression of concern." Outrage has a way of shaping ethical boundaries. We learn from mistakes."
Ian Forrester

Pardon Snowden on Periscope: "#AskSnowden Q&A hosted by @Jack" - 0 views

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    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden today, and the big topic was technology.
Ian Forrester

Edward Snowden says "the central problem of the future" is control of user data | TechC... - 0 views

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    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden today, and the big topic was technology. During the Q&A (which was broadcast live from the Pardon Snowden Periscope account) Snowden discussed the data that many online companies continue to collect about their users, creating a "quantified world" - and more opportunities for government surveillance.
Ian Forrester

The coming automatic, freaky, contextual world and why we're writing a book about it - ... - 0 views

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    A new world is coming. It's scary. Freaky. Over the freaky line, if you will. But it is coming. Investors like Ron Conway and Marc Andreessen are investing in it. Companies from Google to startups you've never heard of, like Wovyn or Highlight, are building it. With more than a couple of new ones already on the way that you'll hear about over the next six months.
Ian Forrester

Short Film: Find my Phone - Youtube - 0 views

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    "After my phone got stolen, I quickly realized just how much of my personal information and data the thief had instantly obtained. So, I let another phone get stolen. This time my phone was pre-programmed with spyware so I could keep tabs on the thief in order to get to know him. However, to what extent is it possible to truly get to know someone by going through the content of their phone?"
Ian Forrester

Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust - 0 views

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    With the explosion of digital technologies, companies are sweeping up vast quantities of data about consumers' activities, both online and off. Feeding this trend are new smart, connected products-from fitness trackers to home systems-that gather and transmit detailed information.
Ian Forrester

Horrifying New Credit Scoring in China | mathbabe - 0 views

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    "we're doing anything at all we want, with personal information, possibly discriminatory and destructive, but there are a few people who will benefit from this new system versus the old, so we're ignoring costs and only counting the benefits for those people, in an attempt to distract any critics."
Ian Forrester

Machine Bias: There's Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And... - 0 views

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    Algorithms used in American criminal justice is found to be biased against blacks
Ian Forrester

Dropbox's Infinite feature needs deeper access to your computer - 0 views

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    "Dropbox is "proposing to copy the keys to your house, move in and live with you.""
Ian Forrester

Domino's wants to track customers now, too | The Verge - 0 views

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    Domino's pizza-company is about to test out a new feature in Australia, one that flips the script of allowing customers to track a pizza that's being delivered. Now the company wants track customers
Ian Forrester

Privacy Scandal Haunts Pokemon Go's CEO - 0 views

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    Within two weeks of its release last month, Pokemon Go, the augmented reality gaming sensation, surpassed, by one estimate, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix in its day-to-day popularity on Android phones. Over on Apple devices, the game was downloaded more times in its first week than any app that came before it.
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