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Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator | Technology | The Gu... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...cts-working-facebook-moderator

ITGS facebook people and machines social media

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  • dr tech on 17 Sep 19
     
    "A group of current and former contractors who worked for years at the social network's Berlin-based moderation centres has reported witnessing colleagues become "addicted" to graphic content and hoarding ever more extreme examples for a personal collection. They also said others were pushed towards the far right by the amount of hate speech and fake news they read every day."
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blind inventor creates 'smart cane' that uses google maps to navigate blind people - 0 views

www.designboom.com/...s-visually-impaired-09-12-2019

ITGS blind inventor google google maps equality of access sensor

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  • dr tech on 12 Sep 19
     
    "the weWALK cane consists of an electronic handle with a regular 'analog' white cane that is inserted into the bottom. it uses an ultrasonic sensor to detect any obstacles above chest level and warns the user via a vibrating handle."
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Harvard student gets into US after entry denied over friends' social media posts - CNET - 0 views

www.cnet.com/...ver-friends-social-media-posts

ITGS social media friends politics and government control privacy and anonymity

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  • dr tech on 07 Sep 19
     
    "That was apparently the result of the US government's probing of visa applicants' social media profiles. After the search, an officer questioned the 17-year-old, who got a scholarship to study in the US, about his friends' social media activity and told him she'd found some "posting political points of view that oppose the US," the student paper noted. Despite Ajjawi's protests, the officer denied the student's entry and let him call his parents."
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Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recogniti... - 0 views

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amazon surveillance facial recognition privacy and anonymity policies and standards

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  • dr tech on 04 Sep 19
     
    "For example, I've been repeatedly emailed by company spokespeople to tell me that cops only get access to Ring customers' videos if the customers offer to share it; but what they never said is that if a customer turns down a police request, Amazon instructs the cops to make an "official request" to the company and then they grant warrantless access to the footage. "
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They told us DRM would give us more for less, but they lied / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS DRM copyright intellectual property cost

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  • dr tech on 04 Sep 19
     
    "My latest Locus Magazine column is DRM Broke Its Promise, which recalls the days when digital rights management was pitched to us as a way to enable exciting new markets where we'd all save big by only buying the rights we needed (like the low-cost right to read a book for an hour-long plane ride), but instead (unsurprisingly) everything got more expensive and less capable. "
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Of Course Citizens Should Be Allowed to Kick Robots | WIRED - 0 views

www.wired.com/...ould-be-allowed-to-kick-robots

ITGS robots ai empathy ethics people and machines

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  • dr tech on 04 Sep 19
     
    "Robots engender human sympathy. Seen in the wild, they appear to have agency, feelings, and desires. R2D2's spunk, C3PO's intelligence, Wall-E's charm. When delivery bots get stuck on the sidewalk, good Samaritans help them get unstuck. In light of the attack on K5, then, you may be thinking: Poor guy."
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Facial recognition: Tech firms want regulation, but critics want a ban - 0 views

www.cnbc.com/...on-but-critics-want-a-ban.html

ITGS facial recognition policies and standards

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  • dr tech on 31 Aug 19
     
    "This is the difference, tech executives and experts say, between consensual identity verification and non-consensual surveillance."
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An Algorithm Made New Scientific Discoveries by Reading Old Studies - 0 views

curiosity.com/...-reading-old-studies-curiosity

ITGS algorithm deep learning machine learning innovation creative

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  • dr tech on 30 Aug 19
     
    ""This study shows that if this algorithm were in place earlier, some materials could have conceivably been discovered years in advance," Jain said."
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Google, Mozilla, and Apple are using this one weird trick to block Kazakhstan's surveil... - 0 views

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ITGS surveillance certificate cookie browser security government and politics

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  • dr tech on 22 Aug 19
     
    "Google and Mozilla are making changes to their respective web browsers to try and thwart the notoriously corrupt government of Kazakhstan's efforts to launch a surveillance operation against its own citizens."
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You can't replace the GP with an algorithm - so don't try to, Matt Hancock | Eleanor Mo... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...algorithm-nhs-health-screening

ITGS health ai big data expert expertsystems algorithm

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  • dr tech on 20 Aug 19
     
    ""Personalised, preventative healthcare is mission critical to the future-fit healthcare service we want to build," said Hancock last week. "We must harness the latest technology and techniques to move away from the one-size-fits-all approach of the past."" - DO YOU AGREE?
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Facebook launches 'clear history' tool - but it won't delete anything | Technology | Th... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ol-but-it-wont-delete-anything

ITGS facebook privacy and anonymity data mining marketing control policies and standards

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  • dr tech on 20 Aug 19
     
    "The new feature, part of a wider set of tools covering "off-Facebook activity", will not delete anything from Facebook's servers, instead simply "disconnecting" data from an individual user's account."
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Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic | Science | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-oath-says-academic-hannah-fry

ITGS ethics maths tech hippocratic oath society people and machines

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  • dr tech on 16 Aug 19
     
    "When Fry returned to London, she realised how mathematicians, computer engineers and physicists are so used to working on abstract problems that they rarely stop to consider the ethics of how their work might be used"
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Google might scan your face and give you a $5 gift card for it - TechSpot - 0 views

www.techspot.com/...scan-face-give-you-5-gift.html

ITGS privacy google data mining

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  • dr tech on 16 Aug 19
     
    ""I don't really care about data privacy because I think it's all an illusion anyway." It's interesting to see how this encounter also reflects the general behavior of a majority of people when it comes to privacy. Although user data has long been a gold mine for companies, would it be more acceptable if they started paying their users in exchange for it?"
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Amazon says its facial recognition can now identify fear - 0 views

www.cnbc.com/...ion-can-now-identify-fear.html

ITGS facial recognition security control privacy and anonymity relibaility false positive

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  • dr tech on 14 Aug 19
     
    "The tech giant revealed updates to the controversial tool on Monday that include improving the accuracy and functionality of its face analysis features such as identifying gender, emotions and age range."
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