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The Unnatural Ethics of AI Could Be Its Undoing - 0 views

getpocket.com/...ics-of-ai-could-be-its-undoing

ITGS ethics ai trolley problem control people and machines

shared by dr tech on 14 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Mar 20
     
    "But maybe I'm wrong. Because, if we believe tech gurus at least, the Trolley Problem is about to become of huge real-world importance. Human beings might not find themselves in all that many Trolley Problem-style scenarios over the course of their lives, but soon we're going to start seeing self-driving cars on our streets, and they're going to have to make these judgments all the time."
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YouTube will temporarily increase automated content moderation | Engadget - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...content-moderation-coronavirus

ITGS facebook moderation cleaners control integrity automated machine learning ai algorithm

shared by dr tech on 17 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Mar 20
     
    "YouTube will rely more on machine learning and less on human reviewers during the coronavirus outbreak. Normally, algorithms detect potentially harmful content and send it to human reviewers for assessment. But these are not normal times, and in an effort to reduce the need for employees and contractors to come into an office, YouTube will allow its automated system to remove some content without human review."
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Is online manipulation always hidden? | 3 Quarks Daily - 0 views

www.3quarksdaily.com/...anipulation-always-hidden.html

ITGS manipulation ai control people and machines equality of access ethics morals

shared by dr tech on 25 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Mar 20
     
    "Why care? Because understanding manipulation is crucial in the current critical debate about digital technologies in moral philosophy and related disciplines."
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TikTok 'tried to filter out videos from ugly, poor or disabled users' | Technology | Th... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...om-ugly-poor-or-disabled-users

ITGS people and machines policies and standards control censroship TikTok social media

shared by dr tech on 18 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Mar 20
     
    "TikTok moderators were told to suppress videos from users who appeared too ugly, poor or disabled, as part of the company's efforts to curate an aspirational air in the videos it promotes, according to new documents published by the Intercept."
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This company says it knows who isn't socially distancing - 0 views

mashable.com/...ancing-phone-tracking-database

ITGS social media smartphone control anonymity privacy COVID-19 peopleandmachines government and politics

shared by dr tech on 25 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Mar 20
     
    "The company, Unacast, went live with its Social Distancing Scoreboard Tuesday. The dashboard, billed as a public health utility, includes a county-by-county breakdown of people's movement patterns. It assigns each county a grade, which Unacast based (at least in part) on how much people are traveling. "
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New Jersey halts police use of creepy Clearview AI facial-recognition app - 0 views

mashable.com/...tion-app-ban-police-new-jersey

ITGS ai facial recognition control privacy and anonymity false positive government and politics

shared by dr tech on 25 Jan 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Jan 20
     
    "The app, which scraped billions of photos from the likes of Facebook, YouTube, Venmo, and other online platforms, drew the world's attention last weekend following a detailed report in the New York Times. The app's supposed capability to identify practically anyone from even low-quality photos frightened privacy advocates and officials. And today, one of the latter - New Jersey's attorney general Gurbir Grewal - actually did something about it."
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Hiding in plain sight: activists don camouflage to beat Met surveillance | World news |... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...uflage-met-police-surveillance

ITGS facial recognition privacy and anonymity camouflage control politics and government

shared by dr tech on 03 Feb 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Feb 20
     
    "Interest in so-called dazzle camouflage appears to have grown substantially since the Metropolitan police announced last week that officers will be using live facial recognition cameras on London's streets - a move described by privacy campaigners and political activists as "dangerous", "oppressive" and "a huge threat to human rights"."
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Why you need to teach your kids about data privacy - 0 views

thenextweb.com/...h-your-kids-about-data-privacy

google data privacy and anonymity education teach politics and government control ITGS

shared by dr tech on 03 Feb 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Feb 20
     
    "We are talking about vast fields of aggregate data, the scale of which is difficult to comprehend; this data can be parsed by the artificial intelligence recommendation algorithms that Google has pioneered, and that now steer everything from employment application processes to dating apps."
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Tech giants struggle to stem 'infodemic' of false coronavirus claims | World news | The... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...demic-false-coronavirus-claims

ITGS infodemic fakenews data disinformation social media COVID-19 systems control politics and government

shared by dr tech on 12 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Apr 20
     
    "It is a stark contrast to how social media platforms have dealt with misinformation in the past."
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Zoom's Flawed Encryption Linked to China - 0 views

theintercept.com/...-to-china-researchers-discover

zoom VideoConferencing security businessandemployment control policiesandstandards encryption algorithm

shared by dr tech on 05 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Apr 20
     
    "MEETINGS ON ZOOM, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious, well-known weaknesses, and sometimes using keys issued by servers in China, even when meeting participants are all in North America, according to researchers at the University of Toronto."
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Using Big Tech to tackle coronavirus risks swapping one lockdown for another | Adam Smi... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...pping-one-lockdown-for-another

ITGS privacy and anonymity covid-19 control politics and government

shared by dr tech on 23 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 Apr 20
     
    "At a time when science fiction and reality feel as if they are collapsing in on each other, we must resist the temptations of Big Brother; we would just be trading one kind of lockdown for another."
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Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy | John Naughton | Op... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-they-might-kill-off-democracy

ITGS app covid-19 democracy government and politics control surveillance privacy and anonymity

shared by dr tech on 26 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Apr 20
     
    "There are clear indications that the UK government is now actively considering use of the technology as a way of easing the lockdown. If this signals an outbreak in Whitehall of tech "solutionism" - the belief that for every problem there is a technological answer - then we should be concerned. Tech solutions often do as much harm as good, for example, by increasing social exclusion, lacking accountability and failing to make real inroads into the problem they are supposedly addressing."
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Contact tracing apps unsafe if Bluetooth vulnerabilities not fixed | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/...ooth-vulnerabilities-not-fixed

ITGS app covid-19 government and politics control surveillance privacy and anonymity bluetooth apps vulnerabilities

shared by dr tech on 27 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 27 Apr 20
     
    "As more governments turn to contact tracing apps to aid in their efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, cybersecurity experts are warning this may spark renewed interest in Bluetooth attacks. They urge developers to ensure such apps are regularly tested for vulnerabilities and release patches swiftly to plug potential holes, while governments should provide assurance that their databases are secure and the data collected will not be used for purposes other than as originally intended. "
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Adobe: to read the Terms of Use, you must agree to the Terms of Use / Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...e-to-read-the-terms-of-us.html

ITGS internet AUP adobe control terms of use contract policiesandstandards

shared by dr tech on 06 May 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 06 May 20
     
    "I tried to start Adobe Acrobat today, part of the Creative Cloud suite, and it wouldn't start unless I agreed to new Terms of Use. But to read the Terms of Use, I had to agree to the Terms of Use first. This video shows me haplessly clicking the "Terms of Use" link only to be prevented from reading them because, of course, I had not agreed to the Terms of Use"
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WikiLeaks publishes 'biggest ever leak of secret CIA documents' | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...documents-hacking-surveillance

ITGS privacy security control wikleaks

shared by dr tech on 07 Mar 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 07 Mar 17
     
    "The thousands of leaked documents focus mainly on techniques for hacking and reveal how the CIA cooperated with British intelligence to engineer a way to compromise smart televisions and turn them into improvised surveillance devices."
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Wake up! Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook are running our lives | Hannah Jane Parkins... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-apple-facebook-run-our-lives

ITGS facebook google apple amazon peopleandmachines control

shared by dr tech on 13 May 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 13 May 17
     
    "It is time now for two things: for people to wake up and realise how much our lives are dominated by such a small number of Silicon Valley bros, one hand in their jean pocket announcing their next move, and for tech companies to acknowledge their power and influence and become truly accountable."
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Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence | News | The Guar... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ulebook-sex-terrorism-violence

ITGS facebook terrorism censorship peopleandmachines control

shared by dr tech on 22 May 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 22 May 17
     
    "Yet these blueprints may also alarm free speech advocates concerned about Facebook's de facto role as the world's largest censor. Both sides are likely to demand greater transparency."
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Democracy? There's an app for that - the tech upstarts trying to 'hack' British politic... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...rying-to-hack-british-politics

ITGS peopleandmachines politics and government hack app democracy control

shared by dr tech on 07 Jun 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 07 Jun 17
     
    "But, in fact, civic tech is a real thing, featuring real people, with real technical expertise, trying to hack around every democratic deficiency. They are trying to tackle everything from a sheer lack of easily accessible information to the shortcomings of the first-past-the-post system. "
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Google's AlphaGo AI beats the world's best human Go player | TechCrunch - 0 views

techcrunch.com/...he-worlds-best-human-go-player

ITGS ai human peopleandmachines control

shared by dr tech on 27 May 17 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 27 May 17
     
    "Google's AlphaGo AI Go player has defeated Ke Jie, Go world champion, in the opening match of a three game series that will include matches with Jie on Thursday and Saturday. The win was by a narrow margin, but AlphaGo has been programmed to ensure victory, not to run up the score or devastate its opponent, so the margin by which it wins isn't necessarily a good indicator of how easy or hard it was for the computer player to win"
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