BBC News - Google Buzz 'breaks privacy laws' says watchdog - 0 views
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Mcdoogleh CDKEY on 17 Feb 10A leading privacy watchdog files a complaint with US regulators urging them to investigate Google's Buzz social network.
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Swindon to offer free WiFi - Telegraph - 1 views
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Cool article - but what is the negative social and ethical issue indicated within the news item?
Why Apple Can't Sell Business Laptops - 1 views
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Apple is slowly becoming a dangerous competitor again Microsoft, but the Windows operating systems still dominate the business world. What does this mean for Apple?
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Be careful of articles like these as they are really dealing with business but not in terms of the technology or a social and ethical issue. Equality of access for these businesses is only a by product - unlike for something like the OLPC where it was the main issue...
Buddy, Can You E-Mail Me 100 Bucks? - BusinessWeek - 1 views
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People in Japan already use it, but people in the United States are expected to use e-mail and mobile phones to transfer money. Will this be reliable and secure, though?
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Do you think this article is biased at all - from his comments about "Banking on the mobile phone is relatively safe."? Make sure when you annotate the actual IT System that you are able to explain how it works... you have not tagged it with a social and ethical issue BTW?
Emails spark woman's sacking - National - NZ Herald News - 0 views
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The IT system used is E-Mailing service.
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sacked for sending "confrontational"
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The social and ethical issue is Policies and Standards.
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unfair dismissal
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unfair dissmissal SUCKS
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BOB SAGET. While in class with you, I mentioned this article and for some reason (probably to annoy me) you stole it before I could get to it. I'm upset and disapointed in you BOB SAGET.
Tesco plots to conquer telecoms sector | Business | The Guardian - 0 views
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Tesco is building up its assault on telephone and broadband firms with plans for hundreds of new in-store telecoms outlets and discounted packages of internet and landline services.
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Bosses announced a five-year deal with Cable & Wireless for it to supply Tesco with wholesale broadband services
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It now plans to double its number of phone shops to 200 by the end of 2010
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Is there a negative social and ethical issue - which if the 11 words?
Google Grapples With `Horrifying' Reaction to Uncanny AI Tech - 0 views
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"Eck said machine learning, a powerful form of AI, will be integrated into how humans communicate with each other. He raised the idea of "assistive writing" in the future with Google Docs, the company's online word processing software. This may be based on Google's upcoming Smart Compose technology that suggests words and phrases based on what's being typed. Teachers used to worry about whether students used Wikipedia for their homework. Now they may wonder what part of the work the students wrote themselves, Eck said."
Senior machine learning scientist quits Google over plan to launch censored Chinese sea... - 0 views
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"Jack Poulson was a senior research scientist at Google whose work on machine learning work was used to improve Google's search results; now he's quit the company over its Project Dragonfly, a once-secret plan to launch a censored Chinese search engine; Poulson called the move a "forfeiture of our values." Tech companies find it hard to qualify skilled engineers at any price, and machine learning specialists are especially prize, commanding salaries of $1MM/year or more. "
We've been warned about AI and music for over 50 years, but no one's prepared - The Verge - 0 views
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"Depending on how legal decisions shake out, AI systems could become a valuable tool to assist creativity, a nuisance ripping off hard-working human musicians, or both."
Huawei P30 Pro 'Moon Mode' poses a new ethical dilemma for photos - 1 views
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"According to tests performed by Wang Yue at Zhihu, the Huawei P30 Pro isn't just enhancing the image information the user captures but actually placing pre-existing imagery of the moon into the photo."
How Autonomous Cars Will Reshape Our World - WSJ - 0 views
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"Everything around us will be altered by autonomous vehicles-our roads, our warehouses and even our definition of what a car can be. Say goodbye to four wheels and a running board; the cars of the future will barely resemble the vehicles choking our cities today."
Facebook's content moderation a mess, employees outraged, contractors have PTSD: Report... - 0 views
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"Of all the disturbing parts of this @CaseyNewton piece about Facebook content reviewers -- and there are many -- the one about people slowly coming to believe the conspiracy theories sticks with me https://t.co/ulDx3PEaWa"
Anti-vaxx 'mobs': doctors face harassment campaigns on Facebook | Technology | The Guar... - 0 views
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""The idea that we can have counter-speech when [Facebook] groups become brigade mobs is ludicrous," said Renee DiResta, an expert in online misinformation and co-founder of Vaccinate California. "It makes just participating as an everyday citizen a high-stakes ordeal.""
Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For? - 0 views
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"Across the technology industry, rank-and-file employees are demanding greater insight into how their companies are deploying the technology that they build. At Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce, as well as at tech startups, engineers and technologists are increasingly asking whether the products they are working on are being used for surveillance in places like China or for military projects in the United States or elsewhere."
Tech workers are downing tools and refusing to work on unethical projects / Boing Boing - 0 views
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"Tech workers are in demand: companies find it easier to raise cash than to hire engineers; this gives workers enormous bargaining power, and they're using it. From the Google uprisings over a Pentagon babykiller project and a Chinese surveillance project to the Microsoft uprising over ICE contracts, tech workers are emerging as part of the solution -- while their secretive, shareholder-haunted bosses are more and more the problem."
The airline Ryanair uses algorithms to split up families, study indicates - Vox - 0 views
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"In a survey of more than 4,200 people conducted by CAA, travelers most frequently cited being split from their party while traveling on Ryanair, but the airline insists that it doesn't employ a family-splitting algorithm. Ryanair says if a person doesn't pay for their seat assignment, they are "randomly" assigned, which may result in them not sitting with their party."
The dead will take over Facebook in the next 50 years | ZDNet - 0 views
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"A time is coming in which you may see more memorial accounts on Facebook than active users, with academics estimating that accounts belonging to the deceased will outnumber the living within 50 years."
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