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TikTok fined £12.7m for illegally processing children's data | TikTok | The G... - 0 views

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DS ITGS children authentication tiktok social media identity power wellbeing

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dr tech on 05 Apr 23

"TikTok has been fined £12.7m for illegally processing the data of 1.4 million children under 13 who were using its platform without parental consent, Britain's data watchdog said. The information commissioner said the China-owned video app had done "very little, if anything" to check who was using the platform and remove underage users, despite internal warnings the firm was flouting its own terms and conditions."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"TikTok has been fined £12.7m for illegally processing the data of 1.4 million children under 13 who were using its platform without parental consent, Britain's data watchdog said. The information commissioner said the China-owned video app had done "very little, if anything" to check who was using the platform and remove underage users, despite internal warnings the firm was flouting its own terms and conditions."</div>

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Digital detoxes don't actually work - Ness Labs - 0 views

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"A collaboration between Oxford University, The Education University of Hong Kong, Reading University and Durham University has found "no evidence to suggest abstaining from social media has a positive effect on an individual's well-being." The researchers noted that this contrasts popular beliefs about the benefits of digital detoxes. Moreover, this international study found that those who took a break from social media didn't replace online socializing with face-to-face, voice, or email interactions, as the researchers had expected. Taking a break from social media therefore led to reduced overall interaction and loneliness as social media was not replaced with forms of socializing."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A collaboration between Oxford University, The Education University of Hong Kong, Reading University and Durham University has found "no evidence to suggest abstaining from social media has a positive effect on an individual's well-being." The researchers noted that this contrasts popular beliefs about the benefits of digital detoxes. Moreover, this international study found that those who took a break from social media didn't replace online socializing with face-to-face, voice, or email interactions, as the researchers had expected. Taking a break from social media therefore led to reduced overall interaction and loneliness as social media was not replaced with forms of socializing."</div>

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Twitter reportedly makes more cuts to online safety teams | Twitter | The Guardian - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 08 Jan 23 - No Cached

dr tech on 08 Jan 23

"Twitter has made more cuts to its trust and safety team in charge of international content moderation, as well as a unit overseeing hate speech and harassment, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The move adds to longstanding concerns that new owner Elon Musk is dismantling the company's regulation of hateful content and misinformation."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Twitter has made more cuts to its trust and safety team in charge of international content moderation, as well as a unit overseeing hate speech and harassment, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The move adds to longstanding concerns that new owner Elon Musk is dismantling the company's regulation of hateful content and misinformation."</div>

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British Library says final cost of cyber attack is 'not confirmed' | Barrhead News - 0 views

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dr tech on 07 Jan 24

"The library outside St Pancras International station, which has one of the largest book collections in the world, said it has its own financial reserves and has not applied for extra funding. A spokesperson said: "The final costs of recovering from the recent cyber attack are still not confirmed. "The British Library and its Government sponsor, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), remain in close and regular contact."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The library outside St Pancras International station, which has one of the largest book collections in the world, said it has its own financial reserves and has not applied for extra funding. A spokesperson said: "The final costs of recovering from the recent cyber attack are still not confirmed. "The British Library and its Government sponsor, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), remain in close and regular contact."</div>

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Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms | Meta | ... - 0 views

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ITGS DS social media meta children harrassment control power algorithm

shared by dr tech on 20 Jan 24 - No Cached

dr tech on 20 Jan 24

"Meta estimates about 100,000 children using Facebook and Instagram receive online sexual harassment each day, including "pictures of adult genitalia", according to internal company documents made public late Wednesday."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Meta estimates about 100,000 children using Facebook and Instagram receive online sexual harassment each day, including "pictures of adult genitalia", according to internal company documents made public late Wednesday."</div>

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Huawei's relationship with BT under investigation by MPs | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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Minority languages: Cookies, caches and cows | The Economist - 0 views

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"Mozilla, the foundation behind Firefox, an open-source web browser, wants Ousmane's customers to have the option of a device that speaks their language. Smartphones with its operating system (OS) are already on sale in 24 countries, including Bangladesh, India and Mexico, for as little as $33. Other countries will be added as it makes more deals with handset manufacturers. And Bambara is one of dozens of languages into which volunteer "localisers" are translating the OS."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Mozilla, the foundation behind Firefox, an open-source web browser, wants Ousmane's customers to have the option of a device that speaks their language. Smartphones with its operating system (OS) are already on sale in 24 countries, including Bangladesh, India and Mexico, for as little as $33. Other countries will be added as it makes more deals with handset manufacturers. And Bambara is one of dozens of languages into which volunteer "localisers" are translating the OS."</div>

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Independent Report on E-voting in Estonia | A security analysis of Estonia's Internet v... - 0 views

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dr tech on 14 May 14

"There were staggering gaps in procedural and operational security, and the architecture of the system leaves it open to cyberattacks from foreign powers, such as Russia. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"There were staggering gaps in procedural and operational security, and the architecture of the system leaves it open to cyberattacks from foreign powers, such as Russia. "</div>

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Your baby monitor is an Internet-connected spycam vulnerable to voyeurs and crooks - Bo... - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 09 Sep 15 - No Cached

dr tech on 09 Sep 15

"Many of these cameras have no easy, networked means of getting a firmware update, either, making their zeroday bugs into foreverday bugs. Some of these bugs were simple programmer error, but Philips, ah, Philips: they shipped an Internet-connected home spycam whose default root login was admin and /ADMIN/. Security. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Many of these cameras have no easy, networked means of getting a firmware update, either, making their zeroday bugs into foreverday bugs. Some of these bugs were simple programmer error, but Philips, ah, Philips: they shipped an Internet-connected home spycam whose default root login was admin and /ADMIN/. Security. "</div>

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First Non-Latin, International Domain Names Finally Launch - 0 views

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Talking of ICANN and DNS look at these developments ....

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Talking of ICANN and DNS look at these developments ....</div>

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Forget Passwords: How Playing Games Can Make Computers More Secure - Scientific American - 0 views

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shared by yeehaw on 07 May 21 - No Cached

yeehaw on 07 May 21

Sounds a bit extreme just to make sure no one can log on to your laptop or smartphone, but a team of researchers from Stanford and Northwestern universities as well as SRI International is nonetheless experimenting at the computer-, cognitive- and neuroscience intersection to combat identity theft and shore up cyber security-by taking advantage of the human brain's innate abilities to learn and recognize patterns.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Sounds a bit extreme just to make sure no one can log on to your laptop or smartphone, but a team of researchers from Stanford and Northwestern universities as well as SRI International is nonetheless experimenting at the computer-, cognitive- and neuroscience intersection to combat identity theft and shore up cyber security-by taking advantage of the human brain's innate abilities to learn and recognize patterns.</div>

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Warning Signal: the messaging app's new features are causing internal turmoil - The Verge - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 30 Jan 21 - No Cached

dr tech on 30 Jan 21

"Employees worry that, should Signal fail to build policies and enforcement mechanisms to identify and remove bad actors, the fallout could bring more negative attention to encryption technologies from regulators at a time when their existence is threatened around the world. "The world needs products like Signal - but they also need Signal to be thoughtful," said Gregg Bernstein, a former user researcher who left the organization this month over his concerns. "It's not only that Signal doesn't have these policies in place. But they've been resistant to even considering what a policy might look like.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Employees worry that, should Signal fail to build policies and enforcement mechanisms to identify and remove bad actors, the fallout could bring more negative attention to encryption technologies from regulators at a time when their existence is threatened around the world. "The world needs products like Signal - but they also need Signal to be thoughtful," said Gregg Bernstein, a former user researcher who left the organization this month over his concerns. "It's not only that Signal doesn't have these policies in place. But they've been resistant to even considering what a policy might look like.""</div>

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NIST study finds facial recognition algorithms struggle to identify masked faces | Priv... - 0 views

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jhendoooo on 09 Sep 21

"A preliminary study finds that facial recognition algorithms struggle to identify people wearing masks. The study tested 89 commercial facial recognition algorithms, and the best had error rates between 5% and 50% in matching unmasked photos with photos of the same person wearing a digitally-applied mask. Masks both lowered the algorithms' accuracy rates and raised the number of failures to process. The more of the nose is covered by the mask the lower the algorithm's accuracy; however, error rates were generally lower with round masks; and the algorithms generally performed worse with black masks than with surgical blue ones. False positive remained stable or declined a small amount."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A preliminary study finds that facial recognition algorithms struggle to identify people wearing masks. The study tested 89 commercial facial recognition algorithms, and the best had error rates between 5% and 50% in matching unmasked photos with photos of the same person wearing a digitally-applied mask. Masks both lowered the algorithms' accuracy rates and raised the number of failures to process. The more of the nose is covered by the mask the lower the algorithm's accuracy; however, error rates were generally lower with round masks; and the algorithms generally performed worse with black masks than with surgical blue ones. False positive remained stable or declined a small amount."</div>

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How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI | WIRED - 0 views

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shared by smilingoldman on 07 Jun 24 - No Cached

Yeah, and a lot of the stuff we find is actually from Israeli soldiers who’re misbehaving and doing stuff that I would say are definitely violations of international laws. But that’s coming on their social media accounts—they post it themselves.Another issue is: Because of the lack of electricity there, you actually get a lot of stuff happening at night that you can’t really see in the videos. Like the convoy attack that Israel had the drone footage of—there’s lots of footage of that, but it’s just all at night and it’s pitch-black. But there was a good piece of analysis I saw recently where they used the audio and could actually start establishing what weapons were being used. Just the sound itself makes it very distinct …
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