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Amazon's Vector power smart meter deal puts 'how you live your life' on web giant's ser... - 0 views

www.abc.net.au/...12582776

ITGS privacy and anonymity smartmeter amazon data anonymise

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  • dr tech on 19 Sep 20
     
    ""This is all identifiable in the smart meter data - it has literally your entire the pattern of life and behaviour through just monitoring where you live and what you do in your home." Vector and AWS say the data is anonymised and cannot be linked back to customers. Privacy advocates dispute that, because the way some customers use power in certain locations will easily identify them. For the companies, it's a tightrope: the more anonymous the data is made, the less value it has overall."
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Facebook suspends environmental groups despite vow to fight misinformation | Climate ch... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-environment-groups-suspended

ITGS social media control intellectual property policies and standards facebook misinformation

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  • dr tech on 22 Sep 20
     
    "Facebook has suspended the accounts of several environmental organizations less than a week after launching an initiative it said would counter a tide of misinformation over climate science on the platform. Groups such as Greenpeace USA, Climate Hawks Vote and Rainforest Action Network were among those blocked from posting or sending messages on Facebook over the weekend. Activists say hundreds of other individual accounts linked to indigenous, climate and social justice groups were also suspended for an alleged "intellectual property rights violation"."
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Google says Chinese hackers who targeted Biden campaign are faking McAfee software - Th... - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...-biden-campaign-mcafee-malware

ITGS google hackers trojan malware security phishing

shared by dr tech on 18 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Oct 20
     
    "Google said in a new blog post that hackers linked to the Chinese government have been impersonating antivirus software McAfee to try to infect victims' machines with malware. And, Google says, the hackers appear to be the same group that unsuccessfully targeted the presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden with a phishing attack earlier this year. A similar group of hackers based in Iran had tried to target President Trump's campaign, but also was unsuccessful."
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Facebook announces UK trial to tackle climate misinformation | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-tackle-climate-misinformation

ITGS misinformation facebook politics and government trial

shared by dr tech on 18 Feb 21 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Feb 21
     
    "Facebook has said it will start labelling misinformation about the climate crisis in a small trial limited to the UK. Labels will be attached to certain posts directing users to Facebook's Climate Science Information Center, a repository of fact-checked claims about the environment. The company has not yet said how it will decide which posts receive the label, but the process is similar to that used in the US election when it attempted to algorithmically discern posts that shared common myths or misconceptions, and appended a link taking users to a "voting information centre"."
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Lazada suffers data breach; personal information from 1.1 million RedMart accounts for ... - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...tion-millions-account-13415688

ITGS security shop encryption database password breach

shared by dr tech on 31 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Oct 20
     
    "Lazada added that the information stolen was last updated in March 2019, and the affected RedMart-only database is not linked to any Lazada database."
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Serious Security: Phishing without links - when phishers bring along their own web page... - 0 views

nakedsecurity.sophos.com/...ring-along-their-own-web-pages

ITGS security phishing malware people and machines

shared by dr tech on 04 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 04 Oct 20
     
    "As explained above, filling in the forms in the fake HTML pages above will send off your password to websites controlled by the criminals. Of course, email passwords are amongst the most valuable credentials for crooks to acquire, simply because many people use their email account for password resets on a multitude of other accounts."
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'Put learners first': Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools | Unesco | ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-ban-on-smartphones-in-schools

ITGS DS ban censorship smartphone education control freedom learning

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  • dr tech on 30 Jul 23
     
    "Smartphones should be banned from schools to tackle classroom disruption, improve learning and help protect children from cyberbullying, a UN report has recommended. Unesco, the UN's education, science and culture agency, said there was evidence that excessive mobile phone use was linked to reduced educational performance and that high levels of screen time had a negative effect on children's emotional stability."
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Police accused over use of facial recognition at King Charles's coronation | King Charl... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...wds-at-king-charles-coronation

DS ITGS ai facial recognition police politics and government

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  • dr tech on 04 May 23
     
    "Campaigners fear the face-scanning technology could be used against protesters, and that police have done so before. The Met insisted the technology would not be used to quell lawful protest or target activists. But campaign groups do not believe them. Britain's biggest force said: "It is not used to identify people who are linked to, or have been convicted of, being involved in protest activity." A leading academic expert said the number of people whose faces would be scanned would make it the largest deployment yet of live facial recognition (LFR) in the UK."
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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry - IEEE Spectrum - 0 views

spectrum.ieee.org/digital-afterlife

ITGS DS industry expression afterlife social media memory death data ownership

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  • dr tech on 28 Oct 23
     
    "It's sometime in the near future. Your beloved father, who suffered from Alzheimer's for years, has died. Everyone in the family feels physically and emotionally exhausted from his long decline. Your brother raises the idea of remembering Dad at his best through a startup "digital immortality" program called 4evru. He promises to take care of the details and get the data for Dad ready. After the initial suggestion, you forget about it until today, when 4evru emails arrive to say that your father's bot is available for use. After some trepidation, you click the link and create an account. You slide on the somewhat unwieldy VR headset and choose the augmented-reality mode. The familiar walls of your bedroom briefly flicker in front of you."
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AI tidies up Wikipedia's references - and boosts reliability - 0 views

www.nature.com/...d41586-023-02894-x

ITGS DS wikipedia reliability ai

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  • dr tech on 24 Oct 23
     
    "Wikipedia lives and dies by its references, the links to sources that back up information in the online encyclopaedia. But sometimes, those references are flawed - pointing to broken websites, erroneous information or non-reputable sources. A study published on 19 October in Nature Machine Intelligence1 suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) can help to clean up inaccurate or incomplete reference lists in Wikipedia entries, improving their quality and reliability."
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Elon Musk pledges to overturn Twitter's ban on Donald Trump | Elon Musk | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...rturn-twitter-ban-donald-trump

ITGS social media misinformation politics and government censorship trump musk

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  • dr tech on 11 May 22
     
    ""I would reverse the permanent ban," Musk said on Tuesday, speaking via video link at a car industry conference organised by the Financial Times. "I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump," he said. "I think that was a mistake. It alienated the country and did not result in Donald Trump not having a voice."
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'Aims': the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles | Technology... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-disinformation-fake-profiles

ITGS DS internet profile social media fake online control

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  • dr tech on 18 Feb 23
     
    "At first glance, the Twitter user "Canaelan" looks ordinary enough. He has tweeted on everything from basketball to Taylor Swift, Tottenham Hotspur football club to the price of a KitKat. The profile shows a friendly-looking blond man with a stubbly beard and glasses who, it indicates, lives in Sheffield. The background: a winking owl. Canaelan is, in fact, a non-human bot linked to a vast army of fake social media profiles controlled by a software designed to spread "propaganda". Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or Aims, which controls more than 30,000 fake social media profiles, can be used to spread disinformation at scale and at speed. It is sold by "Team Jorge", a unit of disinformation operatives based in Israel."
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A pornbot stole my identity on Instagram. It took an agonising month to get it deleted ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...nising-month-to-get-it-deleted

ITGS DS identity theft instagram social media pornbot

shared by dr tech on 01 Mar 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Mar 23
     
    "Pornbots create fake accounts that are designed to mimic real people. They steal photos from public social media accounts, and follow the real profile's friends. They tack on suggestive captions and post links to external paid adult sites. The fake accounts choose @usernames that are deceptively similar to those they impersonate. And for good measure, the fake accounts block the person they're copying, making it difficult for the victim to see or interact with them."
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Social media and teen mental health: 10 things to know : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...ial-media-affects-teens-brains

DS ITGS mental health teen social media

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  • dr tech on 02 Mar 23
     
    "Research suggests more than half of adolescents are on screens right before bedtime, and that can keep them from getting the sleep they need. Not only is poor sleep linked to all sorts of downsides, including poor mental health symptoms, poor performance in school and trouble regulating stress, Prinstein said, but "inconsistent sleep schedules are associated with changes in structural brain development in adolescent years. In other words, youths' preoccupation with technology and social media may deleteriously affect the size of their brains.""
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Anonymous: the hacker collective that has declared cyberwar on Russia | Ukraine | The G... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...as-declared-cyberwar-on-russia

ITGS hacker security DDOS anonymous

shared by dr tech on 28 Feb 22 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Feb 22
     
    "Cyber conflicts are fought in the shadows, but in the case of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it is a group that calls itself Anonymous that has made the most public declaration of war. Late on Thursday the hacker collective tweeted from an account linked to Anonymous, @YourAnonOne, that it had Vladimir Putin's regime in its sights."
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Experts warn of new spyware threat targeting journalists and political figures | Hackin... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...t-to-rival-pegasus-citizen-lab

DS ITGS experts spyware hacking journalists identity power security

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  • dr tech on 14 Apr 23
     
    "Researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School said the spyware, which is made by an Israeli company called QuaDream, infected some victims' phones by sending an iCloud calendar invitation to mobile users from operators of the spyware, who are likely to be government clients. Victims were not notified of the calendar invitations because they were sent for events logged in the past, making them invisible to the targets of the hacking. Such attacks are known as "zero-click" because users of the mobile phone do not have to click on any malicious link or take any action in order to be infected."
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'The machine did it coldly': Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets | Israel-G... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...a-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

ITGS DS targets israel war database ai identity power

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  • dr tech on 04 Apr 24
     
    "The Israeli military's bombing campaign in Gaza used a previously undisclosed AI-powered database that at one stage identified 37,000 potential targets based on their apparent links to Hamas, according to intelligence sources involved in the war. In addition to talking about their use of the AI system, called Lavender, the intelligence sources claim that Israeli military officials permitted large numbers of Palestinian civilians to be killed, particularly during the early weeks and months of the conflict."
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In a digital ecosystem that relentlessly creates, extracts and stores, the notion of a ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...pearing-text-is-very-appealing

ITGS DS text chat fleets dissapearing messages whatsapp self-destruct control privacy and anonymity

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  • dr tech on 09 Mar 24
     
    "Disappearing messages is a feature offered by apps like Signal and WhatsApp, giving users the option to have conversations that self-destruct. They're not the only platforms that have tapped into the allure of digital ephemerality. The very premise of Snapchat is that content is only viewable for a short window; Instagram stories similarly vanish after 24 hours. Those who are chronically online may remember the last day of X's own foray into expiring content called "fleets", when countless users threw whatever remaining posting-caution they had to the wind to share revealing, horny or outright unhinged posts for one final hurrah before the feature itself vanished. I can't tell you what people posted or link you to evidence of this because, well, it's gone."
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Revealed: the names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app | Artificial intel... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...aphy-app-names-linked-revealed

ITGS DS deepfake ai video app authenticity power control policies

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  • dr tech on 01 Mar 24
     
    "The girl, 14, opened her phone to show an explicit image of herself. "It's a shock when you see it," said Adib, a gynaecologist in the southern Spanish town of Almendralejo and a mother of four daughters. "The image is completely realistic … If I didn't know my daughter's body, I would have thought that image was real." It was a deepfake, one of dozens of nude images of schoolgirls in Almendralejo that had been generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and which had been circulating in the town for weeks in a WhatsApp group set up by other schoolchildren."
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The future is … sending AI avatars to meetings for us, says Zoom boss | Artif... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...meetings-for-us-says-zoom-boss

DS expression change economic zoom communication

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  • “five or six years” away, Eric Yuan told The Verge magazine, but he added that the company was working on nearer-term technologies that could bring it closer to reality.“Let’s assume, fast-forward five or six years, that AI is ready,” Yuan said. “AI probably can help for maybe 90% of the work, but in terms of real-time interaction, today, you and I are talking online. So, I can send my digital version, you can send your digital version.”Using AI avatars in this way could free up time for less career-focused choices, Yuan, who also founded Zoom, added. “You and I can have more time to have more in-person interactions, but maybe not for work. Maybe for something else. Why do we need to work five days a week? Down the road, four days or three days. Why not spend more time with your fam
  • dr tech on 07 Jun 24
     
    "Ultimately, he suggests, each user would have their own "large language model" (LLM), the underlying technology of services such as ChatGPT, which would be trained on their own speech and behaviour patterns, to let them generate extremely personalised responses to queries and requests. Such systems could be a natural progression from AI tools that already exist today. Services such as Gmail can summarise and suggest replies to emails based on previous messages, while Microsoft Teams will transcribe and summarise video conferences, automatically generating a to-do list from the contents."
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