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How Oracle Sells Repression in China - 0 views

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    "POLICE IN CHINA'S Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means: financial records, travel information, vehicle registrations, social media, and surveillance camera footage. To make sense of it all, they needed sophisticated analytic software. Enter American business computing giant Oracle, whose products could find relevant data in the police department's disparate feeds and merge it with information from ongoing investigations."
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The Oracle-TikTok Deal Sure Worked Out Well for a Close Trump Ally | Vanity Fair - 0 views

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    "It may be coincidence that Trump's threat in August to shut down TikTok in the U.S. unless a sale was tendered with an American company drove the app into the arms of one of his allies."
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TikTok unveils European data security plan amid calls for US ban | TikTok | The Guardian - 0 views

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      To what extent will a policy ensure the security of data for social media, in a globalised economy?
  • “The Chinese government have never asked us for data,
  • TikTok’s data controls and transfer of data outside of the continent will be monitored by a third-party European cybersecurity firm,
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  • Oracle will also monitor TikTok’s algorithms and source code
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle - 0 views

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    "A core selling point of machine learning is discovery without understanding, which is why errors are particularly common in machine-learning-based science. Three years ago, we compiled evidence revealing that an error called leakage - the machine learning version of teaching to the test - was pervasive, affecting hundreds of papers from 17 disciplines. Since then, we have been trying to understand the problem better and devise solutions.  This post presents an update. In short, we think things will get worse before they get better, although there are glimmers of hope on the horizon."
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