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dr tech

Is an algorithm any less racist than a human? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...hm-racist-human-employers-work

ITGS algorithm human peopleandmachines bias

shared by dr tech on 05 Aug 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Aug 16
     
    "There's an increasingly popular solution to this problem: why not let an intelligent algorithm make hiring decisions for you? Surely, the thinking goes, a computer is more able to be impartial than a person, and can simply look at the relevant data vectors to select the most qualified people from a heap of applications, removing human bias and making the process more efficient to boot."
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Can Machines Keep You Safer at Airports Than Humans? - 0 views

mashable.com/...machine-airport-security

machines airports humans ITGS peopleandmachines security authenticity

shared by dr tech on 14 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Jan 14
     
    "An automated process is better-suited for a variety of other machine-readable forms of identification, said Vahid Motevalli, a professor at Tennessee Tech University and a flight security expert. For example, a person can't read bar codes, but even if they could, they wouldn't be as efficient as an automated process. A machine can almost always check in more people per hour than a security official, meaning security lines would move much faster."
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Can a Video Game Teach Compassion and Grit? | Ask Good on GOOD - 0 views

www.good.is/...game-teach-compassion-and-grit

ITGS video game teach compassion peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 31 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Jan 14
     
    "This wasn't the first time a person of authority told the video game creator to quit doing what he cared about. Luckily, "I had grit and I didn't let them discourage me," said Hawkins."
dr tech

A $7 PC: Keepod Launches Project To Give African Slums Computer Access | Social Awareness - 0 views

nocamels.com/...-african-slums-computer-access

african digital divide ITGS globalisation

shared by dr tech on 12 Feb 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Feb 14
     
    "Since Keepod's technology enables the computer to boot from the USB device and use the Keepod OS, old computers can be reused, since hardware requirements are not an issue. This way, each person can be given their "own" computer by using an old computer as a "shell." The cost of each system is a mere $7 - a fraction of the cost of an actual PC"
dr tech

Public apathy over GCHQ snooping is a recipe for disaster | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...snooping-internet-surveillance

public apathy security anonymity privacy ITGS

shared by dr tech on 17 Mar 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Mar 14
     
    "Now spool forward to the present. One of the things that baffles me is why more people are not alarmed by what Edward Snowden has been telling us about the scale and intrusiveness of internet surveillance. My hunch is that this is partly because - strangely - people can't relate the revelations to things they personally understand."
dr tech

Why big data has made your privacy a thing of the past | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...a-predictive-analytics-privacy

ITGS privacy anonymity big data

shared by dr tech on 07 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 07 Oct 13
     
    "The reason is that routine big-data analytical techniques can now effectively manufacture personal data that is not protected by any of the measures we've used up to now. A well-known illustration of this is the way Target, an American retail chain, creatively collated scattered pieces of data about individuals' changes in shopping habits to predict the delivery date of pregnant shoppers - so that they could then be targeted with relevant advertisements."
dr tech

Toxic 'e-waste' dumped in poor nations, says United Nations | Global development | The ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...l-dumping-developing-countries

ITGS ewaste development united nations peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 15 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 15 Dec 13
     
    "The global volume of electronic waste is expected to grow by 33% in the next four years, when it will weigh the equivalent of eight of the great Egyptian pyramids, according to the UN's Step initiative, which was set up to tackle the world's growing e-waste crisis. Last year nearly 50m tonnes of e-waste was generated worldwide - or about 7kg for every person on the planet. "
dr tech

'Cybersecurity' begins with integrity, not surveillance | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ith-integrity-not-surveillance

ITGS surveillance cybersecurity integrity

shared by dr tech on 10 May 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 May 14
     
    "That is, when you are continuously surveilled, when your every word - even your private conversations, even your personal journals - are subject to continuous monitoring, you never have the space in which to think things through. If you doubt a piece of popular wisdom and want to hash it out, your ability to carry on that discussion is limited the knowledge that your testing of the day's received ideas is on the record forever and may be held against you."
dr tech

Google: 100,000 lives a year lost through fear of data-mining | Technology | theguardia... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...lthcare-data-mining-larry-page

google lives data mining ITGS simulation prediction model

shared by dr tech on 27 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 27 Jun 14
     
    "Fear of data-mining of healthcare could be costing as many as 100,000 lives a year, according to Google's Larry Page. Speaking out in response to fears over his company's vast haul of personal information, Page made the case that not only is Google not going too far with collecting and analysing such information - it's not going far enough."
dr tech

Artificial Intelligence Is Doomed if We Don't Control Our Data - 0 views

mashable.com/...rtificial-intelligence-failure

intelligence ITGS ai anonymity privacy control

shared by dr tech on 17 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 17 Sep 14
     
    "Machine learning is what's taking place with our personal data while we're passive players in the process. "
dr tech

NHS medical records to be stored in regional data centres | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...rmation-accredited-safe-havens

ITGS medical records health privacy anonymity security politics and government

shared by dr tech on 09 Oct 14 - Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Oct 14
     
    "Privacy campaigners say the plan for the regional centres revives talk of "pseudonymised information" being extracted from medical records. That refers to a process whereby some personal identifiers are removed but not enough to make information completely anonymous."
dr tech

Algorithm knows you're drunk just by looking at you - Boing Boing - 0 views

boingboing.net/...gorithm-knows-youre-drunk.html

ITGS algorithm peopleandmachines control reliability

shared by dr tech on 30 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 30 Apr 15
     
    "built an algorithm that can determine with 90 percent accuracy whether a person is drunk or not based on an infrared image of his or her face."
dr tech

Security flaw found in school internet monitoring software | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...l-internet-monitoring-software

ITGS security school internet monitoring privacy anonymity

shared by dr tech on 15 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 15 Jul 15
     
    "One of the most widely used tools for monitoring and restricting pupils' internet use in UK schools has a serious security flaw which could leave hundreds of thousands of children's personal information exposed to hackers, a researcher has warned."
dr tech

Why appeasing governments over encryption will never work | Comment is free | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...tes-encryption-will-never-work

ITGS governments encryption anonymity privacy and anonymity

shared by dr tech on 19 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 19 Jul 15
     
    "In case you're wondering what could be wrong with entrusting secret keys to the government for use "in exceptional circumstances", just ponder this: a few months ago, hackers (suspected to be Chinese) stole the personnel records of 21.5 million US federal employees, including the records of every person given a government background check for the last 15 years."
dr tech

Why the BBC is wrong to republish 'right to be forgotten' links | Technology | The Guar... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...bc-wrong-right-to-be-forgotten

bbc links ITGS right to be forgotten privacy anonymity policiesandstandards

shared by dr tech on 02 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 02 Jul 15
     
    "They are a modest correction against failures in algorithmic prioritisation on the indelible web. Before the requests go to the BBC, individuals must prove to Google - which has every interest in rejecting their claim - that the links contain personal information that is inaccurate, irrelevant or out of date, and holds no public interest."
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How A Fixed Gear Bike Can Mess With Google's Self-Driving Cars | TIME - 0 views

time.com/google-car-bike

ITGS reliability integrity

shared by unicorn16829149 on 08 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • unicorn16829149 on 08 Sep 15
     
    "Google's self-driving cars have driven over a million miles in autonomous mode. But when Google brought its testing program to Austin, Texas, one of the vehicles met its match: a cyclist doing a track stand - when a rider shifts very slightly forward and back to maintain balance while keeping feet on the pedals." This is very surprising that this self-driven car would detect a person not even moving and still keep stopped, it will be interesting to see if and how they fix this problem.
BOB SAGET

Social Nets Need New Privacy Rule Book, Says Senator - 0 views

www.technewsworld.com/...69862.html

privacy policiesandstandards Security rules

shared by BOB SAGET on 30 Apr 10 - Cached
  • BOB SAGET on 30 Apr 10
     
    Clear rules are needed to govern what social networks can do with the massive amount of personal data they collect and how they inform their users about their practices, said Sen. Charles Schumer, who has asked the FTC to articulate a set of guidelines. Facebook claims it offers users "powerful" privacy tools, but Paul Stephens of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse suggested consumers need a PhD to understand them.
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