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Clearview client list "stolen" / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS privacy and anonymity facial recognition hack database

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"Clearview, the shady facial-recognition firm with links to law-enforcement and alt-right internet trolls, reports that its entire client list has been stolen."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Clearview, the shady facial-recognition firm with links to law-enforcement and alt-right internet trolls, reports that its entire client list has been stolen."</div>

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Users would tell Facebook their bank balance for $8.44 a month | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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ITGS privacy and anonymity facebook technology

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"The study by US-based thinktank the Technology Policy Institute (TPI) is the first that attempts to quantify the value of online privacy and data. It assessed how much privacy is worth in six countries by looking at the habits of people in the United States, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia and Argentina."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The study by US-based thinktank the Technology Policy Institute (TPI) is the first that attempts to quantify the value of online privacy and data. It assessed how much privacy is worth in six countries by looking at the habits of people in the United States, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia and Argentina."</div>

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The messy, cautionary tale of how Babylon disrupted the NHS | WIRED UK - 0 views

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ITGS healthcare babylon nhs reliability ai app expertsystems machine learning

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"To date, the presence of Babylon's GP surgery in London has forced the NHS to reallocate millions of pounds in funding to mitigate for the disruption it has caused. Its expansion plans have been blocked before being allowed to proceed. But concerns linger with clinicians questioning the GP surgery's impact and the effectiveness of its much-hyped artificial intelligence platform."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"To date, the presence of Babylon's GP surgery in London has forced the NHS to reallocate millions of pounds in funding to mitigate for the disruption it has caused. Its expansion plans have been blocked before being allowed to proceed. But concerns linger with clinicians questioning the GP surgery's impact and the effectiveness of its much-hyped artificial intelligence platform."</div>

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Restaurant operators take facial-recognition at face value | Nation's Restaurant News - 0 views

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ITGS facial recognition privacy and anonymity restaurant

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""Every generation is having fun with it," said Jon Alexis, partner in the fast-casual Malibu Poke in Dallas, which opened Nov. 28 with three kiosks that allow guests to save their order history and access them again through facial recognition. "It has exceeded my expectations.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""Every generation is having fun with it," said Jon Alexis, partner in the fast-casual Malibu Poke in Dallas, which opened Nov. 28 with three kiosks that allow guests to save their order history and access them again through facial recognition. "It has exceeded my expectations.""</div>

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Coronavirus: US says Russia behind disinformation campaign | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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ITGS russia authenticity facebook government and politics feed fake news

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"The disinformation campaign promotes unfounded conspiracy theories that the US is behind the new coronavirus outbreak, in an apparent bid to damage America's image around the world."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The disinformation campaign promotes unfounded conspiracy theories that the US is behind the new coronavirus outbreak, in an apparent bid to damage America's image around the world."</div>

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$45m, 1.6bn views and 'Crazy Donald': How Bloomberg bought your Facebook feed | US news... - 0 views

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ITGS government and politics facebook feed integrity ads authenticity

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"In the first six weeks of 2020, more than 1.6bn of the 2.4bn presidential campaign ads shown to US Facebook users were from the Bloomberg campaign. Since launching his campaign in mid-November, the former mayor of New York City has spent nearly $45m on Facebook ads - more than all his opponents combined."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In the first six weeks of 2020, more than 1.6bn of the 2.4bn presidential campaign ads shown to US Facebook users were from the Bloomberg campaign. Since launching his campaign in mid-November, the former mayor of New York City has spent nearly $45m on Facebook ads - more than all his opponents combined."</div>

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The Hidden Signs That Can Reveal a Fake Photo - 0 views

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ITGS fake photoshop authenticity

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"A picture may say a thousand words, but what if the photograph has been fabricated? There are ways to spot a fake - you just have to look closely enough."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A picture may say a thousand words, but what if the photograph has been fabricated? There are ways to spot a fake - you just have to look closely enough."</div>

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Whose job is it to stop the livestreaming of mass murder? | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

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ITGS facebook ethics policies and standards murder cleaners

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"The latest incident has revived questions about who should be responsible for removing harmful content from the internet: the networks that host the content, the companies that protect those networks, or governments of the countries where the content is viewed."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The latest incident has revived questions about who should be responsible for removing harmful content from the internet: the networks that host the content, the companies that protect those networks, or governments of the countries where the content is viewed."</div>

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From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations by billions ... - 0 views

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ITGS ai simulation

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"Now, work posted online shows how artificial intelligence (AI) can easily produce accurate emulators that can accelerate simulations across all of science by billions of times."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Now, work posted online shows how artificial intelligence (AI) can easily produce accurate emulators that can accelerate simulations across all of science by billions of times."</div>

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The Debate Around Data Privacy is Missing The Point - 0 views

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ITGS privacy policies ethics morals sharing

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"As we move towards this collective humanity mindset, the idea of withholding data to make ourselves feel safer becomes a moral conundrum. If our value is most derived from the data we create for AI to process and discover insights, to withhold that means we are detracting value from the whole, that we are committing something morally wrong. We're exchanging data privacy for a different kind of privacy and astonishing growth, which seems to me a pretty fair trade."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"As we move towards this collective humanity mindset, the idea of withholding data to make ourselves feel safer becomes a moral conundrum. If our value is most derived from the data we create for AI to process and discover insights, to withhold that means we are detracting value from the whole, that we are committing something morally wrong. We're exchanging data privacy for a different kind of privacy and astonishing growth, which seems to me a pretty fair trade."</div>

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Why you need to teach your kids about data privacy - 0 views

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"We are talking about vast fields of aggregate data, the scale of which is difficult to comprehend; this data can be parsed by the artificial intelligence recommendation algorithms that Google has pioneered, and that now steer everything from employment application processes to dating apps."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"We are talking about vast fields of aggregate data, the scale of which is difficult to comprehend; this data can be parsed by the artificial intelligence recommendation algorithms that Google has pioneered, and that now steer everything from employment application processes to dating apps."</div>

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Hiding in plain sight: activists don camouflage to beat Met surveillance | World news |... - 0 views

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ITGS facial recognition privacy and anonymity camouflage control politics and government

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"Interest in so-called dazzle camouflage appears to have grown substantially since the Metropolitan police announced last week that officers will be using live facial recognition cameras on London's streets - a move described by privacy campaigners and political activists as "dangerous", "oppressive" and "a huge threat to human rights"."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Interest in so-called dazzle camouflage appears to have grown substantially since the Metropolitan police announced last week that officers will be using live facial recognition cameras on London's streets - a move described by privacy campaigners and political activists as "dangerous", "oppressive" and "a huge threat to human rights"."</div>

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ITGS ai bias machine learning algorithm

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"Bias in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a popular topic over the last few years as AI-solutions have become more ingrained in our daily lives."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Bias in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a popular topic over the last few years as AI-solutions have become more ingrained in our daily lives."</div>

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Quick, cheap to make and loved by police - facial recognition apps are on the rise | Jo... - 0 views

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ITGS employees google facial recognition reliability control

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"But its "surprising accuracy" was "very concerning". Questioned about this, he said that a database using facial recognition technology was unlikely to be a service that the company would create, but went on to say that "some company … is going to cross that line"."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"But its "surprising accuracy" was "very concerning". Questioned about this, he said that a database using facial recognition technology was unlikely to be a service that the company would create, but went on to say that "some company … is going to cross that line"."</div>

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