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Why we should ban facial recognition technology everywhere / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS facial recognition security ethics law public interest recognition technology government and politics

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YES IAN YOU SHOULD BE READING THIS! "The authors raise three arguments: first, that "notice and choice" has been a failure ("to opt out simply stay indoors!"); second, that facial recognition fears are technophobic overreactions, and finally, that facial recognition is uniquely powerful and dangerous and needs a regulatory framework separate from other privacy rules ("to opt out, just don't have a face")."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">YES IAN YOU SHOULD BE READING THIS! "The authors raise three arguments: first, that "notice and choice" has been a failure ("to opt out simply stay indoors!"); second, that facial recognition fears are technophobic overreactions, and finally, that facial recognition is uniquely powerful and dangerous and needs a regulatory framework separate from other privacy rules ("to opt out, just don't have a face")."</div>

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Facebook-Style Algorithms Are Now Hunting for Dark Matter - 0 views

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ITGS algorithm facebook machine learning ai neural network

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""This is the first time such machine learning tools have been used in this context," says Fluri, "and we found that the deep artificial neural network enables us to extract more information from the data than previous approaches. We believe that this usage of machine learning in cosmology will have many future applications.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""This is the first time such machine learning tools have been used in this context," says Fluri, "and we found that the deep artificial neural network enables us to extract more information from the data than previous approaches. We believe that this usage of machine learning in cosmology will have many future applications.""</div>

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How a glitch in India's biometric welfare system can be lethal | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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ITGS algorithm welfare people and machines relibaility poverty globalisation and cultural diversity india biometric system

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Motka Manjhi had been back and forth to the ration shop four or five times, his wife said, but on each occasion he returned empty-handed. His thumbprint, needed to prove his identity, wasn't registering on the new system."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Motka Manjhi had been back and forth to the ration shop four or five times, his wife said, but on each occasion he returned empty-handed. His thumbprint, needed to prove his identity, wasn't registering on the new system."</div>

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Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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ITGS algorithm welfare people and machines relibaility poverty globalisation and cultural diversity

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"Vast sums are being spent by governments across the industrialized and developing worlds on automating poverty and in the process, turning the needs of vulnerable citizens into numbers, replacing the judgment of human caseworkers with the cold, bloodless decision-making of machines. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Vast sums are being spent by governments across the industrialized and developing worlds on automating poverty and in the process, turning the needs of vulnerable citizens into numbers, replacing the judgment of human caseworkers with the cold, bloodless decision-making of machines. "</div>

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One in three councils using algorithms to make welfare decisions | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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ITGS algorithm welfare people and machines relibaility

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"One in three councils are using computer algorithms to help make decisions about benefit claims and other welfare issues, despite evidence emerging that some of the systems are unreliable."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"One in three councils are using computer algorithms to help make decisions about benefit claims and other welfare issues, despite evidence emerging that some of the systems are unreliable."</div>

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Bruce Schneier makes the case for "public interest technologists" / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS schneier security ethics law public interest

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Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol's home by zooming in on her eyes, Asia, Digital News -... - 0 views

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ITGS artsentertainmentandleisure privacy anonymity photoshop social media

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"Japanese idol Ena Matsuoka was attacked outside her home last month after a fan figured out her address from selfies she posted on social media - just by zooming in on the reflection on her pupils, according to media reports."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Japanese idol Ena Matsuoka was attacked outside her home last month after a fan figured out her address from selfies she posted on social media - just by zooming in on the reflection on her pupils, according to media reports."</div>

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ITGS facila recognition privacy and anonymity surveillance

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Stealing your feelings?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Stealing your feelings?</div>

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'We are hurtling towards a surveillance state': the rise of facial recognition technolo... - 0 views

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ITGS facial recognition security privacy and anonymity surveillance state technology

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"This led to claims that the software is woefully inaccurate; in fact, police had set the threshold for a match at 60%, meaning that faces do not have to be rated as that similar to be flagged up. This minimises the chance of a person of interest slipping through the net, but also makes a lot of false positives inevitable."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"This led to claims that the software is woefully inaccurate; in fact, police had set the threshold for a match at 60%, meaning that faces do not have to be rated as that similar to be flagged up. This minimises the chance of a person of interest slipping through the net, but also makes a lot of false positives inevitable."</div>

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ITGS facial recognition security privacy and anonymity china

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"Chinese scientists have developed a 500 megapixel facial recognition camera four times more detailed than the human eye that can identify individuals from crowds of tens of thousands in streets or at sports stadiums. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Chinese scientists have developed a 500 megapixel facial recognition camera four times more detailed than the human eye that can identify individuals from crowds of tens of thousands in streets or at sports stadiums. "</div>

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Mongolia is changing all its addresses to What3Words' three-word phrases - Quartz - 0 views

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ITGS equality of access wicked problem GPS

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"The system is designed to solve the an often-ignored problem of 75% of the earth's population, an estimated 4 billion people, who have no address for mailing purposes, making it difficult to open a bank account, get a delivery, or be reached in an emergency."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The system is designed to solve the an often-ignored problem of 75% of the earth's population, an estimated 4 billion people, who have no address for mailing purposes, making it difficult to open a bank account, get a delivery, or be reached in an emergency."</div>

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Blockchain Could Make Digital Interactions Trustworthy Again - Here's How to Understand It - 0 views

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ITGS blockchain hash security ledger encryption

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"Once it's verified, the transaction's information, plus both your digital signature and your friend's digital signature, are stored in a block alongside many other transactions like it. Once the block is full, it gets a hash, which is a unique code that sort of acts like its nametag. It also stores its position on the chain and the hash of the previous block on the chain. (Here's an example block to illustrate what kind of information is stored there.) "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Once it's verified, the transaction's information, plus both your digital signature and your friend's digital signature, are stored in a block alongside many other transactions like it. Once the block is full, it gets a hash, which is a unique code that sort of acts like its nametag. It also stores its position on the chain and the hash of the previous block on the chain. (Here's an example block to illustrate what kind of information is stored there.) "</div>

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Firefox: 'no UK plans' to make encrypted browser tool its default | Technology | The Gu... - 0 views

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ITGS security browser HTTPS DoH DNS politics and government

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"Mozilla has announced it will make the tool, called DNS-over-HTTPS, or DoH, the default for all users in the US."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Mozilla has announced it will make the tool, called DNS-over-HTTPS, or DoH, the default for all users in the US."</div>

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The Guardian view on machine learning: a computer cleverer than you? | Editorial | Opin... - 0 views

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ITGS ai machine learning computer people and machines

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"It is in the nature of AI that makers do not, and often cannot, predict what their creations do. We know how to make machines learn. But programmers do not understand completely the knowledge that intelligent computing acquires. If we did, we wouldn't need computers to learn to learn."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"It is in the nature of AI that makers do not, and often cannot, predict what their creations do. We know how to make machines learn. But programmers do not understand completely the knowledge that intelligent computing acquires. If we did, we wouldn't need computers to learn to learn."</div>

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Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator | Technology | The Gu... - 0 views

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ITGS facebook people and machines social media

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"A group of current and former contractors who worked for years at the social network's Berlin-based moderation centres has reported witnessing colleagues become "addicted" to graphic content and hoarding ever more extreme examples for a personal collection. They also said others were pushed towards the far right by the amount of hate speech and fake news they read every day."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"A group of current and former contractors who worked for years at the social network's Berlin-based moderation centres has reported witnessing colleagues become "addicted" to graphic content and hoarding ever more extreme examples for a personal collection. They also said others were pushed towards the far right by the amount of hate speech and fake news they read every day."</div>

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blind inventor creates 'smart cane' that uses google maps to navigate blind people - 0 views

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ITGS blind inventor google google maps equality of access sensor

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"the weWALK cane consists of an electronic handle with a regular 'analog' white cane that is inserted into the bottom. it uses an ultrasonic sensor to detect any obstacles above chest level and warns the user via a vibrating handle."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"the weWALK cane consists of an electronic handle with a regular 'analog' white cane that is inserted into the bottom. it uses an ultrasonic sensor to detect any obstacles above chest level and warns the user via a vibrating handle."</div>

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Harvard student gets into US after entry denied over friends' social media posts - CNET - 0 views

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ITGS social media friends politics and government control privacy and anonymity

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"That was apparently the result of the US government's probing of visa applicants' social media profiles. After the search, an officer questioned the 17-year-old, who got a scholarship to study in the US, about his friends' social media activity and told him she'd found some "posting political points of view that oppose the US," the student paper noted. Despite Ajjawi's protests, the officer denied the student's entry and let him call his parents."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"That was apparently the result of the US government's probing of visa applicants' social media profiles. After the search, an officer questioned the 17-year-old, who got a scholarship to study in the US, about his friends' social media activity and told him she'd found some "posting political points of view that oppose the US," the student paper noted. Despite Ajjawi's protests, the officer denied the student's entry and let him call his parents."</div>

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Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recogniti... - 0 views

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amazon surveillance facial recognition privacy and anonymity policies and standards

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"For example, I've been repeatedly emailed by company spokespeople to tell me that cops only get access to Ring customers' videos if the customers offer to share it; but what they never said is that if a customer turns down a police request, Amazon instructs the cops to make an "official request" to the company and then they grant warrantless access to the footage. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"For example, I've been repeatedly emailed by company spokespeople to tell me that cops only get access to Ring customers' videos if the customers offer to share it; but what they never said is that if a customer turns down a police request, Amazon instructs the cops to make an "official request" to the company and then they grant warrantless access to the footage. "</div>

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They told us DRM would give us more for less, but they lied / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS DRM copyright intellectual property cost

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"My latest Locus Magazine column is DRM Broke Its Promise, which recalls the days when digital rights management was pitched to us as a way to enable exciting new markets where we'd all save big by only buying the rights we needed (like the low-cost right to read a book for an hour-long plane ride), but instead (unsurprisingly) everything got more expensive and less capable. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"My latest Locus Magazine column is DRM Broke Its Promise, which recalls the days when digital rights management was pitched to us as a way to enable exciting new markets where we'd all save big by only buying the rights we needed (like the low-cost right to read a book for an hour-long plane ride), but instead (unsurprisingly) everything got more expensive and less capable. "</div>

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Of Course Citizens Should Be Allowed to Kick Robots | WIRED - 0 views

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ITGS robots ai empathy ethics people and machines

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"Robots engender human sympathy. Seen in the wild, they appear to have agency, feelings, and desires. R2D2's spunk, C3PO's intelligence, Wall-E's charm. When delivery bots get stuck on the sidewalk, good Samaritans help them get unstuck. In light of the attack on K5, then, you may be thinking: Poor guy."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Robots engender human sympathy. Seen in the wild, they appear to have agency, feelings, and desires. R2D2's spunk, C3PO's intelligence, Wall-E's charm. When delivery bots get stuck on the sidewalk, good Samaritans help them get unstuck. In light of the attack on K5, then, you may be thinking: Poor guy."</div>

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