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Google Employees Say Scientist’s Ouster Was ’Unprecedented Research Censorship’ - 4 décembre 2020
Hundreds of Google employees have published an open letter following the firing of a colleague who is an accomplished scientist known for her research into the ethics of artificial intelligence and her work showing racial bias in facial recognition technology.
That scientist, Timnit Gebru, helped lead Google’s (...)
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Mark Zuckerberg Faces Revolt Among Facebook Employees - 26 juin 2020
Mark Zuckerberg is facing a backlash among Facebook employees over his refusal to act on President Trump’s inflammatory posts. Staff says the crisis reflects new and old frustrations with the company.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot riding on 2020. There is the election and the scrutiny his company is (...)
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Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists’ Accounts At China’s Request - 15 juin 2020
Teleconferencing company Zoom acknowledged it shut down the accounts of several activists and online commemorations of the Tiananmen Square massacre at China’s request. The revelation followed media reports, citing Hong Kong and U.S.-based activists, who found their accounts suspended.
Zoom confirmed the reports, (...)
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Researchers : Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots - 22 mai 2020
Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said on Wednesday.
Researchers culled through more than 200 million tweets since January discussing the virus and found that about 45% were (...)
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Your Boss Is Watching You : Work-From-Home Boom Leads To More Surveillance - 16 mai 2020
After two weeks of working from her Brooklyn apartment, a 25-year-old e-commerce worker received a staffwide email from her company : Employees were to install software called Hubstaff immediately on their personal computers so it could track their mouse movements and keyboard strokes, and record the webpages they (...)
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Israel Begins Tracking And Texting Those Possibly Exposed To The Coronavirus : NPR - 24 mars 2020
Hundreds of Israelis were startled Wednesday by an unsolicited text message.
"Hello. According to an epidemiological investigation," it began, addressing each recipient by name. "You were near someone sick with the coronavirus. You must immediately isolate at home [14 days] to protect your relatives and the (...)
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An Airbnb For Farmland Hits A Snag, As Farmers Raise Data Privacy Concerns : The Salt : NPR - 28 février 2020
Parker Smith grows corn and soybeans on land near Champaign, Ill., together with his father and uncle. But Smith Farms doesn’t own most of the land it uses. "About 75 percent of what we farm is rented ground," he says.
This is common. Across the Midwest, about half of all the farmland is owned by landlords who (...)
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New Documentary "Coded Bias" Explores How Tech Can Be Racist And Sexist : Code Switch : NPR - 9 février 2020
Facial recognition systems from large tech companies often incorrectly classify black women as male — including the likes of Michelle Obama, Serena Williams and Sojourner Truth. That’s according to Joy Buolamwini, whose research caught wide attention in 2018 with "AI, Ain’t I a Woman ?" a spoken-word piece based on (...)
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Despite Election Security Fears, Iowa Caucuses Will Use New Smartphone App : NPR - 19 janvier 2020
Iowa’s Democratic Party plans to use a new Internet-connected smartphone app to help calculate and transmit results during the state’s caucuses next month, Iowa Public Radio and NPR have confirmed.
Party leaders say they decided to opt for that strategy fully aware of three years’ worth of warnings about Russia’s (...)
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In China, A New Call To Protect Data Privacy - 7 janvier 2020
China produces huge amounts of online data — and little of it is protected. That has led to a thriving market for stolen personal information, from national identification numbers to home addresses.
Some of it is used for state surveillance, while much of it is used for private extortion and fraud.
But increasing (...)
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California Rings In The New Year With A New Data Privacy Law - 31 décembre 2019
On Jan. 1, the toughest data privacy law in the U.S. goes into effect : the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA.
That’s why you’re seeing a host of emails pop up in your inbox from various companies announcing updates to their terms of service, particularly their privacy policies. With no similar federal law (...)
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Supreme Court Lets $222,000 Verdict In File-Sharing Case Stand - 19 mars 2013
The first person to challenge a file-sharing lawsuit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America has reached the end of the line.
Without comment, the Supreme Court refused to hear Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s appeal, which means the $222,000 verdict against her stands.
Thomas-Rasset was convicted of (...)
