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Dear Spotify : don’t manipulate our emotions for profit - 26 avril 2021
UPDATE : On April 15, 2021, Spotify replied to Access Now’s letter. In its response, Spotify states that the company “has never implemented the technology described in the patent in any of our products and we have no plans to do so.” While Access Now is pleased to hear that Spotify has no current plans to deploy the (...)
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EU urged to ban AI tools that detect gender, sexuality - 26 avril 2021
Draft EU rules include curbs on AI technology like facial recognition, but not on systems that detect gender, sexuality, race or disability
April 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cross-party group of European lawmakers called on Friday for an EU ban on artificial intelligence (AI) systems that detect and label (...)
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Che cos’è il “femminismo dei dati” e perché Bologna è una città apripista - 14 avril 2021
Bologna pubblicherà dati di genere e adotterà indicatori di impatto di genere fin dalla programmazione di attività e spesa. Altre città seguiranno l’esempio per portare in Italia il "data feminism" che considera i dati come dispositivo di potere dai quali quindi partire per ridurre le diseguaglianze
Secondo le (...)
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Facebook’s Algorithm Practices Gender Discrimination - 12 avril 2021
A University of Southern California study provides still more evidence that the company’s ad targeting illegally discriminates.
New research from a team at the University of Southern California provides further evidence that Facebook’s advertising system is discriminatory, showing that the algorithm used to target (...)
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Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs - 12 avril 2021
Its ad-delivery system is excluding women from opportunities without regard to their qualifications. That would be illegal under US employment law.
Facebook is withholding certain job ads from women because of their gender, according to the latest audit of its ad service.
The audit, conducted by independent (...)
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Europeans can’t talk about racist AI systems. They lack the words. - 11 avril 2021
In Europe, several automated systems, either planned or operational, actively contribute to entrenching racism. But European civil society literally lacks the words to address the issue.
In February, El Confidencial revealed that Renfe, the Spanish railways operator, published a public tender for a system of (...)
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Automated translation is hopelessly sexist, but don’t blame the algorithm or the training data - 11 avril 2021
Automated translation services tend to erase women or reduce them to stereotypes. Simply tweaking the training data or the models is not enough to make translations fair.
Ever since Google Translate launched in the late 2000s, users noticed that it got gender wrong. In the early 2010s, some Twitter users (...)
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Ban Automated Recognition of Gender and Sexual Orientation - 7 avril 2021
Automated recognition of gender and sexual orientation is scientifically flawed and puts LGBT+ lives at risk. The European Union has the opportunity to ban this technology and prevent such tools from being exported around the world.
A growing number of governments and companies use artificial intelligence (AI) (...)
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Timnit Gebru was fired from Google — then the harassers arrived - 12 mars 2021
Even three months after Gebru’s controversial termination from the AI Ethics team, the sustained campaign of aggressive tweets and emails keeps coming
TimnitTimnit Gebru had expected her colleagues to rally around her when she was abruptly fired from Google on December 2nd. She was a well-respected AI ethics (...)
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Facebook faces US investigation for ’systemic’ racial bias in hiring - 9 mars 2021
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission indicates it suspects company policies may fuel broad discrimination
A US agency investigating Facebook for racial bias in hiring and promotions has designated its inquiry as “systemic”, meaning it suspects company policies may be contributing to widespread discrimination. (...)
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Platforms like YouTube have tried to combat harassment against women. It’s not working - 8 mars 2021
Accusations of misogynistic comments and threats of rape are common on popular streaming and social media platforms like Youtube and Twitch where moderation policies don’t go far enough
Last June the gaming industry had a moment of reckoning. Starting as a trickle, female and non-binary online gamers and streamers (...)
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Origen étnico, sexo o vestimenta : el polémico sistema de Renfe para vigilar a sus viajeros - 4 mars 2021
La compañía publica un anuncio de licitación para el desarrollo de un ’software’ de análisis de vídeo que pretende implementar en 25 estaciones de Madrid, Cataluña, Valencia, País Vasco y Málaga
Mientras usted deambula por el andén esperando el próximo tren, esa cámara de seguridad a la que nunca presta atención ha podido (...)
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« Le baby-foot, c’est cool, mais le droit du travail, c’est encore mieux » : dans les start-up, des salariés dénoncent un management toxique - 3 mars 2021
Depuis deux mois, une page Instagram recueille des témoignages accablants sur les conditions de travail dans ces petites entreprises.
« L’un des patrons appelait un manager “mon toutou” devant tout le monde, alors qu’il faisait juste bien son travail, raconte au Monde Vincent (les prénoms ont été modifiés), un ancien (...)
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Le boom des algorithmes de recrutement et la difficulté de les évaluer - 1er mars 2021
Près de 40 % des services RH utiliseraient des algorithmes prédictifs. La bonne nouvelle c’est qu’ils commencent à être audités. La mauvaise est qu’il reste complexe de mesurer leur prétendue objectivité.
Demander à un candidat de gonfler des ballons sur un jeu vidéo pour vérifier ses compétences. L’idée peut paraître (...)
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This is how we lost control of our faces - 8 février 2021
The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy.
In 1964, mathematician and computer scientist Woodrow Bledsoe first attempted the task of matching suspects’ faces to mugshots. He measured out the distances between different facial features in (...)
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Design Justice : repolitiser le design - 8 février 2021
Sasha Costanza-Chock (@schock), activiste, professeure associée au Laboratoire d’études comparatives sur les médias du MIT et chercheuse associée à la Ligue pour la justice algorithmique (@ajlunited), fondatrice du défunt Codesign Studio du MIT, est l’auteure de Design Justice : community-led practices to build the worlds (...)
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Pourquoi la modération de Twitter fonctionne si mal - 5 février 2021
actuelLes utilisateurs réguliers du réseau social constatent que la gestion de la suppression des tweets reste fréquemment hasardeuse.
Quinze ans après sa création, à San Francisco, Twitter reste une plate-forme qui ne gère pas correctement le contenu qui y est posté et peine à faire respecter les règles qu’il a (...)
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Built to Last - 2 février 2021
When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned during the pandemic, governments blamed the sixty-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed ?
At the time of this writing, in July 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed over 133,000 people in the United States. The dead are (...)
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Lee Lu-da outed as AI Frankenstein’s monster - 29 janvier 2021
What they’re calling artificial intelligence these days is sounding just plain dumb.
Lee Lu-da, who’s being marketed as a virtual star of the future, is now able to answer messengers via chat services. The problem is, she seems to be sticking her virtual foot in her virtual mouth with offensive comments about (...)
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Comment fait-on pour que les hommes cessent de violer ? - 27 janvier 2021
C’est le dernier shitstorm en date sur Twitter. Les comptes (initialement militants et féministes) qui ont publié cette phrase se sont trouvés bloqués ou suspendus.
En suspens la phrase : "Comment fait-on pour que les hommes cessent de violer ?"
Pourtant cette phrase n’est pas agressive, pourtant elle n’est pas (...)
