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La société automatisée au risque de l’opacité - 29 novembre 2020
L’association européenne et militante Algorithm Watch (@algorithmwatch) vient de publier son rapport annuel sur la société automatisée. Son constat est sévère : les systèmes de prise de décision automatisés se généralisent dans la plus grande opacité.
Fabio Chiusi (@fabiochiusi) dans son introduction revient sur le fiasco de (...)
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AI Can Run Your Work Meetings Now - 25 novembre 2020
A new wave of startups is trying to optimize meetings, from automated scheduling tools to facial recognition that measures who’s paying attention.
Julian Green was explaining the big problem with meetings when our meeting started to glitch. The pixels of his face rearranged themselves. A sentence came out as (...)
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Students Have To Jump Through Absurd Hoops To Use Exam Monitoring Software - 24 novembre 2020
Last month, as students at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Ontario, Canada, began studying for their midterm exams, many of them had to memorize not just the content on their tests, but a complex set of instructions for how to take them.
The school has a student body of nearly 18,500 undergraduates, and is one of (...)
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New Swiss algorithm to desegregate schools, one block at a time - 22 novembre 2020
Two researchers from Zurich University created an algorithm that helps desegregate schools by slightly changing the boundaries of each school’s catchment area.
Ever since authorities decided to open public schools to children of all backgrounds in the course of the 20th century, elite families regrouped in select (...)
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Perché l’università delle piattaforme è la fine dell’università - 19 novembre 2020
Un gruppo di docenti di alcune università italiane ha scritto una lettera aperta sulle conseguenze dell’uso di piattaforme digitali proprietarie nella didattica a distanza. Auspichiamo che si apra al più presto una discussione sul futuro dell’educazione e che gli investimenti di cui si discute in queste settimane (...)
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To Prevent Free, Frictionless Access To Human Knowledge, Publishers Want Librarians To Be Afraid, Very Afraid - 14 novembre 2020
After many years of fierce resistance to open access, academic publishers have largely embraced — and extended — the idea, ensuring that their 35-40% profit margins live on. In the light of this subversion of the original hopes for open access, people have come up with other ways to provide free and frictionless (...)
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Digital rights advocates express alarm at proposal to surveil students and researchers - 14 novembre 2020
The hypothetical plan to combat digital piracy called for the use of software to monitor those accessing academic material
A recent proposal recommending the deployment of surveillance software in order to monitor those accessing academic material has drawn fire from digital rights advocates and scientists.
The (...)
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Facebook’s threat to the NYU Ad Observatory is an attack on ethical research » - 13 novembre 2020
Facebook may defend its actions on the grounds of user privacy, but its real concern is losing control of how the company is scrutinized.
Late last week, Facebook sent a legal threat to the NYU Ad Observatory, a research project that collects and studies political ads on Facebook. The timing of this threat could (...)
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Software snoops on students during exams - 12 novembre 2020
A new report on the use of surveillance software in remote exam taking raises concerns of bias and privacy infringement
Eye-tracking, facial recognition, video and audio surveillance — a new report on remote test-taking warns of abuse, bias, and privacy infringement of students taking exams at home.
The report, (...)
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Proctorio, ExamSoft... Les logiciels anti-triche multiplient les ratés - 3 novembre 2020
Aux États-Unis comme en France, des étudiants angoissés par la surveillance des examens passés à distance, se mobilisent contre les logiciels comme Proctorio et ExamSoft.
Proctorio, ProctorU, ExamSoft… Les logiciels de surveillance utilisés pour contrôler les examens se sont généralisés aux États-Unis depuis le début de (...)
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Internet access deal allows Chinese government censorship in our UK university (virtual) classrooms - 2 novembre 2020
1. Introduction
We are a group of academics with many years of experience of teaching on China, including Hong Kong, in the fields of law, political sociology, labour relations, human rights, and gender politics. We are deeply concerned that, in their eagerness to maintain fee income from Chinese international (...)
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Belgium - Automating Society Report 2020 - 30 octobre 2020
Contextualization
As a result of the different governments, and the different levels of government, in Belgium (Federal and Regional), several different strategies dealing with digitization emerged in 2018. In Flanders, this strategy is called Vlaanderen Radicaal Digitaal, while in the Walloon region, it is known (...)
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In Flanders, an algorithm attempts to make school choice fairer - 30 octobre 2020
In Belgium, some schools don’t have enough capacity for all students who want to go there. In the Flemish part of the country, the government introduced an algorithm to assign places in schools, in the hope of giving every student the same chances.
Belgium has a long tradition of free choice of school, but in (...)
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Automating Society Report 2020 - 30 octobre 2020
Life in the automated society : How automated decision-making systems became mainstream, and what to do about it
On a cloudy August day in London, students were angry. They flocked to Parliament Square by the hundreds, in protest – their placards emblazoned with support for unusual allies : their teachers, and an (...)
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Students Are Rebelling Against Eye-Tracking Exam Surveillance Tools - 14 octobre 2020
Invasive test-taking software has become mandatory in many places, and some companies are retaliating against those who speak out.
As a privacy-minded computer science student preparing to start his first year at Miami University, Erik Johnson was concerned this fall when he learned that two of his professors (...)
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« La surveillance est un mode du capitalisme » - Entretien avec Christophe Masutti - 5 octobre 2020
Dans le monde informatisé que nous habitons, chacune de nos conversations, de nos recherches et de nos rencontres est enregistrée, analysée et ses données sont exploitées pour prédire et influencer nos choix. Plus encore, c’est l’espace d’interaction lui-même, ce sont nos formes de sociabilité qui sont organisées de sorte à (...)
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EU companies selling surveillance tools to China’s human rights abusers - 3 octobre 2020
European tech companies risk fuelling widespread human rights abuses by selling digital surveillance technology to China’s public security agencies, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. The findings are published ahead of a crucial meeting in Brussels on 22 September where the European Parliament and (...)
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COVID, confinement et grande conversion numérique, avec Antonio Casilli - 29 septembre 2020
Depuis le début de cette épidémie de COVID, je me dis qu’elle a un rapport avec le numérique. Un rapport profond. Mais je n’arrive pas vraiment à en cerner les contours. J’ai voulu essayer de comprendre si ce moment que nous avons vécu a changé quelque chose à nos vies numériques, à notre rapport à Internet.
Par exemple, la (...)
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Why don’t more people say f**k the algorithm ? - 21 septembre 2020
Protest movements around the world have become inherently digital, but why are there so few protests responding to governments’ online actions ? And find out how volunteers are tracking down tourists breaking quarantine in Hawaii.
We live in a digital society. But while the internet’s relationship with protest (...)
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The Privatized Internet Is Failing Our Kids - 14 septembre 2020
The failure of online schooling highlights a basic flaw in our digital infrastructure : It wasn’t built to supply public goods.
Across much of the United States this week, schools “opened” via the internet, following others that had started remote learning last week or the week before. The results have been, at (...)
