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Here’s what that WhatsApp privacy policy pop-up means for you - 6 janvier 2021
If you use WhatsApp, you probably spotted a pop-up on your phone sometime in the last 24 hours, suggesting that the service has updated its privacy policy — and promptly clicked the button at the bottom to proceed.
If you read more closely, you’ll have learned that and users have until February 8 to read and agree (...)
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Amsterdam and Helsinki become first cities to launch open AI registers - 12 octobre 2020
The registers could make the AI used in public services more transparent
Amsterdam and Helsinki today became the first cities in the world to launch open AI registers that track how algorithms are being used in the municipalities.
In a press release, the cities said the registers would help ensure that the AI (...)
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British police to trial facial recognition system that detects your mood - 22 août 2020
The system can also spot people wearing hats or glasses
A British police force is set to trial a facial recognition system that infers people’s moods by analyzing CCTV footage.
Lincolnshire Police will be able to use the system to search the film for certain moods and facial expressions, the London Times reports. (...)
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Zuck thinks boycotting advertisers will return to Facebook — and he could be right - 9 juillet 2020
More than 500 advertisers are boycotting Facebook for not controlling hate speech. But Mark Zuckerberg is not worried. In an internal Facebook meeting, the company CEO said that “my guess is that all these advertisers will be back on the platform soon enough.”
The Information got hold of a transcript of this (...)
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Amazon wants to turn Indian retail shops into digital storefronts — with QR codes - 27 juin 2020
Amazon has launched a new program in India called “Smart Stores” that will convert brick and mortar stores to “digital storefronts” through QR codes.
The idea is that you can scan a QR code stuck on the front of the store, browse through their catalog on the Amazon app, and place an order without having to go inside (...)
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Zoom won’t encrypt free calls because it wants to comply with law enforcement - 3 juin 2020
If you’re a free Zoom user, and waiting for the company to roll out end-to-end encryption for better protection of your calls, you’re out of luck. Free calls won’t be encrypted, and law enforcement will be able to access your information in case of ‘misuse’ of the platform.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan today said that the video (...)
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Amazon Engineer : ’Ring should be shut down immediately and not brought back’ - 4 février 2020
An Amazon software engineer named Max Eliaser is calling for the shutdown of Ring, the doorbell camera company Amazon paid $2 billion for in 2018.
Hundreds of Amazon employees recently banded together to form Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an organization dedicated to holding the company’s feet to the fire (...)
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Why Amazon’s Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society - 3 février 2020
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society.” Amazon engineer Max Eliaser
The greatest threat posed to democracy in any free nation is that of ubiquitous government surveillance. Many countries today are struggling to (...)
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China arrested a US university student for mocking its president in tweets - 25 janvier 2020
Censorship in China never ceases to baffle us, and the country has taken yet another surprising step by arresting a University of Minnesota student for posting ‘offensive’ tweets while he was in the US.
According to a report by Axios, Luo Daiqing, a 20-year-old freshman in Minnesota, was arrested in July 2019 for (...)
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Indian government orders mobile internet to be suspended in the capital, says Airtel - 20 décembre 2019
Amid protests across the nation over new and upcoming citizenship laws in India, a major carrier called Airtel said in a now-deleted tweet that the government has ordered mobile data, voice, and SMS services to be suspended in some parts of the country’s capital of New Delhi.
This is alarming because it (...)
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Facial recognition in schools leads to Sweden’s first GDPR fine - 1er septembre 2019
The Swedish Data Protection Authority (DPA) has served a municipality in northern Sweden the country’s first GDPR fine "” amounting to almost €19,000 (200,000 SEK) "” for using facial recognition technology to monitor the attendance of students in school.
The high school in Skellefteå conducted a pilot program last (...)
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Google is fixing gender bias in its Translate service - 7 décembre 2018
Google Translate has previously displayed signs of gender bias by assigning genders to certain adjectives and words describing occupations. Thankfully, the company’s rolling out an update to fix this.
The company said that after the update, Google translate will provide both feminine and masculine translations for (...)
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The US Army is developing AI that can recognize faces in the dark and through walls - 20 avril 2018
The US Army is developing a machine learning method for identifying faces from thermal imagery. Soon the American government will be able to film people from outside of buildings, using cameras that can see through walls in near-total darkness, and an AI will recognize the people in the images.
Army Research (...)
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Facebook tests prompt asking you to snitch on your friends who aren’t using their real name - 24 septembre 2012
Facebook’s ongoing war on pseudonyms is well-documented. The company wants everyone to use their real name on the social network, and ideally this would be their only identity on the Internet. Menlo Park often bans users that use fake names (most are spammers, but many are just using pseudonyms), but it recently (...)
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AntiSec hackers leak 1,000,001 Apple device IDs allegedly obtained from FBI breach - 4 septembre 2012
The AntiSec hacking group claims to have released a set of more than 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) obtained from breaching the FBI. The group claims to have over 12 million IDs, as well as personal information such as user names, device names, notification tokens, cell phone numbers and (...)
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Sina Weibo to introduce "˜user contract’ on May 28 as China’s microblog crackdown continues - 28 mai 2012
Fresh from admitting that it hasn’t fully implemented China’s new rules for microblogs, Web giant Sina is set to introduce a "˜user contract’ for its popular Twitter-like Sina Weibo service at the end of May, as it continues to battle to control sensitive information on the site.
The terms, spotted by former TNW (...)
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Zynga sues Microsoft-backed social gaming startup Kobojo over "˜PyramidVille’ game - 7 mai 2012
Last week, social gaming juggernaut Zynga filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against one of Europe’s leading social games companies, venture-backed Kobojo.
The Paris, France-based social games studio last year released a Facebook game called PyramidVille, and, in partnership with a company called BulkyPix, (...)
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Google to launch third-party commenting platform to rival Facebook - 28 mars 2012
Google is about to launch a new commenting system that will tie into the search giant’s Google+ platform, web services and web search, a source close to the product’s development confirmed with The Next Web
Tech-WD blogger Saud Al-Hawawi also reported yesterday that several new Google features that have yet to be (...)
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Confirmed : Twitter will meet with the UK government for riot talks - 23 août 2011
Twitter has confirmed that it will meet with the UK Home Secretary on Thursday, after being called in for discussions over the role it played in the recent riots that blighted many parts of the country.
We reported last Friday that the UK government had finally set a date for the meeting with the major social (...)
