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Coronavirus work-from-home policies create surge in employee tracking - Vox - 3 avril 2020
Software that monitors remote employees is seeing a sales boom.
It’s a scenario that perhaps millions of employees across the US have experienced : Because of the coronavirus pandemic, your office closes up shop and your boss sends you home with a company laptop and the hope that you can get the same amount of work (...)
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Anna Wiener interview : The author of Uncanny Valley on her buzzy memoir - Vox - 10 mars 2020
And what those stories say about power.
When Anna Wiener graduated from college in 2009, she did what so many ambitious young women who cared about books and intellectual culture did before her : She moved to New York to try to make it in publishing.
But publishing, then in the middle of a profound contraction, (...)
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Facebook is suing OneAudience for improperly harvesting user data - Vox - 1er mars 2020
Facebook filed a federal lawsuit in California on Thursday against OneAudience, a marketing company that it says paid app developers to exploit the “login with Facebook” feature to improperly gain access to personal data without users’ permission.
The social media company claims that OneAudience harvested users’ (...)
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Alexa, Siri, and Google Home record you more often than you think - Vox - 21 février 2020
You’re not imagining it. Smart speakers inadvertently listen to you all the time.
How often do Alexa and her ilk listen to your conversations ? Maybe more than you think. According to a new report from Northeastern University, smart speakers accidentally activate as many as 19 times a day, recording as much as 43 (...)
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How Clearview AI is using facial recognition - Vox - 13 février 2020
Clearview AI built a massive database of faces that it’s making available to law enforcement, and nobody’s stopping it.
Your Instagram pictures could be part of a facial recognition database that’s been made available to law enforcement agencies. That’s thanks to Clearview AI, a mysterious startup that has scraped (...)
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Why you see Facebook and Google ads for stuff you buy in the real world - Vox - 8 février 2020
Facebook isn’t following you around the mall, but the stores might be.
Stop me if you’ve heard this before : You go to a store, browse its wares, consider or even make a purchase, and then go home, only to find a bunch of ads from that very store — perhaps of the very item you bought — following you around the (...)
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Police surveillance is more invasive and more mysterious than ever - Vox - 7 février 2020
Despite a growing number of high-tech tools, law enforcement agencies don’t seem to want to disclose what they’re using.
There are a host of artificial intelligence and algorithm-based technologies that the New York Police Department could be using, but few know exactly what’s in the NYPD’s arsenal. As multiple (...)
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The government keeps its use of facial recognition tech secret. The ACLU is suing. - 13 novembre 2019
The ACLU is suing the FBI to find out what the government is doing with facial recognition technology. Dive in with this Reset podcast episode
The ACLU is suing the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the DEA to get documents that explain how the US government is using facial recognition technology.
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Jeff Bezos says Amazon is writing its own facial recognition laws to pitch to lawmakers - 10 octobre 2019
The tech giant’s hope is that federal lawmakers will adopt much of its draft legislation.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says his company is developing a set of laws to regulate facial recognition technology that it plans to share with federal lawmakers.
In February, the company, which has faced escalating scrutiny over (...)
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says vetting videos before they go up isn’t the right answer - 12 juin 2019
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is okay with taking content down, but she doesn’t think it’s a good idea to review it before it goes up on the massive video-sharing platform.
That’s one big takeaway from her interview with Recode senior correspondent Peter Kafka at this year’s Code Conference.
"I think we would lose a (...)
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Alphabet shareholders want more voting rights but Larry and Sergey don’t want it that way - 13 juin 2017
It’s a founders’ company.
Alphabet’s shareholder meeting last week resulted in a predictable outcome : All stockholder proposals were voted down.
Stockholder proposals tend to fail at any company. Management votes against them and larger investors with more shares typically vote with management.
At Alphabet, the (...)
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With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce - 12 septembre 2014
I’m a stem cell and reproductive biologist. I fell in love with biology when I was in high school. It was the realization that every cell in my body has the same genome and DNA, but each cell is different. A stomach cell is not a brain cell is not a skin cell. But they’re reading from the same book of instructions. (...)
