Internet vassals, a reading list for vassals, peasants and serfs

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diciembre 28, 2017

ProPublica MACHINE BIAS Investigating algorithmic injustice and the formulas that influence our lives.

diciembre 27, 2017

McKinsey Global Institute: Automation Will Create More Jobs Than It Will Eliminate, Analyst Says

diciembre 26, 2017

Fair and Balanced? Thoughts on Bias in Probabilistic Modeling

diciembre 26, 2017

Big Tech: The New Predatory Capitalism The tech giants are menacing democracy, privacy, and competition. Can they be housebroken?

diciembre 22, 2017

How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda. Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.

diciembre 22, 2017

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

diciembre 19, 2017

Rescateleco

diciembre 18, 2017

Uber Used CIA-Trained Staff to Spy on Rivals

diciembre 18, 2017

INSIDE CHINA'S VAST NEW EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL RANKING

diciembre 16, 2017

SECRECY IS DEAD. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.

diciembre 16, 2017

It took Chinese authorities just seven minutes to locate and apprehend BBC reporter John Sudworth using its powerful network of CCTV camera and facial recognition technology.

diciembre 15, 2017

Facebook admits it poses mental health risk – but says using site more can help Company acknowledges ‘passive’ consumption of material can make people ‘feel worse’ but argues more engagement could improve wellbeing

diciembre 14, 2017

Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents

diciembre 14, 2017

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diciembre 13, 2017

Engineers, philosophers and sociologists release ethical design guidelines for future technology

diciembre 12, 2017

6 Ideas to Rein in Silicon Valley, Open Up the Internet, and Make Tech Work for Everyone Stop Facebook from spying on us, don’t let Amazon sell groceries, and jail executives who collude to lower workers’ pay.

diciembre 11, 2017

The Smart, the Stupid, and the Catastrophically Scary: An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist A long conversation with a veteran data scientist on AI, deep learning, FinTech, and the future.

diciembre 11, 2017

Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society ‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’

diciembre 09, 2017

How killing net neutrality will hurt online protests and free speech

diciembre 09, 2017

From territorial to functional sovereignty: The case of Amazon

diciembre 08, 2017

Amazon is running its own hunger games – and all the players will be losers US cities are selling their souls to be the company’s second HQ site. It’s part of the techno-capitalist takeover of cities, ultimately funded by ordinary citizens

diciembre 07, 2017

EU warns tech firms: remove extremist content faster or be regulated

diciembre 06, 2017

Fairness in Machine Learning NIPS 2017 Tutorial — Part I

diciembre 06, 2017

Your family members do not need an Amazon Echo or a Google Home or an Apple HomePod or whatever that one smart speaker that uses Cortana is called. And you don’t either.

diciembre 05, 2017

GHOSTERY DEPLOYS AI IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AD TRACKERS

diciembre 05, 2017

When Our Thoughts Are No Longer Our Own

diciembre 01, 2017

Apple is sharing your face with apps. That’s a new privacy worry.

noviembre 29, 2017

The Attention Economy is the Addiction Economy: A Call for Emerging Tech for Good

noviembre 29, 2017

How behavioural science is being used to stop brands taking advantage of consumer biases

noviembre 28, 2017

Power in the Age of the Feudal Internet

noviembre 26, 2017

Vassal-cities: What city Halls are offering to Amazon

noviembre 25, 2017

The algorithms Facebook and other tech companies use to boost engagement – and increase profits – have led to spectacular failures of sensitivity and worse. How can we fight back?

noviembre 24, 2017

Bittersweet Mysteries of Machine Learning (A Provocation)

noviembre 22, 2017

EU's General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia

noviembre 22, 2017

Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself? - NYTimes.com

noviembre 22, 2017

Facebook Still Lets People Target Ads by Race and Ethnicity

noviembre 20, 2017

John Naughton: "How a half-educated tech elite delivered us into chaos. If our supersmart tech leaders knew a bit more about history or philosophy we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now"

noviembre 17, 2017

Anyone who wants to pay for access to addicted users can work with Facebook and YouTube.

noviembre 17, 2017

The tech industry can’t hide from the information war, particularly when its own creations are being weaponized.

noviembre 14, 2017

It’s Time to Tax Companies for Using Our Personal Data

noviembre 10, 2017

Sean Parker, former president of Facebook: Facebook was designed to exploit human "vulnerability"

noviembre 10, 2017

The Fragmented Surveillance State. Forget Big Brother surveillance. We have thousands of little brothers and sisters.

noviembre 10, 2017

Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota): "How did big tech come to control so many aspects of our lives?"

noviembre 08, 2017

Something is wrong on the internet. On the role of Google's YouTube in kids traumatizing

noviembre 08, 2017

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

noviembre 05, 2017

Why we need to regulate the tech platforms. Companies should be made to open up the black box of their algorithms. RANA FOROOHAR @ Financial Times

noviembre 05, 2017

Video: "Towards High-Tech Feudalism: How the Digital Economy Enslaves Us" Evgeny Morozov

noviembre 04, 2017

The world is no longer dominated by nation-states alone. We have moved into a non-state, net-state era.

noviembre 04, 2017

How Google and Amazon are hooking kids from an early age

octubre 30, 2017

Twitter’s Ban on Russia Today Ads is Dangerous to Free Expression

octubre 29, 2017

Google’s Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad

octubre 29, 2017

Joichi Ito: Resisting Reduction. Designing our Complex Future with Machines

octubre 29, 2017

Zeynep Tufekci: "We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads"

octubre 28, 2017

Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens

octubre 28, 2017

How the powerful might use AI to control us and what we can do in response.

octubre 28, 2017

CALLS FOR GLOBAL WAR AGAINST AI SYSTEMS The global elite want to replace humans with artificial intelligence

octubre 23, 2017

The algorithm behind Facebook’s News Feed, a “modular layered cake,” extracts meaning from every post and photo

octubre 23, 2017

Google’s plan to revolutionise cities is a takeover in all but name

octubre 19, 2017

Court could force tech companies to hand over information stored outside the US

octubre 18, 2017

Facebook and Google Helped Anti-Refugee Campaign in Swing States

octubre 13, 2017

NYT: Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend. We are beginning to understand that tech companies don’t have our best interests at heart. Did they ever?

octubre 07, 2017

Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

octubre 05, 2017

OK Google, Get Out of My Face

octubre 04, 2017

A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump's victory

septiembre 29, 2017

How to use Signal without giving out your phone number

septiembre 24, 2017

Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature

septiembre 24, 2017

Internet giants, once above the fray, on the defensive in Washington

septiembre 22, 2017

Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages

septiembre 22, 2017

WHY BIG TECH IS CLASHING WITH INTERNET FREEDOM ADVOCATES

septiembre 20, 2017

Lawrence Lessig: Here's how social media hurts democracy

septiembre 20, 2017

Facebook’s war on free will

septiembre 17, 2017

The People’s Disruption: Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges

septiembre 16, 2017

Face-reading AI will be able to detect your politics and IQ, professor says

septiembre 15, 2017

The tech industry is dominated by 5 big companies — here’s how each makes its money

septiembre 09, 2017

Decentralized web advocates have good intentions, but there’s no silver-bullet technical solution for the challenges that lie ahead.

agosto 29, 2017

We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why

agosto 20, 2017

Make algorithms accountable

agosto 16, 2017

The next wave of computing is going to be a massive shift away from cloud computing

agosto 06, 2017

The Financial World Wants to Open AI’s Black Boxes

Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook may be contributing to the U.S. economy’s most persistent ailments.

HATDeX: exchange data with privacy and security by implementing global operating standards for personal data exchange

Will Amazon Take Over the World?

The Big 5 began to organize more and more programming contests. Then, suddenly, they stopped hiring programmers.

The Data Science Delusion

AI and ‘Enormous Data’ Could Make Tech Giants Like Google Harder to Topple

Biased Algorithms Are Everywhere, and No One Seems to Care

Facebook's Problem? In the Minds of Some, It Has 'All the Data'

Internet, Activate! Stand Up for Net Neutrality on July 12 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Uberization of Academia

To tackle Google’s power, regulators have to go after its ownership of data

5 digital BigCo are the biggest ever. But the productivity revolution we hoped digitization would usher in has yet to materialize.

Machine Bias

Inspecting Algorithms for Bias

Google Loses Supreme Court of Canada Case Over Search Results

OSDI 16 Security track: papers about untrusted computation, infrastructure

How a Legal Loophole Lets Facebook Launder Your Data Through Middlemen and Profit Off the Surveillance State

AI could eliminate countless jobs, and perhaps reshape global politics in the process

Cryptographically protected database search

Google's research chief questions value of 'Explainable AI'

Amazon Is Trying to Control the Underlying Infrastructure of Our Economy

The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence

What Does Your Smart Meter Know About You?

A $2 Million Prize to Decentralize the Web. Apply Today - The Mozilla Blog

The Guardian: "Google farms us for the data that our digital lives exude".

It's Time to Break-up Amazon

CORPORATE SURVEILLANCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Can Technology Rescue Democracy

WSJ: The tentacles of a handful of tech giants are reaching into industries no one ever expected them to

Why your encrypted database is not secure

Making Google, Facebook the Censors is Dangerous

Siete de cada 10 aplicaciones para móviles comparten sus datos con otros proveedores

When safety and security become one

Philip Greenspun: Why aren’t Apple, Google and Facebook enriching our lives?

President of Germany’s antitrust agency said he was “deeply convinced privacy is a competition issue.”

Why TensorFlow is Free – And What You Can Do About It – Pseudo-profound samples

Detection of IMSI-catcher use across a city

Secret Algorithms Threaten the Rule of Law

Intel's Core i9 has an RFID or NFC chip with an unknown purpose

7 in 10 smartphone apps share your data with third-party services

Here’s How To Track The Smartphone Apps That Are Tracking You

Mosaic: processing a trillion-edge graph on a single machine

A brief introduction to “Computing Over Encrypted Data”

Selected papers on Anonimity

Chaffinch: Confidentiality in the Face of Legal Threats

The Human Fabric of the Facebook Pyramid

Decentralized Computing on Ethereum Smart - Contracts is Gaining Momentum

The Academic Surveillance Complex

Paper: Sieve: Cryptographically Enforced Access Control for User Data in Untrusted Clouds

Google Now Tracks Your Credit Card Purchases and Connects Them to Its Online Profile of You

Bitter, accurate description of how the thing we call tech industry is being patched up

Data populists must seize our information – for the benefit of us all

Amazon is eating the software that is eating the world

What kind of data do they have about you and what do they use it for

Protecting Your Digital Life in 9 Easy Steps

DIGITAL SECURITY TIPS FOR PROTESTERS

EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense

UK Joins Russia And China In Legalizing Bulk Surveillance

Public sector is outsourcing more responsibilities to the tech industries

Proposal: self-regulation of tech industry through algorithmic accountability

Jeeves Programming Language

Researchers are building a new Tor that can resist next-generation state surveillance

Interesting issue of AAAS' Daedalus flagship magazine dedicated to the Internet

Smallest Federated Wiki

The Small Data Lab @CornellTech

Research project: TRVE Data: Placing a bit less trust in the cloud