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

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

Fair and Balanced? Thoughts on Bias in Probabilistic Modeling

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

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

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

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Uber Used CIA-Trained Staff to Spy on Rivals

INSIDE CHINA'S VAST NEW EXPERIMENT IN SOCIAL RANKING

SECRECY IS DEAD. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

How killing net neutrality will hurt online protests and free speech

From territorial to functional sovereignty: The case of Amazon

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

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

Fairness in Machine Learning NIPS 2017 Tutorial — Part I

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.

GHOSTERY DEPLOYS AI IN THE FIGHT AGAINST AD TRACKERS

When Our Thoughts Are No Longer Our Own

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