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Resisting digital colonialism

Google and Facebook Likely to Benefit From Europe’s Privacy Crackdown Big tech companies gain while smaller online ad firms are squeezed under the European Union’s GDPR, which takes effect in May.

There will be little privacy in the workplace of the future

RAND report: The Risks of Bias and Errors in Artificial Intelligence

Your Next Job Interview Could Be with a Racist Bot

The Internet Apologizes... Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong — from the architects who built it. Jaron Lanier, Richard M. Stallman,...

Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer

Facebook knows a ton about your health. Now they want to make money off it.

To work for society, data scientists need a hippocratic oath with teeth Data scientists need to understand the weight of their influence and the limitations of their wisdom, says Cathy O'Neil. The Weapons of Math Destruction author lays out her plan for an effective system

A study finds thousands of apps targeted to children were sending data to advertisers, some including GPS location

Jaron Lanier: "We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them,"

PREVENTING BIG DATA DISCRIMINATION IN CANADA: ADDRESSING DESIGN, CONSENT AND SOVEREIGNTY CHALLENGES

ALGORITHMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENTS: A PRACTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC AGENCY ACCOUNTABILITY

YouTube illegally collects data on children, say child protection groups Complaint filed with US watchdog urges sanctions for Google allegedly failing to comply with child protection laws around data collection and ads

The New York Times publishes details of how autonomous cars are being allowed to be tested with real people on real roads, with mixed results, including deaths.

Welcome to your 8-day data detox! In just half an hour or less per day, you'll be well on your way to a healthier and more in-control digital self. What are you waiting for?

Computer science faces an ethics crisis

How Facebook exploited us all

YouTube, the Great Radicalizer

Self-driven 4-wheel robots are already causing deaths. It's not possible make them safe for all. Thus, they will have to be explicitly programmed to choose who to kill in case total safety is not a choice. Who will choose the victims? Who will be liable?

Toyota, NuTonomy halt self-driving programs as Uber fatality ripples across autonomous car landscape

Facebook in EU data dilemma

People Are Downloading Their Facebook Data And Are Horrified By What They’re Finding

You've heard before "If you're not paying, you are the product". But, what kind of product are you? This thread dissects the product you are for Google

Google lobbies hard to derail new US privacy laws – using dodgy stats Expect to hear a lot about censorship and criminals in the next few months

Correlation found by machine learning used as causation in an increasing number of "advanced" AI applications that implement nothing else than biased judgements camouflaged as aseptic technologically objective decisions.

Mr. Zuckerberg, Here’s How You Should Be Regulated

Stingrays used by UK police

EU competition chief holds threat of breaking up Google

Mozilla launches Facebook Container Extension for Firefox that isolates your digital identity, preventing Facebook from tracking your activity on other sites (The Firefox Frontier)

Uber Disabled Volvo SUV's Safety System Before Fatality

It’s time for a digital protection agency

Evgeny Morozov: "No podemos ser tecnócratas con Facebook o Google, la propiedad de nuestros datos es un problema político"

France president presents strategy for AI. Cédric Villani, mathematician and member of the French parliament, has published a report for a meaningful strategy on AI for France and Europe

What to Look for in Your Facebook Data—and How to Find It

Emmanuel Macron Talks to WIRED About France's AI Strategy

A Rubicon, by Daniel E. Geer, is packed with analysis of the risks of algorithmization & advice about what should be done before society looses freedom and control of its fate.

UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar

A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe Richard Stallman

Nearly 100 Public Interest Organizations Urge Council of Europe to Ensure High Transparency Standards for Cybercrime Negotiations

'Being cash-free puts us at risk of attack': Swedes turn against cashlessness Sweden’s central bank governor has called for public control over its payment system. Others say a fully digital system is vulnerable to fraud and attack

Algorithms have become so powerful we need a robust, Europe-wide response

Facebook: Actually, looks like Cambridge Analytica got 87 Million user records

Facebook: ‘Malicious actors’ used its tools to discover identities and collect data on a massive global scale

French Universities Cancel Subscriptions to Springer Journals Negotiations between the publisher and a national consortium of academic institutions have reached a stalemate.

The Next Cold War Is Here, and It's All About Data

DTL TOOLS DTL supports different tools intended to shed light on how personal data is used by websites and applications.

Facebook Sent "Top Secret" Doctor To Hospitals For Patient Data Collection Scheme

Así fluctúa el precio de tus datos personales en la bolsa de Facebook

The Political Backlash Against Tech: Good, Bad and Ugly Recent standoffs with Washington rankle Silicon Valley, but regulation isn’t necessarily an enemy of progress

Facebook had plans to break into medical data sharing

Facebook's surveillance is nothing compared with Comcast, AT&T and Verizon.

“We Had To Stop Facebook”: When Anti-Muslim Violence Goes Viral Extremists in Sri Lanka used Facebook to organize deadly violence against Muslims. Facebook is accused of not doing enough to prevent it.

Facebook is unfixable. We need a nonprofit, public-spirited replacement.

The Economist: "America should borrow from Europe’s data-privacy law. The GDPR’s premise, that consumers should be in charge of their own personal data, is the right one"

'Dehumanising, impenetrable, frustrating': the grim reality of job hunting in the age of AI

febrero 27, 2018

Toward ethical, transparent and fair AI/ML: a critical reading list

febrero 25, 2018

How Trump Conquered Facebook Without Russian Ads

febrero 20, 2018

The Car of the Future Will Sell Your Data

febrero 15, 2018

Facebook Use of Sensitive Data for Advertising in Europe

febrero 13, 2018

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febrero 13, 2018

How 6 companies responded when challenged on their readiness for EU-wide regulation

febrero 13, 2018

Universities Rush to Roll Out Computer Science Ethics Courses

febrero 11, 2018

"Four companies dominate our daily lives unlike any other in human history: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. We love our nifty phones and just-a-click-away services, but these behemoths enjoy unfettered economic domination and hoard riches on a scale not seen since the monopolies of the gilded age. The only logical conclusion? We must bust up big tech."

febrero 09, 2018

Fighting the unregulated industry of ad delivery through mobiles

febrero 08, 2018

Outlets in Eight Countries Are Using Our Tool to Monitor Political Ads on Facebook

febrero 05, 2018

Our society is being hijacked by technology. What began as a race to monetize our attention is now eroding the pillars of our society: mental health, democracy, social relationships, and our children.

febrero 04, 2018

Foundation created to study and stop what tech industry is doing to children. “The largest supercomputers in the world are inside of two companies — Google and Facebook — and where are we pointing them?” Mr. Harris said. “We’re pointing them at people’s brains, at children.”

febrero 04, 2018

GREEDY, BRITTLE, OPAQUE, AND SHALLOW: THE DOWNSIDES TO DEEP LEARNING

febrero 04, 2018

The tech industry owes part of its continued success to its ability to contain labour through strategic stratification.

In a new book, political scientist Virginia Eubanks says using computers to decide who gets social services hurts the poor

New Korean law limits what telecoms can install in smartphones

Feudal protection: Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has launched a new cybersecurity firm called Chronicle, which is spinning out from its X research lab. Amazon has just acquired Sqrrl, a security startup launched by ex-NSA staffers, and reportedly wants to offer more security services to customers of its AWS cloud.

Kids are exposed to 1 to 2 million trackers per year, which are collecting some 5 million data points: location, website visited, device identifier, etc., rising to 12 million per year once they are 12 years old.

Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance What happens when digital eyes get the brains to match?

The average American spends 24 hours a week online

Corporate giants have created an entirely new surveillance capitalism. And we're too hooked to care

7 scandalous things tech companies like Facebook, Apple, and Amazon have done that sound made up — but are actually true

The Economist: How to tame the tech titans The dominance of Google, Facebook and Amazon is bad for consumers and competition

Zeynep Tufekci: IT'S THE (DEMOCRACY-POISONING) GOLDEN AGE OF FREE SPEECH

Monologue of the Algorithm: how Facebook turns users data into its profit.

Ad-tech firm Criteo likely to cut its 2018 revenue by more than a fifth after Apple blocked ‘pervasive’ tracking on web browser Safari

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

All the Ways Your Smartphone and Its Apps Can Track You

Former Google and Facebook executives are sounding the alarm about the pervasive power of tech.