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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"