Algorithms Let’s Stop Treating Algorithms Like They’re All Created Equalmit.edu - By: Martin Erwig A recent poll found that most Americans think algorithms are unfair. Unfortunately, the poll was itself biased and an example of the very phenomenon …
The Brain A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been DebunkedThe Atlantic - Bahar GholipourFor decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake. The death of free will began with thousands of finger taps. In 1964,
Surveillance How we change our behavior when we know we're being watchedAxios - Alison Snyder The point of surveillance is to track and influence people's behavior — in the political sphere, at school, in the subway or in the workplace. Just …
Margrethe Vestager Vestager Calls Tech Firms Robot Vacuum Cleaners Sucking Up DataBloomberg - Aoife White Technology firms are “robot vacuum cleaners” sucking up valuable data in a way that can undermine competition, European Union antitrust chief …
Privacy House Antitrust Panel Sets Hearing on Privacy and CompetitionBloomberg - Ben Brody The House panel probing Big Tech over antitrust concerns will hold a hearing Sept. 12 on the impact of data and privacy on competition in the digital …
Technology Facebook, Google face off against a formidable new foe: State attorneys generalThe Washington Post - By Tony RommThe nation’s state attorneys general have tangled with mortgage lenders, tobacco giants and the makers of addictive drugs. Now, they’re setting their sights on another target: Big Tech. Following years
Mobile Technology Senate demands answers from Amazon over Ring surveillanceEngadget - Steve DentRing's camera networks could become "dangerous burdens on people of color." Ring's controversial "Neighbors" surveillance network and cozy relationship with police departments has drawn the eye US lawmakers.
Mobile Technology Why phones that secretly listen to us are a mythBBC News - Joe TidyA mobile security company has carried out a research investigation to address the popular conspiracy theory that tech giants are listening to conversations. The internet is awash with posts and videos
Google Google Has My Dead Grandpa’s Data And He Never Used The InternetForbes - Joe ToscanoOver the past couple months I've been held up on a regular basis by the fact that Chrome has been overriding my LastPass credential window with their own despite the fact that I've never given Chrome to
News (China) App attempts a rare trick in China: online privacyReuters - Huizhong WuBEIJING (Reuters) - In a country where privacy protections are considered weak and anything-goes data collection has become the norm, Chinese tech entrepreneur Yang Geng stands out. LeakZero, a Chinese
Business How Our Brains Decide When to TrustHarvard Business ReviewTrust is the enabler of global business — without it, most market transactions would be impossible. It is also a hallmark of high-performing organizations. Employees in high-trust companies are more productive,
The Trust CrisisHarvard Business ReviewBusinesses put an awful lot of effort into meeting the diverse needs of their stakeholders — customers, investors, employees, and society at large. But they’re not paying enough attention to one ingredient
Leading with TrustHarvard Business ReviewCompanies invest CEOs with the singular authority to address high-stakes challenges and make tough decisions. However, to a large extent their power rests on the willingness of the business’s stakeholders
Millennials Busting the Millennial Privacy Mythrealclearpolicy.com - Rick Boucher There is a widely held myth that people who grew up in a digital world aren’t concerned about online privacy. It seems to have become conventional …
Mobile Technology Exclusive: The ad industry offers an answer to online privacy problemsCNET - by Stephen Shankland Exclusive: An IAB Tech Lab proposal seeks to modernize online tracking, including a better way for you to tell advertisers to get lost.
Google Google Accused of Selling Users’ Personal Data to Ad CompaniesThe Daily Beast - Summer Eldemire An Irish data regulator is investigating whether Google secretly uses hidden web pages to track and feed its users’ personal data to advertisers, the …
Facebook Facebook confirms 419m phone numbers exposed in latest privacy lapseThe Guardian - Julia Carrie WongHundreds of millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers were exposed in an open online database, the company confirmed Wednesday, in the latest example of Facebook’s past privacy lapses coming back to haunt
Technology Policy An artificial-intelligence first: Voice-mimicking software reportedly used in a major theftThe Washington Post - By Drew HarwellThieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive’s speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company’s insurer said, in
Artificial Intelligence Researchers Use Big Data And AI To Remove Legal ConfidentialityForbes - Simon Chandler"Legal confidentiality is a shield for citizens." These are the words of Shami Chakrabarti, the one-time director of the U.K.-based human rights group Liberty, speaking in 2018. Well, it seems that this
Google Maps How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told themmprnews.org The suspects in an Eden Prairie home invasion last October wore gloves, dressed in black, and covered their faces with masks. But despite their …
Facebook Facebook opens face recognition tech to all users with opt-out optionVentureBeat - Reuters(Reuters) — Facebook is opening up its face recognition technology to all users with an option to opt out, the social media company said on Tuesday, as it discontinued a related feature called “Tag Suggestions.”
YouTube Kids Google to Pay $170 Million for YouTube Child Privacy BreachesBloomberg - Ben Brody Google’s YouTube agreed on Wednesday to pay a $170 million fine and limit ads on kids’ videos to settle claims that the company violated children’s …
Privacy Apple still has work to do on privacyTechCrunch - Natasha LomasThere’s no doubt that Apple’s self-polished reputation for privacy and security has taken a bit of a battering recently. On the security front, Google researchers just disclosed a major flaw in the iPhone,
Google Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandboxeff.org - Bennett Cyphers Last week, Google announced a plan to “build a more private web.” The announcement post was, frankly, a mess. The company that tracks user behavior …
Facebook WiFi, Geo Location & Facebook Advertisingom.co Yesterday, I blogged about Facebook’s desire to manage our WiFi connections and alluded to the need to access our location data for better …
Advertising Industry WTF is device fingerprinting?Digiday - Tim Peterson The cookie is the best-known method for identifying and tracking people online. But it’s not the only one. For years, device fingerprinting has gone …
Twitter Hackers Tweeted Racial Slurs From Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Accountbuzzfeednews.com - Nicole Nguyen and Ryan Mac and Jane Lytvynenko Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was compromised on Friday afternoon and tweeted the n-word and anti-Semitic remarks. A source confirmed he had his …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAddiction Social media stress can lead to social media addictionsciencedaily.com - Lancaster University Social network users risk becoming more and more addicted to social media platforms even as they experience stress from their use. Research into the …
Windows 10 Microsoft’s lead EU data watchdog is looking into fresh Windows 10 privacy concernsTechCrunch - Natasha LomasThe Dutch data protection agency has asked Microsoft’s lead privacy regulator in Europe to investigate ongoing concerns it has attached to how Windows 10 gathers user data. Back in 2017 the privacy watchdog
Apps Google Play app with 100 million downloads executed secret payloadsArs Technica - Dan Goodin The sad, impractical truth about Android app security in 2019. The perils of Google Play are once again on display with the discovery of an app with …
