The New York Times
House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’
6 min read · 2020-10-06 · In a report led by Democrats, lawmakers said Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook needed to be checked and recommended reforming antitrust laws.
VICE
Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook
2 min read · 2020-03-27 · The change comes after Motherboard found the Zoom iOS app was sending analytics information to Facebook when users opened the app.
The Intercept
Zoom Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing
7 min read · 2020-03-31 · The video conferencing service can access conversations on its platform.
EFF
Announcing Who Has Your Face
5 min read · 2020-03-19 · The government and law enforcement should not be scanning your photos with face recognition technology. But at least half of Americans are likely in government face recognition databases. Who Has Your…
ZDNet
COVID-19: With everyone working from home, VPN security has now become paramount
5 min read · 2020-03-18 · DHS, SANS, NJCCIC, and Radware warn companies about securing enterprise VPN servers in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak and when a vast majority of employees are working from home.
WIRED
How Surveillance Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis
4 min read · 2020-03-21 · Smartphones could be a powerful weapon against the novel coronavirus. But tracking people's movements would offend many Americans' sense of privacy.
maldita.es
Alternativas digitales para tu día a día - Maldita — Periodismo para que no te la cuelen
~12 min read · 2020-02-24 · ¿Por qué necesitamos alternativas a muchas de las apps y de los servicios que utilizamos todos los días? En Maldita Tecnolgía te lo contamos en este repositorio de servicios digitales.
EL PAÍS
Hay gobiernos que quieren desconectar a sus ciudadanos de Internet. Y alguno ya tiene su botón rojo
10 min read · 2020-02-23 · La Red está dejando de ser global. China, Rusia e Irán, entre otros, vallan sus infraestructuras digitales para vigilar y censurar a sus ciudadanos. Bienvenidos a la ‘balcanización’ de Internet
The Atlantic
A World Without Privacy Will Revive the Masquerade
10 min read · 2020-02-08 · As the growing scale of facial recognition shows, more data can always be extracted.
Harvard Business Review
The Era of Antisocial Social Media
7 min read · 2020-02-05 · Young people’s behaviors are changing. How will businesses adapt?
EL PAÍS
Holanda veta un algoritmo acusado de estigmatizar a los más desfavorecidos
3 min read · 2020-02-13 · El Gobierno usaba el programa SyRI para determinar que ciudadanos son supuestamente más proclives a defraudar al Estado
The New York Times
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
~15 min read · From 2020 · A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.
WIRED
AI Is Biased. Here's How Scientists Are Trying to Fix It
2 min read · From 2019 · Researchers are revising the ImageNet data set. But algorithmic anti-bias training is harder than it seems.
MIT Technology Review
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people
7 min read · From 2019 · As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too.
MIT Technology Review
Emotion recognition technology should be banned, says an AI research institute
1 min read · From 2019 · There’s little scientific basis to emotion recognition technology, so it should be banned from use in decisions that affect people’s lives, says research institute AI Now in its annual report.A…
WIRED
Facebook Removes Accounts With AI-Generated Profile Photos
2 min read · From 2019 · Researchers said it appears to be the first use of artificial intelligence to support an inauthentic social media campaign.
