The New York Times
House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’
6 min · · In a report led by Democrats, lawmakers said Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook needed to be checked and recommended reforming antitrust laws. · Shared by 63, including John Tasioulas, Katie Benner, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Lily Ray 😏, Shoshana Zuboff, Scott Galloway, Antonio Vieira Santos
VICE
Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook
2 min · · The change comes after Motherboard found the Zoom iOS app was sending analytics information to Facebook when users opened the app. · Shared by 121, including Bruce Lawson, Thomas Power, CyberCodeTwins, Stephanie A Kowalski, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Andreas Von Gunten, DHH, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Metropolis, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Peter Steinberger, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, SwiftOnSecurity, René Clausen Nielsen, Lucy Kueng, Mark Little, Xavier Bertschy, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Oliver Ewinger
The Intercept
Zoom Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing
7 min · · The video conferencing service can access conversations on its platform. · Shared by 358, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Matthias Lampe, Fern, Thomas Power, Oliver Raduner, Aamir Raz, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, DHH, Jeff Atwood, platzh1rsch, Thomas Fuchs , Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Undark Magazine, Niklaus Gerber, Laura E. Davis
EFF
Announcing Who Has Your Face
5 min · · 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… · Shared by 15, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
ZDNET
COVID-19: With everyone working from home, VPN security has now become paramount
5 min · · 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. · Shared by 65, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Thomas Power, Pam Didner, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Tris Hussey, Kelly Hungerford
WIRED
How Surveillance Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis
4 min · · Smartphones could be a powerful weapon against the novel coronavirus. But tracking people's movements would offend many Americans' sense of privacy. · Shared by 70, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Backchannel, Mathew Ingram, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Christopher Mims 🤌, Evan Selinger
maldita.es
Alternativas digitales para tu día a día - Maldita — Periodismo para que no te la cuelen
12+ min · · ¿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. · Shared by 5, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
EL PAÍS
Hay gobiernos que quieren desconectar a sus ciudadanos de Internet. Y alguno ya tiene su botón rojo
10 min · · 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 · Shared by 4, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
The Atlantic
A World Without Privacy Will Revive the Masquerade
10 min · · As the growing scale of facial recognition shows, more data can always be extracted. · Shared by 92, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Neeraj K Agrawal, Carla Gentry 🎶, Joshua Walker, Faik Ersoy, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Susannah Fox, Mark Kaigwa, Evan Selinger
Harvard Business Review
The Era of Antisocial Social Media
7 min · · Young people’s behaviors are changing. How will businesses adapt? · Shared by 230, including Anthony Hamelle, davidabrock, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Konrad Weber, Lluís Codina, Esther Schindler, Matt Navarra, Stephanie A Kowalski, Ines Bieler, 💥 Katie Martell, Josep M. Ganyet, Grammar Girl is also @grammargirl@zirk.us, Gabriele, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Marsha Collier, Charles Duhigg, Johannes Lenz, Sprout Social, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa
EL PAÍS
Holanda veta un algoritmo acusado de estigmatizar a los más desfavorecidos
3 min · · El Gobierno usaba el programa SyRI para determinar que ciudadanos son supuestamente más proclives a defraudar al Estado · Shared by 9, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
The New York Times
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
15+ min · · 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. · Shared by 590, including Sebastian Raschka, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Alec Couros, DHH, Carl Zimmer, Brian Solis, Chris Messina, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, kate wagner (rilke era), Alexia Bonatsos, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Klaus Eck, Benedict Evans, Troy Hunt, Antonio Vieira Santos, Marsha Collier
WIRED
AI Is Biased. Here's How Scientists Are Trying to Fix It
2 min · · Researchers are revising the ImageNet data set. But algorithmic anti-bias training is harder than it seems. · Shared by 119, including Josep M. Ganyet, Faik Ersoy, Yves Mulkers, Ines Bieler, Martin Ford, Marc Gasser, Eric Topol, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Ronald van Loon, Rick King, Florian Graillot, Desmond Williams, LARRY ELKAN, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Backchannel
MIT Technology Review
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people
7 min · · As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too. · Shared by 211, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Casie Gillette, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Mike Butcher, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Remo Uherek, Brad Brooks, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, Neeraj K Agrawal, Anthony Hamelle, Brian Roemmele, Mars Rebello, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Hugo Amsellem, Chris Gledhill
MIT Technology Review
Emotion recognition technology should be banned, says an AI research institute
1 min · · 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… · Shared by 39, including Larry Balaclava, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Martin Kägi, Howard Getson, Vikram Dutt, Jeremiah Owyang, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Faik Ersoy, Gengo 🦁
WIRED
Facebook Removes Accounts With AI-Generated Profile Photos
2 min · · Researchers said it appears to be the first use of artificial intelligence to support an inauthentic social media campaign. · Shared by 49, including Joan Lockwood, Elinor Stutz, Mari Smith, Bob E. Hayes, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Antonio Vieira Santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Backchannel