The New York Times
House Lawmakers Condemn Big Tech’s ‘Monopoly Power’
6 min read · · 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 (is offline), Lily Ray 😏, Shoshana Zuboff, Scott Galloway, Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live
VICE
Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook
2 min read · · 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 the $B2B Techfluencer, Amy Wells, 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 read · · The video conferencing service can access conversations on its platform. · Shared by 351, 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 ⎷ Official ⎷ Final ⎷ Final2 ⎷ V2.1, 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 read · · 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 read · · 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 the $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 read · · 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 the $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 read · · ¿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 read · · 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 read · · 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, Faik Ersoy, Joshua Walker, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mark Kaigwa, Susannah Fox, Evan Selinger
Harvard Business Review
The Era of Antisocial Social Media
7 min read · · Young people’s behaviors are changing. How will businesses adapt? · Shared by 229, including Anthony Hamelle, davidabrock, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Konrad Weber, Lluís Codina, Esther Schindler, Matt Navarra, Stephanie A Kowalski, Ines Bieler, 💥 Katie Martell, @ganyet@mastodon.social, Grammar Girl is also @grammargirl@mastodon.social, Gabriele, Evan Kirstel the $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 read · · 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 read · · 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 529, including Alexia Bonatsos, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, DHH, Carl Zimmer, Brian Solis, Sebastian Raschka 📚, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, kate wagner, Dr. Alec Couros, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Klaus Eck, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Benedict Evans, Troy Hunt, Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live, Marsha Collier
WIRED
AI Is Biased. Here's How Scientists Are Trying to Fix It
2 min read · · Researchers are revising the ImageNet data set. But algorithmic anti-bias training is harder than it seems. · Shared by 119, including @ganyet@mastodon.social, 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 the $B2B Techfluencer, Backchannel
MIT Technology Review
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people
7 min read · · As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too. · Shared by 210, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Casie Gillette, Kelsey D. Atherton, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Remo Uherek, Brad Brooks, Mark Kaigwa, Rick Powell, Brian Roemmele, Anthony Hamelle, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Mars Rebello, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Hugo Amsellem, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth
MIT Technology Review
Emotion recognition technology should be banned, says an AI research institute
1 min read · · 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 read · · 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 - #SPS_Live, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Backchannel
