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Facebook bans 7 'surveillance-for-hire' companies that spied on 50,000 users5 min read · 2021-12-16 · The parent company of Facebook and Instagram says the firms used its platforms to spy on human rights activists, government critics, celebrities and journalists in more than 100 countries.
The Intercept
Startup Pitched Tasing Migrants From Drones, Video Reveals8 min read · 2021-12-13 · Well-funded Brinc positions its use of robots as nonviolent, but an early promo video undercuts this message.
justice
society
robotics
MIT Technology Review
How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs7 min read · 2021-05-06 · In March 2017, a group of hackers from China arrived in Vancouver with one goal: Find hidden weak spots inside the world’s most popular technologies. Google’s Chrome browser, Microsoft’s Windows…
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A remote attacker could take over any iPhone that visited a web page containing Qixun’s malicious code. It’s the kind of hack that can potentially be sold for millions of dollars on the open market to give criminals or governments the ability to spy on large numbers of people.
The Guardian
For truly ethical AI, its research must be independent from big tech3 min read · 2021-12-06 · We must curb the power of Silicon Valley and protect those who speak up about the harms of AI
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artificial intelligence
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When people ask what regulations need to be in place to safeguard us from the unsafe uses of AI we’ve been seeing, I always start with labor protections and antitrust measures.
Rolling Stone
FBI Document Says the Feds Can Get Your WhatsApp Data — in Real Time7 min read · 2021-11-29 · A previously unreported FBI document obtained by Rolling Stone reveals that ‘private’ messaging apps WhatsApp and iMessage are deeply vulnerable to law enforcement searches
Guardian Tech
The dawn of tappigraphy: does your smartphone know how you feel before you do?8 min read · 2021-11-07 · Tech companies are seeking to analyse data on the way we tap, scroll, text and call to monitor our mental health
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First, much work is required to prove that meaningful medical information can be derived. Many of the published academic studies have been very small pilot studies.
EL PAÍS
Byung-Chul Han: “El móvil es un instrumento de dominación. Actúa como un rosario”8 min read · 2021-10-09 · El filósofo surcoreano, una de las estrellas del pensamiento actual, profundiza en su cruzada contra los ‘smartphones’. Estima que se han convertido en una herramienta de subyugación digital que crea…
albertcuesta.com
El gat i la rata (digitals) de l’1-O4 min read · 2021-10-01 · El divendres 29 al vespre, agents de la Guàrdia Civil es van presentar al Centre de Telecomunicacions i Tecnologies de la Informació (CTTI) de la Generalitat, al carrer Salvador Espriu de l’Hospita…
POLITICOEurope
Throw away your Chinese phones, Lithuania defense minister tells citizens1 min read · 2021-09-22 · ‘Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible,’ the country’s deputy defense minister said.
huffingtonpost.it
Luciano Floridi: "Apple punta al cuore della salute: la telemedicina" (di A. Sarno)5 min read · 2021-09-16 · Il filosofo: “È un’ecologia in cui tutto è Mela. I dati servono per farla girare”
MIT Technology Review
Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces2 min read · 2021-09-15 · To build the metaverse, Facebook needs us to get used to smart glasses.
virtual reality
The Economist
The promise of open-source intelligence4 min read · 2021-08-05 · It is a welcome threat to malefactors and governments with something to hide | Leaders
open source
digitalfuturesociety.com
Could we live without our data? With Colin Koopman6 min read · 2021-09-03 · Colin Koopman’s writings are focused on the politics and ethics of contemporary information technologies. Countering the widespread assumption that all the information technology we are immersed in…
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These precedents show us to have been swaddled in data for much longer than we commonly think.
edwardsnowden.substack.com
The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy7 min read · 2021-08-26 · “Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod.
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Now, however, that’s all set to change. Under the new design, your phone will now perform these searches on Apple’s behalf before your photos have even reached their iCloud servers, and—yada, yada, yada—if enough "forbidden content" is discovered, law-enforcement will be notified.
theengineroom.org
Dangerous Data: the role of data collection in genocides4 min read · From 2016 · One way of working out if the data you’re gathering is particularly sensitive is to do a thought experiment: what would happen if this data got into the hands of a malicious actor? Who would be keen to get their hands on it? What are the worst things that they could do with this data?

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