The New York Times
Game: Can You Defeat the Privacy Chicken?
· It’s easy to win. Just give up all your personal information. Or are you chicken? · Shared by 20, including Josep M. Ganyet, luis antónio santos
twitter.com
Adrianne Jeffries on Twitter
6 min · · “Amazon appears to be tracking every tap on Kindle. I just got my data back and there are 90K rows of this” · Shared by 7, including Josep M. Ganyet
Forbes
China – The First Artificial Intelligence Superpower
5 min · · China combines a gigantic amount of data with talent, companies, research and capital to build the world's leading AI ecosystem. · Shared by 228, including Oliver Ewinger, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Josep M. Ganyet, Thomas Telandro, Yves Mulkers, Bob E. Hayes, Howard Getson, Mark Kaigwa, Matthias Lampe, Oleg Baskov, Nige Roberts-Willson, Iain Brown, PhD, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Barney Loehnis, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan
Engadget
Your online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’
6 min · · Airbnb is using AI and social 'credit scores' to vet its users... in an Orwellian fashion. · Shared by 292, including Desmond Williams, Thomas Pleil, Liliane Ferrari ™, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Thomas Power, Michael Seemann, George M 🇪🇺, Peter Steinberger, Brooks Rainwater, Jonathan Kogan, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Matthias Lampe, Chris Gledhill, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Melissa Fach 🇺🇦, fantastic ms., Josep M. Ganyet, henrik, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The New York Times
Banning Facial Recognition Isn’t Enough
5 min · · The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that. · Shared by 85, including DHH, Shubhankar Adhikari, Stanford NLP Group, Evan Selinger, Florian Hanke 🍎, Beni Buess, luis antónio santos, Josep M. Ganyet, Fern, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Neeraj K Agrawal, Nige Roberts-Willson, Luca Like, Gengo 🦁, Scott McLeod, Paola Antonelli, Adrienne Fichter, DonDahlmann
The New York Times
It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.
7 min · · ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race. · Shared by 162, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Michael S. Schmidt, Adam Singer, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Azeem Azhar, J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்), Aral Balkan, Marc R Gagné MAPP, John Keefe, Peter Steinberger, Michael (मुकेश), Bilal Zuberi, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Josh Wolfe, The Indian Express, Carla Gentry 🎶, Mathew Ingram, Liliane Ferrari ™, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, SwiftOnSecurity
La Vanguardia
La censura está rompiendo Internet
5 min · · El 56 por ciento de las personas con acceso a Internet viven en países donde los contenidos políticos, sociales o religiosos fueron bloqueados en algún momento. Así se pone de manifiesto el informe... · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
diariARA
Els SMS no són la solució per a les emergències
4 min · · El sistema d'alertes Cell Broadcast és molt més fiable que els missatges de text convencionals · Shared by 6, including Josep M. Ganyet
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
newleftreview.org
Evgeny Morozov, Digital Socialism?, NLR 116/117, March–June 2019
· What opportunities does the new feedback infrastructure of data capitalism offer for non-market forms of social coordination? Hayek and the Calculation Debate revisited in the age of big data. · Shared by 25, including Josep M. Ganyet, Thomas Pleil
La Vanguardia
Barcelona, capital global de la tecnoética: ahora o nunca
4 min · · El uso perverso de los algoritmos es uno de los potenciales riesgos de la tecnología que conviene monitorizar (Pixabay) La vicepresidencia concedida por Pedro Sánchez a Nadia Calviño es una buena… · Shared by 8, including Josep M. Ganyet
The Guardian
Dark Territory review – how WarGames and Reagan shaped US cyberwar battle
4 min · · Slate columnist Fred Kaplan’s new book details – exhaustingly as well as exhaustively – the alarms and innovations that made mass surveillance · Shared by 10, including Josep M. Ganyet
medium.com
Case study: Uber’s ‘God View’
3 min · · Limiting access to personal data by employees · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
action.privacyinternational.org
Las personas no deberían tener que sacrificar su privacidad y seguridad a cambio de acceder a un teléfono inteligente.
· **¿Crees que alguien que compra un teléfono inteligente barato merece menos privacidad que alguien que tiene la capacidad de comprar el último iPhone? ¿No? Entonces ayúdanos a presionar a Google para… · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
The Guardian
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
4 min · · Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents · Shared by 341, including Carl Zimmer, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Scott Galloway, A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR, Joy Harjo, Axel Rauschmayer (INACTIVE), Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Shoshana Zuboff, Guy Kawasaki, Susan Krauss Whitbourne PhD, ABPP, Pippa Malmgren, Gregg Caruso, Chris Isak, Carla Gentry 🎶, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, John Battelle, Steve Silberman, Chris Messina, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei
Gizmodo
Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network
12+ min · · As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to light, the home security company, acquired last year by Amazon for a whopping $1 billion, strove to… · Shared by 103, including Thomas Pleil, Katja Evertz, Matthias Lampe, Faik Ersoy, Paul Kedrosky, Thomas Power, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Josep M. Ganyet, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Desmond Williams