Links
Europe’s Copyright Rules Will Stifle Free Expression
Company faced historic staff backlash following revelation it paid out $90m to an executive accused of sexual misconduct
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your people.
Where the streets have no change: how buskers are surviving in cashless times | Music | The Guardian
Dropping coins in a hat is increasingly, well, old hat. Is it time street musicians turned to contactless card readers?
Cryptovaluta’s:
System dubbed ‘the capability’ processes Australians’ information whether they are crime suspects or not
Steganographically hiding secret messages in fake fingerprints
By Alex Warofka, Product Policy Manager We want Facebook to be a place where people can express themselves freely and safely around the world. As part of that commitment, we commissioned an independent human rights impact assessment on the role of our services in Myanmar and today we are publishing the findings. The assessment was […]
Een medewerkster van de politie Oost-Nederland wordt verdacht van ernstig plichtsverzuim en is buiten functie gesteld zolang het onderzoek naar haar loopt. De vrouw wordt ervan verdacht dat ze misbr
A ‘Magna Carta for the web’ will protect people’s rights online from threats such as fake news, prejudice and hate, says founder of the internet
Nergens is het zo druk in de klas als in Nederland. Voor veel docenten is dat – naast administratieve rompslomp en overvolle agenda’s – een grote bron van stress. Ik bleek daarop geen uitzondering.
A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.
From around 2009 to 2013, the U.S. intelligence community experienced crippling intelligence failures related to its secret internet-based communications system, a key means for remote messaging between CIA officers and their sources.
Dat belastingfraudeurs notoire museumbezoekers zijn is nieuw voor mij. Maar gisteren sleepte de Belastingdienst de stichting Museumkaart voor de rechter, omdat zij inzage weigerde in de museumbezoeken van één kaarthouder. De fiscus beweert dat die informatie nodig is om aan te kunnen tonen dat die persoon in Nederland woont. Vroeger kwam de inspectie tandenborstels tellen op je wastafel. Nu aast…
Employees in Mountain View gathered to add their voices to the global protests, demanding a change to company policies
Ben je arm? Dan ben je lui en dom en niet in staat om goede beslissingen over je leven te nemen. De Amerikaanse antropoloog Khiara M. Bridges strijdt al jaren tegen deze vooroordelen, die overal ter wereld ongelijkheid in stand houden. Haar oplossing: geef armoede een nieuwe, trotse identiteit. Tijd voor poor pride.
In a new study of the most downloaded apps for children ages 5 and younger, researchers found advertising in almost all of them.
Google employees are staging walkouts at offices around the world to protest the company’s handling of misconduct allegations against high-level executives.
Interviews with over a dozen current and former Google employees highlight a commitment to privacy—and the inherent tensions that creates.
Jordan Peterson, de extreemrechtse Canadese professor, die in Nederland vooral in kringen van FvD populair is houdt vanavond een lezing in...
A series of research projects, patent filings, and policy changes indicate that the Pentagon wants to use social media surveillance to quell domestic insurrection and rebellion.
In plaats van te bekvechten moeten feministen één front vormen, hoor ik vaak. Maar zo’n gezamenlijk perspectief laat weinig ruimte voor verschillen onderling. Die verschillen moet je juist erkennen en benoemen om verder te komen.
In addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects every Signal message, the Signal service is designed to minimize the data that is retained about Signal users. By design, it does not store a record of your contacts, social graph, conversation list, location, user avatar, user profile name, group memberships, group titles, or group avatars. We have been exploring techniques to further reduce the amount of information that is accessible to the service, and the latest beta release includes changes designed to move Signal incrementally closer to the goal of hiding another piece of metadata: who is messaging whom.
Customizable ethics checklists for Big Data researchers
Alex Stamos on the risks of giving his former employer and other giant platforms the power to determine what people can—and can’t—say online.
The internet giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 million and praised him, while keeping silent about a misconduct claim.
Google reportedly found credible allegations Andy Rubin forced employee to perform oral sex but paid him millions after he left
Virtual reality has always been destined to be less important than augmented reality, and Facebook taking a stake has never made much sense.
Over the past few years, scandal after scandal has put tech companies under a microscope.
Today, Electronic Frontier Foundation sent the note below to every member of the EU bodies negotiating the final draft of the new Copyright Directive in the "trilogue" meetings.The note details our grave misgivings about the structural inadequacies and potential for abuse in the late-added and...
The Universal Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence, the first human rights framework for AI, will be announced in Brussels on October 23 at the Public Voice symposium
I’m not sure if it’s entirely discernible from the things I’ve written here, but my political sentiments these past few years have taken a reasonably sharp turn toward the positio…
When you take the Zuckerberg shilling, you’re leaving your principles behind you
Former White House photographer Pete Souza has turned his portraits of Obama into spiky ripostes to the tweet-happy current president
We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.
Opruimen was ooit gewoon een huishoudelijke taak. Nu is het een geloofsbelijdenis - De Correspondent
Opruimen is een religie geworden, compleet met goeroes en stromingen. Een tegenstem tegen koopdrift, tegen kapitalisme. Ik laat me diepe waarheden influisteren door drie opruimcoaches. Wat blijft er van jezelf over, als je al je spullen wegdoet?
Repair is one of the secret keys to a better life. Repairs keep our gadgets in use longer (saving our pocketbooks) and divert e-waste from landfills or toxic recycling processes (saving our planet). Repair is an engine of community prosperity: when you get your phone screen fixed at your corner...
The kingdom silences dissent online by sending operatives to swarm critics. It also recruited a Twitter employee suspected of spying on users, interviews show.
Repairnator is a bot. It constantly monitors software bugs and tries to repair them.
The first rule of PAKE is: nobody ever wants to talk about PAKE. The second rule of PAKE is that this is a shame, because PAKE — which stands for Password Authenticated Key Exchange — is actually o…
In St. Louis, it feels like the police are always watching. Since the launch of its “Real Time Crime Center” in 2015, the city’s embrace of surveillance technologies has often felt like a runaway train.
Robin "Sourdough" Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel
Report showing dramatic decline in internet access growth suggests digital revolution will remain a distant dream for billions of people
I’m animated!!
Company is first Chinese member of Partnership on AI, following, Google, Apple, Facebook and others
Ik weet zeker dat Facebook weet wanneer ik thuis kom en weinig te doen heb. Dan zit ik veel op Instagram en WhatsApp (waar Facebook eigenaar van is, red.). En dan krijg ik meldingen van welke van die apps dan ook. “Pling!” Zodat ik weer even word afgeleid. Op school krijg ik die meldingen niet. En die apps zijn er ook zo op ingericht dat je zo lang mogelijk blijft scrollen. Er is steeds nog een bericht, je komt nooit aan het eind.’
Technology has given rise to an age of misinformation. But philosophy, and a closer look at our own social behavior, could help eliminate it.
They’re everywhere, but nobody wants to know about it.
Wannacry ransomware cost the British National Health Service £92m ($121m)
Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin result in the concentration of wealth, not greater equality
Afro-Amerikaanse soldaten en bewoners uit de toenmalige Nederlandse kolonies hebben in groten getale Nederland in de Tweede Wereldoorlog helpen bevrijden. Hun gezichten ontbreken echter in oorlogsfilms en bij herdenkingen van de oorlog. Tijd om stil te staan bij een groep gemarginaliseerde helden, wier aandeel vakkundig is uitgewist.
Mitchell Baker says firms should hire philosophy and psychology graduates to tackle misinformation