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A long look at the mechanics of a movement.
Bevolkingsgroei: Over dertig jaar zijn Nederlanders met meer, ouder, diverser en vaker alleen. We wonen op plekken waar je tuin en wasruimte deelt en gaan flexibeler leven.
Chris Larsen knows that a crypto mogul spending his own money for a city’s camera surveillance system might sound creepy. He’s here to explain why it’s not.
De KNVB heeft de commissie-Mijnals in het leven geroepen zodat mensen die wel ervaring hebben met discriminatie, de spierwitte en mannelijke KNVB-koepel kunnen bijstaan in zijn strijd tegen racisme. Het klinkt als: „Kunnen jullie ons alsjeblieft helpen jullie niet meer te discrimineren?” De KNVB vroeg Humberto Tan of hij in de commissie wilde. Humberto antwoordde dat hij niet aan een rapport met…
OV-chipkaartfraude: Twee IT’ers kraakten de ov-chipkaart en werden – uiteindelijk – gepakt en veroordeeld. Maar ze legden wel de kwetsbaarheid van het systeem bloot. Voor de twee collega’s was het „een avondprojectje”.
Komt het N-woord eigenlijk in vonnissen voor? Soms heb je zomaar een voorgevoel. Gauw ‘neger’ op rechtspraak.nl ingevoerd. Daarna struikel je inderdaad over allerlei racistische taal. Alleen is het bewijstechnisch verplicht om strafbare feiten met precisie weer te geven. Dus ontkomt de rechter niet aan aanstootgevende termen. Maar je komt in vonnissen ook politieverhoren tegen waarin ‘neger’ juist…
The company has survived previous seemingly existential crises with little damage to its monarchical structure
Oh the places you can’t go
Design fiction, reality, who can tell? This zine explores the blurry line between fantasy and reality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dat ik niet zo moest klagen. Omdat Nederland kleurenblind is. Dit is de beknopte samenvatting van de storm aan reacties op mijn allereerste artikel over racisme in Nederland. Dat was in 2006, in het magazine van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. In de jaren daarop heb ik veel stukken geschreven, debatten gedaan, demonstraties bijgewoond en, toen ik zelf docent werd, colleges gegeven over…
The popular encrypted app is now going to store your contacts in the cloud. Experts are worried this compromises users’ privacy.
To prepare for a recent portrait, Shannon LaNier pulled a black coat over his head and wrapped a thick, layered collar around his neck, a costume to match what Thomas Jefferson wore in an iconic 18th-century painting. The Houston news anchor was participating in an ongoing series by British photogra
Moira Weigel This essay has been peer-reviewed by “The New Extremism” special issue editors (Adrienne Massanari and David Golumbia), and the b2o: An Online Journal editorial board. Sinc…
US lawmakers have repeatedly raised security concerns over the app's Chinese ownership. Are US businesses next?
As COVID-19 surges, hospitals and independent biomedical technicians have turned to a global grey-market for hardware and software to circumvent manufacturer repair locks and keep life-saving ventilators running.
This is a case where optimism may be an existential threat.
Corona brengt overal ter wereld de overheidsfinanciën uit balans. Maar hoe erg is dat? Hoogleraar Stephanie Kelton schrijft in haar nieuwe boek ‘The Deficit Myth’ dat onze angst voor een hoge staatsschuld overtrokken is. Ze ziet begrotingstekorten juist als de sleutel om dreigende sociale en ecologische crises af te wenden.
A new ideology is emerging
How the lockdown has affected a classic dictum about work
The report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service was published on Thursday afternoon. Time has not permitted any comment in this week's issue of The Economist on the contents of the Report. But the startling discovery enunciated by a correspondent in the following article is certainly relevant to what should have been in it.
And what is wrong with it
What shifts do we need to make in our face-to-face teaching practices to make the most of online learning? What can stay exactly the same?
Telling someone that there's an errant herb stuck between their teeth or a dot of sauce just below their lip is likely to spur embarrassment, so noting that they're covered in egg or raspberry or a gloopy mound of ketchup might be too much to bear. Harriet Moutsopoulos, though, helps her subjects sa
Matt Stoller reflects on our love for Hamilton and why liberals came to embrace one of our most dangerously reactionary founders.
Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time.
The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.”
There's finally a way to get off of email lists with your privacy intact.
'Klokkenluiders vertelden over ‘gezellige relaties’ en ‘feestjes’ onder FSC-inspecteurs en bazen van corrupte houtkapbedrijven.'
Protests against racial injustice are nothing new, but they’re different this time around. The Black Lives Matter movement is a response to worsening racism, but it’s also the result of black people’s increasing power, influence and progress.
Wereldkunst #9: Google voegde met Street View onbedoeld een hoofdstuk toe aan de geschiedenis van de fotografie. Jon Rafman laat nu esthetische criteria los op de beelden.
CDA-stemming: De procedure voor het CDA-leiderschap moet opnieuw. Het online stemsysteem bleek woensdag eenvoudig te manipuleren. Nu blijft het nog twee dagen extra spannend.
As a woman of colour passionate about the intersection of social activism and tech, I have been learning about the huge, terrifying role that AI has on propagating discrimination in our jobs, and l…
How to protect your bright mind from the drain of everyday racism you may encounter in academic life.
Two-year audit praises some decisions but was criticises lack of action over Trump posts
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An open letter published by Harper’s, signed by luminaries including Margaret Atwood and Wynton Marsalis, argued for openness to “opposing views.” The debate began immediately.
Civil rights groups say company did not commit to concrete plan to address hate speech and misinformation
Some popular home security cameras could allow would-be burglars to work out when you've left the building, according to a study published Monday.
Film: Een comedy ontdoen van stereotyperingen helpt het racismedebat niet verder, betoogt Stine Jensen.
Veiligheidswet: In Hongkong durft een week na de introductie van een strenge veiligheidswet haast niemand zich meer kritisch uit te laten. Langzaam wordt duidelijk hoe ver de wet strekt.
I am an AI skeptic. I am baffled by anyone who isn’t. I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ”machine learning” field that leads to…
Conservative sites like Newsmax and Washington Examiner have published Middle East hot takes from “experts” who are actually fake personas pushing propaganda.
Proven systems to organize your tasks, manage your time, maintain your focus, stop procrastination, and achieve your goals. Take the quiz to find the one that fits you best.
<p>One day in July 2016, Casey Newton, a tech reporter for The Verge, sat down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park for the biggest interview of his career. Across from him was Mark Zuckerberg. With his characteristic geeky excitement, Zuckerberg described the promising initial test flight of Aquila, a drone with a wingspan larger than […]</p>
How a series of algorithms whiffed and ended up warning Oregonians of an antifa invasion
App Clips, Snap Minis, Messenger Bots. Koji's betting it can build apps that go inside your apps even better than the big guys.
Of het nu De Correspondent, de Bosatlas of de NOS is: migratie over de Middellandse Zee wordt op kaarten afgebeeld als dikke, rode pijlen die op ons afkomen. Die pijlen bepalen – terwijl we dat nauwelijks doorhebben – ons beeld van migratie. Kan dat anders?
Privacy and security are both team sports, and no one person or organization completely changes the landscape alone. This is why coalition-building is often at the heart of activism. In 2019, EFF was one of the ten organizations that founded the Coalition Against Stalkerware, a group of security...
My surgeries were a bridge across realities, a spirit customizing its vessel to reflect its nature.
Tiago Forte is most known for his concept of developing a Second Brain. The Second Brain helps thousands to organize their minds digitally using concepts like CODE and PARA plot out everything in an organized fashion.
Misinformatie: Massaal delen bezorgde burgers ongefundeerde artikelen en video’s over het coronavirus. Die komen in veel gevallen van commerciële producenten. „Facebook zorgt voor het bereik, Google voor het geld.”
23andMe says it’s ‘part of the problem’ on racial inequity. STAT asked geneticists what the company and its competitors can do about it.
Misdaad: Na de VS denkt ook Nederland aan forensisch gebruik van dna-profielen uit publieke databanken. Dat is niet zonder risico, zeggen Amade M’charek en Peter de Knijff
Nourdin el Ouali, partijleider Nida: Een „progressief kosmopolitische emancipatiebeweging”. Dat is Nida volgens partijleider Nourdin el Ouali. De islamitisch geïnspireerde partij gaat meedoen aan de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen.
Discriminatie: In de jaren vijftig kwamen de eerste donkere voetballers uit Suriname naar Nederland. Ze kregen te maken met ernstige vormen van racisme, maar vertelden daar lang niet over. Waarom? En hoe kijken ze naar de huidige protestbeweging, Black Lives Matter?
"A security researcher was able to access files on a Axon body-worn camera he purchased from eBay that had video files of Fort Huachuca Military Police officers conducting investigations and filling out paperwork," reports the Arizona Mirror:
The files were able to be extracted after the researcher...
The files were able to be extracted after the researcher...
Voorkeursbeleid: De Technische Universiteit Eindhoven moet haar voorkeursbeleid aanpassen, vindt het College voor de Rechten van de Mens.
|James McMasterJames McMaster on the politics of Hamilton and the need for a musical theatre revolution.
Cultural conservatives aren’t trying to protect language from politics; they are simply sanguine about the politics...
A new paper published by Danish sports data company RunRepeat and backed by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) makes it clear that soccer commentar…
Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.
Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics
Mark Zuckerberg: advertisers' boycott of Facebook will end 'soon enough' | Technology | The Guardian
We will not change our policies or approach, says Zuckerberg as more than 500 companies protest against hate speech
De huidige plannen van het kabinet om burgers via hun telefoon te volgen in de strijd tegen Covid-19 vormen een te groot privacyrisico. Voorzitter Aleid Wolfsen, van de Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, zegt dat ze strijdig zijn met Europese wetgeving..
This U.S. program provides encryption technologies to journalists and activists living under repressive regimes. But a Trump appointee wants to tear it all down.
Have you ever clicked on a link after googling something, only to find that Google didn’t take you to the actual webpage but to some weird Google-fied version of it? Instead of the web address being the source of the article, it still says “google” in the address bar on your phone? That’s what’s...
Cultuurstrijd: Liberale media in de Engelstalige nieuwe wereld zijn in de greep van een fanatiek streven naar één morele waarheid. Dat gaat ten koste van de meningsvrijheid, meent Ian Buruma.
The government recently released a superseding indictment[1] against Wikileaks editor in chief Julian Assange, currently imprisoned and awaiting extradition in the United Kingdom. As we’ve written before, this prosecution poses a clear threat to journalism, and, whether or not Assange considers...
"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking at cops, attacking people."
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." -President George W BushAnti-monopoly enforcement has seen a significant shift since the 1970s. Where the Department of...
As services-based economies sweep every industry, it's time for the automotive realm to carry on.
A comprehensive study of accidental triggers of smart speakers.
Google shuffled mass emails about racial justice into the marketing tab in our test, mirroring its categorization of political emails
Oftentimes, the most productive meeting is the one that never happened. Use this flowchart to decide whether to have that meeting or just send an email.
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Onderwijs: Een wetswijziging moet thuisonderwijs regelen, maar doet alsof het schooltje spelen aan de keukentafel is, schrijven Sjoerd Karsten en Henk Blok.
Welcome to week five of the Track(ed) Together newsletter – your weekly update on the digital surveillance tools being deployed to combat Covid-19. In the past, these newsletters have focused on how governments are hoping to suppress the virus by tracking citizens, but this week we’re focusing on another growing phenomenon – the rise of workplace surveillance.
Pandemic politics highlight how predictions need to be transparent and humble to invite insight, not blame.
As the EU is gearing up for a major reform of key Internet regulation, we are introducing the principles that will guide our policy work surrounding the Digital Services Act. In this post, we take a closer look at what we mean when we talk about interoperability obligations, and at some of the...
Australian students who have raised privacy concerns describe the incident involving a Canadian student as ‘freakishly disrespectful’
Op 1 juli 1863 schafte Nederland officieel de slavernij af. Wij ontdekten dat onze betovergrootvader George Rustwijk ruim een eeuw geleden al opriep deze historische dag te vieren. Zijn opzwepende toespraak had vandaag geschreven kunnen zijn. Want nog altijd is Keti Koti in Nederland geen nationale feestdag.
Premier Rutte ging op 24 juni in het Catshuis met zes tegenstanders van racisme in gesprek over discriminatie en racisme in Nederland. Verschillende actiegroepen en burgerrechtenorganisaties voelden zich gepasseerd door de premier. Aan de vooravond van het overleg met de premier presenteerde Amnesty International vier maatregelen aan het kabinet waarmee de Rijksoverheid discriminatie en racisme …
COVID-19 has pushed millions of people to work from home, and a flock of companies offering software for tracking workers has swooped in to pitch their products to employers across the country.The services often sound relatively innocuous. Some vendors bill their tools as “automatic time tracking”...