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De mondige moeder Perle Miangue uit Eindhoven kwam vorig jaar als zwarte vrouw terecht in een intimiderende menigte van pro-Zwarte Piet-demonstranten. Ze besloot tegen hen in te gaan en kwam in een filmpje van Vice dat miljoenen keren werd bekeken. Haar verzet maakte indruk op me, dus besloot ik haar te traceren.
First detailed look at Poland's challenge to the EU Copyright Directive
Image taken from Roche et al 2014 A lot of the contemporary debate around digital surveillance and data-mining focuses on privacy. Thi...
Fotograaf Thijs Heslenfeld heeft aangifte gedaan tegen Facebook bij het Openbaar Ministerie (OM) in Amsterdam, schrijft De Volkskrant . ...
The absurd and remarkable story of Sealand, a “micronation” on an eerie metal platform, tells us plenty about libertarianism, national sovereignty, and the lawlessness of the ocean.
The powerful lesson of a 5-year-old harassment campaign: How to wage a post-truth information war.
Hoeveel pogingen heeft Serena nodig om een drone uit de lucht te slaan?
Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored
Wat ik hier interessant aan vond is dat ze het niet alleen hebben over het regularen van de makers van IoT, maar dat ze ook verkennen of de kopers van IoT te reguleren zijn. En dat doen ze met een data-driven approach.
One in four firms holding a test subject's data released it to her partner without her permission.
Security researcher Joseph Tartaro thought NULL would make a fun license plate. He's never been more wrong.
Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.
Apologies to anyone who shares the name, but two designers in Chicago are taking on electoral gerrymandering in a new font called Gerry. The font, created by Ben Doessel and James Lee, is composed of 26 districts whose absurd boundaries resemble alphabet letters much more than they resemble logical,
Een mooi artikel over hoe problematisch het is als winkels geen cash accepteren (onder meer slecht voor de ‘undocumented’) met een mooie tip voor wat wij elke dag in het Vlaamsch Broodhuys zouden moeten zeggen.
Al meer dan een jaar schrijf ik vanuit Nigeria over migratie. Een aantal misverstanden blijf ik tegenkomen. Aan de hand van de levens van Nigerianen die ik ontmoette, zet ik de zes hardnekkigste op een rij.
Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Hi! My name is Michael W. Twitty and I’m one of those interpreters who has watched you squirm or run away. I’m not a reenactor, because G-d f…
Dit is heel nice. Kijk er even vijf minuten naar.
Adversarial Fashion: clothes designed to confuse license-plate readers
The Surveillance Detection Scout can track license plates and faces near your Tesla—with all the privacy concerns that implies.
Eavesdropping, reprogramming, talking to strangers: Welcome to the harmless and not-so-harmless fun of hacking elevator call boxes.
Protesters are turning to Tinder, Pokémon Go and Apple’s AirDrop to spread messages
In partnership with Psiphon, we are launching a custom app for Android and Windows devices that circumvents China’s censorship of The Intercept.
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In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.
Promo video of a Chinese military drill in Hong Kong started making the rounds on patriotic sections of China’s TikTok
The question of what should be moderated, and when, is an increasingly frequent one in tech. There is no bright line, but there are ways to get closer to an answer.
Documents, screenshots, and audio obtained by Motherboard show that humans listen to Skype calls made using the app's translation function.
Its founder Fredrick Brennan is appalled by the notorious chat site’s links to right-wing extremism and mass shootings. Inside his tortured journey through the web’s cesspool and his attempt at redemption.
Photographer and designer Ceres Henry embellishes her portrait subjects with floral body paint and fresh blossoms in her Adam & Eve series. The New York-based artist hand-painted each person before the shoot, inspired in the moment by the flowers she had pre-selected, and then worked the three-d
I’ve discovered a few avenues for finding people having fun on the internet. Metafilter, Pinboard, and Github are all interesting places to start. You go there and start poking around and you can find all kinds of interesting things. It feels like walking through the woods looking for mushrooms versus just buying a prewrapped container of mushrooms at the supermarket. Harder, but more nourishing and satisfying.
Metaphorically speaking, I’ve found some amazing fungi out there. I also think I’ve been getting better at exploring. The internet is still a really great place to explore. But you have to get back into Internet Nature instead of spending all your time in Internet Times Square wondering how everything got so loud and dehumanising.
Metaphorically speaking, I’ve found some amazing fungi out there. I also think I’ve been getting better at exploring. The internet is still a really great place to explore. But you have to get back into Internet Nature instead of spending all your time in Internet Times Square wondering how everything got so loud and dehumanising.
Meer achtergrond over het client side filteren en of het nou wel of niet in de plannen van Facebook zou zitten. Het lijkt hier in ieder geval al wel op dat Facebook aan het cashen is op de credibility van Nate Cardozo.
Mmm, nu blijft 5G en IMSI-catchers gewoon nog wel te werken
At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival?
There are two types of people in the world: those with hundreds of unread messages, and those who can’t relax until their inboxes are cleared out.
Edward Snowden's memoir, "Permanent Record," will go on sale on Sept 17
Teenaged girl becomes a resistance symbol for her peaceful reading of the Russian constitution to a Putin goon-squad (they beat her up later)
It occupies a spot next to 'Black Mirror' and Big Brother in popular imagination, but China’s social credit project is far more complicated than a single, all-powerful numerical score.
Vanuit een buitenwijk in Haarlem bestiert de Syrische filmmaker Dareen Hasan Halimah een internationaal Arabisch feministisch platform. Ze vertelt me over Arabisch en westers feminisme, over ouderwetse misogynie en moderne onderdrukking door de linkse Gutmensch, en waarom ze de politieke islam wel degelijk gevaarlijk vindt.
Deze man beargumenteerd dat we richting een wereld gaan waarin onze apparaten vanaf de cloud lokale filters krijgen gepusht waarmee zaken gecensureerd en direct afgetapt kunnen worden. Facebook is al bezig met dit soort technologie. Het zou volgens hem het einde van de cryptowars betekenen: die zijn dan irrelevant.
So I am learning how to build a theme in hugo and wanted to document the things I found that were not obvious to me.
€4.5 million has been pumped into the virtual policeman project meant to judge the honesty of travelers. An expert calls the technology “not credible.”
A GPX track plugin for Leaflet.js. Contribute to mpetazzoni/leaflet-gpx development by creating an account on GitHub.
convert KML and GPX to GeoJSON, without the fuss. Contribute to tmcw/togeojson development by creating an account on GitHub.
For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies signaling that their users did not want their browsing activity tracked. Despite long hours and backing from...
The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company.