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Opiniestuk in het AD: Etnisch profileren moet worden uitgebannen, stellen Eduard Nazarski, Frederique Janss, Luc Hofmans, Cyriel Triesscheijn, Ton van den …
Exclusive: internal document shows how Google employees are trained to treat temps, vendors and contractors
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San Francisco - Two social justice organizations—the Center for Genetics and Society and the Equal Justice Society—and an individual plaintiff, Pete Shanks, have filed suit against the state of California for its collection and retention of genetic profiles from people arrested but never convicted...
Feminist writer Laurie Penny joins a Mediterranean blockchain cruise—and finds that the promised crypto utopia feels very far away indeed.
I worked as a research scientist at Google when Dragonfly was revealed and resigned in protest after a month of internally fighting for clarification.
To flourish, the informal digital networks providing new services needed to be protected from the market, says author Evgeny Morozov
De oproep van VVD-fractievoorzitter Klaas Dijkhoff om demonstraties bij de intocht van Sinterklaas te verbieden is al door velen van de...
Het grondrecht op de vrijheid van meningsuiting is een van de meest bekende burgerrechten. Te pas en te onpas wordt het gebruikt als argum...
[This piece originally appreared in McSweeney’s new issue, The End of Trust, a collection featuring over 30 writers investigating surveillance, technology, and privacy, with special advisors the Electronic Frontier Foundation.]
Another week, another set of reminders that, while Facebook likes to paint itself as an “optimistic” company that’s simply out to help users and connect the world, the reality is very different. This week, those reminders include a collection of newuly released documents suggesting that the...
Malware authors have figured out how to get Google to do "irreversible takedowns" of the sites they compete with
Google's secret project to build a censored Chinese search engine bypassed the company's own security and privacy teams
Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking
Copyright and the "male gaze": a feminist critique of copyright law
What's missing from machine learning research: an East African perspective
Generative adversarial network produces a "universal fingerprint" that will unlock many smartphones
If you're an American of European descent, your stupid cousins have probably put you in vast commercial genomic databases
70 of the world's leading human rights groups ask Mark Zuckerberg to create due process for censored content
Researchers claim to have permanently neutralized ad-blocking's most promising weapons
Trump cybersecurity advisor Rudy Giuliani has no idea how the internet works
Dat Seada Nourhussen alléén wegens racistische reacties is gestopt met haar column bij Trouw is niet waar. Te weinig besef over haar kwetsbaarheid als zwarte, vrouwelijke opiniemaker, woog zwaarder. Lees haar reactie op de mediastorm van de afgelopen dagen.
Two weeks ago, I completed the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) and Instructor Exam (IE) in Utila, Honduras, and now I'm finally a scuba instructor! In this post, I'll recap the IDC and IE.
Dream of traveling the world? Becoming a scuba diving instructor maybe for you. In this post Talon tells you how he travels the world as a scuba instructor
Answer 1 of 14: Hi - we are getting ready to leave in a couple of weeks for our trip to Italy, which includes 4 days in Florence. I was hoping to reserve a full or half day small group or private tour, thinking that would be more interesting for my teens (13 and...
The Frenzel equalisation technique greatly increases the ability of a freediver to descend deeper, more safely and in comfort. Read this article, containing a video of Emma explaining more about this technique and why it is so effective for divers, to learn more.
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.