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Long before the pandemic crisis, there was widespread concern over the impact that tech was having on the quality of our discourse, from disinformation campaigns to influence campaigns to polarization.It's true that the way we talk to each other and about the world has changed, both in form (thanks...
Long before the pandemic crisis, there was widespread concern over the impact that tech was having on the quality of our discourse, from disinformation campaigns to influence campaigns to polarization.It's true that the way we talk to each other and about the world has changed, both in form (thanks...
Online onderwijs maakt van studenten, onderzoekers en docenten eenlingen met nog minder macht, schrijft Josef Früchtl.
The latest in the fight for our civil liberties.
The latest in the fight for our civil liberties.
Kevin Kelly: Organizing and meta-analyzing some of the recent student surveys #MindWiresOnline
We now interrupt our regularly scheduled content to bring you a critical essay on the design world. I promise you that this will also be funny. This morning, the design website Dezeen tweeted a link...
Some thoughts on what post-COVID instruction might look like. (Spoiler alert: None are as good as face-to-face, but a few aren't too bad.)
The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.
A major security vulnerability in Qatar's COVID-19 contact tracing app exposed sensitive personal details of more than one million people.
A major security vulnerability in Qatar's COVID-19 contact tracing app exposed sensitive personal details of more than one million people.
In opmaat naar de nieuwe corona-app van het Ministerie van VWS startte SETUP haar eigen onderzoek naar corona-apps. Dat leidde tot drie scherpe provotypes, die we net als het ministerie presenteerden in een echte appathon.
In opmaat naar de nieuwe corona-app van het Ministerie van VWS startte SETUP haar eigen onderzoek naar corona-apps. Dat leidde tot drie scherpe provotypes, die we net als het ministerie presenteerden in een echte appathon.
Chinese MOOC platforms XuetangX and iCourse are releasing free online courses in English for global learners.
A crop of “new” body-worn devices issue alerts about hospital patients, the quarantined, people under house arrest, and workers who fail to social distance.
Fraude en aanvallen: Door de ‘intelligente lockdown’ neemt de afhankelijkheid van internet toe en grijpen cybercriminelen hun kans. De politie ziet vaker WhatsApp-fraude en DDoS-aanvallen.
Benjamin Bratton on the world after the COVID-19 pandemic.
North Holland thinks unproven 600mph magnetic hovertrain could help replace air travel
Wereldorde: De klassieke complotdenker is een wijsneus, de hedendaagse complotdenker gaat het om het gevoel. Hysterie ligt altijd vlak onder de oppervlakte, meent Bas Heijne.
The national privacy watchdog has repeatedly broken ranks with EU peers over tracing technology. His approach seems to be winning.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents' permission, a court in the Netherlands has ruled. It ended up in court after a falling-out between the woman and her daughter. The j...
Wob-verzoeken: De overheid lijkt zich meer te permitteren bij het Koninklijk Huis dan bij andere onderwerpen, als het gaat om het vrijgeven van informatie. Hoogleraar Wim Voermans noemt de werkwijze „verziekt”.
We’ve been skeptical of Facebook’s Oversight Board from day one. We’ll follow closely and keep open minds, because we appreciate it is a first attempt at some semblance of much-needed governance and external review. But no amount of “oversight” can fix the underlying problem: Content moderation is...
A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley’s ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step towards opting out
Messenger Rooms won’t “watch or listen” to your calls. But Facebook won’t say how it will handle metadata like who you chat with and when.
Thomas le Bonniec | Klokkenluider: In opdracht van Apple beluisterde Thomas Le Bonniec opnames van assistent Siri. Nu protesteert hij tegen ‘massaal afluisteren’.
De laatste maanden wordt op grote schaal gebruik gemaakt van synchroon, live, online leren. Het leerzame karakter van deze sessies wordt waarschijnlijk verstrekt als je op een didactisch doordachte…
Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.
Sociale media: Voor het eerst schikt een socialemediabedrijf met de moderatoren die kwalijke berichten weren van het platform. Facebook betaalt in de VS 52 miljoen dollar.
New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones on the structural disadvantages Black communities face in the time of a global pandemic
Over the past few weeks, Apple & Google have floated the idea of developing and distributing a digital contact-tracing app that will inform people when they’ve been exposed to someone who’s contracted COVID-19, and communicate to people that they’ve been exposed to you if you later test positive yourself (edit: since writing this, Apple has released a beta of iOS 13 that includes the SDK necessary to begin using this system). Writing this in late April and early May, it feels like we’re desperate for information and weary from not knowing who’s caught COVID-19, who’s still vulnerable, who gets it worse or why, or even how to treat it. We’re desperate for any information we can get our hands on. This proposal by Apple and Google promises to give us some information that we can finally start to work off of. This isn’t going to work, and we need to stop this plan before it gets off the ground. I’ll explain why in this post.
Tweede Wereldoorlog: De Poolse arts Eugeniusz Lazowski nam in de oorlog de Duitse bezetter bij de neus met een nepepidemie. Hij redde er vele levens mee.