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As families worry for their children’s futures, a district has instituted a yearly data purge
Door Marjolein Lanzing (TU Eindhoven) “Yet why do I say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes, yet another may succeed.” …
A few weeks ago, U.S. Attorney General William Barr joined his counterparts from the U.K. and Australia to publish an open letter addressed to Facebook. The Barr letter represents the latest salvo …
What happened to the guy who told his Muslim employees in 2015 that he would “fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment”?
Column Robbert Dijkgraaf: Persoonlijke digitale gegevens en biomedische data zijn het verdienmodel van techbedrijven. De volgende crisis zal om datamisbruik draaien.
De politie zoekt de laatste jaren stelselmatig de grenzen van haar bevoegdheden op, en overschrijdt deze geregeld. Denk aan: ‘persoonsgericht’ preventief fouilleren, doorzoeken van smartphones, bewaren van foto’s van gezichten. En bij een overschrijding volgen nauwelijks consequenties. Dus heeft de politie een grote mate van vrijheid om de grenzen van de wet verder op te zoeken.
The “Liam Bot” teaches employees what to say if friends or family ask difficult questions about the company over the holidays.
A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.
to learn something new. I've built an AI for my home, run 365 miles, visited every US state, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin. Last year, I focused almost all my time on addressing important issues around elections, speech, privacy, and well-being. Facebook is a different company now than it was a couple of years ago because of a much greater focus on these questions. These issues are complex and we will continue focusing on them for years to come. There are so many big questions about the world we want to live in and technology's place in it. Do we want technology to keep giving more people a voice, or will traditional gatekeepers control what ideas can be expressed? Should we decentralize authority through encryption or other means to put more power in people's hands? In a world where many physical communities are weakening, what role can the internet play in strengthening our social fabric? How do we build an internet that helps people come together to address the world's biggest problems that require global-scale collaboration? How do we build technology that creates more jobs rather than just building AI to automate things people do? What form will this all take now that the smartphone is mature? And how do we keep up the pace of scientific and technological progress across fields? My challenge for 2019 is to host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society -- the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the anxieties. Every few weeks I'll talk with leaders, experts, and people in our community from different fields and I'll try different formats to keep it interesting. These will all be public, either on my Facebook or Instagram pages or on other media. This will be intellectually interesting, but there's a personal challenge for me here too. I'm an engineer, and I used to just build out my ideas and hope they'd mostly speak for themselves. But given the importance of what we do, that doesn't cut it anymore. So I'm going to put myself out there more than I've been comfortable with and engage more in some of these debates about the future, the tradeoffs we face, and where we want to go. I'm looking forward to another year of learning and personal improvement, and to discussing a lot of important questions with all of you!
A sophisticated new electronic warfare system is being used at the world’s busiest port. But is it sand thieves or the Chinese state behind it?
There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,
A network of cooperative alternatives are replacing rampant exploitation with decent work.
Er meldde zich een ontdekkingsreiziger om te praten over de wildernis. Langzamerhand verbazen de onderwerpen me niet meer waarover mensen in gesprek willen. God, richtlijnen inzake het hergebruik van overheidsinformatie, romankunst, seks. Koffie drinken is in zo’n geval het beste. En dus zaten de onbekende man en ik in de betongrijze hal van een universiteitsgebouw, omdat ik daar toevallig toch…
“We might as well go down fighting.”
Small Technology Foundation Personal Web Prototype-01: an always-connected portable personal web server that fits in your pocket.
Imagine holding your personal web site in the palm of your hand. Imagine carrying the digital aspects of your self in your pocket instead of having them on some abstract cloud under the watchful eye of some faceless multinational corporation1.
Personal Web Prototype-01 from Small Technology Foundation R&D achieves the former using widely available off-the-shelf parts and Site.
Imagine holding your personal web site in the palm of your hand. Imagine carrying the digital aspects of your self in your pocket instead of having them on some abstract cloud under the watchful eye of some faceless multinational corporation1.
Personal Web Prototype-01 from Small Technology Foundation R&D achieves the former using widely available off-the-shelf parts and Site.
Google’s reputation has remained relatively unscathed despite behaviors similar to Facebook’s. This could be the tipping point
China’s state disinformation campaigns against the Hong Kong protesters are unwelcome on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, with the mainstream platforms shutting down accounts that spread propag…
The following memo was written and circulated by me to all of Facebook’s employees around the world. It was sent November 8, 2018, shortly before my fina
Google, the real Aggregator, is squeezing OTAs, which acted like Aggregators while depending on Google for demand. It’s easy to say Google is being unfair, but this may be better for consumer…
One year after a black Facebook employee accused the social media giant of failing its black employees and users, a group of Facebook employees published an anonymous memo saying the culture at the company has only gotten worse for nonwhite workers.
Little-known companies are amassing your data — like food orders and Airbnb messages — and selling the analysis to clients. Here’s how to get a copy of what they have on you.
Foreign tourists in China looking to buy a bottle of water or a taxi ride are finding themselves out of luck, with many merchants only accepting money by QR code.
With little more than a text editor—and years of experience as a web developer—UI engineer Diana Adrianne Smith creates Flemish and baroque inspired portraits using HTML and CSS, the two primary presentation markup languages designed to display web pages. The portraits fill thousands of lines of cod
Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, who work together as the Adrien M / Claire B Company (previously), explore the intersection of tangible and augmented reality in their multi-media projects. They recently launched a Kickstarter to support their latest project, Acqua Alta - Crossing the mirror. Acq
For three years, WIRED has tracked the elite and shadowy Russian vanguard of cyberwar.
De politie wil morele grenzen passeren. De krijgsmacht wil desinformatie verspreiden. Als gewone burger kan ik daarbij niet achterblijven. „It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me.” Na vandaag ga ik liegen om de wereld beter te maken.Vorige week organiseerde de politie „op een waanzinnige locatie” een innovatiefestival onder de titel Crxssing Bxrders. Volgens de annonce ging men er…
For years, the Internet Archive has been acquiring books (their goal is every book ever published) and warehousing them and scanning them. Now, these books are being “woven into WikipediaR…
Government regulation is the preferred mechanism among tech workers to ensure the consequences of technology for people and society are taken into account. But almost half of people in tech (45%) believe their sector is currently regulated too little.
UN Special Rapporteur released the preliminary findings of his sixth report on information and communication technology. They include tangible suggestions to internet companies and states whose current efforts to control hate speech online are failing to comply with the fundamental principles of human rights.
A letter to Mark Zuckerberg says the exemption is “a threat to what FB stands for” and called for the same standards as other adverts
Hundreds of Facebook employees signed a letter decrying the decision to let politicians post any claims they wanted — even false ones — in ads on the site.
For a 22 year old, Joshua Browder has already made a few enemies
‘Wie weet hier wat SyRI is?” Een belangrijke vraag, onlangs gesteld door een acteur aan een publiek, tijdens de voorstelling #niksteverbergen van De Verleiders. Nog geen tien handen. De zaal van het DeLaMar Theater zat vol (het was een slimme, goede voorstelling), eenzaam staken die handen boven de hoofden uit. Het verbaasde me dat het er zo weinig waren, want SyRI gaat ons allemaal aan.Nog één…
Special Projects - Paper PhonePaper Phone is an experimental app which helps you have a little break away from your digital world, by printing a personal booklet of the information you’ll need that day.
Evgeny Morozov was al jaren voordat het in de mode raakte kritisch op Big Tech. Maar altijd vanaf de zijlijn. Toen bedacht en bouwde deze briljante denker een systeem dat breekt met de dominante wetten van de aandachtseconomie. Ik was erbij, toen hij vorige maand vanuit Zuid-Italië The Syllabus met de wereld deelde. (Dit artikel is ook te beluisteren.)
In het journaal laat de NOS een filmpje van een meisje zien. Loes heet ze. Een achternaam heeft ze niet. Een gezicht ook niet: ze wordt van achteren gefilmd en haar stem is vervormd, zodat ze onherkenbaar in beeld komt. Loes is illustratiemateriaal bij een onderwerp dat op de agenda is gezet door de Nationaal Rapporteur Mensenhandel en Seksueel Geweld tegen Kinderen. Die rapporteur heeft een…
German security researchers from Security Research Lab created a suite of apps for Google and Amazon smart speakers that did trivial things for their users, appeared to finish and go dormant, but w…
Tsunami Democràtic is a radical, decentralized wing of the resurgent Catalan independence movement, centered around an anonymously authored app designed to coordinate revolutionary uprisings.
The CEO argues essentially, that the arc of the moral universe is long, but as long as people have a voice (on Facebook) it bends toward justice
Slate’s Use of Your Data
Afscheidsinterview met CTIVD-voorzitter Harm BrouwerHij werd vlak na de onthullingen van EdwardSnowden voorzitter van de CTIVD en kreeg daarna de ‘Sleepwet’ voor de kiezen.Nu neemt Harm Brouwer afscheid. In een interview met Argos blikt de toezichthouder op de inlichtingendiensten terug op een roerige periode. ‘De impact van de nieuwe inlichtingenwet is door iedereen enorm onderschat.’Bij zijn aantreden benadrukte de nieuwe voorzitter van de Commissie van Toezicht op de Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten al meteen dat de wereld drastisch was veranderd. ‘Denkt men werkelijk dat de geheime diensten alleen nog maar bezig zijn met toestemming vragen om brieven open te maken?, vroeg Brouwer zich retorisch af. Het was een jaar nadat oud-NSA-medewerker Edward Snowden de modus operandi van inlichtingendiensten had blootgelegd. De Amerikanen en hun bondgenoten bleken de data van honderden miljoenen burgers te verzamelen. ‘Snowden heeft met zijn onthullingen de samenleving gevoelig gemaakt voor het werk van de diensten’, concludeert Brouwer vijf jaar later. ‘En ik vind dat een geheime dienst gegeven de aard van het werk dat ze doen, ook een kritische samenleving moet hebben.’
Donotpay started as a project to help people automatically fight parking tickets, before its then-teenaged creator, the UK-born Stanford computer science undergrad Joshua Browder expanded it to hel…
Security research Ophir Harpaz was trying to book a flight using Onetravel; as she browsed available itineraries, she couldn’t help but notice a prominent warning that “39 people are lo…
Earlier this month, Google announced a new collection of auto-delete settings for your personal information that allows you balance some of the conveniences of data-collection (for example, remembe…
Google presented a vision of ambient computing that goes beyond the smartphone. The company is well-placed, but faces challenges both in the marketplace and in the mirror.
It’s an old story: someone searches Google for a common keyword — “jews,” “women,” “black people” — and gets back a bunch of far-right conspira…
Als een ezel tussen twee hooischelven vroeg ik me vorige week af op welke kop ik zou klikken. Koos ik voor de krantenkop van het Algemeen Dagblad? „Streep door gehate wet rol verpleegkundigen”. Of zou ik vallen voor het nieuwsbericht van RTL? „Omstreden wetsvoorstel verpleegkundigen van de baan.”Vorig jaar, toen u nog jong en onschuldig was, zou u uw schouders hebben opgehaald over zo’n vraag.
The behavioural scientist has advised tech companies on how to get people hooked – now he’s telling us how to break the habit• Follow Eyal’s guide to avoiding digital distraction
