“It is detestable to consider the armchair mental gymnastics of ‘robot rights’ as a pressing ethical issue in light of real threats and harms imposed by AI today on society’s most vulnerable.”


 
 'Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will' - Naum Gabo

EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency

A new search engine needs an index of the web. And many sites don’t welcome any web crawler that isn’t Google or Bing.

This is fucking wild. Norton "Antivirus" now sneakily installs cryptomining software on your computer, and then SKIMS A COMMISSION. https://t.co/6s2otyCd78— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) January 4, 2022

The Wire investigates claims behind the use of ‘Tek Fog’, a highly sophisticated app used by online operatives to hijack major social media and encrypted messaging platforms and amplify right-wing propaganda to a domestic audience.

The automation, and control of the resulting data, raises questions about the role of human farmers.

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

So long as algorithms are trained on racist historical data and outdated values, there will be no opportunities for change.

​Oriini Kaipara, 37, who has a moko kauae, a traditional lower chin tattoo worn by Māori women, read Newshub Live's 6pm news bulletin in New Zealand on Monday.

Exclusive: Months of immigration documents and COVID-19 lab results were left on an unprotected server.

I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.

Companies have sprouted up to help others navigate the varied laws around the world governing websites.

The Markup, through public records requests, found more than 20 public agencies using the sometimes-controversial software

Facebook employees repeatedly warned of the role resharing content plays and offered myriad solutions only to see their suggestions ignored, documents show.

Amazon has fixed its voice assistant so that it will not suggest the dangerous “challenge” again.

I’m happy the article’s author resisted the narrative that statistical pattern matching (vaingloriously and misleadingly called ‘AI’) *can* predict the future, choosing to identify the real problem… pic.twitter.com/K50QrsbWV9— Dwayne Monroe is fashionably Hegelian (@cloudquistador) December 28, 2021

AI Ethics job listings are ignoring the humanities and social science skills that might actually help critically examine how data is collected.

(This text is very long. Maybe too long. You can find a PDF and an EPUB of it below.The current version of this text will always live at https://web3.tante.cc) By tante [email protected] 1.0Date: Dec 17th 2021License: CC-BY-SA 4.0 Introduction I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this thing, that blockchains and NFTs and […]

Just re-upping this from Sept 21. Apple & Google remove, at the request of the Russian govt, Navalny's Smart Voting app. This interfered with a number of human rights.We should be asking Apple & Google about their commitments to human rights. Cos clearly $$$$$ is the priority. https://t.co/Q9WbQzQ16E pic.twitter.com/5fH8Yawqlo— Privacy Matters (@PrivacyMatters) December 23, 2021

A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them.

Tracy Chou has been a tech activist for almost a decade. Her story reveals what it’s like to fight Silicon Valley’s establishment.

If you could take a cross-section of the average city block, you would see the ways that the built environment of surveillance—its physical presence in, over, and under our cities—makes the various types of surveillance an entwined problem that must be combatted through entwined solutions. We decided to create a graphic to show how—from overhead to underground—these technologies and legal authorities overlap, how they disproportionately impact the lives of marginalized communities, and the tools we have at our disposal to halt or mitigate their harms.

An Apple Air Tag is priced at four for $100 right now. You can stick them anywhere – attaching by Bluetooth to a phone to track, whatever they’re stuck on.

A Texas woman has gone viral on TikTok for sounding the alarm about finding a tracking device in her bag following an evening out.

Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching

Investigation on tenant screening used to illustrate needed reforms

Let's read through the lines of Google's responses around discriminating against Black women, shall we? 🧵 https://t.co/pmJ2z4fPy5— MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) December 17, 2021