A cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing the personal data of 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling school children's sensitive information
At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down. Tweets: @funnymonkey , @imeluny , @alexa...
A look at 37 companies within the connected vehicle data marketplace, a largely unregulated industry that some estimate will be worth $300B-$800B by 2030
A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you've probably never heard of Tweets: @funnymonkey , @themarkup , @jaycstanley , @nabihasyed , and @aclu Tweets: Bill...
Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients
i.e. they scan your face while you make expressions and talk, then they can autogenerate you saying *anything* for ads, promo, customer service, etc: https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... Bill Fitzger...
Tel Aviv-based startup Hour One is paying people to use their likenesses to create AI-voiced characters for marketing and educational videos for its clients
AI-powered characters based on real people can star in thousands of videos and say anything, in any language. Tweets: @strwbilly , @timsowula , @pomeranian99 , @carolhtucker , @giano , @funnymonkey , ...
At I/O, Google made AI systems a centerpiece but failed to address concerns over its handling of research about the dangers of AI, which has led to firing staff
James Vincent / The Verge : Tweets: @davewsmart , @funnymonkey , and @emilymbender Tweets: Dave Smart / @davewsmart : Google named it MUM because they want to get flowers & a card one Sunday every ye...
Analysis finds that an OpenCV-based facial recognition model used by exam monitoring software Proctorio fails to recognize Black faces more than 50% of the time
it is the SAME faulty, racist tech. And #Proctorio uses tech that fails to detect Black faces 57% of the time, while lying and saying their system is proprietary. #Eproctoring #InvestigateProctorio ht...
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @jcstearns , @justinh...
The technocratic language Facebook uses in its takedown reports hides the human trauma caused by material that exists only because Facebook made it possible
These reports obscure a torrent of hate speech and other toxic content — If — you've never read a Facebook … Tweets: @neilturkewitz , @sagelazzaro , @jackiehluo , @funnymonkey , @tressiemcphd , @o...
By not providing Siri users with clear control over how their data is used, Apple is at odds with the privacy doctrine that it preaches on billboards
I pooh-poohed this story at first, mostly on the grounds that I thought we knew about this, and that the recordings were only saved from users who had consented to it. Tweets: @ia , @carnage4life , @f...
Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability
but some experts are questioning his motives Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run : Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Believe We Need a More Active Role for Governments and Regulators’ David McCabe / Axios : Zuckerberg start...