Sources: Amazon has begun cracking down on communication across its widely-read email listservs after employees used them to protest and organize
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Q&A with EU's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on virus tracking apps and privacy, her disagreements with Elizabeth Warren about regulating big tech, and more
Interview with Margrethe Vestager https://www.newyorker.com/... @jason_kint : Legit concern, Google and Facebook hydras.... Interesting answer on contrast between @vestager and @Se...
US startups and big companies like PwC are making contact tracing apps to track staff in reopened facilities, some incorporating data from Bluetooth wearables
Tools could track movement of office workers to within a few centimetres — Companies including PwC, the global consultancy …
Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives
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Survey of 979 tech experts: 49% say tech will “mostly weaken” democracy between now and 2030, 33% say it will “mostly strengthen” democracy, 18% see no change
About half predict that humans' use of technology will weaken democracy between now and 2030 due to the speed …
After meeting Zuckerberg on Facebook's proposal for harmful content regulation, commissioner overseeing EU data strategy calls it “not enough” and “too slow”
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At the Munich Security Conference, Zuckerberg says harmful content should be regulated with a system somewhere between existing frameworks for telcos and media
MUNICH (Reuters) - Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms …
As the EU debates new rules for its digital economy, including AI regulations, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and others head to Brussels to meet key lawmakers
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai have journeyed to Brussels as the European Union drafts regulation for A.I. and the digital economy.
Dutch court rules that a surveillance system used to detect welfare fraud violates human rights; called SyRI, it used a secret algorithm to run risk modeling
Government told to halt use of AI to detect fraud in decision hailed by privacy campaigners — A Dutch court has ordered …
If Google wants to reach its health care goals, it needs to convince health systems like Ascension to give up their patient data and ease patient concerns
Google hopes that one day it might be able to save your life. As the tech giant moves deeper into healthcare … Tweets: @stenderworld , @tomvalletti , @went1955 , @matzkinhealth , ...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is too important not to be regulated and there are real concerns about the potential negative consequences of AI
history is full of examples of how technology's virtues aren't guaranteed https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... Andrus Ansip / @ansip_eu : Existing rules such as Europe's ...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is too important not to be regulated and there are real concerns about the potential negative consequences of AI
The writer is chief executive of Alphabet and Google — Growing up in India, I was fascinated by technology. Each new invention changed my family's life in meaningful ways.
AI systems, like Google's system for reading mammograms, have the potential to worsen pre-existing problems like overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment
Christie Aschwanden / Wired : Tweets: @robmay , @wired , @nathancortez , @allenfrancesmd , @edwardtufte , @vprasadmdmph , @went1955 , and @cragcrest Tweets: Rob May / @robmay : Ye...
AI systems, like Google's system for reading mammograms, have the potential to worsen pre-existing problems like overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment
A new study out from Google seems to show the promise of AI-assisted health care. Actually, it shows the threat. Tweets: @robmay , @allenfrancesmd , @went1955 , @edwardtufte , @wi...
A new Illinois law, which went into effect on Jan.1, requires employers to notify and obtain consent from job applicants for using AI to grade video interviews
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In Argentina, delivery apps Glovo and Rappi, which allow users to send and receive all kinds of packages, have been found to deliver drugs in ~10 cases so far
including illegal drugs — and poorly enforced laws leave them responsible https://onezero.medium.com/... Sarah Kessler / @sarahfkessler : Drug dealers in Argentina are using delive...
In Argentina, delivery apps Glovo and Rappi, which allow users to send and receive all kinds of packages, have been found to deliver drugs in ~10 cases so far
There, they can be hired to transport anything — including illegal drugs — and poorly enforced laws leave them responsible
Interviews with current and former staff, sellers, and suppliers on how Amazon dictates and unpredictably changes rules, punishes and threatens businesses
hundreds of thousands of companies from start-ups to giant brands — means it can squeeze them for profits, and in some cases, threaten their survival. https://www.nytimes.com/... @...
How delivery workers in Mexico City use WhatsApp groups to share real time info on crashes, robberies, harassment, and their deliveries in high crime areas
A 1,000-person WhatsApp community keeps delivery workers safe — a recent Tuesday night, Luisa Amezquita, a Rappi company delivery worker … Tweets: @ozm , @went1955 , and @llchris...
Jerome Pesenti, VP of AI at Facebook, on using AI for content moderation, limitations of deep learning and current AI, commercializing AI research, and more
Jerome Pesenti is encouraged by progress in artificial intelligence, but sees the limits of the current approach to deep learning. Tweets: @went1955 and @wired Tweets: Robert Went ...