By eroding Section 230, Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act risks silencing marginalized communities and will make the internet less safe for sex workers
By eroding Section 230, Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act risks silencing marginalized communities and will make the internet less safe for sex workers
Q&A with Twitter's senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more
‘Twitter description guy’ isn't a guy. It's Twitter's curation team, and I talked to the woman who runs it. Tweets: @ozm , @thedextriarchy , @mediasmarts , @michellemanafy , @risj...
A look at “Sharp Eyes”, a computerized video surveillance program that aims to surveil 100% of Chinese public spaces and relies largely on reports from citizens
The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state — One of China's largest … Tweets: @medium , @ozm , @ozm , @aedison , @sarahnemerson , and @seamusblackley Tweet...
A look at “Sharp Eyes”, a computerized video surveillance program that aims to surveil 100% of Chinese public spaces and relies largely on reports from citizens
The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state — One of China's largest … Tweets: @medium , @ozm , @ozm , @aedison , @sarahnemerson , and @seamusblackley Tweet...
Twitter Super Follows and Clubhouse portend a shift from algorithmic, scale-focused, low-attention feeds to low-volume, high-attention relationships with users
even though I've never created one or even spoken — I find myself instinctively wanting to see who else entered the room because some “tech reporter” may tattle if it's a Prohibite...
AI researchers doubt the efficacy and ethics of emotion recognition tech, as studies show facial expressions match a person's emotions only 20%-30% of the time
People's facial expressions line up with their emotions less than half the time — OneZero's General Intelligence is a roundup … Tweets: @robmccargow , @hypervisible , @autscipers...
After researchers raised data privacy concerns, Clubhouse says it is taking steps “to prevent Clubhouse clients from ever transmitting pings to Chinese servers”
what it is and how to get an invite Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1485: what “accept cookies” really means, why surfaces don't spread Covid, a Facebook smartwatch?, a...
Clubhouse employs an unusually aggressive user onboarding process, pressuring users to upload contacts before ranking those contacts based on total connections
and makes them visible in surprising ways. Yeah, NO, you cannot have access to my contacts. https://onezero.medium.com/... @medium : Çlubhouse nudges you to invite your contacts to...
Some Black medical professionals who are voluntarily countering misinfo on Clubhouse about COVID-19 and its vaccine say they have been harassed and bullied
- Conspiracies flourish on app including about vaccines and 5G — 'Hey, I was skeptical too, but here's where I am now' Tweets: @mattyglesias , @williamturton , @williamturton , ...
CBP scanned 23M+ people with facial recognition tech at airports, seaports, and pedestrian crossings in 2020, and reveals it caught zero imposters at airports
U.S. Customs and Border Protection scanned more than 23 million people in public places with facial recognition technology in 2020 Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection . Twee...
Google launches Google News Showcase in UK and Argentina, after debuting the service in Australia last week, and says it now has over 450 publications globally
Saqib Shah / Engadget :
Members of Latin American diaspora populations have reconnected with their lost relatives using Facebook, which fills an information gap that governments cannot
they had fled the brutal civil war there — when she finally found them on Facebook @Longreads https://onezero.medium.com/... Maya Averbuch / @mayaaverbuch : 1/ A couple years ago, ...
Members of Latin American diaspora populations have reconnected with their lost relatives using Facebook, which fills an information gap that governments cannot
they had fled the brutal civil war there — when she finally found them on Facebook @Longreads https://onezero.medium.com/... Maya Averbuch / @mayaaverbuch : 1/ A couple years ago, ...
Research: GPT-3 frequently creates sentences associating Muslims with shooting, bombs, murder, and violence; OpenAI acknowledged the bias while announcing GPT-3
What's in store for Amazon during Biden admin: more unions, labor protection and oversight, antitrust actions, privacy and facial recognition regulations, more
- Amazon has cozied up to the Democratic Party through donations and its top spokesperson has a longstanding relationship with President Joe Biden. Tweets: @mattrosoff Tweets: Matt...
Despite the influx of tech veterans into Biden's administration, the latest appointments and developments show Biden will be tougher on tech than predecessors
Two schools of thought on the new administration — For all of Donald Trump's railing against Amazon's “monopoly,” social media …
On its 20th anniversary, Wikipedians recount how it began and how it grew to become the definitive digital encyclopedia and the default resource for everything
at least, not like this. https://read.medium.com/tLnGC1L See also Mediagazer
The far-right is flocking to MeWe, a privacy-focused Facebook alternative that has Tim Berners-Lee on its board, with membership growing to 15M in recent months
though it raised questions about adverse selection of a user base. The most inflammatory groups on FB were promoting an exodus to alt-platforms. https://twitter.com/... Michael Zel...
How Americans are using Cash App and Venmo to practice direct giving to one another in a new way, as an alternative to giving through charitable institutions
In 2020, Venmoing total strangers in need became a radical act of support — and trust — aised in a six-bedroom mansion … Tweets: @dlberes , @ozm , @doctoryasmin , @gaetaamy , @ca...