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@PrivacyCDN10 months ago
Fantasy fears about AI are obscuring how we already abuse machine intelligence | Kenan Malik | The Guardian
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10 months ago
Artificial intelligence

Fantasy fears about AI are obscuring how we already abuse machine intelligence | Kenan Malik

Last November, a young African American man, Randal Quran Reid, was pulled over by the state police in Georgia as he was driving into Atlanta.He was arrested under warrants issued by Louisiana police for two cases of theft in New Orleans.Reid had never been to Louisiana, let alone New Orleans.His protestations came to nothing, and he was in jail for six days as his family frantically spent thousands of dollars hiring lawyers in both Georgia and Louisiana to try to free him.
 @PrivacyCDN10 months ago
How Indigenous Groups Are Leading the Way on Data Privacy - Scientific American
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10 months ago
Privacy professionals

How Indigenous Groups Are Leading the Way on Data Privacy

Even as Indigenous communities find increasingly helpful uses for digital technology, many worry that outside interests could take over their data and profit from it, much like colonial powers plundered their physical homelands.But now some Indigenous groups are reclaiming control by developing their own data protection technologieswork that demonstrates how ordinary people have the power to sidestep the tech companies and data brokers who hold and sell the most intimate details of their identities, lives and cultures.
 @PrivacyCDN11 months ago
To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
11 months ago
Privacy professionals

To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech

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1. Ad-tech companies have a stranglehold on journalism that needs to be broken in order to save the news industry.
2. Journalism needs to be protected so that it can continue to provide accurate and reliable information to the public.
 @PrivacyCDN1 year ago
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The Intercept
1 year ago
Education

Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking to Recruit High School Children

The Georgia Army National Guard plans to combine two deeply controversial practices - military recruiting at schools and location-based phone surveillance - to persuade teens to enlist, according to contract documents reviewed by The Intercept.The federal contract materials outline plans by the Georgia Army National Guard to geofence 67 different public high schools throughout the state, targeting phones found within a one-mile boundary of their campuses with recruiting advertisements "with the intent of generating qualified leads of potential applicants for enlistment while also raising awareness of the Georgia Army National Guard."
 @PrivacyCDN1 year ago
‘Dystopian’ surveillance ‘disproportionately targets young, female and minority workers’ | Workers' rights | The Guardian
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1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Dystopian' surveillance disproportionately targets young, female and minority workers'

Dystopian worker surveillance techniques are more likely likely to disproportionately affect young people, women and ethnic minorities, a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank warns.Worker surveillance practices have increasingly become the new normal, with a rise in remote work leading to an escalation in workplace monitoring, according to the report.
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