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Bookmark Anatomy of an AI System
A cylinder sits in a room. It is impassive, smooth, simple and small. It stands 14.8cm high, with a single blue-green circular light that traces around its upper rim. It is…

February 26 2023, 1:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | Why We Should Stop Fetishizing Privacy - The New York…
Big tech companies create jobs, encourage innovation and provide valuable services free. Why would we want to break them up? Ms. Messer is a technology investor and entrepreneur.

May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments
Bookmark Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The…
This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet.

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Google and Facebook Didn't End Data Privacy - The Atlantic
A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Watch: Here Are All The Ways Your City Is Surveilling You -…
If you live in a major metropolitan area, the odds are good you’re being watched and listened to at all times. And even if you don’t, that surveillance technology is still…

July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments
Bookmark Big Brother’s Blind Spot | Joanne McNeil
Netflix believes, algorithmically at least, that I am the kind of person who likes to watch “Dark TV Shows Featuring a Strong Female Lead.” This picksome genre is never one that…

July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments
Bookmark What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance? |…
The parallel between Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and CCTV may be clear, but what happens when you step into the world of data capture? The philosopher Jeremy Bentham famously requested in his…

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark Inspired by brain’s visual cortex, new AI utterly wrecks CAPTCHA security |…
Computer algorithms have gotten much better at recognizing patterns, like specific animals or people's faces, allowing software to automatically categorize large image collections. But we've come to rely on some things…

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance? |…
The parallel between Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon and CCTV may be clear, but what happens when you step into the world of data capture? The philosopher Jeremy Bentham famously requested in his…

November 20 2017, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Meet The Woman Who Did Everything In Her Power To Hide Her…
Janet Vertesi, assistant professor of sociology at Princeton University, had an idea: would it be possible to hide her pregnancy from big data? Thinking about technology—the way we use it and…

July 4 2016, 4:06am | Comments
Bookmark Google's New AI Can Tell Where Your Photo Was Taken Without Using…
In case you didn’t already feel like Google was a creepy stalker, its artificial intelligence tools are rapidly crossing over into uncanny. The latest one is PlaNet, a new deep-learning machine…

March 6 2016, 7:20am | Comments
Bookmark Google Searches Put Consumers at Risk - The Atlantic
Google knows the questions that people wouldn’t dare ask aloud, and it silently offers reams of answers. But it is a mistake to think of a search engine as an oracle…

January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments
Bookmark PLOS ONE: Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections
Criminal investigations often use photographic evidence to identify suspects. Here we combined robust face perception and high-resolution photography to mine face photographs for hidden information.

January 6 2015, 10:07am | Comments
Bookmark ‘The issue formerly known as privacy’ | Al Jazeera America
Editor's note: This is the eighth installment of the Living With Data series exploring how our online data is tracked, collected and used.

December 18 2014, 1:47am | Comments
Bookmark The Creepy New Wave of the Internet by Sue Halpern | The…
Every day a piece of computer code is sent to me by e-mail from a website to which I subscribe called IFTTT. Those letters stand for the phrase “if this then…

November 7 2014, 9:38am | Comments
Bookmark How Kids Find Online Privacy - Reason.com
Anthropologist danah boyd (uncapitalization hers) is the author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (Yale University Press). In May, she told reason three ways kids find privacy online.…

September 15 2014, 4:23pm | Comments
Bookmark I share everything. Or do I? | ideas.ted.com
After a misleading tip linked Hasan Elahi to terrorist activities - and an FBI investigation - the artist created a project that lets anyone monitor him. But how much is he really revealing? I share…

July 12 2014, 2:25am | Comments
Bookmark Journey to the Centre of Google Earth - Simon Sellars
This essay was commissioned by Anne Hilde Neset for Only Connect Festival Of Sound 2014: J.G. Ballard. It was published in the Only Connect catalogue, May 2014. Thank you to NyMusikk…

June 23 2014, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark Google gets 12,000 requests to be 'forgotten' on first day
Google received 12,000 requests from people seeking to be "forgotten" by the world's leading search engine on the first day it offered the service, a company spokesman in Germany said Saturday.

June 1 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation
A data haven is "the information equivalent to a tax haven," a country that helps you evade other countries' rules on what you can and can't do with your bits. (Think…

March 28 2012, 3:42am | Comments
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Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'

January 28 2012, 10:36am | Comments
Bookmark Our data, ourselves
Who owns the data in that cloud has been the subject of ferocious debate. It’s not all stored in one place, of course — our lives are tracked and documented by…

May 30 2011, 3:11pm | Comments
Bookmark The Web Means the End of Forgetting
When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of…

July 25 2010, 7:15am | Comments
Bookmark Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
In 2006 Stacy Snyder, a 25-year-old student at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, was denied a teaching degree just days before graduation. University officials had discovered a photo of her, captioned “Drunken…

June 13 2010, 11:59pm | Comments
Wikipedia Steganography Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. The word steganography is of Greek origin…

April 22 2010, 2:50am | Comments
Bookmark The dark side of the internet
In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness…

December 8 2009, 7:14am | Comments

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