Blacklight – The Markup
Sep 22, 2020 · Hey researchers! Want to speed things up? Check out Blacklight Query, a new command-line tool
What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not …
Sep 2, 2021 · In May, a group of Google users filed a federal class action lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging the company is violating its claims to not sell personal information by operating its real-time bidding service.. The lawsuit argues that even though Google wasn’t directly handing over your personal data in …
The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching
Mar 22, 2024 · Since at least 2019, DHS has been gradually and increasingly integrating AI and other advanced machine learning into its operations, including border security, cybersecurity, threat detection, and disaster response, according to the department’s AI Inventory.Some specific uses include image generation and detection, geospatial imagery, identity verification, border trade tracking, biometrics ...
There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
Sep 30, 2021 · ADVAN. Company says they have “the largest and most accurate data in the market, from hundreds of millions of cellphones,” and “300 billion monthly data points since 2015” as well as “100+ observations per device per day.”. Company response “What we provide is just aggregated metrics—what you would get if you would sit outside a Walmart with a people counter every day for the ...
With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can …
Mar 11, 2024 · This article was copublished with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom covering gender, politics, and policy.Sign up for The 19th’s newsletter here.. More than two dozen students at Westfield High School in New Jersey were horrified last year to learn that naked images of them were circulating among their peers. According to the school, some students had used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create ...
Should Doxing Be Illegal? – The Markup
Aug 17, 2021 · In 2016, a “troll storm” hit Tanya Gersh, a Jewish wedding planner and real estate agent in Montana. The storm began when Andrew Anglin, the editor of the Neo-Nazi publication The Daily Stormer, published her photo, phone numbers, email addresses, and social media profiles, including one belonging to her young son.
The Shadows of Removed Posts Are Hiding in Plain Sight on Reddit
Dec 16, 2021 · Caption: Moderator-removed reposts, like this one from r/goldenretrievers, are still visible on the site in moderators' comment histories. For example, the subreddit-specific rules of r/TikTokThots, a subreddit dedicated to sexualized TikTok videos, explicitly instruct users not to post videos of people presumed to be under 18, in keeping with the …
Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
Jan 17, 2024 · Meta spokesperson Emil Vazquez defended the company’s practices. “We offer a number of transparency tools to help people understand the information that businesses choose to share with us, and manage how it’s used,” wrote …
The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring …
Aug 10, 2024 · Caption: Francisco Lara-García My conversation with Lara-García has been edited for brevity and clarity. Lara-García: One thing that is kind of a paradox about living and having lived on the border is that there are moments when you can’t not be aware of the intense amount of enforcement and surveillance and activity across the border. But at the same time, it also just becomes a fabric ...
Facebook Got Rid of Racial Ad Categories. Or Did It?
Aug 25, 2020 · Last year, Facebook quietly moved to prevent advertisers from choosing the race of the people who would see their ads. The move—which eliminated ad targeting categories like “African-American multicultural affinity”—came after years of criticism of the company for failing to prevent such categories from being misused to discriminate against people.