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Access Denied: Faulty Automated Background Checks Freeze Out Renters
Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching.
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Microsoft Bans Police Face Recognition Sales as Big Tech Reacts to Protests
The announcement came a day after rival Amazon.com declared it was pausing police use of its "Rekognition" service for a year.
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Younger People, Users of Niche Social Media Platforms More Likely to Share Covid-19 Disinformation
More than half of respondents to the study who shared disinformation were 39 or younger.
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U.S. Voting Data from Millions of People is Being Traded on the Dark Web
Researchers have found that data on millions of U.S. voters is being illegally traded on parts of the Internet not searchable using normal means.
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NYU Report Calls On Social Media Titans to Stop Outsourcing Content Moderation
A New York University report urges social media companies to stop outsourcing the moderation of their content.
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AI vs. AI
Financial institutions use AI to create "synthetic identities" for customers; hackers use 'bad' AI to fool the 'good' AI.
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Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s
A medical school thought a computer program would make the admissions process fairer—but it did just the opposite.
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Amazon Pauses Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
The company said it hoped the moratorium "might give Congress enough time to put in place appropriate rules" for the technology.
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Evidence Suggests The U.S. Loses Hundreds of Billions to Cybercrime
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology estimates 2016 losses due to cybercrime exceeded $160 billion.
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IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM's CEO says we should reevaluate selling the technology to law enforcement.
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The Epic Battle Against Coronavirus Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories
Scientists worldwide are scrambling to track and counter the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Colorblind Users Push Technology Designers to Use Signals Beyond Color
Colorblind users are pressing technology developers to redesign products to accommodate their disability.
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Encrypted Messaging App Signal Adds Facial Recognition Protection for Protesters
The Signal encrypted messaging app is introducing a blur tool to hide faces in photos before sharing them.
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Germany, France Hope Cloud Data Project to Boost Sovereignty
Germany and France have launched a project to establish a European cloud computing platform.
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In Virus-Hit South Korea, AI Monitors Lonely Elders
SK Telecom operates an artificial intelligence-powered network of voice-enabled "smart" speakers to monitor thousands of seniors during the coronavirus pandemic...
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Fake News Gets Shared More When It is Angry, Anxiety-Inducing
Researchers in China have found that fake news may go viral more quickly when it uses words associated with anger.
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Butterfly Landmines Mapped by Drones, Machine Learning
Researchers say drones and advanced machine learning can be used to detect improvised explosive devices and butterfly landmines.
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Algorithms Used in Policing Face Policy Review
The U.S. Government Accountability Office last month published the first half of a review of privately developed algorithms used in policing.
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Publishers Sue Internet Archive Over Free E-Books
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, and Wiley accused the nonprofit of piracy for making over 1 million books free online.
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