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AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook -- either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people ...
I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics. This week's question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management:
As you can see, most people said yes. I count myself ...
“While billed by the White House as ‘definitive,’ the report included no scholarly footnotes or citations, nor was it clear who its primary authors were.”
A droll kicker to this story by @michaelcrowley and @jennyschuessler about the “1776 Report.” nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/…
A vicious anonymous letter to MLK in 1964 was later verified by Senate investigators as sent by the FBI. This 2014 article by historian @beverlygage mentions the repudiation of it — and the surveillance behind it — by then-FBI Director @Comey. nytimes.com/2014/11/16/mag…pic.twitter.com/d2oSHKY6Rc