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 ...
The strange thing is that this kind of testing is routine — and legally permissible, as best I can tell, unless they try to publish the results for general knowledge.
Mixed-up incentives. twitter.com/katecrawford/s…
If the business plan is to do what they’re currently doing, only more, it seems not a great long term investment.
@PLOS, @arxiv, and their counterparts are the way out, for all the reasons that make the status quo so absurd. twitter.com/protohedgehog/…
Not only is Terrell McSweeney’s departure a loss on the substance, but it will bring the FTC down to ... one commissioner. 😳
That’s really quite terrible. twitter.com/mattblaze/stat…
