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 ...
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99% of those eligible in Chelsea, MA, have had at least one Covid shot — an extraordinary achievement by all those thanked in the thread, Chelsea residents, and thechelseaproject.org. twitter.com/massgovernor/s…
Class action lawsuits have a bad reputation as potential bounties for lawyers with 5-cent coupons for customers, but this is a good example of a useful function — calling a manufacturer to account for shady practices that public officials wouldn’t have the bandwidth to take on. twitter.com/darkpatterns/s…
Outstanding journalism from @themarkup that caught Amazon with its hand in the cookie jar favoring its own products in search — leading Amazon to admit to “merchandising placement” it had previously narrowly denied to Congress. twitter.com/juliaangwin/st…
