• The creeping threat of facial recognition

  Tags: ITGS, facial recognition, surveillance, algorithm

• Shoshana Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance Capitalism | 3 Quarks Daily

  Tags: ITGS, surveillance capitalism, privacy, anonymity, zuboff

• Amazon’s Facial Recognition Misidentified 1 in 5 California Lawmakers as Criminals – VICE

  “In a recent test of Amazon’s facial recognition software, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California revealed that it mistook 26 California lawmakers as people arrested for crimes. “

  Tags: ITGS, facial recognition, amazon, surveillance, algorithm, false positive

  • – By dr tech

• Uncovered: reality of how smartphones turned election news into chaos | Politics | The Guardian

  ““If everything that people are seeing is via social media – who is accountable? There is very little human intelligence or decision-making behind it, no attempt to give a balanced view. That seems to leave all responsibility on the reader.””

  Tags: ITGS, smartphone, scoail media, politics and goverment, news, entertainment

  • – By dr tech

• Facebook took action on a fake story on white vans – but what about these hoaxes? | Technology | The Guardian

  “acebook has come under fire this week after a hoax story about women being abducted in white vans went viral on its platform. The site’s algorithms are thought to have perpetuated the circulation of the story.”

  Tags: facebook, ITGS, fake, news, social media, algorithm, moderator

  • – By dr tech

• Teaching Self-Driving Cars to Watch for Unpredictable Humans

  “Game players—like drivers—often have to reach conclusions without full understanding of what the other players—or drivers—are doing. So more researchers are applying game theory to train self-driving cars how to act in uncertain situations.”

  Tags: false positive, algorithm, cars, ai, ITGS

  • – By dr tech

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