• The pandemic has taken surveillance of workers to the next level | Rachel Connolly | Opinion | The Guardian

  “We are inured to the idea that professional environments have a built-in layer of surveillance, and now that this environment has merged with the home for many workers, some of these practices have started to look more extreme. But the discussion about surveillance should not start and end with the tools employers use to monitor people working from home. We should instead be asking: how necessary is any of this?”

  Tags: ITGS, surveillance, business and employment, privacy and anonymity

  • – By dr tech

• Rival disinformation campaigns targeted African users, Facebook says | Technology | The Guardian

  “Rival French and Russian disinformation campaigns have sought to deceive and influence internet users in the Central African Republic ahead of an election later this month, Facebook said on Tuesday.

  Facebook said it was the first time it had seen foreign influence operations directly engage on its platforms, with fake accounts denouncing each other as “fake news”.”

  Tags: ITGS, disinformation, privacy and anonymity, fake news, facebook, social media, integrity

  • – By dr tech

• Algorithms like YouTube’s content ID harm fair use, free speech, and creativity | Boing Boing

  “Because YouTube is the dominant player in the online video market, its choices dictate the norms of the whole industry. And unfortunately for independent creators, YouTube has proven to be more interested in appeasing large copyright holders than protecting free speech or promoting creativity. Through its automatic copyright filter, Content ID, YouTube has effectively replaced legal fair use of copyrighted material with its own rules.”

  Tags: ITGS, disinformation, youtube, algorithm, fair use, intellectual property

  • – By dr tech

• Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use | EdSurge News

  ““Our job as teachers and professors is not to surveil and police our students, but it’s to educate them,” he says. “You are assuming that students are trying to cheat—rather than assuming students are trying to learn and help them learn.”

  He sees the growing adoption of automated proctoring tools as a continuation of a trend started by plagiarism-detection services like Turnitin, which he says were built on the assumption that students want to cheat and must be policed. But despite early pushback by students and some professors, plagiarism detection has become ubiquitous. Parry worries the same thing could happen with automated proctoring.”

  Tags: ITGS, education, surveillance, exams, proctor

  • – By dr tech

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