https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/
Artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate power among a small elite if we don’t take steps to stop it.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134541/google-plus-privacy-api-data-leak-developers
the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed […] even if their account was set to private.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html
Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/technology/prevent-location-data-sharing.html
Unlike iPhones, Android phones don’t allow you to restrict an app’s access to your location to just the moments when you’re using it.
https://www.economist.com/business/2018/12/07/why-does-5g-have-everyone-worried-about-huawei
Western spooks have mused publicly about the risk that Huawei’s kit might be siphoning valuable data back to Beijing, or that it comes with “back doors”
Ansip said he was concerned because Chinese technology companies were required to cooperate with Chinese intelligence services, such as on “mandatory back doors” to allow access to encrypted data.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/04/wing-takes-flight-in-finland/
delivering goods and packages of up to 1.5 kilograms (about 3.3 pounds) within a distance of up to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/05/threat-journalists-highest-level-10-years-report
hostility towards the media is becoming normalised around the world, amid a proliferation of “strongman” populist leaders who have echoed the language of the US president and vilified journalists for simply doing their jobs.
https://wersm.com/microsoft-adds-live-captions-and-subtitles-in-skype-calls/
AI-powered live captions and subtitles in Skype calls, to help more people who are deaf or hard of hearing, use the service.
https://mondaynote.com/how-facebook-is-fueling-the-french-populist-rage-27a86acb9d85
The social network is playing a critical role in one of the worse civil unrest ever seen in France, with no end in sight for now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/technology/huawei-arrest-meng-wanzhou.html
China sees the company as a pivotal driver of its ambitions for global technological leadership. Increasingly, much of the rest of the world sees it as a potential conduit for espionage and sabotage.
It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day.
Den grunnleggende funnet i rapporten er at for hver krone verden bruker for å oppfylle klimatiltak, vil man spare inn to kroner i bedre helse
Internal emails show Facebook weighing the privacy risks of collecting call records — then going ahead anyway
Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies, who now faces extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.
https://www.diyphotography.net/samsung-used-my-dslr-photo-to-fake-their-phones-portrait-mode/
Earlier this year, Samsung was busted for using stock photos to show off capabilities of Galaxy A8’s camera. And now they did it again – they used a stock image taken with a DSLR […]
https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update
We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.
contained a guest’s name, postal address, phone number, date of birth, gender, email address, passport number, […] arrival and departure information, reservation date […]