In the Moral Machine Experiment, a survey of more than two million people from 233 countries, people preferred to save humans over animals, young over old, and more people over fewer.
Apple CEO Tim Cook today called on the US government to pass “a comprehensive federal privacy law,” saying that tech companies that collect wide swaths of user data are engaging in surveillance.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/russian-hacking-usa-cyber-command.html
targeting individual Russian operatives […], telling them that American operatives have identified them and are tracking their work
Fixing things will be tricky
https://wersm.com/facebook-portal-can-collect-your-data-for-future-ad-targeting/
https://www.wired.com/story/genome-hackers-show-no-ones-dna-is-anonymous-anymore/
60% of Americans of European descent can be identified via public DNA databases, regardless of whether they’ve submitted their own DNA data or not
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9npv/bloomberg-china-supermicro-apple-hack
No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek’s bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebook-isnt-sorry-it-just-wants-your-data
in-home panopticon
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your-number-security-they-used-it-ads
Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/russia-hacks-doping-poisoning.html
the British foreign ministry, antidoping agencies in Colorado Springs and Canada, and investigators examining the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/facebook-hack-other-sites.html
Companies that allow customers to log in with Facebook Connect are scrambling to figure out whether their own user accounts have been compromised.
By doing so, the students also open themselves up to receiving information from corporate sponsors who pay the cafe to reach its clientele
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/01/first-case-law-suspect-unlock-iphone-face-id/
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-security-breach-third-party-sites/
If your account was impacted it means that a hacker could have accessed any account that you log into using Facebook.
An Icelandic startup called Aha is using a Chinese-made drone and an Israeli logistics system to deliver hot food, groceries, and electronics to households in Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik.
Today’s revelations highlight the danger that can arise from […] a lack of safeguards, the absence of which has allowed an intelligence agency to extract data about a human rights charity […]
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/safari-siri-search-conspiracy-fake-news