https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evw3w7/driverless-cars-spare-young-people-over-old-in-a-car-accident-moral-machine-survey-find

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.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45980863

The artwork was produced using an algorithm and a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th Centuries.

https://blog.1password.com/introducing-1password-for-democracy/

Whether you’re running for office, ensuring elections run fairly, or protecting people’s rights, we’d like to offer you a completely free 1Password account to thank you for the essential work you do for society.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/tim-cook-calls-for-strong-us-privacy-law-rips-data-industrial-complex/

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.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/10/20/quantum-computers-will-break-the-encryption-that-protects-the-internet

Fixing things will be tricky

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

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://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebook-isnt-sorry-it-just-wants-your-data

in-home panopticon

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194