Uso di Signal, ProtonMail, Tor e Tails assimilati a comportamenti terroristici: come può succedere?
2023-09-21 · Ilsoftware.it 4 min Vi aspettereste mai che un’agenzia governativa chiamata a svolgere attività di intelligence, con responsabilità sulla sicurezza di un intero Paese, possa mai assimilare l’utilizzo delle principali applicazioni basate sulla crittografia end-to-end a comportamenti terroristic

FTC Warns Tax Prep Companies Against Invasive Online Tracking – The Markup
2023-09-21 · Themarkup.org 3 min Pixel HuntSharing private information could lead to penalties, agency says after Markup investigation By Colin LecherSeptember 19, 2023 13:13 ET Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesShare This Article Copy Link RepublishThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned five tax pre

Peeking into the Black Box AlgorithmWatch
2023-09-18 · Algorithmwatch.org 13 min Editor's note: This article was written for and first published in the "journalist" magazine.Single mothers were seen as a particularly high risk. In the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, an algorithm spent years combing through the data of welfare recipients to determine which of t

Confederazione e fediverso: perché il governo svizzero è su Mastodon, e perché è così importante?
2023-09-15 · Rsi.ch < 1 min Il governo federale svizzero è arrivato su Mastodon, il social network autogestito che molti considerano una possibile alternativa a Twitter. È un arrivo sperimentale, ma più importante di una normale iscrizione a un normale social network: Mastodon è stato scelto, anche

Google rolls out Privacy Sandbox to use Chrome browsing history for ads
2023-09-10 · Bleepingcomputer.com 5 min Google has started to roll out its new interest-based advertising platform called the Privacy Sandbox, shifting the tracking of user's interests from third-party cookies to the Chrome browser.When starting the Google Chrome browser, users will now see an alert titled 'Enhanced ad

PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance
2023-08-23 · Privacyinternational.org 2 min ReportFirst published in 2017, “PI’s Guide to International Law and Surveillance” is an attempt to collate relevant excerpts from these judgments and reports into a single principled guide that will be regularly updated. This is the third edition of the Guide. It has been u

Is Meta's arrival on the fediverse good news?
2023-08-23 · Laquadrature.net 12 min The fediverse (a blend made from “federation” and “universe”) is a group of social media consisting of a multitude of platforms and software, each of them communicating with the others using a common protocol. Mastodon is one of the software applications used to offer an

La IA non e' creativa ne' umana: ne parla Il Fatto Quotidiano
2023-08-15 · Ilfattoquotidiano.it 6 min Quasi un anno fa ho dedicato al tema dell’intelligenza artificiale un post intitolato: Il dibattito sull’intelligenza artificiale rischia di diventare improduttivo ed autoreferenziale. Recentemente si sono svolti alcuni importanti incontri istituzionali dedicati, finalmente,

Perche' il dialogo su IA e' improduttivo e autoreferenziale Il Fatto Quotidiano
2023-08-15 · Ilfattoquotidiano.it 5 min Uno dei temi di maggior fascino del nostro tempo è certamente quello dell’intelligenza artificiale, dei suoi possibili sviluppi e future applicazioni. Sebbene il rapporto con la tecnica sia un argomento tutt’altro che nuovo (cui si sono dedicati filosofi come Martin Heidegge

Woman files lawsuit, claims 'faulty' DPD facial recognition hit prompted her false arrest
2023-08-12 · Eu.detroitnews.com 5 min   The Detroit NewsDetroit — A 32-year-old Detroit woman is suing the city and a Detroit police officer in federal court, alleging she was arrested in front of her two children while eight months pregnant based on "an unreliable facial recognition hit."Porcha Woodruff said she

Detroit alters facial recognition tech policy after lawsuit filed by pregnant woman
2023-08-12 · Eu.freep.com 2 min   Detroit Free PressThe Detroit Police Department will be strengthening its photo lineup and facial recognition technology policies after "shoddy" police work led to a February wrongful arrest of a woman who was eight months pregnant, Police Chief James White announced Wednesda

Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
2023-08-12 · Nytimes.com 7 min Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.Porcha Woodruff was getting her two daughters ready for school when six police