Google Allegedly Used Homeless People to Train Pixel Phone
Managers reportedly encouraged contractors to mischaracterize the data collection as a “selfie game,” akin to Snapchat filters such as Face Swap. College students who agreed...
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Google’s Knowledge Panels Are Magnifying Disinformation
That box is what Google calls a “knowledge panel,” a collection of definitive-seeming information (dates, names, biographical details, net worths) that appears when you Google...
Is Amazon’s Search Algorithm Biased? It’s Hard to Prove
Read: What Amazon thinks you’re worth Amazon admits it takes profitability into account when displaying products, but it denies reworking its search tool to privilege...
Facebook Listening to Users Isn’t Just a Privacy Scandal
Read: What Amazon thinks you’re worth And each of these companies failed to tell users they had a hot mic on their wrists or in...
How Politicians and Scholars Turned Against Big Tech
Scholarly Tech Critics: The technology industry has long had skeptics in the academy, but over the last five years, those researchers have landed many more...
Alexa’s Delete History Option Is Not Real Privacy
While the packaging for these features is shiny and new, the substance behind them is not. Users could always use Maps while logged out of...
Why the Slowed-Down Pelosi Video Isn’t Fake to Facebook
These sorts of events are insidious because it’s hard to craft a response that isn’t a bad one. Talking about the video just gives its...
The Huawei Drama Is a Gift to US Tech Companies
Huawei’s connections to the Chinese military and state security apparatus have raised the hackles of American intelligence officers and politicians since 2005, when a Congressional...
President Trump Is Collecting Social Media Grievances
Today, the White House launched a new tool to “share your story” of having your online account banned “if you suspect political bias caused such...
Ever, Strava, and Why No One Knows How Data Will Be Used
Read: Behind every robot is a human Experts who study AI’s supply chain, particularly how automation hides human labor, note that each vector of human...
Silver-Infused Sheets Won’t Save You From Laundry Day
Read: Emasculated men refuse to do chores—except cooking That doesn’t mean some tech companies aren’t looking for marketable solutions to America’s cleaning problem. A new...
Sri Lanka Banned Social Media, But the Problem Is Bigger
Read: Social-media silence in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s ban on social media carries an implicit, and crucial, assumption: that the internet can produce good and...
Sri Lanka Banned Social Media, but the Problem Is Bigger
Read: Social-media silence in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka’s ban on social media carries an implicit, and crucial, assumption: that the internet can produce good and...
AI and Hashing Still Can’t Block Videos on Social Media
“[Tech companies] don’t have the infrastructure they need to scale to this size,” he said. He thinks these companies are simply underinvesting in moderation resources....
Facebook Lost a Major Housing-Discrimination Case
In addition, all housing ads will be viewable on a public portal, presumably on the model of the company’s political-ad archive. And Facebook agreed to...