Links July 14-20 2019
Friday July 19, 2019
"A few weeks ago, we hosted a discussion thread in which we asked writers what features they’d like to see in Substack. We got hundreds of responses, asking for everything from image captions to a mobile app." on.substack.com
"Today, the reality is much different for my sons, who will grow up on a web where rampant privacy violations seem to happen on a weekly basis." edition.cnn.com
"This sometimes causes customers behind in line to roll their eyes. The family also forgoes the plastic bags offered in the bulk section of Sprouts, where they load up on rice, coffee, pancake mix and flour. Instead, they grab paper wine bags from the store’s liquor department. Isla and James always make a beeline to the bulk cookie and pastry section." latimes.com
"Here’s the thing: adtech looks like advertising, and gets called advertising; but it’s actually a form of direct marketing, better known in the old days as direct mail, better known by its victims as junk mail." blogs.harvard.edu/doc/
What Congress discovered when they looked into data brokers almost 50 years ago. fastcompany.com
Thursday July 18, 2019
Multiple Facebook representatives disagreed with senior leadership's denial to UK authorities that the company had no knowledge of third-party applications accessing user data in violation of company guidelines. If Facebook's senior leadership cannot discern when it is telling the truth, should it embark on a globally accessible crypto currency line of business? parliament.uk
In 2006 Privacilla editor Jim Harper said the NSA datatbase violates all Americans' privacy. privacilla.org
A machine-learning programmer decided to enhance her autistic son's perceptions with AI. IOW she turned him into a cyborg. qz.com
Great article on what Disney risked to make 1994's The Lion King. nytimes.com
A 2018 article on Peter Thiel and Palantir "Peter Thiel’s data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers." bloomberg.com
“'Among the most angry focus groups I have done in my career was [one] with working-class women in Maine talking about how much their healthcare and child care coverage was costing them compared to the women they knew on Medicaid,' he said." latimes.com
I’m an Engineer, and I’m Not Buying Into ‘Smart’ Cities: nytimes.com
Wednesday July 17, 2019
Jay Rosen said this is one of the best articles he's read in some time, Unreality and Social Corrosion: Masha Gessen and Ethan Zuckerman in Conversation: mitpress.mit.edu
Cyberattacks hitting tech-rich schools in over 50 districts. "The outages were disruptive particularly because many of the state’s schools have issued digital devices to each student, part of a transition to a model where students spend part of a school day working at their own speed, according to Pam Mazzaferro, director of the Central New York Regional Information Center." nypost.com
Judge Orders Social-Media Silence for Roger Stone Trump confidant is banned from using Instagram, Twitter and Facebook as he awaits November trial; "A federal judge on Tuesday ordered President Trump’s former adviser Roger J. Stone Jr. off major social media platforms, declaring that he violated a gag order by using them to attack the special counsel’s investigation and officials tied to it." nytimes.com
Tuesday July 16, 2019
Palantir CEO Peter Thiel says FBI, CIA should probe Google axios.com
"Palantir Technologies, co-founded by a Trump advisor in Silicon Valley, has created a smart-phone app that helps ICE round up undocumented workers. The number of arrests has shot up." wnyc.com
Monday July 15, 2019
"While requesters underestimated compliance in face-to-face contexts, replicating previous research, they overestimated compliance in email contexts." sciencedirect.com
A police officer grew disillusioned with his job that became too much about "stats, guns, arrests" and not enough about "people, families, emotions" resigned and told his story. medium.com
Recent criminal justice reforms contain the seeds of a frightening system of “e-carceration.” nytimes.com
"Chatbots that don’t disclose that they’re not human will be illegal in California starting in July, under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last month." sfchronicle.com
"It also turns out these self-styled digital natives don’t know anything more about digital than their elders." pewinternet.org
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