Tag: Tech
Why Am I Sp Bad At Typign?
I. It’s 1995, and I’m in seventh-grade keyboarding class. The school computer lab has clunky greige Apple computers loaded with Mavis Beacon software. We dutifully practice placing our fingers on the “home row”: the left hand on ASDF, right on JKL;. We practice typing short words, then sentences, aiming for…
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I Thought My Job Was To Report On Technology In India. Instead, I Got A Front-Row Seat To The Collapse Of My Democracy.
I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, was selling the promise of India, his home country and the company’s largest market, to 2,000 high school and college students. “Part of the reason we’re…
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Why Do A Bunch Of Nigerian Twitter Influencers Want This Alleged Money Launderer To Go Free? They’re Being Paid.
Yuri Cortez / AFP via Getty Images A man walks past graffiti demanding Colombian businessman Alex Saab’s freedom in Caracas, February 23, 2021. As an alleged money launderer who worked with the Venezuelan government and is fighting an extradition order to the United States, Alex Saab has some unlikely allies.…
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Despite Ban, Facebook Continued To Label People As Interested In Militias For Advertisers
For months after it banned violent extremist groups, Facebook’s advertising preference system, which lets advertisers deliver targeted ads, continued to identify and categorize some people as interested in militias. Last August, in preparation for the 2020 US presidential election, the social network said it would take down any Facebook pages,…
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How A Facial Recognition Tool Found Its Way Into Hundreds Of US Police Departments, Schools, And Taxpayer-Funded Organizations
A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly deployed across the country with little to no public oversight. According to reporting and data reviewed by BuzzFeed News, more than 7,000 individuals from nearly 2,000 public agencies nationwide have used Clearview AI to search through millions of Americans’…
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Your Local Police Department Might Have Used This Facial Recognition Tool To Surveil You. Find Out Here.
Clearview AI has created a powerful facial recognition tool and marketed it to police departments and government agencies. The company has never disclosed the entities that have used its facial recognition software, but a confidential source provided BuzzFeed News with data that appeared to be a list of agencies and…
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