All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics.
Read more...Debate, prison debate, and an injustice you may be able to help rectify
Read more...The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties.
Read more...An insider’s take on surveillance.
Read more...A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
Read more...Chutzpah!
Read more...Facebook wants to control even more of your mind.
Read more...Two Senate Democrats seek regulation of smart TVs. Since this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, consumers are faced with not purchasing such devices in the first instance, or attempting to configure them to prevent them from hoovering up personal data.
Read more...California passes privacy legislation, which pre-empts a more sweeping ballot initiative previously scheduled for November.
Read more...The proliferation of military weapons and gear corresponds to that of para-militarized law enforcement officers.
Read more...Seyrmour Hersh’s retrospective demonstrates how much nerve it takes to do reporting, and how few reporters have it.
Read more...Police are casting their DNA-matching efforts wider via genealogy websites.
Read more...Apparently needing to justify spending and domestic surveillance, military exercises depict leftie future terrorists as official threats.
Read more...Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumNews, Counterpunch, the Ron Paul Institute, Paul Craig Roberts, Black Agenda Report, and other sites.
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