pickHilarious and informative. 6years old so probably outdated but a good overview of the difference technologies known collectively as AI. Surprisingly funny.
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pickHilarious and informative. 6years old so probably outdated but a good overview of the difference technologies known collectively as AI. Surprisingly funny.
bailedTo wordy for me & too much information to boot, useful for people that need to use tools though
We do not care that we laughed so hard at the podcast we listened to on our walk, that the neighbors must think we‘re crazy. #wdncw
There's actually a term for this category: LOVEINT, when intelligence officers use their access to surveillance tools to spy on the human objects of their affection. It's happened at all levels of the government, from NSA employees who accessed email and phone data of romantic partners to local police officers who have snooped in DMV databases to get women's home addresses.
In 2008, a couple of academics decided to study how long it would actually take to read all the privacy policies the average American agrees to in a year. Their estimate? More than 200 hours. That's 25 workdays, or a month of nine to five reading. To prove how ridiculous it was to expect consumers to read these agreements, one gaming company added to its online terms of service a claim to “the immortal soul“ of anyone who placed an...
Privacy isn't just about what people know about you, it's about how that knowledge gives them control over you.
This is the challenge of protecting privacy in the modern world. How can you fully comprehend what will become possible as technology improves? Information that you give up freely now, in ways that seem harmless, might come back to haunt you when computers get better at mining it.
Google created a blurring option to pixelate houses in Steet View photos to make them unrecognizable. Pro-tech vigilantes sought out the blurred homes in the real world, the locations easily ascertainable from Google Maps, and egged them, leaving notes in their mailboxes that read, “Google's cool.“ Those who chose privacy over progress thus became the villains. Evidently, there would be no hiding in this new rabidly transparent world.
Most people think that the sheer existence of a privacy policy means a company protects their data, but, in fact, the policy exists to explain, in lengthy legalese, how the company may exploit it. It would be more accurately termed a “data exploitation policy.“
