I’m so glad Bill Fitzgerald has written up his observations on this and will be following up. Bill writes: Last night, I logged onto the Kaiser Permanente patient health portal. I hadn’t done this in a while. I use a javascript blocker in my web browser. After logging into the site, I was very surprised…
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Law Enforcement Agencies’ Requests for Facebook Data Continue to Rise
Eyragon Eidam reports: Young and old alike, Facebook is where millions of people around the world share details of their lives that might have gone unshared 13 years ago. And if the recently released Facebook report on government requests for this data is any indication, law enforcement agencies within the United States are very interested…
Leaked document reveals Facebook conducted research to target emotionally vulnerable and insecure youth
Nick Whigham reports: FACEBOOK has come under fire over revelations it is targeting potentially vulnerable youths who “need a confidence boost” to facilitate predatory advertising practices. The allegation was revealed this morning by The Australian which obtained internal documents from the social media giant which reportedly show how Facebook can exploit the moods and insecurities…
Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments
Natasha Lomas reports: Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable data set for training convolutional neural networks probably wasn’t top of their list when they signed up to swipe. A user of Kaggle, a platform for machine learning and data science competitions which was recently…