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[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.
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[Link] How Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Used Big Tech to Change the Way We Shop
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
Depending on where you’ve been scrolling online this past year, you might have seen ads for a company called Shein, bearing taglines like “Make every day your Shein day!” and offers to win 250 outfits with a single click.
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[Link] Lawmakers Plan Legislation to ‘Ban Surveillance Advertising’
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Lawmakers have proposed new legislation that they say would ban surveillance-based advertising. The legislation would target the underlying practice of targeted or personalized ads that facilitates surveillance-based advertising itself.
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[Link] StormCrawler demonstrates the power of open source
Read: 15/8/2021 cameraforensics.com
We sat down with our team member Julien Nioche, resident web crawling and big data expert and the developer of the open-source project ‘StormCrawler’.
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[Link] AI firm DeepMind puts database of the building blocks of life online
Read: 8/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Last year the artificial intelligence group DeepMind cracked a mystery that has flummoxed scientists for decades: stripping bare the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life.
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[Link] Amazon will pay you $10 in credit for your palm print biometrics
Read: 6/8/2021 techcrunch.com
How much is your palm print worth? If you ask Amazon, it’s about $10 in promotional credit if you enroll your palm prints in its checkout-free stores and link it to your Amazon account.
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[Link] Data isn’t oil, whatever tech commentators tell you: it’s people’s lives
Read: 2/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The phrase “data is the new oil” is the cliche du jour of the tech industry. It was coined by Clive Humby, the genius behind Tesco’s loyalty card, who argued that data was “just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used.
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