tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/2496/feed_itemsGideon's bookmarks2015-07-22T12:05:50-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21078162015-07-10T00:20:57-04:002015-07-22T12:05:50-04:00When Algorithms Discriminate - The New York Times<p>Deirdre quoted.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20991602015-06-15T11:15:47-04:002015-06-15T11:15:47-04:00Can phone data detect real-time unemployment? | MIT NewsStudy: Usage patterns vary when people are not working. tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20984402015-05-22T06:39:26-04:002015-05-22T06:39:27-04:00Top 10 data mining algorithms in plain English | rayli.nettag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20973522015-04-22T11:54:04-04:002015-04-22T11:54:05-04:00Government Surveillance Records Show E-ZPass Readers Around New York City | New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) - American Civil Liberties Union of New York Statetag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20973382015-04-22T09:01:48-04:002015-04-22T09:01:50-04:00Tech vs. terror: Drones and data fight a new battle against poachers | Ars Technicatag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20972212015-04-17T14:20:30-04:002015-04-17T14:20:30-04:00Science Fiction's White Boys' Club Strikes BackOn the racial biases in sci-fi and the controversy over the recent Hugo Awards nominationstag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20938822015-02-10T09:10:37-05:002015-02-10T09:10:37-05:00Automating Tinder with EigenfacesMan too tired to use Tinder, builds bot to do it for him, gets so many dates it starts to affect his work.tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20938452015-02-09T10:35:25-05:002015-02-09T10:35:25-05:00BBC News - Not in front of the telly: Warning over 'listening' TVGuys, we need to disable those TVs in the conference rooms.tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20936732015-02-06T11:24:42-05:002015-02-06T11:24:43-05:00Who Should See Recordings From Police Bodycams? - The Atlantictag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20857852014-11-12T11:27:24-05:002014-11-12T11:27:24-05:00Americans believe they live in a privacy dystopia, report finds - The Washington Post"Over 90 percent of those surveyed by Pew agreed or "strongly" agreed that they have lost control over how their personal data is collected and used by companies.... Over 80 percent of those surveyed felt "not very" or "not at all secure" using social media sites to share private information with others, while 68 percent felt insecure using instant messaging and 57 percent felt insecure when sending private information via e-mail." tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20832252014-10-28T18:12:25-04:002014-10-28T18:12:27-04:00Finnish researchers discover two ’violence genes’ | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi<span>There are ways (to intervene),” said professor Jari Tiihonen of Karoliinska Institute in Stockholm, who led the research group. “If a person is given for example disulfiram a couple of times a week in observable conditions, it prevents alcohol usage. This would definitely have a big impact on the risk of recidivism.”</span>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20816872014-10-24T12:54:26-04:002014-10-24T12:54:27-04:00Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Other Huge Engineering Efforts - IEEE Spectrumtag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20694712014-10-21T10:31:29-04:002014-10-21T10:31:30-04:00Estonia to Offer ‘E-Residency’ to Foreigners - WSJ - WSJ
<p>Estonia has probably the most advanced e-govt and online identity system there is, and now it's basically offering that as a digital identity platform for anyone to use.</p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20611842014-10-20T11:43:18-04:002014-10-20T11:43:20-04:00Can Science Fiction Predict Technology’s Future? | New Republictag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/20203062014-10-15T10:54:13-04:002014-10-15T10:54:27-04:00The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance (Exploded Views): Tim Maly, Emily Horne: 9781552453018: Amazon.com: Books<span>...the available tools of scrutiny, supervision, and discipline are far more capable and insidious than Foucault dreamed, and yet less effective than Bentham hoped. Shopping malls, container ports, terrorist holding cells, and social networks all bristle with cameras, sensors, and trackers. But, crucially, they are also rife with resistance and prime opportunities for revolution. </span><i>The Inspection House</i><span> is a tour through several of these sites—from Guantánamo Bay to the Occupy Oakland camp and the authors' own mobile devices—providing a stark, vivid portrait of our contemporary surveillance state and its opponents.</span>