Networking, Capital, and Cloud Computing (60)
Find narratives by ethical themes or by technologies.
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- MIT Technology Review
- 2019
Discusses the issues that come with allowing private companies to fight back against cyber attacks by chasing hackers across the internet, including greater conflict with other countries and potential lawsuits.
- MIT Technology Review
- 2019
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- MIT Technology Review
- 2019
Five reasons “hacking back” is a recipe for cybersecurity chaos
Discusses the issues that come with allowing private companies to fight back against cyber attacks by chasing hackers across the internet, including greater conflict with other countries and potential lawsuits.
Do we need international norms to help defuse tensions in the cyberspace? What are the “alternatives” to hacking back? Would data be safer if it was not digital?
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- Wired
- 2019
Internet users should start considering private browsers such as Duckduckgo to promote privacy and prevent personalized search results and ads. Many different pieces of software, including browsers by larger tech companies, are beginning to take this approach of erasing data, blocking outside tracking, or preventing cookies.
- Wired
- 2019
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- Wired
- 2019
It’s Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser
Internet users should start considering private browsers such as Duckduckgo to promote privacy and prevent personalized search results and ads. Many different pieces of software, including browsers by larger tech companies, are beginning to take this approach of erasing data, blocking outside tracking, or preventing cookies.
Consider if the privacy-oriented browsers described in the article were the default. Whose interests would this work towards? Whose interests would this work against?
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- Field of Vision
- 2017
Video criticising the AT&T and NSA partnership, which allowed the NSA to spy on the UN, the World Bank, etc, by installing its surveillance equipment in AT&T hubs.
- Field of Vision
- 2017
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- Field of Vision
- 2017
Project X: Field of Vision
Video criticising the AT&T and NSA partnership, which allowed the NSA to spy on the UN, the World Bank, etc, by installing its surveillance equipment in AT&T hubs.
How do you know that your conversations are not being spied on at the moment? Would you like to have more reassurance?
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- Citylab
- 2019
Currently, the idea of “smart cities” are so theoretical and predicated on the idea of “technochauvinism” that they mostly exist in images which sell the ideas of ever-advancing technology and application of futuristic technologies to urban centers as a cash cow waiting to be milked.
- Citylab
- 2019
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- Citylab
- 2019
The 3 Pictures That Explain Everything About Smart Cities
Currently, the idea of “smart cities” are so theoretical and predicated on the idea of “technochauvinism” that they mostly exist in images which sell the ideas of ever-advancing technology and application of futuristic technologies to urban centers as a cash cow waiting to be milked.
What is a smart city, at least in theory? What might be left out of the phenomenon (urban life) that smart cities attempt to abstract in the creation of a smart city? What priorities come with envisioning a smart city, and who is or should be in control of this?
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- ARS Technica
- 2019
Google records some audio and has language experts review it to improve language skills of the technology. However, this may raise privacy concerns as sometimes they record by accident when users aren’t trying to use the Google Assistant.
- ARS Technica
- 2019
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- ARS Technica
- 2019
Google workers listen to your “OK Google” queries– one of them leaked recordings
Google records some audio and has language experts review it to improve language skills of the technology. However, this may raise privacy concerns as sometimes they record by accident when users aren’t trying to use the Google Assistant.
Do you use a virtual assistant? What for? Are you always conscious of what you are asking, or do you say things that you think no one is hearing?
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- Science Alert
- 2019
A newly revealed patent application filed by Amazon raises privacy concerns over an upgrade to the virtual assistant Alexa, in which the system records everything a users says in 10-30 second bits to look out for a command.
- Science Alert
- 2019
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- Science Alert
- 2019
Newly Released Amazon Patent Shows Just How Much Creepier Alexa Can Get
A newly revealed patent application filed by Amazon raises privacy concerns over an upgrade to the virtual assistant Alexa, in which the system records everything a users says in 10-30 second bits to look out for a command.
Is having a virtual assistant constantly listening “Big Brother-like” behavior? Can Amazon and other companies be trusted to not abuse this data? How much transparency would be needed to make this acceptable?