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• 7 min
• n/a
• 2018

Exploration of how, through facial and emotion recognition, digital artifacts make decisions on what we may want or need, and what they are able to do with this data.

• Data Privacy
• Computing Ethics Issues
• Computer Vision
• Data Mining

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• 10 min
• 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.

• Data Privacy
• Civil Surveillance
• Smartphones
• Networks

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• 15 min
• n/a
• 2017

An exploration of Venmo transactions for five different randomly selected users. On Venmo, all transactions are public by default, and users can take certain steps to make this information private.

• Data Privacy
• Digital Cash
• Smartphones

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• 7 min
• TED
• 2017

Predictive policing software such as PredPol may claim to be objective through mathematical, “colorblind” analyses of geographical crime areas, yet this supposed objectivity is not free of human bias and is in fact used as a justification for the further targeting of oppressed groups, such as poor communities or racial and ethnic minorities. Further, the balance between fairness and efficacy in the justice system must be considered, since algorithms tend more toward the latter than the former.

• Predictive Policing
• Algorithmic Bias
• Machine Learning

• 
• 7 min
• 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.

• Data Privacy
• Data Mining
• Networks

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• 5 min
• The New York Times
• 2019

In New York City, biometrics were used as a step in the investigation process, and thus combined with human oversight to help identify criminals and victims alike.

• Civil Surveillance
• Machine Learning
• Biometrics