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Facebook Weighing Up Legality of Facial Recognition in Upcoming Smart Glasses

Facebook’s collaboration with Ray-Ban on a new technology of “smart glasses” comes with a host of questions on whether or not capabilities such as facial recognition should be built into the technology.

  • MacRumors
  • 2021
  • 5 min
  • Inc
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Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations. That’s Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem

Clubhouse, a new, exclusive social network app which appeared during the coronavirus pandemic, has some frightening data collection practices which are outlined in detail in this article. Essentially, while the company was not monetized at the time of this article, it collects data not only on users on the platform, but also any contacts of that user.

  • Inc
  • 7 min
  • New York Times
  • 2018
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Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy

This article details the research of Joy Buolamwini on racial bias coded into algorithms, specifically facial recognition programs. When auditing facial recognition software from several large companies such as IBM and Face++, she found that they are far worse at properly identifying darker skinned faces. Overall, this reveals that facial analysis and recognition programs are in need of exterior systems of accountability.

  • New York Times
  • 2018
  • 7 min
  • The Verge
  • 2020
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What a machine learning tool that turns Obama white can (and can’t) tell us about AI bias

PULSE is an algorithm which can supposedly determine what a face looks like from a pixelated image. The problem: more often than not, the algorithm will return a white face, even when the person from the pixelated photograph is a person of color. The algorithm works through creating a synthetic face which matches with the pixel pattern, rather than actually clearing up the image. It is these synthetic faces that demonstrate a clear bias toward white people, demonstrating how institutional racism makes its way thoroughly into technological design. Thus, diversity in data sets will not full help until broader solutions combatting bias are enacted.

  • The Verge
  • 2020
  • 5 min
  • Inc
  • 2021
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Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook

On International Data Privacy Day, Apple CEO Tim Cook fired shots against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s model of mining user data through platform analytics and web mining to serve up targeted ads to users. By contrast, Cook painted Apple as a privacy oriented company who wants to make technology work for its users by not collecting their data and manipulating them psychologically through advertising.

  • Inc
  • 2021
  • 6 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2019
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Consent and Control with Personal Data

In an imagined future of London, citizens all across the globe are connected to the Feed, a device and network accessed constantly through a brain-computer interface. Kate Hatfield, a new mother, discovers that someone has hacked into the device in her head, and thus was able to access some of her lived memories. Later, the culprit of this hack is revealed to be her father-in-law Lawrence, who was attempting to implant the Feed into Bea, the new baby.

  • Kinolab
  • 2019
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