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by humanetech 8y ago
This refers to NYT article [0] "Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret" [0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/loca...
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Surveillance libs in common smartphone apps collected data of 200M+ Americans(boingboing.net)
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TheCorrespondent creating a movement for radically different 'Unbreaking News'(thecorrespondent.com)
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IRL Ads Are Taking Scary Inspiration from Social Media(medium.com)
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The State of Surveillance in 2018 [pdf](bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)
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China’s Surveillance and Social Credit System Alive and Kicking in Berlin(medium.com)
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by humanetech 8y ago
I have another producthunt-related HN discussion [0] pending right now, about the question whether one should give almost full access to their Twitter account (permission to change profile, ability to post), just to be able to give an upvot
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Asking too many OAuth permissions: Dark pattern, complexity, or sloppiness?(twitter.com)
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by humanetech 8y ago
I don't know, could be. He was masked, anonymous and spoke Dutch.
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by humanetech 8y ago
Not yet, that I know of. But I have sent a inquiry / request to the producer Nicolaas Veul. I agree it would be great if that was added.
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by humanetech 8y ago
Tangential to the article, but on-topic to the title: I saw the Dutch documentary #followme [0] the other day, about the incredible fakeness of Instagram, where for a couple of dollars you can buy 1,000's of Likes / Followers. A
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by humanetech 8y ago
> we are governed by fools who barely understand technology This is an argument heard all around the world with regards to similar issues. I wonder to what extent it actually applies, and it is not your latter statement - that lobbying a
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LinkedIn processed 18M email addresses of non-users for targeted ads(irishtimes.com)
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How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of big tech companies(abc.net.au)
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Crossing the Privacy Chasm: How Can We Get People to Care About Their Data?(medium.com)
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A little phishing knowledge may be a dangerous thing(theregister.co.uk)
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End-to-end encryption does not prevent Facebook from accessing WhatsApp chats(medium.com)
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Surveillance Kills Freedom by Killing Experimentation(wired.com)
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What strategies are needed to ensure machines serve humankind?(ethicsofalgorithms.org)
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by humanetech 8y ago
Not sure if this was about the CHT then, as there exists still the Time Well Spent movement (as a FB group). But it could well be. The CHT realize quite well that TWS constitutes only a small part of what makes tech humane. Also the way tha
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by humanetech 8y ago
Tristan Harris, founder of the non-profit Center for Humane Technology (CHT) [0] has been quite successful at high government circles and board level of big tech companies. At the time Mark Zuckerberg didn't want to testify in the UK,
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We need to talk: About artificial intelligence and ethics in journalism(medium.com)
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Facebook’s Failure to End ‘Public by Default’(medium.com)
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by humanetech 8y ago
> That’s why my point on our economy being levered. It’s not in anyone’s rational interest to halt growth. Every % of global gdp growth is millions of people out of poverty. That is a short-term view. Look how growth will stall and turn
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by humanetech 8y ago
> Quite honestly, I feel like most of the media websites do the same thing. Write negative articles for more clicks, virality, etc. In social media it may not be the writing of the negative articles that is the problem, but more the re
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by humanetech 8y ago
Nice project, conta! I just added it to awesome-humane-tech [0] in the Health section. [0] https://github.com/engagingspaces/awesome-humane-tech
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by humanetech 8y ago
I have been thinking about this too, and posed an idea some time ago, to the Humane Tech Community [0], named "Turning the Weapon Around" [1]. The gist is to use our existing social media channels, that generally - through their a
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by humanetech 8y ago
- https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ - https://www.facebook.com/thehiddengood/ - https://thehappynewspaper.com/
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by humanetech 8y ago
Very nice! I have added your project to Awesome Humane Tech [0], in the Mindfulness section. Thank you! [0] https://github.com/engagingspaces/awesome-humane-tech
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by humanetech 8y ago
For all those of you who are worried, and want to help work on solutions to the harms that come with our modern technology, I invite you to join the Humane Tech Community at our community forum [0]. We are still a relatively small community

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