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by lotu 7y ago
Normally it is impossible. Normal logs have the user name and IP address removed, they even do stuff to truncate URLs in case a website is hiding usernames or passwords in the URL. If to perform your job it is needed to access a user&#x27
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by lotu 7y ago
It really sounds preferable to me, even if the initial versions of these algorithms are biased. They will provide a concrete thing against which to test for bias and improve against. It is easily verifiable if your changes to an algorithm
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by lotu 7y ago
No it is not! Google requires each individual website to gather consent affirmative for personalized ads before Google will provide personalized ads. There was big issue over if Google would effectively force everyone to use it's so
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by lotu 7y ago
The type of personalized ads you describe only trigger if the user has clicked on the "allow personalized ads" button. If they did not only non-personalized things happen this is things what the website is about and course locati
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by lotu 7y ago
I don't really see how this is an existential threat. Uber and Lyft have a simple option allowing each drive to set their own prices (presumably $ per expected mile and $ per expected time idling according to Google Maps traffic info)
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by lotu 7y ago
While people often don't have to do the explicit differentiation and integration taught it calculs that doesn't mean you aren't using knowledge learned in a calculus class. I often think about rates flows and how they relate
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by lotu 7y ago
Gmail was never used to serve ads outside of gmail. The use of email to serve ads was stopped in 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html
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by lotu 7y ago
Just because a school has access to the information doesn't mean they have the expertise, time, or money, to turn that information into a number that can then be used in admissions. Admissions tests have existed for centuries the idea
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by lotu 7y ago
That is going to look like you fucked up horribly at great school and where going to get expelled but managed to avoid it by transfering.
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by lotu 7y ago
I think this is obvious however I also understand that most people aren't that clever/interested in these things, and would not realize it. This creates a dilemma of how to message this information in a way that is all at once co
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by lotu 7y ago
The cheapest iPhone (iPhone7) is selling for $449 new in the US. I'm not sure how cheap you are but this is reasonable compared to Android phones
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by lotu 7y ago
In short they got bad legal advice about a contract from someone at the company on the other end of the contract. It is not even clear if this person is a lawyer, who would have understood the details of the contract, but they very clearll
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by lotu 7y ago
This is feels like an elephant in the room when it comes to AI bias. We develop an AI that accurately predicts outcomes and discover it is biased, then instead of asking if maybe this means our current system is deeply biased and needs to
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by lotu 8y ago
I don't think they had those exact specific details but the importance of the end user controlling their technology has absolutely been around for that long. The EFF was founded in 1990 and one of the ideas of the open source communit
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by lotu 8y ago
I think this was a really good distinction, because it suggests a course of action. It sounds like you would support a requirement in a consumer contracts that a person's contact information may not be used for marking purposes or sha
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by lotu 8y ago
More to the point building up lists of people's phone numbers and physical/electronic addresses has been how direct marketing has been done for literally centuries. From wikipedia: > In 1667, the English gardener, William Luca
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by lotu 8y ago
This kinda feels like worrying about how the telephone would allow people to spread rumors and damaging information about each faster and further. Or perhaps discriminate against a potential job applicant based on their voice, instead only
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by lotu 8y ago
I don't know, building system that handles all complex cases and can respond intelligently to any 16 year old is hard. Having a human in the loop that calls you up and says, "Remember you have to plug the device in." is goi
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by lotu 8y ago
This article shows many issues with society but the title is super click-baity. It doesn't mention that it is talking about juvenile offenders, leaving the reader to assume Chicago is picking arbitrary children and tracking them. Furt
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by lotu 8y ago
Nitpick, can we say "the user's attention is the product" instead of "the user is the product". It is less descriptive and hyperbolic which reduces the speaker's credibility. It also minimizes the suffering o
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by lotu 8y ago
> You can't have prisons run by for-profit companies and then expect everyone to believe you want low recidivism rates Sure you can, it's just no one is doing. The private market is very efficient at finding the most efficient
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by lotu 8y ago
I 100% agree with you. Though everyone should be able to make their own decision and because people are diffrent they will come to diffrent conclusions about what the right path for them is. We should not be trying to impose our path on o
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by lotu 8y ago
From the article: > Aoife Mullen, communications manager for Ireland's Data Protection Commission, told CNN that the commission was "aware of the issue," adding, "we will be seeking further information from Airbnb on
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by lotu 8y ago
This is effectively how the game industry works. Young idealistic people get hired and work for a few years; and eventually realize this is shit deal burn out, quit and get replaced.
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by lotu 8y ago
This is unfortunately how lots of people and companies think "secure" email needs to work. Any message from my bank or doctor works this way even it is something as simple as an appointment reminder. It is massive waste of user&
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by lotu 8y ago
I recall from reading the law the the government is explicitly exempt from GDPR. I can't pull up a citation right now so take it with a grain of salt.
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by lotu 8y ago
In a way this is actually the only "solution" to ensure privacy. A lot of ensuring privacy is knowing down to a very precise detail exactly what data is sent where and what happens to it. The only way to know this realistically
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by lotu 8y ago
> I bet shipping your child off to daycare every day hinders them more 90 minutes of tablet time .... household of two full time stay at home parents Wow, no surprise there. I'm sure you recognize how privileged you and your chil
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by lotu 8y ago
Yes, and when uploading you are required to confirm you have the rights to do so with that photo. If we aren't going to be able to trust these type of self declarations we pretty much can't have websites where users upload photos
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by lotu 8y ago
> In my book, the problem is that you are not allowed to provide a link to your payment website inside your app. The counter point is, if Apple allowed this, then every single App would use that method. Most people would not realize or

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