Big data has the power to improve lives, and it often does. But absent a human touch, its single-minded efficiency can further isolate groups that are already at society’s margins.
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Market share for mobile, browsers, operating systems, search engines and social media. Mobile market share and desktop market share data.
Source : Market share for mobile, browsers, operating systems and search engines | NetMarketShare
Hoping to raise concerns about the potential misuses of FindFace, Tsvetkov seems to have inspired a particularly nasty effort to identify and harass Russian women who appear in pornography.
Source : Facial Recognition Service Becomes a Weapon Against Russian Porn Actresses – Global Voices Advocacy
Tinder Social has been rolled out on a trial basis in Australia, but has been met with alarm after users realised the new feature exposes Facebook friends that also use the app.
“If the government can circumvent the process merely by buying vulnerabilities, then the process becomes a farce. The FBI is not interested in cybersecurity.’’
Source : FBI Plans to Keep Apple iPhone-Hacking Method Secret – WSJ
Websites that detect ad-blockers to stop their users from reading webpages could be illegal under European law.
Source : Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods • The Register
Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply before their physical appeal is judged by the existing user base, who vote on who is allowed in to the “elite” club based on looks alone. All of this, of course, is supposed to remain confidential. But much of that supposedly-private information is now public, thanks to the leak of a database containing sensitive data of 1.1 million BeautifulPeople.com users.
The United States has opened a new line of combat against the Islamic State, directing the military’s six-year-old Cyber Command for the first time to mount computer-network attacks that are now being used alongside more traditional weapons.
Source : U.S. Cyberattacks Target ISIS in a New Line of Combat – The New York Times
So Facebook still has young people. Lots of them. This might explain why its market cap is nearly $340 billion.
Source : Facebook Still Younger Than Snapchat, Instagram: comScore (Chart) | Re/code
Wikipedia editors jumped into action only nine minutes after the Guardian’s report, and the consequent Wikipedia article has been edited once every 2.5 minutes since then.
Source : News on Wikipedia: How a world of volunteers dove into the leaked Panama Papers – Wikimedia blog