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Wednesday 1st of May 2024

Artificial intelligence In Shenzhen facial recognition is used identify jaywalkers; names and pictures go up on a screen. In Beijing the municipality has started using the technology to catch thieves of toilet paper in public restrooms (its system also prevents people from taking more than 60 centimetres of paper within a nine-minute period). The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Perentage change in downloads of Signal, an encrypted text and calling app, since the presidential election: +400 Harper's Index, February 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say It's any time. Do you know what they're doing with your data? Do you even know who they are? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Require Internet researchers using public data, including data from third parties, to have their research reviewed by an institutional review board or to obtain informed consent, as is required for research involving human subjects © 2017 Kwiple.com
Looks Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated that, when shown a picture of one gay man, and one straight man, the [facial recognition] algorithm could attribute their sexuality correctly 81% of the time. Humans managed only 61%. In countries where homosexuality is a crime, software which promises to infer sexuality from a face is an alarming prospect. The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Former top national security advisors side with tech companies in disputes with government over privacy rights AFTER quitting government to work for the tech companies, which pay way more than government © 2016 Kwiple.com
Privacy Anne Longfield, England's children's commissioner, has calculated that by the time the average child is 18, 70,000 posts about them will have appeared online, starting with ultrasound pictures from the womb. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, January 24, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Privacy I don't think people give a fuck, actually. Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, when asked if he valued privacy less than most people © 2016 Kwiple.com
Privacy The idea of an unconsidered thought, a youthful indiscretion, a forgotten mistake – these are things that no longer exist. Edward Snowden © 2019 Kwiple.com
Privacy A sex toy company called We-Vibe, for instance, obtains and stores data on when, how often, and at what speed individuals use its vibrators. Smart speakers like Amazon's Alexa record, store, and share private conversations with the company. Apple's virtual assistant, Siri, has been known to record (and send back to the company) the sounds of people having sex. Sue Halpern New York Review of Books, March 9, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Privacy Users were appalled when it emerged that iRobot, a robotic vacuum cleaner, not only cleans the floor but creates a digital map of the home's interior that can then be sold on to advertisers. Standard Innovation, a maker of a a connected vibrator called We-Vibe, was recently ordered to pay customers $10,000 each after hackers discovered that the device was recording highly personal information about its owners. The Economist, September 30, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing ISPs to sell users' browsing history is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Letting internet service providers (ISPs) sell customer browsing histories to advertisers is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is an extractive industry. Its resource isn't oil or copper, but data. Companies harvest this data by observing as much of our online activity as they can. … Soon it'll earn even more money from watching what we do offline. Ben Tarnoff, The Guardian, August 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Anonymity guarantees privacy © 2016 Kwiple.com
Surveillance Today, journalists in dozens of countries broke the story that military-grade surveillance technology, initially believed to be used for criminals and terrorists, was weaponized against journalists, political rivals, activists and lawyers from around the world. The revelation of this misuse of Pegasus, a surveillance software licensed and sold by the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, has stirred outrage and calls for the spyware to be better regulated by global governments. Maddowblog, July 19, 2021 [Pegasus is “zero click” spyware]  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Always-on devices pose no threat to privacy --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Facial recognition technology poses no threat to privacy --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer – you're the product © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Make physical space a data mine --> © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Never take down content you can advertise against  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Sacrifice privacy on the altar of targeted advertising © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Sacrifice public safety on the altar of privacy rights © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say There's no such thing as personal data that can't be monetized © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say They "trust me" Dumb fucks Mark Zuckerberg, in Facebook's early days, when asked why so many people give him so much personal data  --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say We build butlers, not stalkers --> © 2018 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say We provide privacy so great even you may be denied access to your data © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say What customers do with the data is up to them --> © 2019 Kwiple.com
 
Tech bros say You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it. Scott McNealy, CEO and co-founder of Sun Micirosystems © 2016 Kwiple.com