Linked: Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA
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Linked: Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA

Contrary to their claims, it seems like the company is willing to let anyone use their facial recognition search tool, and they seem unable to keep their own data safe. That’s not a good look. Read the whole thing, and prepare to be shocked, shocked I tell you, that a company willing to grab millions,…

Linked: Brave browser and Internet Archive team up to revive dead pages
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Linked: Brave browser and Internet Archive team up to revive dead pages

This is actually pretty cool. “The web browser, Brave, now has a feature that revives dead web pages with the help of Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine which stores snapshots of billions of web pages. As time goes on, more and more pages go offline and can cause a bit of a headache for those who…

Will Big Data Give Us a Whole Bunch of Questionable Correlations?

Will Big Data Give Us a Whole Bunch of Questionable Correlations?

I think, statistically speaking, there’s no way that it won’t. I’m listening to a recent episode of Seth Godin’s podcast entitled Sample Size http://aca.st/0d21e1. Go listen to it, really. What struck me from some of the examples that he gave, especially when talking about the football prediction sites, is that as we collect more and…

What I’m Sharing (weekly)

What I’m Sharing (weekly)

Why Section 230 Matters And How Not To Break The Internet; DOJ 230 Workshop Review Part I The True Cost of Manual Ediscovery: Part One Mental Health in the workplace Mobile Collection: It’s Not Just for iPhones Anymore, Part Four Maze Hackers Publish Texas Law Firm’s Confidential Data Blockchain Will Affect eDiscovery (But Probably Not…

Why We Can’t Expect Facebook to Fact Check Our Feeds

Why We Can’t Expect Facebook to Fact Check Our Feeds

I’ve held this opinion for awhile, that no matter what Facebook does, there’s no way it’s going to be able to deal with the scope of fake news, harassment, etc. that rolls through their platform every day. (Or any other social media company.) Anything they do simply won’t scale. Let’s take fact-checking, for example: What…