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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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, … Continued
Linked: American Express Did Not Send This Email
Rick does a good job of describing how he can look at this email and determine that it’s a scam, but maybe this is the easiest one: “Finally, if AmEx is going to give me a credit, they will just … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
Linked: Workplace suicides have risen to record high
I can imagine this would be a difficult situation for any workplace to deal with. It’s difficult anywhere. “Buried in a report last month by the Bureau of Labor of Statistics on occupational fatalities was this tragic fact: More people … Continued