The Social Dilemma
Documentary-drama hybrid directed by Jeff Orlowski and produced by Netflix. Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations. Runtime 94 . . .
Documentary-drama hybrid directed by Jeff Orlowski and produced by Netflix. Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations. Runtime 94 . . .
News article by Harvey Rosenfield and Laura Antonini. Published in The Washington Post. Excerpt: Operating in the shadows of the online marketplace, specialized tech companies you’ve likely never heard of . . .
Journal article by Alan Rubel. Published in Communications of the ACM. Abstract: There is increasing concern about “surveillance capitalism,” whereby for-profit companies generate value from data, while individuals are unable . . .
Article by Liciano Floridi. Published in Philosophy & Technology. Editor Letter. Excerpt: In the past months, there has been a lively debate about so-called COVID-19 apps developed to deal with . . .
News article by Ayanna Howard and Jason Borenstein. Published in MIT Sloan Management Review. Excerpt: Before COVID-19, most people had some degree of apprehension about robots and artificial intelligence. Though . . .
Article by Shawn Shan, Emily Wenger, et al. Abstract: Today’s proliferation of powerful facial recognition models poses a real threat to personal privacy. As this http URL demonstrated, anyone can canvas the . . .
News article by Andrew Tarantola. Published by Engadget. Excerpt: The surveillance system offers police unprecedented surveillance power. When London’s Metropolitan Police Department announced its decision to adopt the controversial and intrusive ClearView . . .
News article by Drew Harwell. Published by The Washington Post. Excerpt: When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin’s Introduction to Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden . . .
Documentary produced by Vox – Open Sourced – Recode. Runtime 10 minutes. There’s a massive bait-and-switch at the center of facial recognition technology. Human faces evolved to be highly distinctive; . . .
News article by Drew Darwell. Published by The Washington Post. Excerpt: When David Hiller’s two daughters checked into Camp Echo, a bucolic sleep-away camp in Upstate New York, they relinquished . . .
Documentary feature film created by Netflix. Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. . . .
Documentary produced by BBC Click. Runtime 25 minutes. Police deployment of facial recognition is happening across the globe. But the tech is fraught with issues such as civil liberties. Click . . .