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 . . .
Privacy
Data isn’t just being collected from your phone. It’s being used to score you.
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 . . .
The Temptation of Data-enabled Surveillance: Are Universities the Next Cautionary Tale?
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 . . .
Fawkes: Protecting Personal Privacy against Unauthorized Deep Learning Models
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 . . .
Why Clearview AI is a threat to us all
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 . . .
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
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 . . .
What facial recognition steals from us
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; . . .
As summer camps turn on facial recognition, parents demand: More smiles, please
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 . . .
The Great Hack
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. . . .
Is Big Brother Watching You?
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 . . .
The Privacy Project
Project by the New York Times with a collection of news articles and videos from a themed reporting series. Companies and governments are gaining new powers to follow people across . . .
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Book by Shoshana Zuboff. Published by Public Affairs Books. 704 pages. The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power . . .