restofworld.org > Charlotte Peet
Brazil’s embrace of facial recognition worries Black communities
22 oct. 2021 - Activists say the biometric tools, developed principally around white datasets, risk reinforcing racist practices.
 · black-struggle · brazil · china · education · facial-recognition · false-positives · huawei · racist-technology · security · surveillance

www.propublica.org > Craig Silverman, Jack Gillum and Peter Elkind
How Facebook Undermines Privacy Protections for Its 2 Billion WhatsApp Users
7 sep. 2021 - WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.
 · accenture · apple · content-moderation · crypto-wars · encryption · end-to-end-encryption · facebook · false-positives · law-enforcement · metadata · privacy · signal · surveillance-capitalism · whatsapp

www.groene.nl > Bette Dam
De westerse nieuwsconsument hoort een eenzijdig verhaal over Afghanistan
11 aug. 2021 - De westerse media lieten hun beeld van Afghanistan de afgelopen decennia vooral inkleuren door westerse generaals, politici en diplomaten. Alsof het Afghaanse volk alleen uit de Taliban en al-Qaeda bestaat.
 · afghanistan · al-qaeda · disinformation · false-positives · hospitality · journalism · nigeria · taliban · terrorism · united-kingdom · united-states

www.hackerfactor.com > Neal Krawetz
One Bad Apple - The Hacker Factor Blog
8 aug. 2021 - My in-box has been flooded over the last few days about Apple's CSAM announcement. Everyone seems to want my opinion since I've been deep into photo analysis technologies and the reporting of child exploitation materials. In this blog entry, I'm going to go over what Apple announced, existing technologies, and the impact to end users. Moreover, I'm going to call out some of Apple's questionable claims.
 · apple · false-positives · image-recognition · neuralhash · on-device-scanning

www.lightbluetouchpaper.org > Ross Anderson
Is Apple’s NeuralMatch searching for abuse, or for people?
8 aug. 2021 - Apple stunned the tech industry on Thursday by announcing that the next version of iOS and macOS will contain a neural network to scan photos for sex abuse. Each photo will get an encrypted ‘safety voucher’ saying whether or not it’s suspect, and if more than about ten suspect photos are backed up to iCloud, then a clever cryptographic scheme will unlock the keys used to encrypt them. Apple staff or contractors can then look at the suspect photos and report them.
 · adversarial-ai · apple · child-abuse · false-positives · neuralhash · surveillance

www.economist.com
Sport is still rife with doping
14 jul. 2021 - Between 10% and 40% of athletes in Tokyo might be cheating.
 · doping · false-positives · olympic-games

www.bloomberg.com > Spencer Soper
Fired by Bot at Amazon: ‘It’s You Against the Machine’
28 jun. 2021 - Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email—even when they have done nothing wrong.
 · algorithmic-regulation · amazon · false-positives · gig-economy · labour-rights · robotization-of-humans

www.nytimes.com > Kashmir Hill
Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match
29 dec. 2020 - A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition.
 · black-struggle · clearview-ai · facial-recognition · false-positives · racist-technology · united-states · wrongful-arrest

www.ftm.nl > Thomas Bollen
Ongebruikte capaciteit ‘testen voor toegang’ kost belastingbetaler bijna half miljoen per dag
15 jun. 2021 - Nog geen 3 procent van de testcapaciteit voor ‘testen voor toegang’ wordt benut. De lege testcentra kosten de Nederlandse belastingbetaler een half miljoen euro per dag aan operationele kosten. Niettemin heeft VWS honderden miljoenen extra gereserveerd voor verdere uitbreiding. ‘Deze uitgaven zijn op geen enkele manier te verantwoorden.’
 · covid-19 · false-positives · netherlands

tweakers.net > Olaf van Miltenburg
TransIP pauzeert HashCheckService na onterecht verwijderen van afbeeldingen
8 jun. 2021 - TransIP zet zijn dienst HashCheckService tijdelijk stil. Het hostingbedrijf doet dit nadat onterecht standaardafbeeldingen van WordPress werden aangemerkt als kinderporno, waarna die mogelijk zijn verwijderd.
 · child-abuse · false-positives · transip

twitter.com > Sascha Pallenberg
And this is why you don't do public beta tests!
2 jun. 2021 - Tesla Model 3 display - showing constant traffic lights whilst going 130km/h on the highway!
 · false-positives · self-driving-cars · tesla

www.bbc.co.uk > Adam Curtis
BUGGER
8 aug. 2013 - The recent revelations by the whistleblower Edward Snowden were fascinating. But they - and all the reactions to them - had one enormous assumption at their heart. That the spies know what they are doing.
 · cold-war · communism · false-positives · journalism · kgb · mi5 · spying · terrorism · united-kingdom

slate.com > Elena DeBré
Facebook Flummoxed by the Town of Bitche, France
19 apr. 2021 - The temporary deletion of Bitche, France’s Facebook page demonstrates the costs of the local news crisis.
 · censorship · facebook · false-positives

sacramento.cbslocal.com
Police Responding To 'Intruder' Call Bust Down Door -- To Find Robot Vacuum As Culprit
20 apr. 2021 - An unusual intruder led to a scary night for a Natomas woman and left her with a busted front door and clean floors.
 · false-positives · fear

www.aclu.org > Deborah Won and Jeremy Shur
The Computer Got it Wrong: Why We’re Taking the Detroit Police to Court Over a Faulty Face Recognition ‘Match’
13 apr. 2021 - Face recognition technology turns everybody into a suspect and threatens our civil rights.
 · black-struggle · facial-recognition · false-positives · police · racist-technology · united-states

decorrespondent.nl > Dimitri Tokmetzis, Laís Martins and Morgan Meaker
Task failed succesfully. Hoe corona-apps toch nog nuttig bleken te zijn
12 apr. 2021 - De theorie was simpel: corona-apps waarschuwen gebruikers als ze met besmette personen in contact zijn gekomen. In de praktijk stonden ruziënde techneuten, wantrouwende cryptografen, boze overheden, natuurkundige wetten en onverschillige burgers in de weg. 
 · apple · china · contact-tracing · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · cryptography · false-positives · google · japan · netherlands · privacy · singapore · solutionism

arstechnica.com > Dan Goodin
Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities
6 apr. 2021 - Censorship based on deep packet inspection may work against Tor and VPNs.
 · censorship · deep-packet-inspection · false-positives · russia · tor · twitter · vpn

www.theguardian.com > Josh Taylor
Facebook's botched Australia news ban hits health departments, charities and its own pages
18 feb. 2021 - Social media company’s ban on sharing news has also affected dozens of government, not-for-profit and community pages.
 · australia · facebook · false-positives

gizmodo.com > Victoria Song
Your iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian'
4 feb. 2021 - Enabling Apple’s “Limit Adult Websites” filter in the iOS Screen Time setting will block users from seeing any Google search results for “Asian” in any browser on their iPhone. That’s not great, folks.
 · apple · content-filtering · false-positives · parental-controls · platforms · porn-filters · racist-technology

hbr.org > Narendra Mulani and Rumman Chowdhury
Auditing Algorithms for Bias
24 oct. 2018 - Judge your algorithm by its impact, not your intentions.
 · accenture · ai-ethics · algorithmic-bias · artificial-intelligence · disparate-impact · fairness · false-positives · john-rawls · justice · project-hva · racist-technology · recruitment · tools-for-justice

theintercept.com > Mara Hvistendahl
How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing
30 jan. 2021 - In a new book, a sociologist who spent months embedded with the LAPD details how data-driven policing techwashes bias.
 · black-struggle · ethnic-profiling · false-positives · lapd · law-enforcement · palantir · police-overreach · predictive-policing · predpol · racist-technology · united-states

www.nu.nl
Honderdduizenden Israëliërs onterecht in quarantaine na uitlezen telefoon
18 jan. 2021 - Bijna 400.000 Israëliërs zijn onterecht in quarantaine geplaatst nadat hun telefoons werden uitgelezen door de veiligheidsdienst van het land, meldde de krant Haaretz zondag.
 · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · false-positives · israel

tweakers.net > Tijs Hofmans
CoronaMelder spoorde sinds 1 december 1303 coronapatiënten zonder klachten op
14 jan. 2021 - De corona-app CoronaMelder heeft sinds 1 december 1303 positieve uitslagen opgeleverd bij mensen zonder symptomen. Dat is 4,5 procent van het totaal aantal gebruikers dat waarschuwingen kreeg, schrijft minister De Jonge in een Kamerbrief.
 · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · false-positives

www.oneworld.nl > Florentijn van Rootselaar
Hoe Nederland A.I. inzet voor etnisch profileren
14 jan. 2021 - China dat kunstmatige intelligentie inzet om Oeigoeren te onderdrukken: klinkt als een ver-van-je-bed-show? Ook Nederland (ver)volgt specifieke bevolkingsgroepen met algoritmes. Zoals in Roermond, waar camera's alarm slaan bij auto's met een Oost-Europees nummerbord.
 · algorithmic-bias · artificial-intelligence · china · dna · ethnic-profiling · facial-recognition · false-positives · netherlands · predictive-policing · racist-technology

www.washingtonpost.com
Unregulated facial recognition must stop before more Black men are wrongfully arrested
31 dec. 2020 - How many more Black men will be wrongfully arrested before this country puts a stop to the unregulated use of facial recognition software?
 · black-struggle · facial-recognition · false-positives · racist-technology

www.eff.org > Jason Kelley
ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers for Cheating
22 dec. 2020 - One of EFF’s chief concerns about exam proctoring software—in addition to the fact that it subjects students to excessive surveillance—is the risk that it will incorrectly flag students for cheating, called “false positives.” This can be due either to the software’s technical failures or to its requirements that students have relatively new computers and access to near-broadband speeds. Last week, the California Bar released data confirming our fear of false positives: during its use of ExamSoft for the October Bar exam, over one-third of the nearly nine-thousand online examinees were flagged by the software (13:00 into the video of the California Committee of Bar Examiners meeting).
 · educational-surveillance · false-positives · proctoring

www.trouw.nl > Irene Schoenmacker
Anti-spieksoftware bestempelt honderden studenten onterecht tot fraudeur
20 dec. 2020 - Anti-spieksoftware moet ervoor zorgen dat studenten niet valsspelen tijdens digitale tentamens. Maar de software zorgt er ook voor dat veel studenten onterecht van fraude worden beticht, waardoor ze niet altijd hun tentamen halen.
 · educational-surveillance · false-positives · proctoring

www.privacynieuws.nl
Hoe slim zijn de ’slimme’ camera’s van de politie eigenlijk ?
20 dec. 2020 - Bij Monique valt enkele weken terug een boete op de mat. Ze zou zich hebben bezondigd aan feitcode R545 ’vasthouden mobiel elektronisch apparaat tijdens rijden’. Dat ze belde, klopt. Maar ze hield haar telefoon absoluut niet vast, die lag op haar been.
 · false-positives · police · surveillance

www.schneier.com > Bruce Schneier
The Security Failures of Online Exam Proctoring
11 nov. 2020 - Proctoring an online exam is hard. It’s hard to be sure that the student isn’t cheating, maybe by having reference materials at hand, or maybe by substituting someone else to take the exam for them. There are a variety of companies that provide online proctoring services, but they’re uniformly mediocre.
 · educational-surveillance · facial-recognition · false-positives · proctoring

www.bbc.com
Why some onions were too sexy for Facebook
8 oct. 2020 - A Canadian seed store inadvertently crossed the line with a seemingly innocent advert for onions.
 · facebook · false-positives · onion · porn-filters

www.vn.nl > Sennay Ghebreab
Ja, gezichtsherkenningstechnologie discrimineert - maar een verbod is niet de oplossing
5 oct. 2020 - Zoals de dood van George Floyd leidde tot wereldwijde protesten, zo deed de vooringenomen beeldverwerkingstechnologie PULSE dat in de wetenschappelijke wereld. Er werd opgeroepen tot een verbod, maar neuro-informaticus Sennay Ghebreab vraagt zich af of een digitale beeldenstorm het probleem oplost.
 · abolition · algorithmic-bias · amazon · artificial-intelligence · black-struggle · brain-reading · facial-recognition · false-positives · ibm · pulse · racist-technology · rekognition

www.theatlantic.com > Zeynep Tufekci
The Pandemic Is No Excuse to Surveil Students
4 sep. 2020 - Trying to do so is all but useless.
 · chilling-effect · covid-19 · covid-19-apps · educational-surveillance · ethics · false-positives · project-iis · sports · surveillance · united-states

talks.hansdezwart.nl > Hans de Zwart
The Future is False Positive
28 mar. 2017 - A presentation about false-positives in our technological predicament.
 · false-positives

www.nrc.nl > Hans de Zwart
Draconisch terreurbeleid maakt ons tot bange, geïsoleerde mensen
14 jul. 2017 - Het massaal aftappen van telefoons, deze week goedgekeurd door de Eerste Kamer, is contraproductief, betoogt Hans de Zwart. Het ondermijnt het onderlinge vertrouwen waarop een samenleving is gebaseerd.
 · false-positives · fear · islamophobia · mass-surveillance · terrorism · trust

medium.com > Hans de Zwart
Everybody has a share
11 mar. 2016 - How the focus on security and the culture of fear has real negative effects and hurts our social integrity.
 · algorithmic-bias · big-brother-awards · catch-22 · chilling-effect · false-positives · fox-it · military-industrial-complex · privacy · privacy-security-tradeoff · profiling · public-private-partnerships · security · the-hague-security-delta

decorrespondent.nl > Ruben Mersch
Hoe werkt de coronatest?
14 sep. 2020 - Laat je bij klachten op corona testen, zo klinkt het advies van de overheid. Hoe werkt de coronatest? En hoe betrouwbaar is de uitslag?
 · covid-19 · false-positives

www.nrc.nl > Niki Korteweg
Niet besmet, toch positief getest
10 sep. 2020 - Coronatests: Een zesde tot een derde van de mensen die positief worden getest op het coronavirus, krijgt deze uitslag mogelijk onterecht.
 · covid-19 · false-positives

www.newyorker.com > Atul Gawande
We Can Solve the Coronavirus-Test Mess Now—if We Want To
2 sep. 2020 - The key to taming the pandemic will be both a new commitment to “assurance testing” and a new vision of what public health really means.
 · covid-19 · false-positives · healthcare · public-health · south-korea · united-states

www.eff.org > Jillian C. York and Svea Windwehr
One Database to Rule Them All: The Invisible Content Cartel that Undermines the Freedom of Expression Online
27 aug. 2020 - Every year, millions of images, videos and posts that allegedly contain terrorist or violent extremist content are removed from social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. A key force behind these takedowns is the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), an industry-led initiative that seeks to “prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms.” And unfortunately, GIFCT has the potential to have a massive (and disproportionate) negative impact on the freedom of expression of certain communities.
 · anti-terrorism · censorship · content-moderation · false-positives · freedom-of-expression · gifct · islamophobia · machine-learning · youtube

onezero.medium.com > Cory Doctorow
How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’
26 aug. 2020 - Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it.
 · advertising · amazon · antitrust · apple · attention · big-tech · black-struggle · capitalism · collective-action-problems · conspiracy-thinking · copyright · cybercrime · dark-patterns · data-breaches · data-protection · decentralization · digital-rights · disinformation · domination · drm · epistemology · facebook · false-positives · free-will · google · identity-theft · inequality · instagram · interoperability · machine-learning · mass-surveillance · monopolies · network-effects · patents · persuasion · privacy · privatized-enforcement · regulation · regulatory-capture · ring-doorbell · security · snapchat · surveillance-capitalism · targeting · technical-debt

www.theguardian.com > Josh Taylor
Confusing Covidsafe app message led people to believe they had coronavirus, documents show
10 aug. 2020 - NSW health department alerted its federal counterpart after GPs and testing clinics reported visits from ‘alarmed patients’.
 · australia · covid-19-apps · false-positives

www.lumendatabase.org > Adam Holland and Nick Simmons
Algorithmic Copyright Management: Background Audio, False Positives and De facto Censorship
21 jul. 2020 - Algorithmic Copyright Management: Background Audio, False Positives and De facto Censorship
 · black-struggle · copyright · false-positives · racist-technology · social-media