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From Why You Can’t Really Consent to Facebook’s Facial Recognition by Evan Selinger

The more the private sector engages in facial surveillance, the harder it becomes to tell law enforcement that they should have meaningfully restricted access.

From The Code That Powers Our Lives Has a Hidden Environmental Toll by Fast Company

According to a new paper that will be presented at the annual Association for Computational Linguistics conference in Florence, Italy, later this summer, training one popular off-the-shelf machine translation algorithm has a similar carbon footprint to five vehicles’ entire lifetimes, including their fuel.

From Are Programmers Headed Toward Another Bursting Bubble? by Tyler Elliot Bettilyon

… on hubris to ignore the physical aspect of computers in this context. In the words of Mike Acton: “software is not the platform, hardware is the platform”. Software people would be wise to study at least a little computer architecture and electrical eng…

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Google’s Auto-Delete Tools Are Practically Worthless for Privacy

Fast Company

Uh-Oh: Silicon Valley Is Building a Chinese-Style Social Credit System

Fast Company

Why You Can’t Really Consent to Facebook’s Facial Recognition

Evan Selinger