Tag: data

• World Wide Web Foundation closes so Tim Berners-Lee can spend more time with his protocol

  October 4, 2024

  After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down. https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/30/world_wide_web_foundation_closes/ more ›

• Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers

  October 3, 2024

  A pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release publicly due to the overwhelming risks and danger involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology… more ›

• Microsoft’s more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users

  September 28, 2024

  In response to security concerns, Microsoft is detailing how it has overhauled its controversial AI-powered Recall feature that creates screenshots of mostly everything you see or do on a computer.… more ›

• wiki-people | Atlas

  June 1, 2024

  https://atlas.nomic.ai/data/nomic/wiki-people/map more ›

• Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE

  June 30, 2022

  Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents… more ›

• Laws governing undersea cables have hardly changed since 1884 – Tonga is a reminder they need modernising

  January 30, 2022

  Since the catastrophic volcanic eruption on January 16, Tonga has been largely cut off from the world due to a break in the undersea cable that links Tonga with Fiji… more ›

• Data isn’t oil, so what is it?

  May 16, 2021

  All these metaphors imagine public data as a huge, passive, untapped resources – lakes of stuff that only has value when it is extracted and processed. But this framing completely… more ›

• Transparency Report

  April 3, 2021

  This report provides information on the reporting period from January 2020 to December 2020. This report provides visibility into our content moderation processes including details related to: The tools we… more ›

• How one of Google’s massive undersea cables detects earthquakes

  February 27, 2021

  The web of undersea cables that transmit data around the world could one day be used to track earthquakes and tsunamis, according to new research. https://www.theverge.com/22301097/google-undersea-cable-detects-earthquakes more ›

• They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

  February 10, 2021

  In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The… more ›