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Aug

EMFSA August 2023 Newsletter

August 31, 2023
Image: Cape Town Sunset EMFSA Image: Key words in this month’s newsletter. Read our newsletter at: https://mailchi.mp/emfsa/enforcement-monitoring-compliance-configuration-data-transparency
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01
May

An MIT Technology Review series: AI Colonialism

May 1, 2022
Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/ai-colonialism-supertopic/ An MIT Technology Review series, supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center, investigating how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. INTRODUCTION Artificial intelligence is creating a new world order Over the last few years, an increasing number of scholars have argued that the...
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14
Dec

The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users

December 14, 2021
Source: https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-safety-app-life360-is-selling-precise-location-data-on-its-tens-of-millions-of-user The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements By: Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng December 6, 2021 Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, has been marketed as a great way for parents to track their...
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14
Oct

We need to talk about how Apple is normalising surveillance

October 14, 2021
Source: Wired UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-surveillance-technology Carissa Véliz 11.10.2021 Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us. Among tech giants, Apple stands out for its insistence on offering privacy features instead of joining...
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07
Aug

Does Amazon’s Sleep Tracking Technology Invade Bedroom Privacy? Concerns Raised About Data Sharing, Opacity of Intentions for Collected Information

August 7, 2021
Source CPO Magazine https://tinyurl.com/7u97kkm4 SCOTT IKEDA, AUGUST 3, 2021 Amazon’s new sleep tracking technology proposes to cast an “electromagnetic bubble” over customers, monitoring their movements throughout the night in an attempt to improve quality of rest. Critics have already raised multiple concerns, from exactly what Amazon intends to do with the data it collects about...
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02
Aug

Thinking about selling your Echo Dot—or any IoT device? Read this first

August 2, 2021
Thinking about selling your Echo Dot—or any IoT device? Read this first https://t.co/YC7qNV5hVP by @dangoodin001— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) July 2, 2021 Deleting data from Echo Dots—and other IoT devices from Amazon and elsewhere—is hard. DAN GOODIN – 7/2/2021 Like most Internet-of-things (IoT) devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset...
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21
Jul

5G WIRELESS NETWORKS THREATEN WEATHER FORECASTS, NCAR EXPERT TELLS CONGRESS

July 21, 2021
Source: NCAR & UCAR News https://news.ucar.edu/132801/5g-wireless-networks-threaten-weather-forecasts-ncar-expert-tells-congress JUL 20, 2021 – BY DAVID HOSANSKY WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States must protect radio frequencies that are essential for weather forecasts and understanding the climate system, NCAR Associate Director William Mahoney told the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology today. Mahoney, a meteorologist and expert in...
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12
May

Podcast: In Machines We Trust – What’s in a voice

May 12, 2021
Apple Podcasts Preview https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-in-a-voice/id1523584878?i=1000518953755 And we speak with a father who thinks scam artists may have used artificial intelligence to capture the essence of his son’s voice. pic.twitter.com/eAPVMdOZfg— MIT Technology Review (@techreview) May 11, 2021 Synthetic voice technologies are increasingly passing as human. But today’s voice assistants are still a far cry from the hyper-intelligent thinking...
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11
May

TRAILER: BECOMING DATA

May 11, 2021
Co-produced by Data & Society and Public Books, “Becoming Data” is the third season of of Public Books 101, a podcast that turns a scholarly eye towards a world worth studying. https://datasociety.net/library/trailer-becoming-data/ The first episode premieres Monday, May 17, 2021. https://datasociety.simplecast.com/episodes/becoming-data-trailer In the podcast series, Natalie Kerby of Data & Society asks her guests: How...
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11
Apr

How smartphones share data when we’re not using them

April 11, 2021
Our smartphones are sharing data every four and a half minutes, according to research from Trinity College Dublin. Telemetry, automated recording and transmission of data from Apple and Android devices back to these company’s servers is going on even if the phone is only used to make calls. Professor Douglas Leith explains that even when...
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