In Brief: New Zealand lawmakers asked to stop using, or delete, TikTok
A note from the country’s house speaker warned that TikTok posed a security risk of data being accessed by the Chinese government.
A note from the country’s house speaker warned that TikTok posed a security risk of data being accessed by the Chinese government.
School children are being monitored online as never before, particularly following the mass increase in remote engagement that occurred because of COVID and due to new concerns about the student mental health and on-site physical safety. A report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) found student monitoring nearly ubiquitous, but also with minimal use training and a lack of safeguards against bias. Findings included: 1) monitoring is used more for discipline than safety; 2) teachers often lack training; 3) monitored students are at increased risk for encounters with... Read More >
This results from a mulit-year investigation into their ad practices, including profiling and predicting shopper behavior.
Like trouble, bad behavior by Meta shows up whether you look for it or not. The latest is an open-source language model that was supposed to provide reliable search results because it was trained on academic papers. Alas, it was quickly withdrawn after reviewers found that it returned results that were grammatical and plausible but also incorrect, not to mention filled with “antisemitism, homophobia, and misogyny.” How can this be a surprise?