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Die wichtigsten Features des iPhone X im Überblick
(An overview of the most important features of the iPhone X )
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, privacy, smartphone
Summary | The new iPhone X has a new safety feature. Instead of the finger print, it scans the face of the user to unlock or transfer payments on Apple Pay. The face scanner is 3D so that it cannot be tricket with a photograph of the owner. It is artificially intelligent and can recognize the device owner despite different hairstyles, beards, glasses, and so on. The face scanner can also find an emoji which mimicks the users facial expression.
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Überwachung von WhatsApp gefordert
(Surveillance of WhatsApp wanted)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | law, privacy, texting, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | Politicians demand that WhatsApp let them access WhatsApp communications for surveillance. WhatsApp is withholding that access to protect user privacy. Terrorists are aware that the police can read their messages if they text them via SMS but that they cannot read them as long as they are on WhatsApp. This is a huge security gap.
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Erdogan schaltet sich auf die Handys der Türken
(Erdogan tunes into the cell phones of Turkish residents)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 16.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | politics, privacy, texting, threat
Summary | The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has previously sent all his citizens a text message during the attempted government coup urging them to keep fighting the rebels. Now, a year after the attempted coup, he has tuned into the citizen's phones again and has recorded a voice message which is played on all smartphones when they try to make a call. In the message he makes the defeat of the coup seem heroic and by making it a voice message he forces all citizens to listen to it first if they want to make a phone call.
Image Description | Tweets from people who are shocked by the recodorded voice message from Erdogan.
Image Tags | male(s), Twitter
"Wir kennen die Menschen"
("We know the people")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 6.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, marketing, privacy, threat
Summary | Facebook is collecting huge amounts of data about their users and they are not being entirely clear when they state their terms and conditions. Many uses do not realize that Facebook also records what they do outside the platform when they surf online. This way Facebook can create very detailed user portfolios that they can sell to advertisers so that they can target a very specific group.
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Facebook will Menschen mit dem Gehirn tippen lassen
(Facebook wants to let people type with their brain)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 21.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | brain, Facebook, privacy, research/study, translation
Summary | Facebook is working on ways to enable people to write without typing. Stanford university has succeeded in implanting electrodes into a woman's brain letting her type merely by thinking. This would also eventually enable people to write in languages that they do not speak because our brain does not function verbally. Facebook is however very clear about not wanting to read people's minds completely without their consent. The technology would only pick up selective thoughts wich users consent to sharing.
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Facebook-App soll das Gedankenlesen lernen
(Facebook app is supposed to learn mindreading)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 20.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | brain, Facebook, privacy, translation
Summary | Facebook is working on new technology to enable mind reading. This would enable users to type just by thinking and moreover possibly type in a foreign language they don't even speak. All this would be possible if we had sensors that could read brain waves and interpret them correctly. The developers at Facebook emphasize that only those thoughts would be read which are willingly shared by the user.
Image Description | Thinkstock image of two cyborgs.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Wie lebt es sich mit Asisstentin? Alexa im Selbsttest
(How is life with an assistant? Testing Alexa)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 20.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy
Summary | Amazon's new chatbot assistant is spreading in contemporary households. Though the privacy is questionable when one has Alexa in their house, she is likeable. Alexa has cute answers to unexpected questions like "Are we friends?", "Am I cool?", and "Do you love, Alexa?". After using Alexa for a while the author begins to find movies about people falling in love with AI robots plausible...
Image Description | Bookshelf with Alexa on it.
Das ist an Messenger-Verschwörungstheorien dran
(This is the deal with messenger conspiracy theories)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 5.11.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy, Snapchat, texting, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | A list of popular messengers is analyzed in terms of how well they protect their users' privacy. The safest one is Signal and many others have end-to-end encryption, for instance WhatsApp. They still collect the metadata though (interlocutors, time of interaction, location). Some even save the content that is sent around - most shockingly Snapchat which is popular becuase it supposedly leaves no trace. Some messengers supposedly have ties with national security ministries, like Telegram in Russia and Viber in Israel. Apple recently refused to work with the FBI in giving away a customer's personal information.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen with messengers and a video about messengers.
Image Tags | hand(s), logo, smartphone, WhatsApp
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