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Germany threatens to fine social media companies €50m for hate speech and fake news
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, law, politics
Summary | Germany is threatening to sue Facebook should it not do something against abuse and fake news on its platform. Germany has very strong defamation laws so Facebook needs to regulate its content if they want to stay in Germany. A new mechanism to flag fake news has been developed.
Image Description | Reuters image of many Facebook logos under a magnifying glass and a portrait of Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, male(s)
'Stop trolling Travellers' says police chief who vows to track down anyone posting 'hate crime material' online
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 4.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, law, social media, threat
Summary | A regional police officer is prosecuting internet trolls that are hateful towards the traveller community online. Travellers are being more accepted and visible in communities and granted to stop but people are still very hateful towards them on the internet and on social media. This is especially harmful to children in the traveller community because it keeps them from taking pride in their heritage.
Image Description | A portrait of the police officer, of the chair of the National Alliance of Gypsy Traveller and Roma Women, and images of Traveller camps.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Innovation in AI could see governments introduce human quotas, study says
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, law, threat
Summary | With the increasing development of artificial intelligence, we can expect that a lot of jobs will be done by robots in the not-so-distant future. It is possible that human quota will have to be introduced or labels such as "made by humans". It is also unclear who is accountable in the case of an accident involving a robot.
Image Description | Robot and human shaking hands.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s)
Prison officer suspended amid claims he sent recently released inmate pictures of his privates in raunchy texts
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 29.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | grammar, law, sexting, spelling
Summary | A prison officer started sexting a former inmate right after she was released. He sent her pictures of his genitalia and sent sexually explicit text messages (with terrible grammar and spelling) that could not be repeated in the newspaper.The officer is suspended because relations between prison officers and inmates or released inmates are strictly forbidden due to the inherent power hierarchy and the risk of abuse of a position of power.
Image Description | Portrait of the suspended officer, the released inmate, and a photograph of the prison.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Cop launches furious rant about 'yoofs' - but parents are really not happy
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 11.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, politeness, social media, youth
Summary | An unidentified police officer posted a rant about youths in the Manchester area asking parents to "lock up their kids till school time on Monday" because they are out of control, causing public nuisance. Local teachers and parents reported the post as wildly inappropriate and the heads of the police department issued an apology and promised to find out who posted the offensive content as officers are supposed to uphold their standard of behavior online as well. Many people however liked the post because they felt understood. They commented engourangments to the anonymous officer that he/she should not let the political correctness army get him/her down and keep his/her sense of humor.
Image Description | Getty images of young men/boys in black tracksuits from behind and a young man/boy with his face partially hidden with a black hoodie.
Image Tags | male(s)
2016: the year Facebook became the bad guy
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Facebook, fake news, law, threat
Summary | 2016 has been a bad year for Facebook. Many scandals surrounded the company. It became clear that Facebook is now longer just an advertizing machine with access to almost 2 billion people world-wide but that it also curates what news media most of these people perceive - whether Facebook wants to accept this or not. They no longer just have to deal with sensoring nudity and human rights violations content but also fake news. While Zuckerberg denies that the fake news bubbles have influenced the presidential elections, his company at the same time makes tons of money selling exactly this persuasive power to advertisers.
Image Description | The Facebook reaction emojis and dislike (thumb-down) emojis, glasses in front of like buttons, and a man holding a smartphone with the Facebook logo in the background.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone
Hohe Ablenkung durch Handy am Steuer
(High distraction because of cell phone while driving)
Newspaper | Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Date | 11.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | law, smartphone, texting, threat
Summary | Many people text while driving and do not realize how dangerous it is - more dangerous than talking on the phone. The statistics calculated by the German police are not complete they assume that 10% of car accidents is caused by cell phone distraction of a driver. They advocate for a raising of the fines, they are too low now so that people are willing to risk a fine.
Image Description | Image of a woman holding a smartphone while behind the wheel, a totaled car and a portrait of the interviewee (police officer).
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
"Viele empfinden Freude, wenn sie Angst verbreiten"
("Many feel joy when they spread fear")
Newspaper | Tagesspiegel
Date | 30.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | law, social media, threat
Summary | The Munich police are present on social media because that is where most of the population regularly checks in. In order to counteract fake news, they make sure to notify the public in case of a dangerous situation and be available for information. Many people share sensationalist stories to spread fear and that is dangerous. While it cannot be prosecuted by the law, a public moral code should be developed to push back such fear-spreaders.
Image Description | Portrait of the interviewee (police officer).
Image Tags | male(s)
LAPD's watchdog rolls out smartphone app to share more information with public
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 12.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, privacy
Summary | The LAPD has launched an app to keep citizens informed about local police matters without middle men. The app also enables users to file complaints or commendations about officers as well as direct them to the nearest police station. The LAPD decided to provide this service as a free app because many locals do not have home computers but most do have a smartphone.
Image Description | "Los Angeles police officers monitor the scene of a shooting in the Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts last summer. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)"
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Why Kids Sext
Newspaper | The Atlantic
Date | 14.10.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Instagram, law, school, sexting, threat, youth
Summary | One Virginia county saw a huge Instagram sexting scandal break. Nude selfie of local high school and middle school girls were pooled by the local boys and uploaded to an Instagram account. Because many teenagers were involved, this case developed into a huge police investigation trying to figure out the extent to which this constitutes organized crime or child pornography. This case shows how commonplace sexting is among teenagers and how confused the police are in dealing with such cases.
Image Description | Portraits of people mentioned in the article, pictures of school and outdoor sporting facility environments with students.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), school
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