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Staatsschützer auf der Jagd nach Terroristen
(Police hunting for terrorists)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 24.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, social media, threat
Summary | A special few officers in the German police have the task to keep an eye on potential terrorists. That includes assiduously keeping up with their Facebook posts. This way, the police can find out when people plan to take a trip or other suspicious activities. Potential terrorists are also found on Facebook - in interest groups. The German police has hired many speakers of Arab, Urdu, Bosnian, Russian, and French since 9/11 to be able to keep up with the Facebook posts of suspects.
Image Description | Charts showing how islamists have emigrated to Iraq and Syria and how many potential islamists live in Germany.
Image Tags | chart
"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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Schon bald werden wir uns in Roboter verlieben
(We will be falling in love with robots pretty soon)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | Robots with artificial intelligence are supposed to enter our lives in 2016. They are already being used in factories but now they are being designed as household helpers. Most of them show humanoid features. This is dangerous because it may cause humans to empathize with robots and even develop strong feelings for them.
Image Description | Images of a series of AI robots.
So gewaltig wie die Erfindung der Schrift
(As huge as the invention of writing)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 21.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, artificial intelligence, cyberbullying, Facebook, law, marketing, politics, threat
Summary | The digitalization is the most significant development of our time. Created for the democratization of information, it can however also be used for the opposite. The Chinese government are already using the internet as a means to survey their citizens and assess their loyalty. Artificial intelligence technologies are in place to calculate the shortest way to your destination, predict crimes, predict illnesses and cancer risks, as well as what book you will buy next. Amazon sends customers unsolicited products because the loss of having to return the product by mail is smaller than the profit of the customer keeping the well suggested item. Facebook has been created to connect people within a community but the platform cannot battle the hate language and cyberbullying to the extent that it influences presidential elections.
Image Description | Heisenberg media image of the author at a public speaking event with another man.
Image Tags | male(s)
Hinter dem Hashtag #BlauerWal steckt eine verstörende Geschichte
(A disturbing story hides behind the hashtag #BlueWhale)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, hashtags, law, social media, threat, youth
Summary | Currently, a man is on trial in Russian courts for supposedly urging 15 teenagers to commit suicide. The case is connected to the #BlueWhale challenge that is said to circulate online on social media. It is a lethal game where one person gives another increasingly self-destructive tasks. Apparently, psychologically fragile teenagers are targeted online.
Image Description | Getty image of a blue whale and images of a man being arrested and in trial with his face pixellated.
Image Tags | male(s)
Wenn's der Menschheit nutzt
(If it's useful for humanity)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 11.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, artificial intelligence, brain, Facebook, law, threat
Summary | Artificial intelligence is creeping into all aspects of life. The police are already working with big data to predict crimes before even the culprits know they will commit a crime. Medicine is using kinds of artificial intelligence for prosthetics like exoskeletons. Facebook is also looking into ways to read brain activity and translate it into text. All these innovations are very risky and can become very destructive.
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Ausbruch aus dem sexuellen Gefängnis der Monogamie
(Break free of the sexual prison of monogamy)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | online dating, threat
Summary | Polyamory is a new social trend: it entails having multiple sexual/emotional relationships which are not equal like in polygamy. Some see it as a symptom of our over-saturation with choices in all aspects of life. The more choices there are, the more content one becomes with ones choices. This also plays into the fascination with Tinder and other online dating platforms. There are so many options that we are never satisfied.
Image Description | Getty images of multiple arms touching each other, men and women having sex, a black and white picture of a couple (man and woman) with child, and a wedding with two men and a woman.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s)
Erwischt!
(Gotcha!)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 5.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, social media, threat
Summary | A marathon detective has been investigating multiple major marathons to make sure no one cheats. He shockingly realized that very many people take illegal shortcuts. He explains it with the social pressure to post about personal victories on social media. Social media seduces people to show off, even if they have to cheat to be able to show something off.
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So fressen Apps ihr Geld auf
(This is how apps eat your money)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 24.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, game, marketing, smartphone, threat
Summary | Many seemingly free gaming apps off in-app purchases after being downloaded. This is dangerous when unsuperised children use the app - some parents have already received in-app purchase bills of several thousand euros. It is best to either supervise children when playing game apps or to only let them play offline games which do not have pop-up advertising for in-app purchases.
Image Description | A PacMan head.
Wie der Selfie-Wahn unseren Urlaub ruiniert
(How the selfie craze is ruining our vacation)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 28.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, selfie, smartphone, social media, threat
Summary | It has become more important to post on social media than to experience. We evaluate our life based on social media likes. This is very visible in holiday destinations, for instance in skiing destinations in Austria which have introduced free wifi on all slopes. People care more about their selfies than about the skiing. This fuels the addictive potential of social media and smartphones.
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