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Father in Thailand Kills 11-Month-Old Daughter Live on Facebook
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 25.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook, law, threat
Summary | Since Facebook has enabled its livestream functions many crimes have been broadcasted on Facebook. Facebook still struggles to take such offensive content down. Recently a man livestreamed himself killing his daughter and the recording stayed online for twenty hours. Facebook needs to improve its artificial intelligence mechanism to flag such content faster.
Image Description | Reuters image of people crying.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Facebook lets streams of depravity flow freely
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 19.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, fake news, law, pornography, privacy, threat
Summary | Facebook is facing many criticisms about its poor enforcement of basic standards of content on the platform. Multiple violent live streams have been uploaded to Facebook in the past in it always took Facebook too long to take them down. Their algorithm to weed out pornography has backfired when they censored a historic photograph of a napalm victim from the Vietnam War because it registered as child pornography. After much denial, Facebook are finally taking steps against fake news spreading on their platform. All this may be called censorship but without moderation there can be no free speech because bullies dominate the discourse.
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Daily Report: Facebook Struggles With Being Responsible
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, law, pornography, threat
Summary | Facebook and other social media have a huge problem with inappropriate or criminal content being posted to their platforms. Recently, a man in Ohio posted a video to Facebook of him shooting and killing a man. It took Facebook two hours to take it down. So far, artificial intelligence algorithms have been very successful in detecting nudity/pornography and blocking it but finding violent content is still very much dependent on user action.
Image Description | Getty image of Mark Zuckerberg biting his lips.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
Apple faces 11 other orders for suspects' electronic data
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, politics, privacy, threat
Summary | After Apple had refused to cooperate with the FBI in unlocking a terrorist's iPhone for investigation, the FBI are requesting their assistance again in elevn other criminal cases. Apple had refused the initial request in order not to sell out their users' privacy and were supported by other major tech firms.
Image Description | Text document showing the criminal cases in question in a table.
Image Tags | chart, text
Obama Shifts Online Strategy on ISIS
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 9.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, law, politics, social media, threat
Summary | President Obama is sending his representatives to California to speak to the major social media platforms in order to find ways to stop ISIS from recruiting new members on social media. The terrorist organization has proven to be very successful on social media and stopping their success on social media is a good proactive measure in defeating ISIS. Removing threatening content from social media however always risks being likened to censorship.
Image Description | Portrait of an Apple representative.
Image Tags | male(s)
San Francisco Police Chief Releases Officers' Racist Texts
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, law, politics, texting, threat
Summary | The San francisco police officer's racist text messaged were released. He now has to take racial bias training and all criminal cases that he and the recipients of his texts who are also police officers worked on have to be revisited. It is important that authorities react when they detect racism from police officers out in the open because they have the licence to kill when necessary and racial bias may cause them to see necessities where there are none.
Image Description | A police officer.
Image Tags | male(s)
More Racist and Homophobic Texts by San Francisco Police Are Found
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 1.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, law, politics, texting, threat
Summary | Text messages of a San Francisco police officer showed highly offensive language about various races, enthnicities, and LGBT people. Now all criminal cases this particular officer and the officers receiving his messages have worked on have to be reopened and examined for injustice due to racial and other bias.
Image Description | Police officer.
Image Tags | male(s)
How can you protect your right to digital privacy at the border?
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 11.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, privacy, smartphone, threat
Summary | American customs now ask some flight passengers to give airport officers access to their digital devices. While it is still a rare case, some passengers are asked to turn on their smartphone/tablet/laptop to demonstrate that it is not hooked up to an explosive. They also check whether illegal data is being transmitted over the border on the hardware storage. Passengers are advised to clean their storage and store all their personal files on a cloud.
Image Description | iStock image of a woman using a smartphone at an airport.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
How to Protect Your Privacy as More Apps Harvest Your Data
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 2.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, marketing, privacy, smartphone, threat
Summary | Many smartphone apps can be used for free, or rather one does not have to pay money to use it. However, if the app is not from a non-profit organization, users pay in some other way that may be obscure to them. Usually free for-profit apps collect data abou their users that they can sell to advertisers. The only way to protect oneself from this is to carefully read the terms and conditions, even if they are in legalese. If one does not like the level of privacy provided by an app, the only certain way to avoid data exploitation is not to download the app.
Image Description | Illustration of a hand holding a smartphone where eyes are hidden behind the app icons.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
In the Apple Case, a Debate Over Data Hits Home
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, politics, privacy, research/study, smartphone, threat
Summary | Apple's refusal to aide the FBI with breaking into the phone of the San Bernardino attacker has unleashed a political debate among Americans. IT experts as well as lay people report that they have had discussions about the topic with other people, some say they have had fights over Facebook with family members about the issue. Polls show that the American people are hugely divided on the topic: 42% think Apple should cooperate with the FBI while 47% support Apple's stance to protect user privacy.
Image Description | Getty image of a protest crowd showing a man holding up his smartphone with the text: "Don't turn our phones into FBI drones".
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text
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