Number of Posts: 43
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"Sagt der Bewerber die Unwahrheit?"
("Is the applicant telling untruths?")
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, marketing, privacy, smartphone
Summary | Many companies now take advantage of the huge amounts of data that we create on a daily basis by being online and carrying a smartphone on us at all times. Facebook tracks all our movements online even when we are not signed up. Our smartphone collects data about our whereabouts. Companies can buy this data to target us with specific advertising or to enhance their hiring process to include data from our social media activity. This way they can conduct analysis about how valuable each applicant would be to the company.
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"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)
"Hallo Echo"
("Hello Echo")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 27.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy
Summary | Amazon's artificial intelligence assistant Alexa can now be tested in Germany as well. It functions very well in English but it can also be used in German, it will however take a while longer for Alexa to work well in German. Each new use gives the AI system new experience to learn from. It is voice-activated and can give users various information, manage their calenders, set alarms, or order items off the internet. Many people are worried about privacy issues.
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Das steckt hinter Googles Sucht nach Innovationen
(This is behind Google's addiction for innovations)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, translation
Summary | Google is always after the most exciting innovations. Their main focus at the moment is on artificial intelligence assistants which can be operated conversationally. Because they are voice-activated, issues with privacy come up: is Google's AI assistant constantly listening in? Google is working on solutions for making privacy settings as customizable as possible. Another big focus is translation. Google translate can already operate in 100 languages and now users can even scan, say a restaurant menu, and get it translated right away.
Image Description | Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Image Tags | male(s)
So bildet man sich im Job effektiv weiter
(This is how you educate yourself further in your job)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 27.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, privacy
Summary | It is imperative for everyone who wants to stay updated in their field to keep educating themselves. Traditinally, this education happened in company seminars but there are increasingly more online courses on offer. MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) are a modern alternative where teachers and students never meet in person but interact entirely digitally. A course design in between the two is called "blended learning" where students first self-educate online and meet up in a seminar later on. Hot topics in further education of professionals are all things connected to technology and especially topics around privacy.
Image Description | A Getty image of a woman studying on the floor with notes, a laptop, a tablet, and a snack.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), tablet
Diese nützlichen Apps gehören auf jedes Smartphone
(These useful apps belong on every smartphone)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | privacy, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp dominates all rankings of popular app downloads. The free messaging app is so popular precisely because almost everyone has it and free messages can be sent to all one's contacts. There are good alternatives for those who value data security more highly, for example Threema or Signal. Other useful apps that everyone should have is a maps app taht can be used offlne, a Clean Master that frees up storage space on the device, and a decent browser.
Image Description | Slideshows showing the apps in use.
Im Gefühlsextremismus
(In the middle of emotional extremism)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 10.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, pornography, privacy, sexting, social media, threat
Summary | Social media have messed with our sense of privacy. Celebrities can now address their fans from a seemingly private realm of self-orchestrated social media presence and regular people can become famous very quickly when they embarrass themselves enough on social media. Additionally, one can be made famous on social media by cyberbullies and previous partners by sharing "revenge porn" (nudes shared during a romantic relationship) after a breakup. The general tenor on all social media sites entails schadenfreude (rejoicing over other people's misfortune) - whether it be directed towards celebrities' faux-pas or normal people.
Image Description | The crying tears from laughter emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
Junge Revoluzzer
(Young revolutionaries)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | computer programming, emojis, privacy, smartphone, youth
Summary | Older generations always complain about how the youth today is virtually tied to their smartphones and Computers and how they do not Show much interest for anything else. They have however developed fantastic programming skills and business ideas. The finalists of a start-up competition in Berlin have come up with various ideas: coffee mugs indicating the optimal drinking temperature with emojis, computer encryption software to protect one's privacy, and many other ideas.
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