Archive of ‘information literacy’ category

Facebook and child sex abuse

Facebook responsible for 94% of 69 million child sex abuse images reported by tech firms. from r/news

https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-responsible-for-94-of-69-million-child-sex-abuse-images-reported-by-us-tech-firms-12101357

Some 16.9 million referrals were made by US tech firms to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) last year, including 69 million images of children being abused – up 50% on the previous year.

Some 94% of the reports, which include the worst category of images, came from Facebook

the National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned the number could drop to zero if Facebook presses ahead with end-to-end encryption.

“The end-to-end encryption model that’s being proposed takes out of the game one of the most successful ways for us to identify leads, and that layers on more complexity to our investigations, our digital media, our digital forensics, our profiling of individuals and our live intelligence leads, which allow us to identify victims and safeguard them.

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more on Facebook in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=facebook

Beulr attending Zoom

https://beulr.com/sign-in

Beulr is a bot that attends Zoom class on your behalf. Beulr will join your Zoom meetings through a web browser on the cloud, displaying your information. You can schedule weeks in advance, and tell the bot exactly when to arrive and when to leave.

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more on Zoom in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=zoom

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2020/05/12/best-zoom-background/

Google policy privacy

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address.

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show

Recently unsealed court document found that investigators can request such data in reverse order by asking Google to disclose everyone who searched a keyword rather than for information on a known suspect.

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more on privacy in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=privacy

hypothes.is and Perusall

https://web.hypothes.is/

 

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Perusall : https://perusall.com/

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office in VR

https://www.lifewire.com/your-next-office-could-be-in-virtual-reality-5079457

  • The pandemic is driving interest in using virtual reality for business.
  • Facebook’s Oculus 2 VR headset will support an application called Infinite Office that allows people to work in a virtual office.
  • Advances are needed before VR can replace real-life interactions, experts say.

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more on VR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=vr+virtual+reality

more on XR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=extended+reality

more on ASVR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=asvr

deepfake Putin

Deepfake Putin is here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom. AI-generated synthetic media is being used in a political ad campaign—not to disrupt the election, but to save it. from r/technology

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/1009098/ai-deepfake-putin-kim-jong-un-us-election/

They then worked with a deepfake artist who used an open-source algorithm to swap in Putin’s and Kim’s faces. A post-production crew cleaned up the leftover artifacts of the algorithm to make the video look more realistic. All in all the process took only 10 days. Attempting the equivalent with CGI likely would have taken months, the team says. It also could have been prohibitively expensive.

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more on deepfake in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=deepfake

The Great Hack Cambridge Analytica

The Great Hack (2019) – Exploring how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolise the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as uncovered by journalist Carole Cadwalladr. [01:54:00] from r/Documentaries

https://www.netflix.com/title/80117542

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Former Cambridge Analytica chief receives seven-year directorship ban from r/worldnews

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/24/cambridge-analytica-directorship-ban-alexander-nix

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more on Cambridge Analytica in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=cambridge

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