Author: Kalev Leetaru
Do Facial Recognition Laws Matter In A Globalized World?
In a world in which the underlying technology is globally available and the training datasets are no longer constrained by…
Doorbell Camera Networks Reinforce The Dangers Of Crowdsourced Policing
As new technologies like doorbell camera networks embrace the idea of ordinary citizens watching surveillance cameras and identifying “suspicious” individuals…
Doorbell Cameras Remind Us Of The Dangers Of Data Without Understanding
The digital world is deluging us with ever more data arriving ever faster, but it isn’t equipping us with the…
How Federated Learning Combined With Gamification Could Restore Privacy To AI Training
Federated learning, combined with gamification, could provide a powerful new privacy-protecting model for training tomorrow’s future deep learning models. Read…
Is The Quest For The Perfect Selfie Destroying Nature?
In our share-first world, if influencers could no longer share images that were created in a way that harmed nature,…
The Future Of Content Moderation Emphasizes Words Not Ideas
When it comes to the future of content moderation, a shift from censoring ideas to moderating words might lead to…
If Social Media Prioritized Reading Over Responding Could That Stop 'Fake News'?
Would forcing users to actually read and deeply comprehend articles before sharing or commenting on them on social media curtail…
Even Apple Adjusts Its Privacy Promises To Advance Its AI Offerings
It turns out that in its quest to improve its AI offerings, Apple has adopted the same controversial practice as…
Apple Reminds Us That Behind The AI Revolution Lies An Army Of Humans Seeing Our Data
Apple’s concession last week that it relies on an army of human contractors to review a small portion of the…
Development Of A Global Infectious Disease Activity Database Using Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, And Human Expertise
This new analysis researchers Joshua Feldman, Andrea Thomas-Bachli, Jack Forsyth, Zaki Hasnain Patel and Kamran Khan at Harvard University's School…
The Top Daily Terms By Station On American Television 2009-2019 Using BigQuery And TV Ngrams
Converting piles of unstructured text into structured tables like ngrams opens the door to all kinds of powerful new analyses…
Apollo 11 Reminds Us There Is No 'Natural' Way Of Doing Things In Tech
Perhaps the greatest lesson from the Apollo 11 moon landing was that there is no “natural” way of doing things…
What If The Web Had Been Subscription-Based Instead Of Today's Ad-Supported Surveillance State?
The vast surveillance state that stalks us across the digital world, harvesting our every interest, hoovering up our every post,…
Should We Limit Social Media Posting To Experts?
What would happen if social media enforced such gatekeeping rules and could more control over who speaks on social media…
What If Social Media Posts Were Pre-Reviewed Rather Than Post-Moderated?
It is worth contemplating: if social media platforms had been built upon pre-review rather than post-moderation, could all of today’s…
FiveThirtyEight: Which Democratic Presidential Candidate Was Mentioned Most In The News Last Week?
FiveThirtyEight's latest weekly roundup of the 2020 Democratic race. Read The Full Article.
Could Personalized Content Moderation Be The Future Of Healthy Social Media?
In an ever more personalized and customized world, in which algorithms curate individualized feeds for us, could personalized content moderation…
Why Won't Facebook Create 'Safe Spaces' From Political Ads?
Why don’t platforms like Facebook allow users to opt-out of political advertisements, creating digital safe spaces from content that triggers…
Do We Need Laws Forcing Audits When Social Media Companies Fail To Remove Horrific Content?
Social media companies today have little reason to do better at combatting hate and horror on their platforms because they…
Is Social Media Changing Society Through Greater Accountability?
As social platforms are increasingly used to document police brutality, official corruption, corporate greed and violence and the myriad hidden…
Social Media Has Normalized The Idea Of Sharing Without Consent
We desperately need new societal norms and standards around permission and consent when it comes to sharing imagery online before…
The Importance Of Context And Intent In Content Moderation
One of the greatest complexities of modern social media content moderation that stymies attempts to automate it is that context…
The Encryption Debate Is Over – Dead At The Hands Of Facebook
The sad reality of the encryption debate is that after 30 years it is finally over: dead at the hands…
Does The Huawei Debate Matter When All Roads In The Digital World Lead Back To The US?
The Huawei debate is less important than it once was, as more and more of the world’s communications ultimately end…