Tag: Tech
Your Local Police Department Might Have Used This Facial Recognition Tool To Surveil You. Find Out Here.
Clearview AI has created a powerful facial recognition tool and marketed it to police departments and government agencies. The company has never disclosed the entities that have used its facial recognition software, but a confidential source provided BuzzFeed News with data that appeared to be a list of agencies and…
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Welcome To Hell: Slack Is Letting Anyone Join Your Workspace
Today, workplace chat company Slack launched a new feature with a goatse-sized privacy loophole: you can add people from outside your company’s Slack. From there, you can DM them or add them to group DMs or channels inside an existing Slack. As you might have guessed, this did not go…
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Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13
Instagram / BuzzFeed News Executives at Instagram are planning to build a version of the popular photo-sharing app that can be used by children under the age of 13, according to an internal company post obtained by BuzzFeed News. “I’m excited to announce that going forward, we have identified youth…
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Facebook Is Working On A Bracelet That Can Read Your Brain Waves (Sort Of)
Facebook is working on a new neural wristband that can read the electrical signals sent to your hands and send them to an augmented reality interface. Essentially, it’s a bracelet that lets you type without a keyboard (potentially without even moving your fingers) or control something on soon-to-be-released AR glasses.…
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Amazon Is Pushing Readers Down A “Rabbit Hole” Of Conspiracy Theories About The Coronavirus
Conspiracy theorist David Icke’s lies about COVID-19 caused Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify to ban him. But on Amazon, Icke, who believes in the existence of lizard people, is recommended reading. Despite being filled with misinformation about the pandemic, Icke’s book The Answer at one point ranked 30th on Amazon.com’s…
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Facebook Execs Told Employees It Isn’t A “Root Cause” Of Polarization In The US
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on May 1, 2018, in San Jose, California. Facebook has created a ”playbook” to help its employees rebut criticism that the company’s products fuel political polarization and social division. The document, which…
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