Tag: privacy
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PSA: How to create a good password
Pretty much anything that can be remembered can be cracked. There’s still one scheme that works. Back in 2008, I described the “Schneier scheme”: So if you want your password to be hard to guess, you should choose something that this process will miss. My advice is to take a sentence and turn it into…
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10 recommendations for the ethical use of AI
In February the New York Times hosted the New Work Summit, a conference that explored the opportunities and risks associated with the emergence of artificial intelligence across all aspects of society. Attendees worked in groups to compile a list of recommendations for building and deploying ethical artificial intelligence, the results of which are listed below.…
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Comment: Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it
The developmental track of AI is a problem, and every one of us has a stake. You, me, my dad, my next-door neighbor, the guy at the Starbucks that I’m walking past right now. So what should everyday people do? Be more aware of who’s using your data and how. Take a few minutes to…
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Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you. I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents. This link includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Drive files, all of the above information, your YouTube videos, the photos you’ve taken on…
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Delete All Your Apps
in TechnologyA good question to ask yourself when evaluating your apps is “why does this app exist?” If it exists because it costs money to buy, or because it’s the free app extension of a service that costs money, then it is more likely to be able to sustain itself without harvesting and selling your data.…
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Split learning for health: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw patient data
Can health entities collaboratively train deep learning models without sharing sensitive raw data? This paper proposes several configurations of a distributed deep learning method called SplitNN to facilitate such collaborations. SplitNN does not share raw data or model details with collaborating institutions. The proposed configurations of splitNN cater to practical settings of i) entities holding…
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I enjoyed reading (September)
I’m going to be presenting at The Network: Towards Unity for Health conference in Fortaleza, Brazil later this year and so my reading has largely been focused around what I’m thinking of talking about. I haven’t formalised the structure of the presentation yet but will probably publish it here as I figure out what I…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24
in Digestafrica, apa style, blooms taxonomy, College Art Exhibit Celebrates, critical thinking, downes, drawing. solitude, e-portfolios, facebook, latin abbreviations, legitimate peripheral participation, lurking, nancy white, NASA HD, networked learning, podcasting, privacy, productivity, Professor, real-time collaborative word processing, research, saide, sketchpad, sync.in, Tony Bates, twitter, ubuntu, ubuntu unity shell, writing, xkcd, youtube, Zen HabitsAcademic Productivity » New paths to “research productivity” http://bit.ly/dBnPYO # Bloom’s Taxonomy. Useful illustration with additional information that may assist with implementation http://bit.ly/cAFYwr # The Cronk of Higher Education » College Art Exhibit Celebrates 30 Years of Boredom in Academia (humour) http://bit.ly/cBufLp # APA Style Blog: It’s All Latin to Me: Latin Abbreviations in Scholarly…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-15
"Friend" profiles on Facebook can used to algorithmically infer accurate information about you http://ow.ly/1kLM7 # MySpace starts selling bulk user data. Potentially useful after academic analysis, but is this a slippery slope? http://ow.ly/1kLqa # @wesleylynch those ship launches are mental 🙂 # RT @Tuism: RT @gangreu: @htc please stop to release new android phones and…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-01
http://twitpic.com/10nta3 # RT @TechCrunch: iPad v. A Rock http://tcrn.ch/c9s4Pq by @arrington # @lvanblerk thanks for the comment, been looking into @Afrihost and been getting good feedback # Just spent 1 hour on phone with Telkom trying to sort ADSL, then got dropped. Considering moving to Afrihost…suggestions? # e4innovation.com » Blog Archive » New approaches to…