Machine learning models, which use data to help computers learn for themselves, are vulnerable to privacy leaks and malicious attacks, Cornell Tech researchers have found.
Source: Artificial intelligence may put private data at risk | Cornell Chronicle
When disaster strikes, emergency responders often use social media data to understand the big-picture impact of an event. But thanks to an international team of researchers, organizations could soon have access to real-time, automatically generated summaries of the collateral impact of a disaster based on crowdsourced Twitter data.
Source: Improving disaster response through Twitter data | Penn State University
ACM has completed a two-year process to update its Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct to address advances in computing technology and the growing pervasiveness of computing in all aspects of society since the code was last updated in 1992.
By JENNIFER-ANNE PASCOE
Analyzing the famous academic aphorism ”publish or perish” through a modern digital lens, a group of emerging ecologists and conservation scientists wanted to see whether communicating their new research discoveries through social media—primarily Twitter—eventually leads to higher citations years down the road.
Turns out, the tweets are worth the time investment.
Source: How social media helps scientists get the message across
Some of the apps in question included Disney’s “Where’s My Water?” Gameloft’s “Minion Rush” and Duolingo, the language learning app.
We analyzed 100 million images online to find which brand was pictured the most.
25 Things We Learned Analyzing Billions of Tweets
6,000 Tweets are posted every second. That’s 6,000 views, opinions, ideas, complaints, stories, compliments. It’s live human thought. And we can use it to try and answer any question.
Source: 25 Things We Learned Analyzing Billions of Tweets | Brandwatch
A global median of 75% want their news media to be unbiased when covering political issues, yet many say the news media do a poor job of reporting on political issues fairly.
| Political issues fairly | News about govt. leaders and officials |
News accurately | Most important news events | |
| Greece | 18% | 25% | 22% | 42% |
| South Korea | 27% | 26% | 36% | 44% |
| Spain | 33% | 48% | 48% | 63% |
| Chile | 36% | 36% | 42% | 55% |
| Italy | 36% | 46% | 45% | 60% |
| Lebanon | 36% | 62% | 48% | 73% |
| Argentina | 37% | 38% | 45% | 56% |
| Colombia | 38% | 43% | 41% | 57% |
| Poland | 40% | 43% | 43% | 59% |
| Peru | 42% | 42% | 51% | 59% |
| Hungary | 42% | 49% | 54% | 63% |
| Israel | 42% | 50% | 63% | 78% |
Source: People Around World Want Unbiased News | Pew Research Center
Βαριά πρόστιμα, σχεδόν εξοντωτικά, ειδικά για τις μεγάλες επιχειρήσεις, φέρνει ο νέος ευρωπαϊκός κανονισμός, που θα ισχύσει αυτόματα και στη χώρα μας από τον προσεχή Μάιο και αφορά το νέο θεσμικό πλαίσιο για την προστασία των προσωπικών δεδομένων.
Source: Βαριά πρόστιμα για τα προσωπικά δεδομένα | Επιχειρήσεις | Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ
Demonstrating a potential privacy breach, a team of Princeton University engineers has developed an app that can locate and track people through their smartphones even when access to the Global Positioning System, or GPS, data on their devices is turned off.
Source: Phones vulnerable to location tracking even when GPS services off
