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How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care

|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)

Apple, Google, Microsoft and other giants are accelerating their efforts to remake health care with new tracking apps, sensors and other tools.

URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/technology/big-tech-heal…



Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

Amazon, Verizon, UPS and Facebook among others were found to be limiting job ads to limited age groups.

URL ⇲ https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-ads-age-discrim…



The Pros and Cons of Health Websites

|| Health and Medical Applications, Misinformation || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)

While health websites can help people identify and understand their medical condition and offer emotional support, it can also lead to unnecessary anxiety and be riddled with "fake news".

URL ⇲ https://www.canopyhealth.com/en/members/articles/the-pros-a…



UC Berkeley professor helps create viral video to warn about killer robots

|| Robotics Applications || Media Article, Video || Short (5 min or less)

The seven minute video features a dramatic story about tiny drones that are programmed to kill and require no human guidance. In the fictitious story, the technology was developed for good, but is taken over by unknown forces that launch mass killings.

URL ⇲ https://abc7news.com/technology/uc-berkeley-professor-helps…



Slaughterbots

|| Robotics Applications || Video || Medium (5-10 min)

Slaughterbots is a 2017 arms-control advocacy video presenting a dramatized near-future scenario where swarms of inexpensive microdrones use artificial intelligence and facial recognition to assassinate political opponents based on preprogrammed criteria.

URL ⇲ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA&ab_channel=Stop…



When an Algorithm Helps Send You to Prison

|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Long (10+ min)

A case involving a biased computer program designed to assign sentences.

URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/algorithm-compas…



She’s 26, and Brought Down Uber’s C.E.O. What’s Next?

|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)

Interview with Susan Fowler, the author of a blog post that exposed problematic behaviour during her time at Uber.

URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/style/susan-fowler-uber…



The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online

|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

A discussion about the outlook of what misinformation might look like in the coming decade.

URL ⇲ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/10/19/the-future-…



A Series of Delays and Major Errors Led to Massive Equifax Breach

|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

A series of costly delays and crucial errors caused Equifax to remain unprotected for months against one of the most severe Web application vulnerabilities in years, the former CEO for the credit reporting service said in written testimony investigating the massive breach that exposed sensitive data for as many as 143 million US Consumers.

URL ⇲ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/a-se…



We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads

|| Internet/Privacy || Video || Long (10+ min)

A techno-sociologist discusses "persuasion architecture", or how AI can be used to conrol people's actions, as well as what might be done in response.

URL ⇲ https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_d…