How difficult is it to monitor the elections in
every country in which you do business and then understand the
culture enough to know when a statement should be challenged. (Did
Huey Long really say, “My opponent is a practicing heterosexual!”)
Facebook,
Google And Twitter's Other Election Problem Is Their Largest Market:
India
… This year, India, the world’s largest
democracy, will hold several key state and national elections that
will determine if India’s polarizing
prime minister, Narendra Modi, gets a second term in early 2019 —
and experts worry that US tech companies aren’t doing enough to
ensure that their platforms aren’t used to influence or disrupt the
democratic process.
A perfect storm of political polarization, digital
naïveté, illiteracy,
and a lack of meaningful steps from the platforms themselves has left
India’s electorate uniquely vulnerable to being manipulated online.
[Consider
these words:
Something for my Software Architecture students.
AKA: ‘Ready, Fire, Aim’
Implement
First, Ask Questions Later (or Not at All)
… As part of a larger study on changes in
technology implementation, my team spent two years collecting survey
and interview data about the evolving relationship between business
and technology. We talked to people in business roles and technology
roles at companies across a range of industries. The
most significant finding was the rapid death of detailed requirements
analysis and modeling. Among survey respondents, 71%
believed that technology can be deployed without a specific problem
in mind. Just one-third said they have a clearly defined process for
the adoption of emerging technology. Perhaps most surprising, half
of the respondents described their pilot initiatives — small-scale,
low-cost, rapid testing of new technology — as “purely
experimental,” with no requirements analysis at all.
We heard a consistent theme. As one business
process manager at a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company put it,
“We’ve abandoned the strict ‘requirements-first,
technology-second’ adoption process, whatever that really means.
Why? Because we want to stay agile and competitive and want to
leverage new technologies. Gathering requirements takes forever and
hasn’t made our past projects more successful.
These do confuse me. Would Google have to
determine if the requester was remorseful?
Google
loses landmark 'right to be forgotten' case
A businessman has won his legal action to remove
search results about a criminal conviction in a landmark “right to
be forgotten” case that could have wide-ranging repercussions.
The ruling was made by Mr Justice Warby in London
on Friday. The judge rejected a similar claim brought by a second
businessman who was jailed for a more serious offence.
… Explaining his decision, the judge said NT1
continued to mislead the public, whereas NT2 had shown remorse
Since having a backup
driver didn’t help Tesla avoid a pedestrian, why bother with one at
all?
Exclusive:
Waymo applies for no-driver testing in California
… Waymo confirmed Friday that it had submitted
an application to the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test
cars without a backup driver behind the wheel. So far, only two
companies have applied for such permits, and the other company’s
identity has not been publicly revealed.
… The DMV confirmed that it has now received
applications from two companies for no-driver testing, which
became legal in the state on April 2. The department has not
identified either company.
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