E-detective is one thing, e-vigilante is another.
A guide to being an ethical online investigator
The Capitol riot has inspired a new army of amateur sleuths who want to help identify protesters. But it’s an ethically fraught hobby.
(Related) Do you want the bad guys to know where the only witness against them lives?
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses
Zack Whittaker reports:
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
Ring, the video doorbell and home security startup acquired by Amazon for $1 billion, launched Neighbors in 2018 as a breakaway feature in its own standalone app. Neighbors is one of several neighborhood watch apps, like Nextdoor and Citizen, that lets users anonymously alert nearby residents to crime and public-safety issues.
While users’ posts are public, the app doesn’t display names or precise locations — though most include video taken by Ring doorbells and security cameras. The bug made it possible to retrieve the location data on users who posted to the app, including those who are reporting crimes.
Read more on TechCrunch.
As we’ve noticed…
https://www.eetimes.com/shashua-friedman-chat-ai-is-both-miraculous-and-dangerous/
Shashua-Friedman Chat: AI Is Both ‘Miraculous’ and ‘Dangerous’
In an often jovial chat about the future of artificial intelligence (AI), presented Wednesday at the “virtual” 2021 CES, Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua and New York Times pundit Thomas Friedman reached agreement that before “super-intelligent” computers get smarter than people, the machines must somehow be infused with some of the “common sense” values of their flesh-and-blood inventors.
Perspective. A microphone by any other name...
https://www.makeuseof.com/future-apple-device-recognize-voice-no-mic/
Future Apple Devices Could Recognize Your Voice, No Mic Required
… That's according to a newly published Apple patent application. Bearing the wordy (and therefore distinctly un-Apple) title "Self-Mixing Interferometry Sensors Used to Sense Vibration of a Structural or Housing Component Defining an Exterior Surface of a Device," the application describes how a future Siri device could be able to detect certain voices and their location, based entirely on vibrations.
Aimed at middle and high school students, it’s still a good starting point.
New Guide to Help Middle and High School Students Conduct Research with Library Resources
Teaching with the Library of Congress – This post is by Kaleena Black of the Library of Congress. “The research process can be fun and rewarding, but it can also present some challenges. For some students, the idea of research might not immediately bring to mind an exciting activity, filled with intrigue, suspense, and joy. Many students, and some adults, too, who are interested in deepening their understanding on a topic and are curious about learning more about an idea or issue, don’t consider themselves “researchers.” And even students who are committed to finding information might not be sure how to begin their research journey. To help support young people in their personal and academic research endeavors, Library educators and librarians teamed up to develop an online research guide for middle and high school students. A variety of Research Guides have been designed by Library of Congress specialists to help researchers navigate the Library’s analog and digital collections and find resources. Currently, there are hundreds of such guides, covering more than 70 topics that relate to the arts, science, history, social and cultural studies, and more. With a focus on helping students locate and use digitized resources, this new guide offers tips on finding research inspiration, definitions for primary and secondary sources (with detailed examples for each), strategies for searching primary and secondary sources on the Library’s website and beyond, and suggestions on citing resources appropriately. There is also a feature that allows students to contact a Library of Congress reference specialist if they’re feeling stuck or need extra help in the course of their research…”
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