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What
they are learning at Swarthmore. Is this how it should be done?
There
has been an accelerated shift in the influence of computing
technology and the use of algorithms in our daily lives. With this
technology comes serious ethical questions. Philosophers are often
well-equipped to wrestle with ethical questions, but less
well-equipped to wrestle with questions of technology itself.
Computer scientists are well-equipped to deal with the problems and
challenges of technology, but less well-equipped to deal with the
ethical problems and challenges that technology can pose. In this
co-taught course, we bring together the two fields to address ethical
questions involving social media, data mining, self-driving cars,
artificial intelligence, and other topics.
… The
course
syllabus, assignment
instructions,
and supplemental
materials are
made freely available here courtesy of the authors. The code and
instructions for the assignment are publicly
available on GitHub.
Worth
reading.
Hacking, Glitches, Disinformation: Why Experts Are Worried About the 2020 Census
In
the run-up to the 2020 census, the government has embraced technology
as never before, hoping to halt the ballooning cost of the decennial
head count. For the first time, households will have the option of
responding online, and field workers going door to door will be
equipped with smartphones to log the information they collect.
To
make it all work, the Census Bureau needed more computing power and
digital storage space, so it turned to cloud technology provided by
Amazon Web Services.
What
the bureau didn’t realize — until an audit last year — was that
there was an unsecured door to sensitive data left open. Access
credentials for an account with virtually unlimited privileges had
been lost, potentially allowing a hacker to view, alter or delete
information collected during recent field tests.
The
Census Bureau says that it has closed off this vulnerability and that
no information was compromised. But the discovery of the problem
highlights the myriad risks facing next year’s all-important head
count.
A problem created by marketing?
Now Some
Families Are Hiring Coaches to Help Them Raise Phone-Free Children
Parents
around the country, alarmed
by the steady patter of studies around screen time,
are trying to turn back time to the era before smartphones. But it’s
not easy to remember what exactly things were like before
smartphones.
So they’re hiring professionals.
A
new screen-free parenting coach economy has sprung up to serve the
demand. Screen consultants come into homes, schools, churches and
synagogues to remind parents how people parented before.
… Among
affluent parents, fear of phones is rampant, and it’s easy to see
why. The wild look their kids have when they try to pry them off
Fortnite is alarming. Most parents suspect dinnertime probably
shouldn’t be spent on Instagram. The YouTube recommendation engine
seems like it could make a young radical out of anyone.
Tips, tricks and techniques.
How to
Block a Program From Connecting to the Internet in Windows 10
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