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Episode first aired on 27 July, 2023. Listen on Spreaker.com. Hello everyone. You're on Runtime, the Geek Radio, and this is DataKnightmare, where the algorithmic is political. It's been a tough year, but I didn't want to take the summer break without first
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Episode first aired on 3 April, 2023. Listen on Spreaker.com. In a dramatic break with tradition, the Garante moved against ChatGPT immediately, strongly, and in the right way. This triggered a series of equally strong reactions, for the wrong reasons. Today, we'll try to understand how things
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Episode first aired on 6 March, 2023. Listen on Spreaker.com. In this episode, I will fairly often use the word "bullshit". I want to stress that my use is entirely academic. In 2005, Harry Frankfurt, Professor Emeritus at Princeton, published a small but brilliant book. its title
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Episode first aired on 29 january, 2023. Listen on Spreaker.com Today we're talking about how the United States: * after trying so hard to slow down the GDPR * after making up nonsense like "dear websurfer, since you are from the EU you cannot view this site"
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Episode first aired on 24 December, 2022. Listen on Spreaker.com Today, an episode to close the year with a new looming threat, as befits any self-respecting serial. One would spend all day talking about Elon Musk, the guy has the stage sense of a seasoned standup comedian. Take
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Episode first aired on 2 December, 2022. Listen on Spreaker.com I'm back in English after four years. Suffice it to say that in this time, what used to be my old man's rants have become quite mainstream. But if you are comfortable in the illusion
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Episode first aired on June 1, 2018. Listen to the audio on Spreaker.com It's been quite a while since my last English installment. Bit of laziness, yes, also a new job, and a quite demanding one, so I had to choose and I chose to put the
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Facebook wants our nude pics in advance to protect us from revenge porn. Workplace surveillance is out of control. Google preemptively censors our Gdocs. What is this? John Naughton in the Guardian very Britishly writes of a half-educated digital elite. I call it the attack of the Algojerks.
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Will our future really have the intellectually unencumbered face of a Mark Zuckerberg? Are Uber, AirBnB, Google really all that innovation is about? Are these bearers of childish, views the gods of our times? No. We are already seeing their twilight. The future is still ours to dream --and build.
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You thought the DeepMind/Royal Free NHS case was bad? Italy promised IBM the sum total ots 60 million citizen's health data for watson Health to train on. With no oversight, no guarantees, no financial return, no set goals. Welcome to the mother of all datagrabs.
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The Equifax breach, 143 million citizen's worth of credit rating data? Or Facebook, having Nazis as a targetable demographic? The data industry is an arena where the "merely"incompetent confront the criminally so. But we're not spectators. We're the prize
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Can AI really guess whether you are gay? So far, it's a bullshit claim, nonetheless, some are making it. They claim to be warning us, but with their bad science and ethics, they lend credibility to the very practices they claim to fear.