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Manipulating elections through search results

lundi 26 octobre 2015 à 01:00

Google can easily manipulate election outcomes through search results.

It might be doing so without anyone's intentionally trying.

"Caring" for old people with robots

lundi 26 octobre 2015 à 01:00

To save money, companies propose to "care for" old people with robots and no human contact — while spying on and managing their every move.

Falsified "benefits of coal"

lundi 26 octobre 2015 à 01:00

The International Energy Agency is about to publish a report lauding falsified "benefits of coal", as a "disinformation tool".

"Stop and frisk" scheme

lundi 26 octobre 2015 à 01:00

The US Border Patrol operates checkpoints inside US territory as an arbitrary and irresponsible "stop and frisk" scheme, which appears to be intended to catch drugs rather than unauthorized aliens. And it does not keep proper records of what it does.

If they want to search your car, all they need to do is tell the "drug-sniffing dog" to act as if it had sniffed some drugs.

Repression of West Papua

lundi 26 octobre 2015 à 01:00

Indonesia's repression of West Papua includes frequent rapes of the indigenous women.

As a practical matter, journalists are still effectively excluded.