Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025)

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Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces: The Gilded Age has entered the chat.
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Opsec and personal security: Runa Sandvik and Window Snyder on the Attack Surface Lectures.
Australian predictive policing tool for kids: Digital phrenology vs racialized kids.
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Surveillance electoralism: Comparing the surveillance of the Biden and Trump apps.
Blueleaks: Dox the police.
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Congress wants to read all your DMs: The EARN-IT Act doesn't mention encryption, but it still bans encryption.
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