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Individual Privacy vs. Public Health: A False Trade Off
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a debate about how to balance individual privacy and public health. To contain the spread of the virus, governments deployed mobile apps for tracking and reporting individuals’ locations, symptoms, and even credit card transactions, often outsourcing their development to private tech companies like Apple or Google. While these apps have…
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Data is Political
Ginette Azcona, a Senior Researcher UN Women recently stated that while they were attempting to track the progress made on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, they were facing a significant lack of data on women and adolescent girls. Countries across the world don’t seem to collect much information about them.
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LENSA ve Gaipten Beliren Memeler
Geçen hafta Instagram’da arkadaşlarımın yapay zekayla üretilmiş türlü türlü portrelerini beğendikten sonra, ben de merakıma yenik düştüm ve Lensa’yı indirdim. Lensa bir fotoğraf düzenleme uygulaması. Fakat, “Magic Avatars” diye ayrı bir servisi var. Uygulamaya ‘selfie’ lerinizi yüklüyorsunuz ve uygulama sizin grafik temsillerinizi oluşturuyor. Arkadaşlarımın paylaşımlarında yüzlerinde çocuksu ve uhrevi bir güzellik vardı. Ben de ruhum…
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Hello From the Depths of Risk Society
In his book Risk Society (1992), German sociologist Ulrich Beck, argued that the defining feature of our time was the omnipresence of global threats and a growing sense of danger. We became preoccupied with risks, waiting for the catastrophic future that is right at our door step.
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