Denyse O'Leary
Canada demands intimate banking data from a half million citizens
The goal of the program, recently uncovered by media, is to develop a “new institutional personal information bank” for government use.A Canadian TV station recently provided a dramatic insight into how far Western governments are prepared to go, using advanced data gathering techniques, to surveil the lives of citizens: Statistics Canada is asking banks across the country for financial transaction data and personal information of 500,000 Canadians without their knowledge. Global News has learned. Documents obtained by Global News show the national statistical agency plans to collect “individual-level financial transactions data” and sensitive information, like social insurance numbers (SIN), from Canadian financial institutions to develop a “new institutional personal information bank.” Andrew Russell and David Akin, “EXCLUSIVE: Stats Canada requesting banking information of 500,000 Canadians without their knowledge” at Global News Further investigation showed that the government agency has already Read More ›
Life after Google: More private and more profitable?
Reviewing Gilder’s Life after Google, Ralph Benko asks, If our attention is worth billions, shouldn’t we market it?
Too late to prevent being ruled by The Algorithm?
Dilbert’s creator, Scott Adams, tells Ben Shapiro why he thinks politicians soon won't matter
Should robots run for office?
A tech analyst sees a threat to democracy if they don’t
How AI could run the world
Its killer apps, in physicist Max Tegmark's tale, include a tsunami of "message" films
Could AI write novels?
George Orwell thought so, as long as no thinking was involved
I, Robot, am gathering dust in the sales room …
Why do robotics experts think that customers will warm to robots because they look like people?
Deep Learning won’t solve AI
AlphaGo pioneer: We need “another dozen or half-a-dozen breakthroughs”
Inner peace: Is there software for that?
Tech billionaire funds neuroscience in a search for the secret of contentment
The true cost of “free” social media
It’s free but… are we? George Gilder points a way forward.
Google branches out into politics
Unfortunately, the only political model it would likely know is: One-party stateThe unchallenged manipulation of search engine results during elections is a new phenomenon made possible by the domination of the internet by a few big players.
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Silicon Valley grew old before it grew up
By April of this year, 100 employees were complaining about the Google groupthink
Our anonymity may be an illusion
Because we talk about ourselves so much online, few leaked pieces may even be required to identify us.
Karl Marx’s Eerie AI Prediction
He felt that capitalism would fall when machines replaced human labor
Could AI Understand the Universe?
World-renowned chemist thinks it might understand what we can’t, including consciousness
Robogeddon!! Pause.
Wait. This just in: AI is NOT killing all our jobs
Silicon Valley as a Colonial Power
Irish writer asks us to look more carefully at claims about “liberation”
Giant Google’s Vulnerable Spot
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