14 Articles about AI & Data Privacy

Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World – 404 Media 

What AI knows about you – Axios

AI firms need to address security, open-source concerns: G42 exec – Semafor  

Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them – Wired  

His daughter was murdered. Then he discovered that her name and image had been used to create an AI chatbot.-Washington Post   

How to Say No to Our A.I. Overlords – New York Times 

Harvard students hack Meta's new AI-powered smart glass to instantaneously reveal people's personal information just by looking at their face – Ars Technica  

Study: AI could lead to inconsistent outcomes in home surveillance – MIT  

LinkedIn plans to use your data to train its AI. Here’s how to stop it – Fast Company 

A booming industry of AI age scanners, aimed at children’s faces - Washington Post 

Inside the company that gathers ‘human data’ for every major AI company – Semafor  

A booming industry of AI age scanners, aimed at children’s faces - Washington Post   

Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills? – Tech Republic  

This AI Tool Helped Convict People of Murder. Then Someone took a Closer Look. – WIRED

19 Articles about AI & Data Privacy

What the Arrival of A.I. Phones and Computers Means for Our Data – New York Times

AI and Privacy Issues: Challenges, Solutions, and Best Practices – eWeek

How to opt out of having your data ‘train’ ChatGPT and other AI chatbots – Washington Post

Doctors are using AI to talk to patients and record appointments. Don’t worry, your data is allegedly safe – Fast Company

Is It Safe to Share Personal Information With a Chatbot? – Wall Street Journal  

As threats of AI loom, parents can take steps to remove online photos of kids – Washington Post  

How Strangers Got My Email Address From ChatGPT’s Model – New York Times

Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos, worrying privacy experts – NPR 

Ahead of the Olympics, France embraces AI video surveillance - The Washington Post

Researchers used ChatGPT to extract people’s contact information, showing that the chatbot’s privacy restrictions can be bypassed. – New York Times 

Why generative AI is a double-edged sword for the cybersecurity sector – VentureBeat

Cybersecurity faces a challenge from artificial intelligence’s rise – Washington Post

Gen AI fueled 2023 cyberattacks – CSO Online

Reconciling privacy and accuracy in AI for medical imaging – Nature

Apple Faces a Tough Task in Keeping AI Data Secure and Private – Cnet

Newly passed Colorado AI Act will impose obligations on developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems – White & Case

Apple’s New AI Security Move Explained – Forbes  

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit – Boston Herald

11 Recent Articles about Data Privacy & Security

AI trains on your Gmail and Instagram, and you can’t do much about it - The Washington Post  

Why deleting something from the internet is 'almost impossible' - CNN

How To Scan Your iPhone For Malware - SlashGear

RIP, Passwords. Here’s What’s Coming Next  – New York Times

The metaverse brings a new breed of threats to challenge privacy and security gatekeepers – CSO

Companies are hoarding personal data about you. Here’s how to get them to delete it. - The Washington Post 

Tech firms seek private data to train AI - Axios

It is crucial that security teams tests AI products, making sure vendors supply reports about potential security flaws and provides life-cycle updates before the company introduces new software into its systems. – Wall Street Journal 

Is ChatGPT becoming a serious security risk for your business? – Tech Radar

We don’t know exactly how things are working and how the inputs are kept, managed, monitored, or surveilled over time – MIT Tech Review

What Biden’s AI executive order means for data privacy – Semafor  

Articles about Surveillance

Privacy and security issues associated with facial recognition software

Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police

Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’  

5 Articles about Google Security

There's a way to delete the frightening amount of data Google has on you – CNET

Gmail’s New Encryption Can Make Email Safer—Here’s Why You Should Use It – Lifewire

Google Takedown form – Google Support

Should you log in with Facebook or Google on other sites or apps? Short answer: No. – Washington Post

How to delete Google search history – Laptop Mag

10 Articles about Privacy Tools

How to scrub yourself from the internet, the best that you can 

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse 

The Washington Post’s Privacy Reset Guide

Use a second number to keep your real phone number hidden

PEN America offers some advice on keeping your accounts safe (video)

What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app 

Test Your Online Security Setup

When to Use a VPN—and When It Won’t Protect Your Data

The Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right Away

Jumbo attempts to maximize your privacy settings across apps, and has free and paid versions.

Test your Online Security Setup

Answer a few simple questions from Security.org to find out whether you are staying safe online.

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Who's Selling My Data?

Pen America offers some help understanding how data brokers have so much personal information about you and how to get it removed.

deDoxing Yourself

If you have concerns about your privacy, what information is available about you online, here is a short video to explain how to find some of that info through Google “dorking”, reverse image search, and Google alerts.

Articles of interest about journalism, writing, conspiracy theories & more - April 5

***COVID-19

CDC: Fully vaccinated people can travel in U.S. without tests or quarantines 

Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don’t Know, Scientists Say.

CDC Data Suggests Vaccinated Don’t Carry, Can’t Spread Virus

***JOURNALISM

Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity

The journalism crisis across the world

Asian America women like me have been objectified & dehumanized. This was my TV news experience (opinion) 

Paul Brock, a founder of Black journalism group, dies at 89

Vaccine Hesitancy: What Journalists Need to Know

News deserts and weak ethics laws allow corruption to run rampant in SC

Kansas City newspaper sends a warning with a blank front page ($)

More than 25 places to find journalism jobs and internships

Bystander intervention training to stop anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

Billionaires push to derail hedge fund takeover of local newspapers

U.S. Supreme Court permits FCC to loosen media ownership rules

West Coast billionaires buy dying legacy media companies

How Stat survived, and thrived, during the craziest year in health reporting history 

***WRITING & READING

HarperCollins to Acquire HMH Trade 

Graphic novel from the “Captain Underpants” series pulled from library and bookstore shelves

‘Hemingway’ documentary Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration ($)

***COVID-19 MISINFORMATION 

Vitamin D: The truth about an alleged Covid ‘cover-up’

As the flood of false & misleading health information continues unabated on social media, publishers find themselves in for a battle

The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands

COVID-19 Misinformation Playbook

The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now

'You can't trust the government': Spanish-speaking social media spreads COVID-19 vaccine disinformation, adds to hesitancy

***FAKES

How Sounds Are Faked For Nature Documentaries

***SOCIAL MEDIA  

How to check if your account was part of Facebook’s 533M record leak

Google integrates Chat to Gmail for all accounts

How beauty filters took over social media | MIT Technology Review 

Facebook Disputes Claims It Fuels Political Polarization And Extremism

Group-Chatting Platform Discord Might Change Social Media With Its Business Model 

QAnon Facebook Group Linked to Capitol Riot Still Active

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Personal data from over 500M Facebook users leaked online - 9to5Mac

IRS Warns of Scam Targeting .Edu Email Addresses

Fake apps are circumventing Apple’s rules in order to rob users

New study reveals iPhones aren't as private as you think 

Spy pixels in emails have become endemic 

Companies use this email trick to spy on you all the time – and you had no idea 

***LANGUAGE

Words Like 'Racism' Have Lost Their Common Meaning (opinion)

***POETRY

San Diego's Poet Laureate Launches Digital Poetry Platform

Amanda Gorman’s Poetry United Critics. It’s Dividing Translators

Poetry Challenge: Create A List Poem That Grapples With Rise Of Anti-Asian Racism

Articles of interest about journalism, fakes, writing, security & more - Feb 15

***COVID-19

Four Reasons Experts Say Coronavirus Cases Are Dropping In The US

Virus may never go away but could change into mild annoyance

Will COVID-19 Change How We Think About Disability? 

Lack of health services and transportation impede access to vaccine in communities of color 

***JOURNALISM

Microsoft warns enterprises of new 'dependency confusion' attack technique

Covering multicultural education: 7 tips for journalists

journalist get sued for requesting a public record

At age 92, former journalist publishes her 1st book  

It's Official: Linguistic Intent No Longer Matters at The New York Times

Seth Abramson’s viral meta-journalism unreality

***JOURNALISM OUTSIDE THE US

In China, journalists are targets and collateral 

Why did a German newspaper insist the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was inefficacious for older people—without evidence?   

A crackdown on India’s press is the latest in a pattern of intimidation against news outlets

Mexico arrests ex-governor in case of tortured journalist 

U.S.-Linked Forces Are Detaining A Prominent Journalist In Yemen  

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

As newspapers close across Chicago suburbs, one local nonprofit newsroom steps in

The media doesn't own publishing anymore

Bloomberg Media expects 9-figure consumer subscription biz

Trump era pushes NYT to new heights

New Statesman digital subscriptions have grown by 75 per cent in a single year

***PRODUCING MEDIA

Best free alternatives to Photoshop in 2021

How to use your GoPro as a webcam, since Zoom calls aren't going anywhere

***WRITING & READING

Why digital writing tools are a ‘double-edged sword’ for dyslexic kids

School pulls book about transgender boy after complaints

Is there really a ‘science of reading’ that tells us exactly how to teach kids to read? ($)

How Getting Canceled on Social Media Can Derail a Book Deal

***FAKES, FRAUDS & SCAMS

The best podcasts on conspiracy theories and disinformation

Internal Revenue Service warns of tax phishing scam

Deepfake videos are ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally ban it.

20 ways to spot the work of paper mills

When’s the best time to correct fake news? After someone’s already read it, apparently

***FACEBOOK FAKES

Almost half a million users duped by Facebook phishing campaign

Facebook says it'll ban anti-vax content, again

***FAKE NEWS 

How To Spot Fake News  

The Epoch Times is now spreading disinformation through new brands

Ted Cruz Shares Fake Satire Disney Job Ad Post

A look at what didn’t happen this week

***FAKE VACCINE INFO

Instagram removes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over false COVID-19 vaccine claims

Three Baltimore County men charged with building a fraudulent website to sell COVID-19 vaccines

***QANON 

'They're unrecognizable': One woman reflects on losing her parents to QAnon

Sad QAnon Followers Are at a Precarious Pivot Point

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

How to delete your Clubhouse account and why you might want to

Social media played a central role in Trump's second impeachment trial

Snapchat urges users to remove unwanted connections

Instagram Is Developing a TikTok-Style 'Vertical Stories' Feed 

With Local News Struggling, The NextDoor App Is Shaping Local Politics

***FACEBOOK

Facebook Saves Links Shared On Messenger And Instagram

Facebook sued for 'losing control' of users’ data

***TWITTER 

Twitter Effort To Quell Misinformation Calls On Users To Fact-Check Tweets

Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Thought-detection: AI has infiltrated our last bastion of privacy

Despite Scanning Millions With Facial Recognition, Feds Caught Zero Imposters at Airports Last Year 

Microsoft warns enterprises of new 'dependency confusion' attack technique

Your email and password were probably posted online in the mother of all data leaks

Google is bringing one of its best security features to the iPhone

Patient records stolen from Florida and Texas hospitals get published on the dark web

A Swiss Company Says It Found Weakness That Imperils Encryption

Cisco warns of critical remote code execution flaws in these small business VPN routers

***LANGUAGE 

The evolution of the meaning of 'Cancel Culture

What are the benefits to learning a second language?

***LITERATURE 

A new film, The Most Reluctant Convert, follows author’s conversion from atheism to Christianity

11 Songs Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

When Black kids – shut out from children’s literature – took matters into their own hands

***POETRY

This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice

Read inaugural poet Amanda Gorman's Super Bowl poem

Amanda Gorman Interviewed by Michelle Obama  

Articles of interest about journalism, conspiracy theories, the virus & more - Feb 4

***THE VACCINES  

Monmouth Poll: 24% of Americans have no plans to get Covid vaccine

Comparing three Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J 

Why the Second COVID-19 Shot Feels Worse

'Vaccine tourism': tens of thousands of Americans cross state lines for injections

'No issues': Drinking alcohol won’t affect COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, doctors say

What You Need To Know About The Coronavirus Vaccine And Children

Tech glitches, swamped websites impede US vaccine distribution

Newest vaccine weaker against virus mutations

Are the coronavirus vaccines safe for someone with cancer or dementia? ($)

***COVID-19 

A visualization of the pandemic's emotional wave

Younger adults responsible for most of COVID-19 spread

Unmasking the pandemic’s pollution problem

U.S. lagging in key tool against newer variants

Safe ways to return to exercising ($)

Zombie nation: Third of adults walking around in concussion-like daze due to stress, lack of sleep 

***JOURNALISM

Don't have time for video? Just pop open the transcript 

How Can Journalists Better Serve Immigrant Communities? (opinion)

Journalism and statistics team up to detect corruption in Peru

Times reporter disciplined over alleged slur use ($)

TV news crew threatened with arrest after asking congresswoman a question during town hall meeting

Why journalists in India are under attack

***JOURNALISM HISTORY

Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever

Seeing the Pentagon Papers in a New Light

The most inspiring journalism movie — maybe ever ($)

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

The job of the future is editor in chief 

West Virginia newspaper publisher sues Google, Facebook

***COVID SCAMS

First Draft launches a hub to monitor misinformation about vaccines

Republican Lawmaker Indicted For Allegedly Selling Bogus Covid-19 Treatments

COVID-19 conspiracy theories in China are wildly different than in the U.S.  

COVID scams flourish despite efforts of health and law enforcement agencies

Anti-Vaccine Groups Exploit Coincidental Illness to Undermine COVID-19 Vaccinations

***POLITICS & CONSPIRACIES 

Trump Taught Teachers Conspiracy Theories. Now They’re Teaching Them To Students.

Trump's rise and fall unified the two most pernicious, racist myths about America

Twitter troll arrested, accused of election interference related to disinformation campaign 

***QANON 

Belief in QAnon Wavers Slightly Among Adults After Capitol Riots, Inauguration

QAnon and the Cultification of the American Right 

Where Have QAnon Supporters Gone?

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Don’t share your COVID-19 vaccination card on social media. Here’s why.

What we know about Hive

Facebook developing a tool to help advertisers avoid bad news 

Social media giants try to lean into the creator economy

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

Privacy survey: Consumers have poor understanding of data privacy yet think they are taking proactive steps | ZDNet 

Why You Should Never 'Unsubscribe' From Illicit Spam Emails and Texts

Microsoft tracked a system sending a million malware emails a month. Here's what it discovered 

Google’s next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web

This Linux malware is hijacking supercomputers across the globe 

The U.S. Spent $2.2 Million on a Cybersecurity System That Wasn’t Implemented — and Might Have Stopped a Major Hack

Here’s a Way to Learn if Facial Recognition Systems Used Your Photos ($)

***LITERATURE

An ambitious project to visually map thousands of books

Untangling the Legacy of The Color Purple

***POETRY

With Sunflowers As Her Guide, Poet Tunes In To Dream Life For Debut Collection

Inauguration star Amanda Gorman to perform at Super Bowl

Poet learned the power of words as a kid

Articles of interest about the virus, journalism, fakes, security & more

***THE VIRUS 

California's new virus message: 'Don't share your air'

Where COVID-19 spreads most easily, according to experts

Common childhood vaccine could protect against COVID-19

Vitamin D and coronavirus: Study shows more than 80% of patients were deficient 

Does It Matter Which COVID-19 Vaccine You Get?

What You Can Do Post-Vaccine, and When ($)

Are COVID-19 Vaccines Safe For Children? 

***JOURNALISM

Top 2020 Tools for reporters

How Google sends readers away from local news

Number of journalists murdered for their work more than doubled in 2020

Journalists will learn influencing isn’t easy  

***WRITING & READING

Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts?

Lithub: Our 65 Favorite Books of the Year

Why this forgotten punctuation mark should be revived for 2021

***FAKES & FRAUDS

"Unreliable" news sources got more traction in 2020

Misinformation Amplifiers Target Georgia Senate Races

Tony Robbins claims he saved an employee from COVID-19 - She says in a lawsuit that’s a lie

Nonprofit coalition demands Biden act on misinformation educating the public on misinformation 

Top Ten Disinformers – and Top Ten Straight Shooters With The Most Online Engagement

My job reporting on QAnon and coronavirus disinformation has led to daily death threats — but we can’t give up

***ANTI-VAXXERS 

Anti-Vaxxers Are Coaching People How to 'Refuse' the COVID Vaccine  

The GOP's Fave Anti-Abortion Celebrity Is a COVID Anti-Vaxxer Now  

***SOCIAL MEDIA  

Why social media hasn’t been able to shut down vaccine misinformation

Facebook will offer new account security options in 2021  

Twitter tests 'humanization prompts' in effort to reduce toxic replies

How pastel cookware took over Instagram

***PRIVACY & SECURITY  

How to lock your Wi-Fi and protect your home

The Toll Of Conspiracy Theories: A Voting Security Expert Lives In Hiding

Why the Russian hack is so significant, and why it's close to a worst-case scenario

iPhones vulnerable to hacking tool for months, researchers say

A Florida sheriff’s program that claims to identify potential future criminals violates student privacy according to a new report

Who can access your iPhone and Apple accounts?

The data that apps use to track you, according to Apple

***THE SOLARWINDS HACK

Microsoft has discovered yet more SolarWinds malware

What Happens Next with the Massive SolarWinds Hack

Hacked networks will need to be burned 'down to the ground'

Suspected Russian hacking campaign hit over 40 organizations, Microsoft says

Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught  

Articles of Interest about the virus, writing, journalism & more – April 25

***THE VIRUS 

It was my job to call people whose Covid-19 tests were positive. That taught me a lot about medicine, the law, and society

This game simulates how your choices affect the spread of the coronavirus 

When Denver backed off social distancing in the 1918 pandemic, the results were deadly

'We Haven't Learned From History': 'Radio Influenza' Is A Warning From 1918 

Social Distancing Enforcement Drones Arrive in the U.S.

Coronavirus Entered My Father’s Nursing Home and Nobody Warned Me 

***WORKING FROM HOME

Zoom’s encryption update is like ‘skipping two generations on a smartphone upgrade’

Google Duo video calls are about to look a whole lot better

Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more

***WRITING & READING 

Microsoft Word now flags double spaces as errors, ending the great space debate 

Better training is key to tackling plagiarism in developing countries 

These Are The Most Popular Books Set In Every State

 Ways to Make Your Writing Clearer

Can Comic Books survive Coronavirus? 

***JOURNALISM

Investigating the coronavirus: Incomplete data creates headaches for reporters  

Congress' local news bailout push  

California Times folds Burbank Leader, Glendale News-Press and La Cañada Valley Su

NYPD Seizes Drone Of Photojournalist Documenting Mass Burials On Hart Island  

Why Do So Many News Anchors Sound Alike?

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

U.S. newspapers have shed half of their newsroom employees since 2008

Workers at Hollywood Reporter and Billboard Vandalize Website After Getting Laid Off 

L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue Eliminated

YouTube says 'authoritative' news viewership has jumped amid COVID-19 pandemic 

***STUDENT MEDIA

A student newspaper retracts a story about coronavirus

Metro Atlanta schools’ shutdown doesn’t stop news — or student reporters 

Oregon’s student newspapers are adapting amid pandemic 

***FAKES & FRAUDS  

Chinese agents spread Fake text messages claiming the US military would enforce a country-wide lockdown

Facebook already knows who believes in fake news—and selling ads to reach them

***PRIVACY & SECURITY  

Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years

Americans doubt tracking cellphones will help limit COVID-19, divided on whether it’s OK | Pew Research Center 

Better Business Bureau warns about posting your senior picture in #Classof2020 Facebook challenge

Half of Americans have decided not to use a product or service because of privacy concerns

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

 TikTok now lets parents set restrictions on their kids’ accounts  

***POETRY 

 "I only have my poetry as my weapon. I will not surrender” 

Poem constructed from emails received during quarantine goes viral  

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA   

Local media outlets launch during the coronavirus pandemic

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Jan 29

***WRITING & READING

The Enemies of Writing: A writer who’s afraid to tell people what they don’t want to hear has chosen the wrong trade  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/packer-hitchens/605365/

 JRR Tolkien's son Christopher dies aged 95 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95

 Exploring various scholars' rationales for self-plagiarism https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/01/10/essay-rationales-self-plagiarism

***GRAMMAR 

Who do they think they are? The battle over the singular use of “they” has been waged for centuries https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/01/18/who-do-they-think-they-are   

English's pronoun problem is centuries old https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/english-s-pronoun-problem-is-centuries-old-120012301829_1.html

***JOURNALISM

7 things to consider before adopting AI in your news organisation: A training module for newsrooms https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2019/12/12/7-things-to-consider/

Journalism still has power: But not the way you’d hope  https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/hegseth-trump-gallagher.php

The latest newspaper chain to face Alden Global Capital cost-cutting  https://www.axios.com/media-local-newspapers-private-equity-0add6bce-f44a-4938-82bb-6d4bb01068c8.html

Jim Lehrer's 16 Rules for Practicing Journalism with Integrity www.openculture.com/2020/01/jim-lehrers-16-rules-for-being-a-journalist-with-integrity.html

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

Flipboard expands into local news https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/28/flipboard-expands-into-local-news/

Facebook awards $700,000 in local news grants  https://www.axios.com/facebook-local-news-grants-advertising-f9f7048b-2bd2-4eb6-9bfc-6fe72fb5c359.html

The New York Times used to be afraid of BuzzFeed. Now it’s hired its biggest star. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/28/21112608/ben-smith-new-york-times-buzzfeed-media-revenue-jonah-peretti

***FAKES & FRAUDS

Big Tech platforms struggle to police deepfakes ahead of the 2020 elections    https://www.axios.com/deepfakes-big-tech-policy-facebook-reddit-tiktok-ca7a99b8-e571-4b0b-933a-27e4b2c0b0f7.html   

2020 rules of the road for the Age of Misinformation https://www.axios.com/2020-rules-of-the-road-for-the-age-of-misinformation-87bc3f7e-b064-4b47-bc71-7639b9a82b8a.html

How Swedes Were Fooled By One Of The Biggest Scientific Bluffs Of Our Time https://medium.com/@Soccermatics/how-swedes-were-fooled-by-one-of-the-biggest-scientific-bluffs-of-our-time-de47c82601ad

A new text message scam is disguising itself as a FedEx notification https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/business/fedex-text-scam-trnd/ 

How To Spot 2020 Election Disinformation https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798809217/how-to-spot-2020-election-disinformation

Clearview AI Says Its Facial Recognition Software Identified A Terrorism Suspect: The Cops Say That's Not True https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-nypd-facial-recognition

Half of Americans don’t know 6m Jews were killed in Holocaust, survey says    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/22/holocaust-survey-americans-pew-research-center

American Distrust Of The Voting Process Is Widespread, Poll Finds https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798088827/american-distrust-of-the-voting-process-is-widespread-npr-poll-finds

Is this video “missing context,” “transformed,” or “edited”? This effort wants to standardize how we categorize visual misinformation https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/is-this-video-missing-context-transformed-or-edited-this-effort-wants-to-standardize-how-we-categorize-visual-misinformation/

Misinformation about coronavirus tests Facebook, Google and China  https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-misinformation-facebook-twitter-google-china-246a0325-b4ea-4465-92ae-5f364a7e965c.html

The New York Times tested blockchain to help you identify faked photos on your timeline https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/heres-how-the-new-york-times-tested-blockchain-to-help-you-identify-faked-photos-on-your-timeline/

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey on edit button: ‘We’ll probably never do it’ https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21066815/twitter-edit-button-jack-dorsey-says-no

Twitter apologises for letting ads target neo-Nazis and bigots https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51112238

Targeting TikTok’s privacy alone misses a larger issue: Chinese state control https://qz.com/1788836/targeting-tiktoks-privacy-alone-misses-a-much-larger-point/

***LANGUAGE 

 How we use language, with a look under the hood https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/mcintyre/bs-ed-mcintyre-20200111-tmf465vuubdebmtpu3p6ngsz2q-story.html

Things You Didn't Know Had Names  https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63034/48-things-you-didnt-know-had-names 

Using a child’s identified pronouns might feel complicated, but it’s crucial. Here’s why (opinion) https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/01/16/using-childs-identified-pronouns-might-feel-complicated-its-crucial-heres-why/ 

The alphabets at risk of extinction https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200121-the-alphabets-at-risk-of-extinction

Author Interview: Dennis Baron On 'What's Your Pronoun?' https://www.npr.org/2020/01/26/799629318/author-interview-dennis-baron-on-what-s-your-pronoun

'Baby Shark,' Now In 19 Languages And Counting — Including A Navajo Tongue https://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/800557518/baby-shark-now-in-19-languages-and-counting-including-a-navajo-tongue

Discover the Disappearing Turkish Language That is Whistled, Not Spoken www.openculture.com/2020/01/discover-the-turkish-language-that-is-whistled-not-spoken.html

***LITERATURE

The Obscure Editions of Jane Austen Novels That Made Her Internationally Known  https://lithub.com/the-obscure-editions-of-jane-austen-novels-that-made-her-internationally-known/

UCLA receives $25 million from Uniqlo founder for Japanese literature and culture studies http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/25-million-uniqlo-founder-japanese-literature-and-culture

Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore home was named a literary landmark https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/edgar-allan-poe-baltimore-literary-landmark-trnd/index.html

Virginia Woolf Books To Read If You Want To Explore 20th Century Literature https://www.republicworld.com/lifestyle/books/virginia-woolf-books-to-read-to-explore-20th-century-literature.html

Is Jane Austen the Antidote to Social Media Overload? https://daily.jstor.org/is-jane-austen-the-antidote-to-social-media-overload/

Jeanine Cummins' migrant book 'American Dirt' is problematic; author’s note makes it worse https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/01/21/american-dirt-jeanine-cummins-book-review-mexican-migrant/4497859002/

***POETRY

What happens when machines learn to write poetry: should artificial intelligence alter our appreciation of art? http://bit.ly/30CkvI3

Have You Abandoned Your New Year's Resolutions? Tell Us In A Poem https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/795953834/have-you-abandoned-your-new-years-resolutions-tell-us-in-a-poem

'Ghost poetry': fight over Samuel Beckett's Nobel win revealed in archives https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/17/ghost-poetry-fight-over-samuel-beckett-nobel-win-revealed-in-archives

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA  

Augmented reality contacts are real, and could be here sooner than you think https://mashable.com/article/augmented-reality-contact-lenses-mojo-vision/

The Culling Has Begun’: Inside the iHeartMedia Layoffs  https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/iheartmedia-mass-layoffs-937513

Could iHeart layoffs be the beginning of local radio’s endgame? https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/01/could-iheart-layoffs-be-the-beginning-of-local-radios-endgame.htm

2020 won't be the year digital election ads surpass TV  https://www.axios.com/2020-digital-election-ads-tv-75cd82b1-b9a1-4637-b885-8aa654e63291.html

***PRIVACY & SECURITY

Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo, report says  https://www.cnet.com/news/clearview-app-lets-strangers-find-your-name-info-with-snap-of-a-photo-report-says

Facial Recognition could replace the fingerprint https://story.californiasunday.com/facial-recognition

The Secret History of Facial Recognition https://www.wired.com/story/secret-history-facial-recognition/

Most Americans support right to have some personal info removed from online searches  https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/27/most-americans-support-right-to-have-some-personal-info-removed-from-online-searches/

Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Nov 16

***WRITING & READING

Singular ‘They’ Pronoun Endorsed by American Psychological Association https://www.out.com/health/2019/11/05/singular-they-pronoun-endorsed-american-psychological-association 

Hey, young adult authors: writing for teenagers is no excuse to act like them https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/15/young-adult-ya-authors-sarah-dessen-brooke-nelson    

***JOURNALISM

Why journalists need to think twice about reporting on arrests https://www.cjr.org/analysis/out-of-omaha-arrest-reporting.php

Proposed Lafayette County resolution threatens to prosecute media outlets that do not print news releases verbatim https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2019/11/08/county-threatens-prosecute-media-who-dont-print-full-news-releases/2533143001/      

Judge dismisses Arpaio lawsuit against CNN, HuffPost, Rolling Stone https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2019/10/31/judge-dismisses-joe-arpaio-lawsuit-against-cnn-huffpost-rolling-stone/4115742002/

A game of society': Why a group of Italian journalists turned Instagram into a board game https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/-a-game-of-society-why-italian-journalists-turned-instagram-into-a-board-game/s2/a746637/

Ask audiences what questions they have about your reporting https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/api-updates/ask-audiences-what-questions-they-have-about-your-reporting 

University of Illinois Is Stifling NPR Reporting on Sexual Misconduct, Critics Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/business/media/npr-university-of-illinois-aclu-sexual-misconduct.html

In Data Journalism, Tech Matters Less Than the People https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/technology/personaltech/data-journalism-economics.html

How the New York Times gets Los Angeles hilariously wrong: The bingo game https://la.curbed.com/2015/2/19/9991026/new-york-times-los-angeles-bingo

I Am Extremely Here for (Journalism) Paperwork Movie Season https://gen.medium.com/i-am-extremely-here-for-paperwork-movie-season-252e8cba5b16

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM 

In historic shift, The Salt Lake Tribune gets IRS approval to become a nonprofit https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/11/04/historic-shift-salt-lake/

Hundreds of local newspapers are now under one umbrella company following Gannett/GateHouse merger https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/media/gannett-gatehouse-merger-approved/index.html

Everyone is admitting what they get paid to work in journalism https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/google-doc-journalism-media-pay.php

***FAKE NEWS

These Hugely Popular Local News Sites In The US And Canada Are Fake https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-local-news-sites-albany-edmonton

AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race http://bit.ly/2pkpAXk

***STUDENT MEDIA 

The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Students for Reporting News That Triggered Them  https://reason.com/2019/11/11/daily-northwestern-jeff-sessions-editorial-triggered-students/

News or ‘Trauma Porn’? Student Journalists Face Blowback on Campus https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/us/college-campus-journalists-newspapers.html

The 800 papers stolen from the Radford University campus - and the school's failure to say who took them https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-case-of-the-missing-radford-university-newspapers-is-cracked-but-whodunit-isnt-being-shared/2019/11/11/104359b4-0495-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html 

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Screen time might be physically changing kids’ brains https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614672/screen-time-might-be-physically-changing-kids-brains/

Who are the U.S. users of Instagram? www.city-data.com/blog/7177-who-are-the-u-s-users-of-instagram/

Measure for Measure: ‘Like’ it or not, influencer marketing is changin https://www.nielsen.com/uk/en/insights/article/2019/measure-for-measure-like-it-or-not-influencer-marketing-is-changing/

Sex Education on TikTok https://www.thedailybeast.com/sex-education-is-so-bad-these-teens-are-doing-it-on-tiktok

Tech companies target your sanity https://www.axios.com/turning-point-online-mental-health-bc1d5fd1-c637-43e1-b4b1-e7cb02d674cb.html

***LANGUAGE

Students create Japanese language-learning game geared toward gamers https://dailybruin.com/2019/11/05/students-create-japanese-language-learning-game-geared-toward-gamers/

How Linguists Are Using Urban Dictionary https://daily.jstor.org/how-linguists-are-using-urban-dictionary/

***LITERATURE 

The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-slowness-of-literature-and-the-shadow-of-knowledge

Cult of the Literary Sad Woman https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/books/review/leslie-jamison-sylvia-plath-joan-didion-jean-rhys.html

Despite the Twerking and F-Bombs, Dickinson Gets Emily Dickinson Right https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/dickinson-apple-tv-accuracy-poetry.html

25 Modern Love Essays to Read if You Want to Laugh, Cringe and Cry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/style/essential-modern-love-essays.html

***POETRY

'Dickinson' flips everything you learned about female poets upside down https://www.mic.com/p/dickinson-flips-everything-you-learned-about-female-poets-upside-down-19300957  

'Emergency Poet' at world's first walk-in poetry pharmacy prescribes caring words https://www.homecare.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1617224/emergency-poet-at-worlds-first-walk-in-poetry-pharmacy-prescribes-caring-words 

An Evening of Poetry in Nine Languages https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2019/11/an-evening-of-poetry-in-nine-languages.html

Best Canadian Poetry 2019 https://quillandquire.com/review/best-canadian-poetry-2019/

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA   

The Boomers' media behemoth https://www.axios.com/aarp-is-a-media-behemoth-412b5106-f879-477d-806d-6130148956bf.html  

***PRIVACY & SECURITY  

Privacy And DNA Tests https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/777888000/privacy-and-dna-tests

DHS expects to have biometrics on 260 million people by 2022 https://qz.com/1744400/dhs-expected-to-have-biometrics-on-260-million-people-by-2022/

Facebook caught actively using iPhone cameras while users scroll feeds https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/

Google, Ascension analyzing data without patients' knowledge https://www.axios.com/google-ascension-data-sharing-fd6c67eb-73f4-41e1-b4a0-3c4db858b076.html

Court rules against warrantless searches of phones, laptops https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/11/12/court-rules-against-warrantless-searches-of-phones-laptops 

Google's secret cache of medical data includes names and full details of millions https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/google-medical-data-project-nightingale-secret-transfer-us-health-information

Facebook is secretly using your iPhone’s camera as you scroll your feed https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/

When your appliances work as police informants

Suppose police suspect a man of organizing a political protest that turned violent, muses the ACLU’s Nathan Wessler, who argued the Carpenter case (on digital privacy) for the ACLU before the Supreme Court. The suspect’s smart meter and thermostat confirm that a handful of people showed up at his home and stayed there the two nights before the demonstration; the suspect’s smart refrigerator ordered a bunch of soda and snack food on those days, which was all consumed; after someone asked Alexa to play some music in his living room, a voice in the background said, “Tomorrow, we’re going to really show them”; and that night, the suspect’s smart mattress recorded him sleeping fitfully and his heart beating faster than normal. The police arrest the man on conspiracy and other charges. He eventually proves he’s innocent – some old friends visited from out of town, and planned a day of sightseeing—but not before a legal nightmare turns his life upside down.

 "There’s not a person among us who doesn’t have private aspects of their life that could create difficulty for them if they were exposed,” Wessler says. “And misinterpreted.”

David Henry writing in 1843