PROJET AUTOBLOG


Richard Stallman's Political Notes

Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes

⇐ retour index

Ban face recognition

mercredi 24 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Opinion: Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It.

This article is noteworthy because it attacks face recognition by business, not just by government.

Job inequality

mercredi 24 juillet 2019 à 02:00

New US jobs are now concentrating in a few cities, with others left behind.

Of course, it is expensive to live in the few successful cities. So the overall effect of this is to screw the poor in yet another way.

Tech's battle for attention

mercredi 24 juillet 2019 à 02:00

People are becoming aware that there is a battle against digital tech companies for control of each person's attention,

What people do not yet recognize is that this as a consequence of the unjust power that companies (even small companies) derive from nonfree software and from online disservices. So their proposed solutions are not deep enough.

UK &mdash Iran tanker standoff

mercredi 24 juillet 2019 à 02:00

UK and Iran are now in a tanker-seizure standoff.

It appears that Bolton told the UK, "Let's you and them fight."

Unprivitalizaton of government

mercredi 24 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Labour will organize the unprivatization of local government activities.