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Year: 2015

What Does Facebook Know About You?

More than you probably thought possible. A recently released study shows that computer-based personality judgements are more accurate than those made by humans. This study compares the accuracy of personality judgment—a ubiquitous and important social-cognitive activity—between computer models and humans. Using several criteria, we show that computers’ judgments of people’s…

Spies Like Us

We have one network in the world today. Either we build our communications infrastructure for surveillance, or we build it for security. Either everyone gets to spy, or no one gets to spy. That’s our choice, with the Internet, with cell phone networks, with everything. How true.