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Chatter Episode 50 – Dr Birgit Schippers on Big Tech, Mass Surveillance, and the Power of AI

Dr Birgit Schippers of St. Marys University College Belfast was our guest on today’s show. We discussed the role out of facial recognition software, how effective AI can actually be at understanding our personalities, and the unaccountability of tech companies. Resources https://www.stmarys-belfast.ac.uk/general/staff.asp?nq=1&mode=detail&staffid=55 http://smucb.academia.edu/BirgitSchippers Music by Just Jim – https://soundcloud.com/justjim If you enjoyed what…

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BeLeave and the Vote Leave Links Explained

BeLeave was founded by Darren Grimes, a then 23-year-old fashion student from County Durham, a Liberal Democrat member with a talent for graphic design and social media marketing. The BeLeave logo (not dissimilar to the Vote Leave logo) can be found on Vote Leave’s own website, where BeLeave is listed as an “outreach group”….

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Chatter Episode 37 – Greg Fish on Whether We Are Giving Cambridge Analytica Too Much Credit

Greg Fish is our guest on today’s show, he is a journalist at Rantt and covers a wide range of topics related to data science, psyops, partisanship, and politics. I first came across his work on Medium and have since been fascinated by his insights on the ever growing Cambridge Analytica data scandal….

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