Stephen E. Arnold: When Big Data Becomes Bad Data Through Algorithmic Bias, Discrimination, and Distortion

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Algorithmic Bias and the Unintentional Discrimination in the Results

The article titled When Big Data Becomes Bad Data on Tech In America discusses the legal ramifications of relying on algorithms for companies. The “disparate impact” theory has been used in the courtroom for some time to ensure that discriminatory policies be struck down whether they were created with the intention to discriminate or not. Algorithmic bias occurs all the time, and according to the spirit of the law, it discriminates although unintentionally. The article states,

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Robert Parry: MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’

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MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’

For skilled intelligence operatives, the Internet can be a devil’s playground, a place to circulate doctored photos, audio and documents, making investigations based on “social media” and such sources particularly risky, a point worth recalling in the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, says Robert Parry.

 

Mongoose: Anglo-Saxon Bankers Organized WWII for Profit

04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime
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Anglo-Saxon bankers organized the Second World War  

To mark the 70th anniversary of the victory against Nazism, we publish a study of Valentin Katasonov on the financing of the NSDAP and rearmament of the Third Reich. The author draws on material published in 2012 that confirm the organization of the Second World War by states-uniens and British bankers, covered by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, hoping to destroy the USSR. This study raises new questions that will be addressed in a future article.

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Berto Jongman: NSA Owns HTTPS & VPN

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berto smallEncryption Flaw Allows the NSA to Break HTTPS and VPN Traffic

A theory that fits all the other clues more than others

A group of 14 researchers have presented a paper at the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS) in Denver on Wednesday, October 14, a paper on which they base a theory of how the NSA can break most of the Web's HTTP and VPN traffic due to a flaw in the implementation of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm used to encrypt Web traffic.

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Yoda: MIT Hypes Artificial Intelligence — All Ying, No Yang

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yoda with light saberGood ying, no yang….

Unique computer system developed at MIT aims to get the humans out of data analysis

A new system developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can surpass the smartest people in the world. It aims to exclude the human element out of the data analysis, said its makers. The new system has been named ‘Data Science Machine’, which could be considered as a breakthrough in the field of artificial intelligence. The new system of AI aims to take humans out of data analysis.

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Chuck Spinney: Uri Avnery on Israel’s Internal Battle (Zionist Settlers versus Orthodox Jews)

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The Settlers' Prussia

Uri Avnery, 17 Oct 2015

[The author is a hero of the 1948 Arab-Israel War, a former member of Knesset, and is Israel’s leading peace advocate.]

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