Techdirt Podcast Episode 369: Your Face Belongs To Us, With Kashmir Hill

from the your-face-on-record dept

Tue, Oct 24th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve written plenty about facial recognition here on Techdirt, and especially the infamous Clearview AI. Now, journalist Kashmir Hill, who wrote the original New York Times story that brought the company to the public’s attention, has written a new book all about the subject: Your Face Belongs To Us. This week, she joins us on the podcast to discuss the whole story of Clearview AI, the rise of facial recognition, and the impact on privacy.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: facial recognition, kashmir hill, podcast, privacy
Companies: clearview ai

3 Comments

Expand

Techdirt Podcast Episode 368: Trust & Safety Tycoon

Content Moderation

from the latest-game dept

Fri, Oct 20th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

As you hopefully know by now, earlier this week we launched our new game, Trust & Safety Tycoon. It’s a free, browser-based game (playable on desktop or mobile, though we recommend desktop for the best experience) that puts you in the shoes of the head of trust and safety at a rapidly growing social media platform, where you must face all the difficult decisions that entails. As we did for our past games Moderator Mayhem and Startup Trail, Mike, myself, and our game design partner Randy Lubin of Leveraged Play sat down after the release to record a podcast episode all about the game, our design process, and the reaction from players so far.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: content moderation, games, gaming, podcast, randy lubin, trust & safety, trust & safety tycoon

Leave a Comment

Expand

Techdirt Podcast Episode 367: Open Sourcing The Trust & Safety Toolkit

Content Moderation

from the essential-tooling dept

Tue, Sep 26th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

The trust and safety conversation tends to focus on the huge platforms, and the millions of smaller websites (some still quite big!) get ignored. But those websites have trust and safety needs too, and they use a lot of different tools to meet them. Most of these tools are proprietary, but there’s a growing push to build more open source tooling for the purpose, which was discussed by Derek Slater in a recent Atlantic Council report. This week, Derek joins us on the podcast to talk about the problems that open source trust and safety tools can solve.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: content moderation, derek slater, open source, podcast, trust & safety

10 Comments

Expand

Techdirt Podcast Episode 366: Liability, Speech & Marketplaces

Legal Issues

from the a-bit-different dept

Tue, Sep 19th 2023 01:34pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve got a slightly unusual (at first glace) crosspost episode for you this week! Recently, Mike joined Dave Cooper, CEO and Founder of brand protection agency IPSecure, on the company’s Owning The Buy Box podcast. As you probably know, we’re pretty skeptical of brand protection companies here at Techdirt, but Dave has a history of heeding our criticisms and being thoughtful about policy and court rulings, enabling an interesting and insightful discussion about a recent legal decision and the brand protection space as a whole.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: brand protection, dave cooper, podcast, policy, section 230
Companies: IPSecure

Leave a Comment

Expand

Techdirt Podcast Episode 365: Link Taxes Are (Still) Bad

Failures

from the never-a-good-idea dept

Tue, Sep 12th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Earlier this year, we had an episode looking at Canada’s proposed social media link tax and the many ways it would be terrible. Since then, that link tax has become law (though not yet come into effect), and unsurprisingly proven that the dire predictions were correct. Also since then, the Cato Institute’s Paul Matzko published an excellent paper on link taxes in general, and Paul joins us on this week’s episode to discuss the many reasons that a link tax won’t save the newspaper industry.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: c-18, canada, cjpa, jcpa, link tax, paul matzko, podcast

1 Comment

Expand

Techdirt Podcast Episode 364: Thinking About Decentralization

(Mis)Uses of Technology

from the spread-it-out dept

Tue, Sep 5th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve got a another cross-post episode for you this week, on a subject near and dear to our hearts: protocols over platforms, and restoring decentralization online. Mike recently joined Danny O’Brien on the DWeb Decoded podcast to talk all about these topics, as well as tell a little story about Danny’s role in the founding of Techdirt, and you can listen to the whole conversation here on this week’s episode.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: danny o'brien, decentralization, platforms, podcast

4 Comments

Expand

Techdirt Podcast Episode 363: Social Media & Mental Health

Studies

from the not-so-simple dept

Tue, Aug 29th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

Social media isn’t the first phenomenon to spark a moral panic about its impact on people’s (and especially young people’s) mental health, and it surely won’t be the last — but for now, it’s the star of the show. A lot of people will gladly latch on to, and casually misrepresent, any research that might strengthen their belief in social media’s harms. But that doesn’t mean there are no harms: it’s just that good research needs to account for the complexity of the subject and social media’s myriad impacts, good and bad. One person doing such research is Professor Andy Przybylski from the University of Oxford, who joins us on this week’s episode for a more detailed and meaningful discussion about social media and mental health.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: any przybylski, mental health, podcast, social media

Leave a Comment

Expand

Techdirt Podcast Episode 362: Gigi Sohn On Community Broadband

Broadband

from the in-the-hands-of-the-community dept

Tue, Aug 15th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

If you didn’t know who Gigi Sohn was before her stalled-out FCC nomination and the ridiculous smear campaign that came with it, you surely do by now. And if you read Techdirt, you know she’s one of the most experienced and passionate experts around when it comes to broadband. This week, she returns to the podcast after quite some time to discuss her new role at the American Association for Public Broadband and the fight for more community-owned broadband in the US.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: broadband, community broadband, fcc

Leave a Comment

Expand

Techdirt Podcast Episode 361: The YouTube Effect, With Alex Winter

(Mis)Uses of Technology

from the something-to-watch dept

Wed, Aug 9th 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

As you may recall, we weren’t fans of The Social Dilemma, the documentary manipulated people with misinformation in the course of complaining about that exact practice. But now there’s a much better and more interesting documentary in the space, and one that’s worth your time: The YouTube Effect by Alex Winter. It takes a deep dive into the good and the bad of YouTube, and grapples with the fact that it has helped radicalize a lot of people. This week, Alex joins Mike (who still contests some of the points in the movie) on the podcast to discuss (and debate) the documentary and the role of YouTube in our culture.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: alex winter, podcast, the youtube effect
Companies: youtube

1 Comment

Expand

Techdirt Podcast Episode 360: Can Interoperability Be Mandated?

Innovation

from the working-together dept

Tue, Aug 1st 2023 01:30pm - Leigh Beadon

We’ve long believed in the power of online platform interoperability and the power it gives to users to curate their own experiences. One of the prime examples of this is Block Party, created by Tracy Chou, which has had to suspend its operations following ExTwitter’s API changes. Tracy joined us on the podcast once before to discuss Block Party, and now she’s back to talk about her new service, Privacy Party, as well as the broader topic of platform interoperability and whether it could be mandated with regulations.

Follow the Techdirt Podcast on Soundcloud, subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or grab the RSS feed. You can also keep up with all the latest episodes right here on Techdirt.

Filed Under: interoperability, podcast, regulation, social media, tracy chou
Companies: block party, twitter, x

1 Comment

Expand

<< Newer Stories Older Stories >>

Follow Techdirt

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

A weekly news podcast from
Mike Masnick & Ben Whitelaw

Subscribe now to Ctrl-Alt-Speech »

Essential Reading

The Techdirt Greenhouse

Read the latest posts:

Read All »

Trending Posts

Techdirt Deals

Techdirt Insider Discord

The latest chatter on the Techdirt Insider Discord channel...

Older Stuff

Tuesday
13:35	Techdirt Podcast Episode 359: Red Team Blues, Part Two (With Cory Doctorow) (0)
Tuesday
13:33	Techdirt Podcast Episode 358: Social Media In Chaos (0)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 357: Red Team Blues, Part One (0)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 356: FutureCast (1)
Thursday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 355: The Reddit Meltdown (1)
Tuesday
13:32	Techdirt Podcast Episode 354: Decentralizing Content Moderation (0)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 353: Moderator Mayhem! (6)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 352: Utah's War On Porn (1)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 351: Save the Children (From State Social Media Laws) (0)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 350: The Data Transfer Initiative (1)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 349: Link Taxes Are Bad, Canada Edition (0)
Wednesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 347: Why Is Congress So Wrong About Section 230? (3)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 346: Gaming Like It's 1927 (0)
Wednesday
13:35	Techdirt Podcast Episode 345: The Supreme Court Takes On 230 (5)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 344: The DoNotPay Story, With Kathryn Tewson (3)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 343: Congress v. Twitter (10)
Wednesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 342: Margaret Sullivan On The Future Of Media (2)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 341: In Defense Of The Global, Open Internet (63)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 340: The New Abnormal On Twitter (22)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 339: Understanding Meta's Special Whitelist Program (1)
Monday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 338: Scrutinizing "The Twitter Files" (43)
Wednesday
13:31	Techdirt Podcast Episode 337: Will Elon Kill Twitter? (4)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 336: The DSA Is A Mess, But Will Now Rule The Internet (1)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 335: Can An Oversight Board Solve Infrastructure Moderation Questions? (1)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 334: Can You Mandate Editorial Transparency? (0)
Wednesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 333: Walled Culture (7)
Tuesday
15:00	Techdirt Podcast Episode 332: Celebrating 25 Years Of Techdirt (1)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 331: Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare, And Infrastructure Content Moderation (7)
Wednesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 330: Elon Musk Takes His Chances In The Court Of Chancery (0)
Tuesday
13:30	Techdirt Podcast Episode 329: Is AI Art The End For Artists? (5)

from the your-face-on-record dept

from the latest-game dept

from the essential-tooling dept

from the a-bit-different dept

from the never-a-good-idea dept

from the spread-it-out dept

from the not-so-simple dept

from the in-the-hands-of-the-community dept

from the something-to-watch dept

from the working-together dept

Techdirt Daily Newsletter

Get all our posts in your inbox with the Techdirt Daily Newsletter!

The Techdirt Greenhouse

Trending Posts

Email This Story

Tools & Services

Company

Contact

More