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Algorithms are designed to learn what keeps
users
engaged so that they can be served more ads and produce more revenue.
Likewise, a study of demonstrations in Germany earlier this year found that YouTube’s algorithm systematically directed
users
toward extremist content because that was where the “clicks” and revenue were greatest.
Recently, Facebook has been under heavy criticism for its cavalier record on protecting users’ privacy.
One is related to individual
users.
Smartphones with LTE mobile infrastructure created the first content-delivery platform that was available every waking moment, transforming the technology industry and the lives of two billion
users.
And they made no attempt to monetize their efforts until long after
users
were hooked.
But then came the smartphone, which transformed all media and effectively put Facebook, Google, and a handful of others in control of the information flow to
users.
The filters that give
users
“what they want” had the effect of polarizing populations and eroding the legitimacy of fundamental democratic institutions (most notably, the free press).
To thrive, people will need new skills and knowledge, and countries will require updated policies to protect online
users.
For example, in Kenya, a private company developed a mobile-payments system that allows
users
to transfer money using cell phones, effectively creating a banking system much more quickly than the government could have done.
In China, three-quarters of Internet
users
get online via mobile phones already; in Ethiopia and Uganda, four out of five do.
Nine hundred million people live in LDCs, and, as Pantelis Koutroumpis of Imperial College London points out, only 6.7% are Internet
users.
Combine iris identification with new phones (already issued by Microsoft) that use it to authenticate their users, and any refugee using his or her smartphone to connect to social media to find out where to go would also be signaling his or her location to border authorities.
Some of the data suggest that European performance was particularly disappointing in the sectors that are intensive
users
of IT.
According to the report – which surveyed some 70,000 Internet
users
in 36 countries – 29% of respondents said they were avoiding news altogether.
Mexico and Poland will be its first
users
and more countries will line up.
Overall, the Aadhaar program leaves participants far more compromised than even, say, the 87 million Facebook
users
whose personal data were wrongly shared with the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
The app’s
users
did not know that this would happen, let alone consent to it, as it wasn’t included even in the fine print.
The sometimes intolerable withdrawal symptoms that can make it difficult and hazardous to stop taking anti-depressants also expose many
users
to severe and depressing side effects: substantial weight gain, loss of libido, and mood changes, to name just the most common complaints.
But this crisis revealed these reports' fundamental inadequacies, such that
users'
experiences with drugs can never credibly be ignored again.
And he failed to secure agreement on measures that might force surplus as well as deficit countries, and the issuer of the international currency as well as its users, to adjust.
Government rationed steel to
users
rather than selling it at a market price.
– which match individuals with employers seeking to fill traditional jobs – have already engaged hundreds of millions of individual
users
and many of the world’s leading companies, and are generating the bulk of the economic impact.
Local shortcomings force too many innovators – such as the Guatemalan Luis von Ahn, who co-developed CAPTCHA, the word puzzles that websites use to ensure that
users
are human – to move abroad.
The law requires social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to remove all illegal content posted by
users
– which includes hate speech, in addition to disinformation – within 24 hours, or face a fine of up to €50 million ($61.3 million).
With this new source meeting more of world energy demand, particularly in the US, energy
users
were no longer as dependent on OPEC and other oil producers.
To be sure, companies are increasingly creating product labels that help consumers make responsible choices – for instance, alerting
users
to products made from materials that are recycled, renewable, and/or less carbon-intensive.
Fostering such thinking – by introducing more eco-friendly product designs, for example – can help
users
behave more responsibly, and thus may help end our “throw-away” culture.
Among China’s 500 million Internet users, for example, one senses a palpable rise in nationalist sentiment, reflected in bitter criticism of official “weakness” in defending Chinese interests.
Despite the political and administrative centralization of most of the countries represented at the Forum, there was widespread agreement that the most efficient water systems are managed as close as possible to the resource and its
users.
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