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Uber Faces Lawsuit By British Drivers

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A group of Uber drivers in England have filed suit against the ride-hailing company for its alleged failure to provide access to data and an explanation of algorithmic management. The lawsuit by the App Drivers and Couriers Union (ADCU), a U.K.-based Once again, Uber is flouting the law and exploiting low-paid workers.” .

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Deep Dive: How Digital ID Verification Helps Build Trust in Carsharing and Housesharing Platforms

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Humans can also train the ML algorithms by tagging IDs with either valid or fraudulent tags, creating a highly sophisticated verification system. . PYMNTS research revealed that 68.8 percent of users who presented IDs online and 67.5

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Judge Says Facial Recognition Suit Against Facebook Can Proceed

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The suit is based on a unique Illinois law — the Biometric Information Privacy Act — which gives users a “property interest” in the algorithms that establish their digital identities. That’s the date when Facebook launched “Tag Suggestions,” a feature that suggests people to tag after a user uploads a photo.

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Badi Rolls Out AI Room Booking App In NY

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The app’s algorithm taps into information like interests, age, lifestyle preferences and gender to assist users in locating tenants or rooms. They can select which people they would want to stay with by tagging profiles, much like a dating website. The company has notched $45 million in funding.

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Amazon Expands Data-Driven Fashion Push

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The experience works on the web and inside the Amazon app and comes with a $25 price tag. When finished, customers can view the product they customized on a virtual body double before placing the order. Whether Amazon’s future efforts as it enters the fashion arena will directly impact privacy concerns remains an open question.

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Five at Five: Sears Looks To Amazon For Some Verve

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The fashion retailer H&M is using algorithms to gain insights from returns, receipts and data from loyalty cards to improve its bottom lines. Best Buy Minimizes Iconic Price Tag In New Logo. The new design moves Best Buy ’s wordmark outside the giant yellow tag, making it a less noticeable part of the layout.

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Tagly App: The Anti-Selfie?

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The outlet reports that Alhermizi’s inspiration for the app came in 2014, when Facebook changed its algorithm that greatly reduced the visibility for brand posts in a user’s News Feed and left brands having to plead with their followers to turn on notification settings so that the brand’s posts would not be invisible to them.