Read: Auditing Algorithms From the Outside:

“A woman in California claims to have been fired from her job after uninstalling an app on her smartphone that her employer used to track her movements 24 hours a day.”

Read: Woman fired after disabling work app that tracked her movements 24/7

“In 2011, progressive activist and author Eli Pariser told an unsettling story about the way that social networks could be skewing our view of the world. “I’ve always gone out of my way to meet conservatives,” he said at a TED Talk.”

Read: Facebook says its algorithms aren’t responsible for your online echo chamber

“Dr. Martin Breidt is a research technician at the Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics.”

Read: #136: Martin Breidt on the Uncanny Valley & Facial Tracking within a VR Head-Mounted Display by Oculus Research

“CVPR 2015 Paper Video: We introduce a realtime facial tracking system specifically designed for performance capture in unconstrained settings using a consumer-level RGB-D sensor. Our framework provides uninterrupted 3D facial tracking, even in the presence of extreme occlusions such as those caused”

Read: Unconstrained Realtime Facial Performance Capture (CVPR 2015)

“The music coming out of Parallel sounds familiar even though it was made up on the spot.”

Read: How an algorithm created music out of people’s unrehearsed interactions

“How old am I? How old are any of us? It’s a number you inherently know, and now Microsoft has created a terribly powerful machine that will judge your age using algorithms. You give it a picture, and it gives you almost instantaneous judgement, complete with gender assignment.”

Read: See how old Microsoft thinks you are

“The Apple Watch’s wrist detection and pulse measurement features often fail to work when confronted by dark tattoos. Michael Lovell made the video below illustrating the problem and a Reddit user called Guinne55fan flagged up the same issues.”

Read: The Apple Watch hates tattoos: An expert explains why

The FBI has admitted that 26 out of 28 examiners in the agency’s elite microscopic hair comparison unit overstated forensic matches during criminal trials for more than two decades, reports The Washington Post.

Read: For more than two decades, FBI forensic scientists gave flawed testimonies

In the aftermath of the infamous “emotional manipulation” study, and building on last year’s “Theorizing Big Data” plenary, we are excited to announce this keynote panel on algorithmic social control.

Read: Theorizing the Web