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A TikTok moderator has sued the social media platform and its parent ByteDance over trauma caused by graphic videos, Bloomberg has reported. In a proposed class-action lawsuit, moderator Candie Frazier said that she has screened videos showing violence, school shootings, fatal falls and even cannibalism. “Plaintiff has trouble sleeping and when she does sleep, she has horrific nightmares,” the lawsuit states.

Compounding the problem, TikTok allegedly requires moderators to work 12-hour shifts with only a one-hour lunch and two 15-minute breaks. “Due to the sheer volume of content, content moderators are permitted no more than 25 seconds per video, and simultaneously view three to ten videos at the same time,” according to the complaint. 

Plaintiff has trouble sleeping and when she does sleep, she has horrific nightmares.

Along with other social media companies including Facebook and YouTube, TikTok developed guidelines to help moderators cope with child abuse and other traumatic images. Among the suggestions is that companies limit moderator shifts to four hours and provide psychological support. However, TikTok allegedly failed to implement those guidelines, according to the lawsuit.

Content moderators take the brunt of graphic and traumatic images that appear on social media, making sure that users don’t have to experience them. One company that provides content moderators for large tech firms even acknowledged in a consent form that the job can cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, social media companies have been criticized by their mods and others for not paying enough given the psychological hazards, and not providing enough mental health support. A similar lawsuit was filed against Facebook in 2018. 

Frazier is hoping to represent other Tiktok screeners in a class-action suit, and is asking for compensation for psychological injuries and a court order for a medical fund for moderators. 

Days after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, opened a preliminary investigation into Tesla’s “Passenger Play” feature—which allows drivers to play certain games on the car’s center touch screen while the vehicle is moving—the automaker has decided to modify the feature to prevent this…

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You know those walk-through metal detectors that you have to go past when you’re at the airport? More often than not, they work pretty much as advertised. In fact, many of them work really well and can pick up all sorts of metallic objects in your pockets like loose change and so on.

However, it seems that these metal detectors can be hacked which means they could be hacked and modified so that if someone had metal in their pockets, it would not go off. This is according to the researchers at Cisco Talos who discovered that the iC module used in Garrett’s metal detectors can actually be hacked to knock them offline.

This module is used as a control center for the detector’s human operator. The person can use a laptop or any other kind of interface to remotely control the detector, as well as engage in real-time monitoring and diagnostics.

According to the researchers, “An attacker could manipulate this module to remotely monitor statistics on the metal detector, such as whether the alarm has been triggered or how many visitors have walked through. They could also make configuration changes, such as altering the sensitivity level of a device, which potentially poses a security risk to users who rely on these metal detectors.”

However, the good news is that those who own and use Garrett’s metal detectors, a firmware update of the iC module should fix the problem. The researchers had initially disclosed this to Garrett back in August, with the manufacturer issuing a fix in December.

Researchers Discover That Walk-Through Metal Detectors Can Be Hacked

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