“Digital systems – how they’re built, the data they gather (and the data they don’t), the categories we’re put into – by design require a flattening of our identities, reflecting a prioritisation of what most matters to the people collecting the data. Our identities are fluid – that’s what makes us human – but digital …
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“Lots of the companies that have gotten wealthy from selling us data-collecting devices — or from collecting our data — have learned to talk the talk on privacy. But they’re very often defining privacy in ways that serve their own interests first.” iPhone apps were beaming my personal information to all sorts of tracking companies …
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“With the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) going into effect on January 1, 2020, I think it’s timely to look at how digital natives may change the way we view data privacy altogether. Our collective attitude toward data privacy is changing as we learn more about how maintaining data privacy is both desirable and difficult. …
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‘A federal trade regulator has condemned the largest digital companies for their privacy records, arguing that it is currently “untenable” for consumers to understand and control collection of their own data.’ ‘“Even if consumers can walk through a privacy check-up, the amount of information that you have to process, to figure out what is happening …
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Artificial intelligence start-ups are selling images of computer-generated faces that look like the real thing, offering companies a chance to create imaginary models and “increase diversity” in their ads without needing human beings. The AI software used to create such faces is freely available and improving rapidly, allowing small start-ups to easily create fakes that …
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST AB 713, as amended by Assembly Member Mullin California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: Make available to consumers two or more designated methods for submitting requests for information including, at a minimum, a toll-free telephone number. Make the internet website available …
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“More than anything an effective data marketplace needs a mechanism that accounts for individual users’ privacy sensibilities, which are rooted in personal experience, identity, and specific context. The value of a piece of data changes dynamically based on one’s life situation and how that bit of data is combined with other data points to yield …
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Top three considerations for anyone starting out: GDPR must be your guideBuild in data protection from the very beginning, and put individual rights under the GDPR front and centre. Design with the user in mind Your customer expects you to come up with a system that is straightforward, secure, and effective in achieving their goals. …
More than 100,000 documents relating to work in 68 countries that will lay bare the global infrastructure of an operation used to manipulate voters on “an industrial scale” are set to be released over the next months