The controversial face recognition company was just fined $10 million for scraping UK faces from the web. That might not be the end of it. “Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined almost $10 million by the UK’s data protection watchdog for collecting the faces of UK citizens from the web and social …
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More than a million people opted out of NHS data-sharing in one month in a huge backlash against government plans to make patient data available to private companies, the Observer has revealed. Under the scheme, GP health data for everyone in England, with identities partially removed, would be made available to researchers and companies for …
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Since the beginning of the project in 2019, the SDI has monitored international developments in this field and has been in active exchanges with like-minded organizations. With the growing awareness of the importance of digital trust, more than 50 national and international initiatives are dealing with certification, the development of criteria and labels for the …
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Actuaries were the first data scientists. Pooled risk calculations, in the form of insurance underwriting, involved consumers implicitly consenting to their personal data being used – in return, the reduction of premium costs. Data in exchange for money. As technology advances, the data streams we are able to offer, or rather the insurers feel they …
Surely, if offered a choice between suffering financial hardship and a temporary invasion of privacy and civil liberties, many people would opt for the latter. While some fiercely object to any threat to our privacy, the unremitting popularity of Facebook — even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — suggests that most people are happy to …
Our everything-digital era has made it easier to preserve every last scrap of information about our lives, but eventually, many of us will have to face the question of who really controls our photo albums, letters, diaries, and other personal mementoes stored in the cloud or on password-protected hard drives. As it is, tech companies …
“The story of Digitalism explains the future as a struggle for data among companies and (certain) governments trying to collect as much data as possible and citizens trying to protect their data and privacy. Digitalism envisions a world where data is the most important resource in society. It thrives on capitalism and depending on the …
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“Michele Loi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. He argues that proponents of privacy should not put privacy above health – else risk sliding into irrelevance. [..] The second risk for privacy is paradoxical: it follows from having “too much respect” for privacy itself. If our concern with privacy prevents urgent political action …
In recent years both governments and corporations have been using ever more sophisticated technologies to track, monitor and manipulate people. Yet if we are not careful, the epidemic might nevertheless mark an important watershed in the history of surveillance. Not only because it might normalise the deployment of mass surveillance tools in countries that have …
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