Clearview AI has apparently mined the internet for billions of photos of people, largely from social media sites and the open web, In theory, you should not have to worry about your social media posts being used in such a fashion. Whether or not posting an image online means you have implicitly consented to the …
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“Imagine your smartphone knew everything about the city – but the city didn’t know anything about you. Wouldn’t that be truly ‘smart’?” A much needed paradigm shift. The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states
Human individuals’ privacy is the core construct of the 5th Internet and the individual can control access to and ownership of every form of their own data. They can also “signal” their demands for privacy – just like putting on clothing in the physical world – by having software agents interact with content and services …
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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 …
Until the end of the 20th century, most young people could take one thing for granted: their embarrassing behavior would eventually be forgotten. It might be a bad haircut, or it might be getting drunk and throwing up at a party, but in an analog era, even if the faux pas were documented in a …
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How Can Privacy be Profitable? For any organization holding its customer’s personal data, GDPR and CCPA have upped the ante on Privacy. The big question for marketing and product leaders is ‘How can privacy be profitable?’ Chasing the goal of profitability through privacy, I curated the Privacy Conference at Web Summit 2019. I attended sessions …
Businesses, advertisers, commerce always try to persuade people, you know, always try to change people’s behavior and get them to buy something that they didn’t want to buy so there’s nothing new about this. And of course, that’s true. There is nothing new about our desire to persuade each other to do things that we …
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Recommending content, powering chatbots, trading stocks, detecting medical conditions, and driving cars. These are only a small handful of the most well-known uses of artificial intelligence, yet there is one that, despite being on the margins for much of AI’s recent history, is now threatening to grow significantly in prominence. This is AI’s ability to …
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“This paper proceeds from an analysis of the very particular type of vulnerability concomitant with our ‘leaking’ data on a daily basis, to show that data ownership is both unlikely and inadequate as an answer to the problems at stake. We also argue that the current construction of top-down regulatory constraints on contractual freedom is …