It is inevitable that Artificial Intelligence gets embedded into pretty much every machine and system we interact with. The benefits of systems that use every bit of available data and that learn from experience are as significant as electrically powered devices were in the last century. Yet the impacts and risks of A.I. on individuals …
This is a very good article by Michael Corn Chief Information Security Officer at the University of California, San Diego. He runs through the most pertinent issues regarding privacy and the urgent need to address the issues of how personal data is being used without transparency, true governance or how without giving us an iota …
“What if the coronavirus, rather than the needs of commerce and government, drives us to build the digital identity infrastructure that we so desperately need? That is, an infrastructure for the 21st century — digital identity not digitised identity in a privacy-enhancing framework — that is in my opinion far more important to the economy …
Persona’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform allows users to complete ID verification within seconds and obtain results as quickly. And its API and drop-in widget are designed to play nicely with existing apps and services. Persona raises $17.5 million to verify identities without humans in the loop
On privacy, one of Clearview’s early investors, David Scalzo: “I’ve come to the conclusion that because information constantly increases, there’s never going to be privacy,” Mr. Scalzo said. “Laws have to determine what’s legal, but you can’t ban technology. Sure, that might lead to a dystopian future or something, but you can’t ban it. Instead, …
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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“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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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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