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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This is an interesting and important read. Interesting because it documents an event that many witnessed and continues to be a high profile news item. Important because as you read the story the extent to which individuals are being tracked from their mobile phone data. In this case, the surveillance of a class of terrorists …
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There is a large ecosystem of four key players that is trading our data and our attention for revenues, at least in the West. As Apple vies for the position of trusted service and hardware provider, Google is ring-fencing the cookie game into its own proprietary stack. IMHO Facebook has screwed its customers and hopefully …
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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 …
“My investigation of the location tracking done by Tim Hortons on its customers started in October 2019, when my phone received an alert that said the company’s app had checked my location in the background — in other words, I was not using the app at the time. After I filed a request for all …
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 …
Shane chats with former NSA spy and whistleblower Edward Snowden on the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s all of this data being collected, how are the government so when in in South Korea, I get a text saying oh you met Joe Blow, he might be infected you should, you know sequester …
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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 …