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Alexa, please tell Halo to stop recording everyone I talk to and everything in my vicinity.

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 …

We’re losing the war against surveillance capitalism because we let Big Tech frame the debate

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 …

“Mark Zuckerberg says ‘Privacy is the future’ very confusing”

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 …