Developing Industry Standards Won’t Give AI a Conscience
Marc Böhlen is part of the team developing universal benchmarks for ethical artificial intelligence (AI). He tells us why they won’t work.
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Why a Focus on “Fake News” and Facebook Misses the Internet’s Real Problems – and Solutions
MP’s new ‘fake news’ report largely ignores other platforms like Google and YouTube, and surveillance capitalism itself – and risks sending regulation in the wrong direction.
Read more...Easter Eggs and Trojan Horses in the Democrats’ Flagship Bill, H.R. 1 (“For the People Act of 2019”)
HR 1 will increase the Democrat’s institutional power (and the power of the intelligence community as well).
Read more...“Reverse Location Search Warrant”: A New Personal Data Hoovering Exercise Brought to You by Google
Welcome to reverse location search warrants, yet another technology-enabled violation of your Constitutional rights.
Read more...Cisco Joins Other Tech Giants in Calling for a Federal Privacy Law
Cisco joins other big tech companies in calling for a federal privacy law. This is a blatant attempt to shutter what Louis Brandeis called the “laboratories of democracy” – states, such as California, that pioneer new policies to protect their citizens.
Read more...Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Biometric Privacy Law, Clearing the Way for Lawsuits
Illinois Supreme Court hands down unanimous decision that an individual needn’t prove actual injury nor adverse effect to recover under the state’s bellwether biometric privacy statute.
Read more...Soros Warns Against AI Promoted Surveillance and Authoritarianism; Singles Out China’s Existing Tools and Ambitions
Soros just designated China’s AI and surveillance ambitions as the #1 enemy to “open societies”. Recall he’s already gone after Facebook and other US tech titans.
Read more...Longtime Reporter Leaves NBC, Accuses Media of “Lionizing Destructive Organizations” Like the FBI
The FBI is openly setting out to make and break political leaders, undermining what we have left of a functioning democracy.
Read more...Kiss What Is Left of Your Medical Data Privacy Goodbye
While you weren’t looking, a full-bore assault on what is left of your medical privacy has been gaining ground.
Read more...Christmas Hucksterism: The Last Mile of the Supply Chain is Safer Than You Think
A romp through surveys on “package thieves,” as publicized by a recent viral piece of Youtubery.
Read more...Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
What can be done to manage the risks of artificial intelligence?
Read more...How Immoral Are Laissez Faire Ideologues? Ask About Drones.
Drones illustrate why lack of regulation isn’t such a hot idea.
Read more...Advertising Trade Association Presses for Federal Data Privacy Regulation
Advertising trade group calls for federal data privac regulationy, in an obvious attempt bet that Washington won’t toughen standards nearly as much as California has done and other states are also considering.
Read more...Writers Silenced by Surveillance: Self-Censorship in the Age of Big Data
“We asked Scottish writers how online surveillance has impacted on their work. The answers we got were shocking.”
Read more...Huawei’s Meng Snagged Due to US Bank Sanctions
More on the arrest and planned extradition of Huawei CFO Meng.
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