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Zuckerberg’s privacy manifesto failed to account for the myriad ways people interpret privacy. To do that, Facebook needs human-centered design.
“Privacy may actually be an anomaly,” said Vint Cerf, one of the architects of the Internet, at an FTC workshop on the Internet of Things on Tuesday. Cerf, who’s currently Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, argued that privacy is a construct of the modern industrial age. In the past, his...
The ethical mindfield of AI gaydar.
A new dissertation from University of Pretoria Information Technology master student John Leuner has revisited the thorny question of whether machine learning methods can effectively detect sexual orientation. AI-empowered “gaydar” systems are one of the more controversial applications of machine learning. Previous research from Stanford University (Wang and Kosinski, 2017) was criticized in the AIContinue Reading
An experiment in privacy–and the discussion that ensued–offer unexpected lessons in who gets watched, and how.
Because they're told bullshit like "tech is neutral!"
Americans at the lower end of the economic ladder suffer from an ever-growing privacy divide, impacting more than just their personal dignity and autonomy.
The new data ecosystem of trust: How data trusts, collaboratives & coops can help govern data for maximum public benefit
Any one of us might end up helping the facial recognition industry, perhaps captured in moments of extraordinary vulnerability.
"I felt like my identity or whatever didn't matter to them."
Some people are said to be unaware that their data had been used for a facial-recognition project.
Last month, Google announced that its Nest Secure would be updated to work with Google Assistant software. The problem? Google never told users its product had a microphone to begin with. Simple oversight or invasion of privacy? We break it down.
The idea of gathering mugshots for people's amusement is an ethical quagmire the author does not even seem to have noticed.
People’s faces are being used without their permission, in order to power technology that could eventually be used to surveil them, legal experts say.
5 Recommendations for developers
We need to stop perpetuating the false dichotomy between technology and the humanities. To do otherwise would be detrimental to society.
Idealism can eventually bow to financial pressure and artificial intelligence companies, big and small, can change course.