Sarah Bird, Principal Group Product Manager for Microsoft’s Azure AI, writes: A core priority for the Cognitive Services team is to ensure its AI technology, including facial recognition, is developed and used responsibly. While we have adopted six essential principles to guide our work in AI more broadly, we recognized early on that [Read More…]
Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project Center for Human Rights and Global Justice NYU School of Law June 2022 The beginning of the Executive Summary: Governments around the world are designing or implementing digital identification systems, often with biometric components (digital ID). The spread of these systems is driven [Read More…]
Dan Goodin reports: In the decade since larger-than-life character Kim Dotcom founded Mega, the cloud storage service has amassed 250 million registered users and stores a whopping 120 billion files that take up more than 1,000 petabytes of storage. A key selling point that has helped fuel the growth is an extraordinary promise [Read More…]
Here’s a smattering of news items compiled by Joe Cadillic: Activists Successfully Sue Marion County Sheriff for Illegally Sharing License Plate Reader Data: https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/06/activists-successfully-sue-california-sheriff-for-illegally-sharing-alpr-data/ EU Commission must withdraw new law to uphold online privacy, security and free expression – StateWatch https://www.statewatch.org/news/2022/june/european-commission-must-withdraw-new-law-to-uphold-online-privacy-security-and-free-expression/ ICE Searched LexisNexis Database Over a Million Times in [Read More…]