From the it’s-complicated dept., Shannon Liao reports: This week, NBC reported that facial recognition researchers at companies like IBM often feed their algorithms photos from publicly available collections, only protected by a Creative Commons license, without requesting permission from the people who are photographed. The incident raised the question of [Read More…]
Elizabeth Brico reports: When Jayne checked her email on the morning of February 13, she didn’t expect to find anything particularly exciting. The 34-year-old, who asked her real name be withheld out of fear that speaking out could affect her housing benefits, was enjoying a rare moment of relative peace [Read More…]
Kelly Sheridan reports: People claim to value data privacy and don’t trust businesses to protect them – but most fail to protect themselves. RSA CONFERENCE 2019 – San Francisco –When it comes to data privacy, users’ practices fail to align with their values. Most claim to value privacy and don’t [Read More…]
Francesca Paris and Scott Simon report: Charlotte Lehman could hear the man reading his credit card number out loud from across the Starbucks. He was speaking to a companion, but his voice carried over the music to where Lehman sat. Surrounded by a dozen or so people, the speaker also [Read More…]