The following conference paper, recently shared on arXiv will be presented at the AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) in February 2020. Title Defining AI in Policy Versus Practice Authors …
From Comparitech: A database containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers, and names was left exposed on the web for anyone to access without a password or …
From NIST (via infoDOCKET.com): How accurately do face recognition software tools identify people of varied sex, age and racial background? According to a new study by the National Institute of Standards …
From Vox: Though this is a state law, it will likely affect all Americans. It’s both easier and safer for companies to apply it nationally, and it’s expected that most …
From Mozilla: Firefox announced a new partnership with NextDNS to provide Firefox users with private and secure encrypted Domain Name System (DNS) services through its Trusted Recursive Resolver Program. The company has …
From Gizmodo: Even as its creeping objective of ensuring an ever-expanding network of home security devices eventually becomes indispensable to daily police work, Ring promised its customers would always have …
From TechCrunch: One of the largest civil liberties groups in the U.S. is suing two Homeland Security agencies for failing to turn over documents it requested as part of a …
From Media Post (via infoDOCKET): Google is asking the Federal Trade Commission to revise children’s privacy rules in ways that would make it easier for YouTube to collect data from …
From The NY Times: India is poised to pass its first major data protection law, placing new restrictions on how corporations can collect and use information from the country’s 1.3 …
From the Commissioners Message: For several years, my predecessors and I have been calling for fundamental reform of Canada’s federal private and public sector privacy laws. In the last year, …
