The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
A strong argument and scary example for the importance and urgency of the regulatory debate around Privacy and AI: ‘His tiny company, Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants.’ Kashmir Hill via NYTimes.com
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Face recognition and the ethics of AI — Benedict Evans
Ben Evans adds a broad and global perspective to the difficult debate surrounding the ethics of AI, which inevitably ends (or starts) with the question: ‘When bad people use good data’. via www.ben-evans.com
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GDPR: 160,000 data breaches reported already, so expect the big fines to follow | ZDNet
‘after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018, the first eight months saw an average of 247 breach notifications per day. In the time since, that has risen to an average of 278 notifications a day.’ Danny Palmer via ZDnet.com
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