Article Alert: Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks
Article Alert: Deepfakes, Phrenology, Surveillance, and More! A Taxonomy of AI Privacy Risks Authors: Hao-Ping Lee, Yu-Ju Yang, Thomas Serban von Davier, Jodi Forlizzi, Sauvik Das Abstract: Privacy is a key principle for developing ethical AI technologies, but how does including AI technologies in products and services change privacy risks? We constructed a taxonomy of AI privacy risks by […]
Cars Are the Worst Product Category in Terms of Privacy
Cars Are the Worst Product Category in Terms of Privacy According to Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included guide, “Modern cars are a privacy nightmare”. According to their analysis, most car manufactures To read the full article, please click on this link.
Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match This New York Times article presents yet another dangerous example of bias in AI development and deployment, and the harmful consequences pf unregulated use of such systems for policing. Please click on this link to read the full article.
Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever
Time and time again, we convince ourselves that the big idea of the moment will not only improve our daily lives but cure society’s ills. In England, the “garden city” movement introduced by the urban planner Ebenezer Howard in 1898 aimed to merge the countryside and the city while avoiding the disadvantages presented by both. […]
Should online targeted advertising be banned on the premise that it violates human dignity?
Luciano Floridi, Brett Frischmann and Shoshana Zuboff Scholars from various disciplines claim that online targeted advertising – the primary source of wealth accumulation for companies such as Google and Facebook – is based on an economic logic that instrumentalizes human beings as the means to someone else’s financial (and political) gain. It uses the users, […]
Council of Europe proposes ban on Facial Recognition techniques
In a press statement on January 28, 2021, the Council of Europe called for strict limits on facial recognition technologies. Furthermore, the Council stated, certain applications of facial recognition should be banned altogether to avoid discrimination. The Council cited risks to privacy and data protection. In a new set of guidelines addressed to governments, legislators and businesses, the 47-state human rights […]
China’s Surveillance State Goes Global
Northwest of beijing’s Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus of national laboratories. Near its center is the Institute of Automation, a sleek silvery-blue building surrounded by camera-studded poles. The institute is a basic research facility. Its computer scientists inquire into artificial intelligence’s […]