The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More
Over the coming five years applications and machines will become less artificial and more intelligent. They will rely less on […]
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AI Diagnoses Genetic Syndromes Just From Patients’ Pictures
An algorithm is able to identify genetic syndromes in patients more accurately than doctors can — just by looking at […]
The Internet Is A Privacy Disaster. But We Still Don’t Know How To Talk About It.
We know our data has been left vulnerable, or sold, or misused. But do we really understand what that means […]
Facebook staff discussed cashing in on user data
Proposals to charge firms for data said to have been revealed by badly redacted court papers Facebook staff discussed charging […]
Can GDPR Work for Health Scientific Research?
On October 22, 2018, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), and […]
DuckDuckGo denies using fingerprinting to track its users
Responding to a forum post that accused it of “fingerprinting users”, privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo says that fears are unfounded […]
The UK will have to renegotiate data protection relationships with EEA countries
UK government says that at the end of the transitional period, the EEA agreement will no longer be applicable and […]
Wearables in The Arena: The Shifting Legal Landscape Governing Fitness Trackers in Professional Sports
The use of wearable technology (colloquially known as “wearables”) has been on the radar of athletes, sponsors, sports teams and […]
Facebook shared private user messages with Netflix and Spotify
Firm bent its own data rules for major clients such as Amazon, Microsoft and Sony, report says Facebook gave Netflix […]
Government issues draft data protection legislation to deal with Brexit
The draft legislation, The data protection, privacy and electronic communications (amendments etc) (EU exit) regulations 2019, have been prepared to ensure […]
Facebook Data Scandals Stoke Criticism That a Privacy Watchdog Too Rarely Bites
Lawmakers, consumer advocates and even former commission officials were clamoring for tough action against Facebook, arguing that it had violated […]
How Facebook Tracks Non-Users via Android Apps
If you quit Facebook or never joined because of its data collecting practices the odds are good the social network […]