The Italian privacy regulator has ordered a popular AI chatbot to cease processing data on domestic citizens after breaking GDPR rules. The ‘virtual friend’ app tries to improve users’ emotional well-being and help users understand their thoughts and calm anxiety through stress management, socialization and the search for love,” but doesn’t seem to comply with […]
What today is a dataset without personal data or with anonymized data, no longer has to be that way tomorrow and it is crucial to know how to protect personal data. Due to the wider availability of open data and new technologies, data can easily be combined with other data. For example, the dataset can […]
CNIL fined Clearview AI with €20 Million for processing data without legal basis and orders to delete data already collected. Clearview AI is an US FacialRecognition company, providing software to companies, law enforcement, universities, and individuals. The company’s algorithm matches faces to a database of more than 20 billion images indexed from the Internet, including […]
European privacy regulators are very concerned about plans by the European Commission to oblige chat services and other tech companies to scan all messages and other content from users for child abuse and speak of a serious risk to the fundamental rights of 450 million Europeans. The proposal imposes obligations on providers, hosting services, communication […]
Google’s artificial intelligence DeepMind received the data in 2015 from the Royal Free NHS Trust for the purpose of testing a smartphone app called Streams. The smartphone app was tested to detect acute kidney injuries. The claim alleges that Google and DeepMind “obtained and used a substantial number of confidential medical records without patients’ knowledge […]
Google’s Advanced Technology and Products division has spent the past year exploring how computers can use radar to understand our needs or intentions and then react to us appropriately. Radar’s electromagnetic waves pick up precise gestures and movements by which the technology itself cane take a few more cues from us.
Facial recognition company Clearview AI wants to be able to identify virtually everyone on Earth through a mega database containing 100 billion images. The company recently announced this to investors, The Washington Post reported on the basis of a financial presentation it received. According to the British privacy regulator ICO, Clearview has a system with […]
Amazon has fired a driver by an automatically generated email by a Bot. Worldwide 4 million drivers have downloaded the app, including 2.9 million in the U.S., according to App Annie which services the AI decision making. Do you think the AI usage in Human Resources here corresponds righteous with the ‘intended purpose’ and ‘reasonably foreseeable misuse’ […]