Tristan Greene writes: The ACLU and Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition company, reached a legal settlement earlier this week that’s been hailed as a huge win by both parties. The big story here is that Clearview AI can no longer sell its databases to third party companies — but that’s not exactly news. […]…
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Anonymous Social Media App Yik Yak Exposed Users’ Precise Locations
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: The anonymous message board app Yik Yak is designed in a way that it is possible to get the precise location of a user’s post, and see users’ unique IDs, potentially allowing someone to dox and stalk users, according to a researcher. […] In April, David Teather, a computer science student, analyzed…
Human rights groups demand Zoom stop any plans for controversial emotion AI
Kate Kaye reports: The drumbeat against emotion AI is getting louder. On Wednesday more than 25 human and digital rights organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Privacy Information Center and Fight for the Future sent a letter to Zoom demanding the company end potential plans to incorporate emotion AI features in its software….
In Pro-Privacy Decision, CJEU Strikes Down Metadata Collection in Irish Criminal Case
Marie Daly of Covington and Burling writes: Nine million texts are sent daily in Ireland, a huge increase on when the first text was sent in 1992. All are subject to the data retention and access regime currently in place under the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011. That regime has now been given the…