Orin Kerr writes: Ben Wittes and Jodie Liu have posted an interesting new paper, The Privacy Paradox: The Privacy Benefits of Privacy Threats, that discusses how new technologies that many think of as threatening privacy are also at the same time a boon to privacy. An excerpt: In thinking about big data and digital technologies as…
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Chinese search giant Baidu unveils what it calls the world’s smartest artificial intelligence
Colter Hettich reports: Chinese web search giant Baidu unveiled its latest technology Monday, saying it had taken the lead in the global race for true artificial intelligence. Minwa, the company’s supercomputer, scanned more than 1 million images and taught itself to sort them into about 1,000 categories — and did so with 95.42% accuracy, the company…
Digital Privacy is Out of Control
Wired has an interview with Lorrie Faith Cranor that begins: What does privacy mean to you? I view privacy as very much something about control over personal information. That lens of control makes sense to me, and we each have different views on what we want to keep private and what we want to share….
Event Today: Solving Privacy Around the World (livestreamed)
Fordham Law Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) Ninth Law and Information Society Symposium. Trends in the global processing of data, developments in new technologies, privacy enforcement actions and government surveillance put international privacy at the center of the global law and policy agenda. Government regulators, policymakers, legal experts, and industry players need to…