Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say — Edward Snowden via Sophie Kleeman, mic.com
Category: Misc
Why empowering consumers won’t (by itself) stop privacy breaches
Babak Siavoshy writes: Who bears the costs of privacy breaches? It’s challenging enough to articulate the nature of privacy harms, let alone determine how the resulting costs should be allocated. Yet the question of “who pays” is an important, unavoidable, and in my view undertheorized one. The current default seems to be something akin to caveat emptor: consumers of services — both individually as…
“The Privacy Paradox”
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…
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…