Beth Mole reports: Humana, one the nation’s largest health insurance providers, is allegedly using an artificial intelligence model with a 90 percent error rate to override doctors’ medical judgment and wrongfully deny care to elderly people on the company’s Medicare Advantage plans. According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Humana’s use of the AI model constitutes a “fraudulent…
Artificial intelligence can find your location in photos, worrying privacy experts
Geoff Brumfiel reports: A student project has revealed yet another power of artificial intelligence — it can be extremely good at geolocating where photos are taken. The project, known as Predicting Image Geolocations (or PIGEON, for short) was designed by three Stanford graduate students in order to identify locations on Google Street View. But when…
Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’
Joseph Cox reports: “Verizon royally fucked up,” Poppy told me in a phone call. “There’s no way around it.” Verizon, she added, was “100% at fault.” Verizon handed Poppy’s personal data, including the address on file and phone logs, to a stalker who later directly threatened her and drove to an address armed with a…
Drug-sniffing dog searches fall under Fourth Amendment protections, NY appellate court rules
Erik Uebelacker reports: Law enforcement’s use of drug-sniffing dogs on individuals now qualifies as a search under the Fourth Amendment, according to a Tuesday ruling from New York’s high court. It’s been an issue long unresolved by the United States Supreme Court, which has taken an “incremental” approach to the issue for the past four decades, according…