Mario Trujillo and Adam Schwartz write: Comprehensive data privacy legislation is the best way to hold tech companies accountable in our surveillance age, including for harm they do to chi ldren. Well-written privacy legislation has the added benefit of being constitutional—unlike the flurry of laws that restrict content behind age verification requirements that courts have…
Your Online Account May Have Been Breached? Don’t Just Sit There. Do Something.
Sabrina I. Pacifici writes: WSJ via MSN: “How do consumers respond when their online accounts are exposed to hackers? Many of them simply don’t. Data breaches at major firms have become all too common, with more than 110 million user accounts exposed in just the second quarter of 2023. Yet our research found that nearly…
AI is a serious threat to student privacy
Daniel Buck of Thomas B. Fordham Institute writes: The bulk of commentary and school district policy relating to AI and education focuses almost exclusively on questions regarding cheating. What does it mean for a student—or an education columnist, for that matter—if a chatbot can write a ten-page essay in a matter of seconds? How can…
Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time By: Aaron Sankin and Surya Mattu This article was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with reported crimes, an analysis by The Markup has…