“This is the systematic development and deployment of a vast surveillance network that invades society’s reasonable expectation of privacy.” — Ben Gold, lawyer. Thomas Brewster reports: In March of 2022, David Zayas was driving down the Hutchinson River Parkway in Scarsdale. His car, a gray Chevrolet, was entirely unremarkable, as was its speed. But to…
What Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Means For Threads And For Organizations When It Comes To Data Protection
Shelly Kramer at V3B writes: In May 2023, Meta was fined a record-breaking 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaching the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The DPC ruled that Meta broke privacy laws by transferring Facebook EU users’ data illegally from Europe to the United States—and I believe this…
United Nations highlights artificial intelligence
Delivered by Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights AT HIGH LEVEL SIDE EVENT OF THE 53rd SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL It is great that we are having a discussion about human rights and AI. We all know how much our world – and the state of human rights – is being…
Announce: New category on PogoWasRight
Given the explosion of news and analyses concerning artificial intelligence, a category for the topic has now been added to PogowasRight.org. Items from 2023 have the category added. For earlier articles, use the site’s search function for “Artificial Intelligence.”