Portal says that privacy is “built into every layer.” Despite the company’s reassurances about privacy, users are backing away.

Portal says that privacy is “built into every layer.” Despite the company’s reassurances about privacy, users are backing away.
How does your culture view the potential for AI?
One result of increased AI integration will be increased empathy for robots. This transformation has potential upsides and risks.
Australian Aboriginal sovereignty is no longer just about Aboriginal communities retaining rights to their own land. The most brutal types of dispossession are the latest forms of data retention, decreased privacy, and unwarranted use of this personal data as a result of activities being collected, analyzed, and intelligently manipulated by geographically remote entities, all thanks to the Internet.
Using biometric technology to identify and monitor people raises human rights concerns. In particular, biometrics are often associated with intrusions into privacy.
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IEEE Technology and Society Magazine contributor Alexander Hayes interviewed Glass Explorer Cecilia Abadie on January 21, 2013. The complete Google… Read More
Figure 1. Privacy concerns arise for individuals when there is a high expectation of control over information pertaining to them… Read More
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Members of the “Internet Governance, Security, Privacy and the Ethical Dimension of ICTs in 2030” Panel at the 2016 WSIS… Read More
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VIZIO is reportedly paying fines for using TVs to track user’s viewing patterns in significant detail as well as associating… Read More
Should children have toys that can combine speech recognition with a Wi-Fi connection to capture and respond to them, and that potentially are able to record their conversations as well as feed them “messages”? Welcome to the world of Hello Barbie.