The New York Times profiles Clearview AI and outlines risks posed in facial recognition technology
Clearview has amassed billions of facial photos without consent, gained powerful proponents, and has few U.S. laws in place to contain it.
Clearview has amassed billions of facial photos without consent, gained powerful proponents, and has few U.S. laws in place to contain it.
A judge denied Google’s request to dismiss a suit which accuses Google of collecting data while misleading Incognito mode users into believing their data was being kept private.
With a blatant disregard for user preferences, TikTok plans to simply change user settings to allow third-party advertisers to provide personalized ads based on what users watch on TikTok’s platform. EU citizens will have the option to switch back to general ads if they want due to GDPR regulation, but outside the EU personalized ads will be the only choice.
Like the determined optimist who tells his boss the factory is on fire by reporting they’ll soon be able to update their equipment, let’s find some silver linings in a batch of gloomy surveys today, Dear Reader. We’ll start with this Fivetran report, which finds that 85% of data leaders say their company has lost money by basing decisions on bad data, and 66% believe their C-suite can’t tell when that happens. The bright side is there’s lots of room for improvement.