Tackling one of the biggest issues today - the ethics of AI
We all have a role to play in this and need to be aware of what is happening in the wider ecosystem of technologies, writes Russell Berg of Quanton
We all have a role to play in this and need to be aware of what is happening in the wider ecosystem of technologies, writes Russell Berg of Quanton
Two groups of US state attorneys general on Friday announced separate antitrust probes of large tech companies such as Alphabet's Google and Facebook.
Apple said that it will quit keeping audio for human review and instead let users opt in to having their audio reviewed if they choose. The company said it will still use computer-generated transcripts to improve Siri.
The social media site said if a user clears their off-Facebook activity, Facebook would remove the user's identifying information from the data that apps and websites choose to send.
The FTC has been investigating allegations Facebook inappropriately shared information belonging to 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
Google has been working on the cookies plan for at least six years, in stops and starts, but accelerated the work after news broke last year that personal data of Facebook users was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica
Facebook users are not offered the chance to opt out of their data being labeled.
Facebook is now worth US$40 billion, more than it was right before the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted.
"We worked to get the databases in question taken down, but we are still investigating exactly what information was stored there," said a Facebook spokeswoman.
Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said Facebook misled users because it had known about the incident for two years before disclosing it
The British regulator has fired the first shot across the bow of foreign companies processing European personal data, writes Frith Tweedie of EY
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg described the incident as a “really serious security issue"
We need to take into account the increased risk of cybersecurity breaches when considering the design of the open banking regime, writes Nicole Buisson of Xero
Joseph Pucciarelli of IDC on how traditional companies are showing the way in breaking through digital deadlock
Don’t assume only the good guys will be using these tools, reports Forrester.