Authorities are taking advantage of major public events to roll out more surveillance. It’s happening right now, both in the US and in Europe.
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Iran uses surveillance tech to enforce the hijab law, while Tesla captures and analyzes highly personal footage from its vehicle cameras.
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Whether the criticisms of today’s AI systems are valid or not, there seems little likelihood that any kind of moratorium on training LLMs will be brought in. There is simply too much hype, and too much venture capital being poured into it.
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Most smart speakers are not profitable. Smart speaker privacy might become a big issue really fast, as balance sheets matter more than ever.
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We’ve just written about the mounting problems for Facebook and its parent company Meta. And to that list of issues can be added another one, potentially the biggest so far, since it goes to the heart of the business model used by Meta for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp: micro-targeted advertising based on constant online surveillance. … Continue reading “Will GDPR’s Win Against Facebook Change Advertising?”
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Fileless malware attacks can infect your devices without leaving a trace. Get to know how to detect and remove fileless malware from your system.
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Surveillance once meant large-scale government spying on citizens, mostly to identify criminal activity, such as terrorism. But things have advanced quite a lot now. Surveillance has even moved into the workplace, where it’s advancing on several fronts. Advancing Artificial Intelligence The most common advancement in AI involves algorithmic, automated management — which includes analysis of … Continue reading “The Next Level of Surveillance: Real-Time AI Detection of Emotions in Video Streams”
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Back in April, Privacy News Online reported on an important set of proposals from the European Commission to regulate the use of artificial intelligence within the EU. It contained some good ideas, and warned that AI-based facial recognition systems were “high risk”. But that didn’t go far enough for the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), … Continue reading “European Parliament Calls for Bans on AI-based Biometric Recognition in Public Spaces, Predictive Policing, and Social Scoring”
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One way of looking at privacy is in terms of controlling personal data. That means stopping others from accessing existing private information or collecting new personal data; and not allowing the creation of false information that relates to a person. The first of these can be thought of as “classical” privacy – making sure that … Continue reading “Markpainting: how to fight deceptive AI-manipulated images with a sprinkle of digital cleverness”
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Surveillance systems often use biometrics to identify key aspects of individuals. A previous blog post discussed the use of gait recognition, behavioral biometrics, and even cardiac signatures for this purpose. But without doubt, the main technique here is facial recognition, and this has been discussed many times on this blog. The problems with this approach … Continue reading “Yet another biometric surveillance system: using a person’s “micro-movements” to detect emotions”
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