Research integrity specialists and scientific publishers raise concerns about the ease with which scientific data can be fabricated using generative AI tools
Diana Kwon / Nature : X: @carissaveliz , @ezeferrero , @dianamkwon , and @lcademartirilab X: Carissa Véliz / @carissaveliz : The ease with which #GenAI can create text, images and...
DuckDuckGo releases its browser in public beta on Windows, over a year after its private beta on macOS, offering Duck Player for YouTube without ads and more
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An interview with Sam Altman on OpenAI's GPT-4, how “people should be happy” that OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, misinformation, rivals, and more
“This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023.
Unpacking Meta's “regulatory headwinds” warning, as the adtech industry faces a privacy reckoning and Belgium upends IAB Europe's GDPR compliance framework
What does Meta/Facebook's favorite new phrase to bandy around in awkward earnings calls — as it warns of “regulatory headwinds” … Tweets: @carissaveliz , @mikarv , @wolfiechristl ,...
Democratic lawmakers unveil the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, which would ban targeted ads but allow broad location-based and contextual ads
It could reshape the entire tech industry — On Tuesday, Democrats introduced a new bill that would ban nearly all use …
Several women who believe they were tracked with AirTags say Apple's safeguards against stalking are insufficient
Privacy groups sounded alarms about the coin-sized location-tracking devices when they were introduced. Now people are concerned those fears are being realized.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission, on behalf of the EU, fines WhatsApp €225M for privacy violations, the second-largest fine under GDPR; WhatsApp will appeal
Regulators say chat-service unit failed to disclose fully how it collected and shared data about its users Source: Data Protection Commission .
Amnesty International researchers published a toolkit to help anyone scan their iPhone and Android devices for evidence of compromise by NSO's Pegasus spyware
Over the weekend, an international consortium of news outlets reported that several authoritarian governments — including Mexico …
Of the 67 phones Amnesty's Security Lab probed, 34 were iPhones, of which 23 showed signs of a successful Pegasus infection and the others showed attempts
Google says it plans to double the size of its team studying AI ethics in the coming years, as it looks to strengthen the group battered by recent controversies
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A glossary to help decode the language used by Google and Facebook to reassure the public about AI responsibility without inviting deeper scrutiny
50-ish words you can use to show that you care without incriminating yourself. — AI researchers often say good machine learning is really more art than science. Tweets: @_karenha...
ACLU discloses that it shares personally identifiable info of its website users and donors with platforms like Facebook, Google, and others, for ad targeting
ACLU discloses that it shares personally identifiable info of its website users and donors with platforms like Facebook, Google, and others, for ad targeting
The American Civil Liberties Union revealed that it shares data with a company it regularly criticizes for privacy blunders: Facebook.
UK Home Office confirms trial of web surveillance tool that can track users' browsing history in partnership with two unnamed ISPs and National Crime Agency
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper's Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms
Facebook's Australia ban is acute for people in places like Fiji, who rely on phone plans with cheap Facebook access as going to news websites costs more data
Media experts fear that communities reliant on the site for information will suffer significant impact
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second
to be clear, this graph shows the drop in traffic from Facebook to Australian news publishers. It's obvious, yes, but that makes it no less dramatic. The article goes on explain th...
How Americans can draw upon European thinkers, like Dutch politician Marietje Schaake, to address issues of antitrust, Big Tech, and democratic governance
Last October, a couple of days before joining Stanford University as the international policy director at the Cyber Policy Center …