Internal Palantir documents detail a plan to deepen its ties to the UK's NHS by buying up smaller rivals, helping avoid scrutiny and increase health data
Palantir Technologies had a secret plan to deepen its relationship with the UK's National Health Service without public scrutiny. Tweets: @oliviasolon , @parismarx , @xtophercook ,...
The Iranian government plans to use facial recognition on public transport to identify women who are not complying with its strict new hijab laws
Government says it will use technology on public transport in crackdown on women's dress — The Iranian government is planning …
Despite differences within the AI community, pretty much all AI experts find the notion that Google's LaMDA might be sentient completely ridiculous
No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly. … Blaise Aguera y Arcas, polymath, novelist, and Google VP, has a way with words.
A look at advanced large language models, as Google places an engineer on paid leave after he became convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator was sentient
AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.
Airbnb says 1.4M users have rejected its non-discrimination agreement, foregoing their use of the platform, since it implemented the policy in 2016
Airbnb says 1.4M users have rejected its non-discrimination agreement, foregoing their use of the platform, since it implemented the policy in 2016
In the four years since it implemented an agreement to promote equitable treatment of its users, Airbnb claims that 1.4 million individuals …
Google announces plans to build a new undersea network cable connecting the US, UK, and Spain, expected to be completed by 2022
Google has announced plans to build a new undersea network cable connecting the US, UK and Spain. — The tech giant says it is incorporating new technology into the cable …
Data broker Mobilewalla touts tracking BLM protesters' cell data and the locations of evangelicals before 2016 election, and says it has data on 1.6B devices
A data broker that tracked Black Lives Matter protesters also tracked the locations of Evangelical Christians on election …
As Microsoft and Amazon push for federal regulation of facial recognition, an overview of related local laws that have been passed and tech lobbying efforts
Brian Fung / CNN : Tweets: @tobywalsh and @einsteinsattic Tweets: Toby Walsh / @tobywalsh : IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon's face recognition bans don't go far enough: “We need a full...
A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption
but it doesn't have to be creepy Vass Bednar / regs to riches : #6 — This is a newsletter about regulatory hacking featuring (mostly) Canadian startups. Xinmei Shen / Abacus : Fr...
Apple and Google confirm contact tracing update will work on devices running iOS 13 or Android 6+ via Google Play and say only health authorities can access API
Last week, Apple and Google announced a partnership that will soon let users opt-in to a decentralized tracing tool …
A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption
There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google.
Report: Facebook has tasked a co-author of Windows NT with building an OS from scratch, in order to stop relying on Android for products like Oculus and Portal
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Source: The Information .
Survey: ~60% US adults believe they can not avoid data collection by corporations or govt., 81% think the risks of corporate data collection outweigh benefits
Majorities think their personal data is less secure now, that data collection poses more risks than benefits …
As the US investigates Google for possible abuse of power as the biggest digital ad broker, a detailed look at how Google built the world's dominant ad machine
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As the US investigates Google for possible abuse of power as the biggest digital ad broker, a detailed look at how Google built the world's dominant ad machine
The U.S. is investigating whether the tech giant has abused its power, including as the biggest broker of digital ad sales across the web
Facebook says it has removed tens of thousands of apps from about 400 developers to date, as part of its investigation following the Cambridge Analytica scandal
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook indicated on Friday that the scale of its data privacy issues was far larger than it had previously acknowledged …
Facebook says it has removed tens of thousands of apps from about 400 developers to date, as part of its investigation following the Cambridge Analytica scandal
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook indicated on Friday that the scale of its data privacy issues was far larger than it had previously acknowledged …