2023-06-23
Rage Against The Surveillance Machine: Boots Riley and 100 other artists are boycotting any concert venues that use facial recognition CCTV technology. #surveillance #digitalrights #RageAgainstTheMachine https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Rolling Stone
Over 100 artists including Tom Morello call for a live event facial recognition ban and pledge to boycott venues using the tech, citing privacy and bias risks
The artists are among 100 other performers and venues calling for the ban of facial recognition technology at live events
2023-04-29
Under the European AI Act tools will be classified according to their risk level. Areas of concern expected to include biometric surveillance, spreading misinformation or discriminatory language. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
EU lawmakers push forward an AI Act draft, which includes requiring companies deploying generative AI tools to disclose copyrighted material used for training
Learn about the 5 errors to avoid … Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet : Generative AI might soon face some major copyright limitations from the EU Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal : Europe ...
Under the European AI Act tools will be classified according to their risk level. Areas of concern expected to include biometric surveillance, spreading misinformation or discriminatory language. https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Interviews with lawmakers and sources reveal how, over just 11 days, MEPs created a draft bill on generative AI, a rare example of quick consensus in the EU
As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers' plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT.
2021-04-03
Avaaz found hundreds of posts sharing calls from far-right actors to attack the Capitol made by people Facebook banned years earlier. Banning offenders & not enforcing the ban lets Facebook signal virtue but still benefit financially from the traffic. https://www.vice.com/...
Bloomberg
How Facebook's stance that it won't ban posts unless they “cause imminent harm”, reversed in Feb. 2021, has led people to believe dangerous lies about COVID-19
Mark Zuckerberg wanted to make his social network a reliable source about the pandemic. Tweets: @bw , @chafkin , @karenkornbluh , @ryanmarino , @dcodedemocracy , @bw , @center4inqu...