Something for the litigious.
UK judge rules that a neighbor’s Ring doorbell camera had ‘breached privacy;’ a doctor was awarded a £100,000 payout.
This could be precedent-setting. Alanis Hayal reports:
Dr Mary Fairhurst claimed her neighbour’s cameras left her feeling as though she was under “continuous visual surveillance” as a judge ruled that the footage captured breached Data Protection laws.
A doctor is set to receive £100,000 in compensation after a judge ruled that her neighbours’ Ring doorbell camera breached her privacy.
Dr Mary Fairhurst claimed she was forced to leave her home in Thame in Oxfordshire as the security cameras set up on her neighbour, on Jon Woodward’s property were too ‘intrusive.’
Read more on Brinkwire.
We can therefore we must. But, did anyone take the time to think this through?
7-Eleven biometric data collection found in breach of Australian privacy laws
Zach Marzouk reports:
US convenience store chain 7-Eleven has been accused of breaching Australian privacy laws by collecting customers’ biometric data without their consent.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) found that between 15 June 2020 and 24 August 2021, the Australian arm of 7-Eleven interfered with the privacy of individuals by gathering facial recognition data through a hidden mechanism in its customer feedback form.
Read more on ITPro.
[From the article:
The store said it was capturing this data to detect if the same person was leaving multiple responses to
the survey within a 20 hour period on the same tablet. If they were, it wanted to exclude their responses from the survey results in case they weren’t genuine.
Serious recognition, but the name may lack some of the stature of a Nobel…
https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/rudin-squirrel-award
Duke Professor Wins $1 Million Artificial Intelligence Prize, A ‘New Nobel’
… While many scholars in the developing field of machine learning were focused on improving algorithms, Rudin instead wanted to use AI’s power to help society. She chose to pursue opportunities to apply machine learning techniques to important societal problems, and in the process, realized that AI’s potential is best unlocked when humans can peer inside and understand what it is doing.
Now, after 15 years of advocating for and developing “interpretable” machine learning algorithms that allow humans to see inside AI, Rudin’s contributions to the field have earned her the $1 million Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Founded in 1979, AAAI serves as the prominent international scientific society serving AI researchers, practitioners and educators.
Or, AI could take that survey and report whatever conclusion it chooses… What do Russians know about democracy anyway?
Scary! Ex-Kremlin mastermind predicts formation of 'humanless democracies'
… Now, an ex-Kremlin mastermind Vladislav Surkov has predicted that next 100 years will see advent of 'humanless democracies'. Machines will control everything and humans will increasingly get relegated to sidelines.
… In his piece written for the publication publication ‘Actual Comment', Surkov says that in next 100 years, internet will take a form of direct democracy. There will no longer be a need to elect a government. Instead, anyone who wants to can vote on a proposed legislation.
“For example, if you need another law on beekeeping, everyone who cares – beekeepers, honey enthusiasts, beauticians, pharmacists, people who have been stung by bees, people with allergies, lawyers, hive and smokehouse manufacturers, beeophiles and bee-haters, as well as those who always care about everything – can all directly participate in its drafting, introduction, discussion and adoption,” says Surkov as quoted by Russia Today.
There is no parliament in this scheme. In its place are communication tools, algorithms and moderators.”
Surkov paints a scary picture saying that people will be slowly removed from such a process and that machines will eliminate the human factor. He says that humans will have more and more comfort but will have less and less say in how things are run.
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