Technology has made us one world.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90725211/ukraine-tech-companies

Ukrainian tech companies hope for the best, plan for worst

… Grammarly may be the best-known Ukraine-based tech company. Grammarly is the maker of an AI-driven tool that helps people communicate better in writing.

Is Privacy finally more science than art?

https://hbr.org/2022/02/the-new-rules-of-data-privacy

The New Rules of Data Privacy

After two decades of data management being a wild west, consumer mistrust, government action, and competition for customers are bringing in a new era. Firms that generate any value from personal data will need to change the way they acquire it, share it, protect it, and profit from it. They should follow three basic rules: 1) consistently cultivate trust with customers, explaining in common-sense terms how their data is being used and what’s in it for them; 2) focus on extracting insight, not personal identifiable information; and 3) CIOs and CDOs should work together to facilitate the flow of insights, with a common objective of acquiring maximum insight from consented data for the customer’s benefit.

… For most of its existence, the data economy was structured around a “digital curtain” designed to obscure the industry’s practices from lawmakers and the public. Data was considered company property and a proprietary secret, even though the data originated from customers’ private behavior. That curtain has since been lifted and a convergence of consumer, government, and market forces are now giving users more control over the data they generate. Instead of serving as a resource that can be freely harvested, countries in every region of the world have begun to treat personal data as an asset owned by individuals and held in trust by firms.

New technology is compatible with old law.

https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3130&context=llr

The First Amendment and Facial Recognition Technology

As technology companies increase their deployment of facial recognition technology (FRT), consumers have begun to rebuff attempts to collect, use, and sell facial recognition data without restraint. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPRA) constitute one such effort. However, consistent with an increasingly deregulatory view of the First Amendment taken by the United States Supreme Court over the past decade or so, commercial actors—including now-notorious Clearview AI—have begun to argue that regulation of FRT is incompatible with the First Amendment.

This Note pushes back against the notion that there is inherent tension between protecting consumers from unrestrained use of FRT and preserving free speech.

Is backseat driving really desirable?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-last-a-self-driving-car-that-can-explain-itself#toggle-gdpr

AT LAST, A SELF-DRIVING CAR THAT CAN EXPLAIN ITSELF

… As we drive down a street in downtown Los Angeles, our system’s synthesized voice provides navigation instructions. But it doesn’t give the sometimes hard-to-follow directions you’d get from an ordinary navigation system. Our system understands its surroundings and provides intuitive driving instructions, the way a passenger sitting in the seat beside you might do. It might say, “Follow the black car to turn right” or “Turn left at the building with a billboard.” The system will also issue warnings, for example: “Watch out for the oncoming bus in the opposite lane.”