Data-sharing is both fuel and lubricant to the world’s economy. It powers online and offline business models, and it enables, in the form of cookies and browser history, greater ease of use for consumers. But with every year, as more data – in terms of volume, types, and richness –
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From Privacy To Racial Bias, Ethical Concerns Over Facial Recognition Technology
Facial recognition technology has entered the mass market, with our faces now able to unlock our phones and computers. While the ability to empower machines with the very human ability to identify a person with a quick look at their face is exciting, it’s not without significant ethical concerns. Suppose
Study: Data Privacy And Security Are The Top Challenges For Cloud Adoption
Technology media company Foundry (formerly IDG) released the findings of its ninth Cloud Computing Survey and found that IT decision-makers (ITDMs) are running up against several challenges when implementing a cloud strategy. These include controlling costs, data privacy and the cost of security. According to the survey, budgets for cloud
Use Of Data Science In Marketing And Ethical, Privacy And Targeting Issues Involved In Data Mining | A Dissection With Shawndra Hill – Facebook Principal Scientist
Facebook principal scientist Shawndra Hill and Professor Olivier Toubia examine the past, present, and future of the role of data science in marketing. Shawndra Hill, a principal scientist at Facebook and a senior lecturer in the Marketing Division, joined Olivier Toubia, Glaubinger Professor of Business and Chair of the Marketing
Data Privacy, Security, And Transparency: Delivering All The Greater Benefits To Businesses, Customers, And Society & What Does It Mean For The Digital Society?
Data has never been more valuable – or more fraught. In a time of turmoil and uncertainty, how can businesses and people come together to create shared principles for society and a better data-driven future for everyone? Billions Of Digital Footprints The COVID-19 crisis has cast the data dilemma into
Safeguarding Our Privacy: Cryptography – A Sophisticated Scientific Art In A Connected World
Josh Zepps, Simon Singh, Orr Dunkelman, Tal Rabin, and Brian Snow discuss how, since the earliest days of communication, clever minds have devised methods for enciphering messages to shield them from prying eyes. Today, cryptography has moved beyond the realm of dilettantes and soldiers to become a sophisticated scientific art
The Facebook Dilemma | Interview Of Max Schrems: Privacy Advocate
Max Schrems is a privacy advocate who filed a complaint against Facebook with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. This is the transcript of an interview with FRONTLINE’s James Jacoby conducted on March 28, 2018. It has been edited in parts for clarity and length. Bring me back to when this
Potential Of Collective Learning Using Differential Privacy
Imagine a hospital in rural Texas can have the same AI capabilities as a research hospital in New York City running cutting edge AI to help with the diagnosis while preserving patient privacy. This is the new world of collective learning. Collective learning is an application of deep learning algorithms
Contact-Tracing Apps For COVID – 19 And Why It Is A Threat To Our Privacy
Coronavirus contact-tracing apps harm privacy. Regardless of whether they protect the data they collect, they require users to walk around with their smartphones on all the time, which is a privacy risk in itself. More disturbingly, they normalise the idea of our behaviour and actions being directly managed end masse by apps. Both set dangerous precedents for individual privacy and liberty, far in excess of any risk that our health data might be leaked.
What Jewish Tradition Teaches Us About Data Privacy
“In Jewish law, privacy is not simply a matter of personal preference. It is rather a formal legal category, such that peering into another’s private space is considered an act of damage.” Recently, I opened my phone and was surprised to discover a message from my 20-year-old son with a
