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Alexandra Ross - Author, Advisor, Speaker / Senior Director, Senior Data Protection, Use & Ethics Counsel @autodesk
San Francisco
Joined May 2012
My latest blog post. New Kid on the Block: Data Protection joins ESG
theprivacyguru.com
No doubt you’ve heard of ESG – the acronym for Environmental, Social, and Governance, often known as a measurement for socially responsible companies who care about the impact they make on the world....
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Human DNA can now be pulled from thin air or a footprint on the beach. Here’s what that could mean https://t.co/sArVlgkIVM
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other leaders of the burgeoning AI industry voiced support for additional regulation while testifying at a historic congressional hearing Tuesday.
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"I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong." Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT parent company OpenAI, shared his biggest fears about artificial intelligence before Congress Tuesday. https://t.co/ao01hIx3DS
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Telly, the 'free' smart TV with ads, has privacy policy red flags | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
The smart television startup left behind annotations in its company's privacy policy that raise red flags about its data practices.
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AI experts can quickly rattle off a number of alarming scenarios in which generative AI is used to create synthetic media for the purposes of confusing voters, slandering a candidate or even inciting violence. Here are a few:
latimes.com
Thanks to recent advances in artificial intelligence, tools that can create lifelike photos, video and audio are now cheap and readily available
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A scan of your face or fingerprints could be your ticket onto an airplane or into an event. But as @nicnguyen explains, only a few states protect your biometric privacy. #WSJWhatsNow
https://t.co/oCIl6apHzq
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Data science degrees have grown to be one of the most popular programs at US business schools
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The need to crunch data is driving the rapid growth of analytics degrees.
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After Trump’s CNN performance, “there is no escaping that he has an agenda that is anything but normal….There is no turning a blind eye to what this would mean if he were reelected.” Superb & on-target @danbalz: There can be no evasion of 2024’s stakes.
washingtonpost.com
The former president has changed the terms of the debate for the coming election, as evidenced by his performance during the CNN town hall.
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Starting to get some details on who Twitter is now blocking inside of Turkey, and it's not good: https://t.co/RM3pxly4c4
turkishminute.com
Twitter announced at 6 a.m. Turkish time on Saturday that it was restricting access in Turkey to certain account holders to ensure the platform "remains available to the people of Turkey," seen by...
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I learned nothing from this town hall about Trump and his most ardent supporters I haven't known since 2016. I learned a lot about CNN.
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Cybersecurity experts expect surge in AI-generated hacking attacks - The Washington Post
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AI Act moves ahead in EU Parliament with key committee vote #AIAct #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #emotionrecognition
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Delaware judge refuses to dismiss Facebook shareholder suit over user data privacy breaches - ABC News
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U. of California Wins Partial Dismissal of Pixel Privacy Case
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The governing board for the University of California system must face allegations it violated students’ privacy by installing an ad-tracking pixel on a health portal, a California federal judge ruled...
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Enterprise to Pay $505K to Settle Biometric Privacy Class Action
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Car-rental provider Enterprise will pay about $505,000 to settle a class action alleging it collected and shared the fingerprints of employees in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information...
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WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told | WhatsApp | The Guardianm
theguardian.com
‘Intentional ambiguity’ over end-to-end encryption in online safety bill could lead to messaging app being withdrawn
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Two-thirds of Americans say the drug mifepristone, used in the majority of abortions in the United States, should remain on the market, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey finds that 66 percent of U.S. adults say mifepristone should remain on the market,
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The problem is no longer merely about ethics reform but about democracy reform. The Clarence Thomas Affair threatens our rule-based democracy.
slate.com
Of all the insulting things to come out of the past few weeks, this is perhaps the most insulting.
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