Expert opinions on Data Privacy

We Must End AI-Powered Mass Surveillance, Not Switch Vendors. [...] ALPR’s don’t need a marketing rebrand – they need to be banned.

This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...

We ask them to work with the communities using this technology to decide what rules should govern it and not to spread misinformation or ban a critical public safety tool outright that is helping to make communities safer.

Many developers are improving transparency and offering global opt-out mechanisms, but there is scope to design more granular user controls, supported by “just-in-time transparency” mechanisms that deliver relevant information at the moment of intera...

An opt-out system as proposed by AI companies places burdens and costs on rights holders, as it would require ongoing surveillance to see whether copyright material is being used. We cannot scour the internet and ensure we are opting out on all of th...

Noting concerns regarding the possibility of feedback loops, and the self-fulfilling prophecy of directing police attention to specific areas or individuals on the basis of historical data that may perpetuate patterns of over-policing, Member States ...

Artificial intelligence, digital forensics, and geospatial intelligence are transforming how we anticipate threats and conduct investigations.

BREAKING: I just signed the strongest kid safety laws for AI chatbots and social media in America. California is banning addictive social media features for kids, cracking down on dangerous AI chatbots, and strengthening privacy protections for ALL k...

Age verification can be done well in a privacy-protective way, but it is not easy.

Many bills to protect children from chatbots harms err by simply transplanting ineffective social media approaches such as age verification, content restrictions, and blanket bans. Policymakers should avoid moral panic about chatbots and AI and inste...

Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Texas may also set the Global Privacy Control (GPC) to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information for targeted advertising for each participati...

The standards for how this works haven't been written yet. And that implementation detail will determine whether this actually works for people, or just replaces one broken system with another that serves the same advertising interests.

Rather than legislating a default of non-consent, the EU should standardise consent interfaces, broaden exemptions for low-risk processing, and ensure that browser-level consent mechanisms allow users to express meaningful preferences without distort...