Expert opinions on Data Privacy

When children use chatbots as therapists, they’re likely to be in a great deal of trouble.

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

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves.

Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of seventeen state attorneys general urging Congress to take immediate action to halt federal agencies’ use of commercially purchased data and artificial intelligence tools that enable mass surveillanc...

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 ...

When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. ...

All AI systems considered a clear threat to the safety, livelihoods and rights of people are banned. The AI Act prohibits individual criminal offence risk assessment or prediction.

Officers across England and Wales will spend less time behind desks and more time protecting their communities, as the government today launches PoliceAI – a new national centre dedicated to the responsible development, piloting and scaling of artifi...

When we integrate AI capabilities into our platform, we use API endpoints and vendors that do not feed your data back into model training. Opt-in vs. opt-out matters more than you think. Even with opt-in as our policy, we’re not rushing to flip the s...

Restricting access to training data, whether through mandatory compensation, expanded opt-out rights, or onerous compliance requirements, can have the effect of restricting AI development itself.

For years we’ve been stuck with intrusive cookie banners, a clumsy solution that frustrates users and offers little real control. Now, the EU’s Digital Omnibus Regulation proposal, though disappointingly slow to implement, finally sets a clear direct...

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.

Cookie banners will definitely remain — for better or worse.