Expert opinions on Privacy

We must come together to stop Flock and AI mass surveillance. That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to do just that.

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 ...

The new legal framework must include a meaningful regulatory regime which operationalises principles such as necessity, responsibility, proportionality, transparency, accountability and lawfulness. These principles should then structure and constrain...

We cannot allow America to become a surveillance state where a handful of AI oligarchs profit by giving the government the power to track our every movement.

The use of live facial recognition in our public spaces is an extraordinary expansion of state power that currently exists in a legal vacuum. We are not Luddites on these Benches; we recognise the utility of technology, but we must ensure that live f...

I have grave concerns that banning technology until it is legislated will choke innovation, it will drive genuine use cases away, and as technology is always developing, are we not in danger of ‘tomorrow never comes’ when it comes to legislation keep...

We've added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.

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.

The Chinese government has a strong incentive to tighten regulations on AI companion chatbots, especially considering the psychological risks we've observed in the U.S.

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...

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.

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

AI tools can no longer “excessively cater to users, induce emotional dependence or addiction, and damage users’ real interpersonal relationships,” while also banning virtual relationships with minors.

Children have given us a clear diagnosis of the problem. They aren't asking us to block AI innovation, but it shouldn't be a case of cleaning up the mess after harm has happened either.

We all just want peace of mind that our kids will be okay growing up in this era of algorithms and AI. That’s why we need guardrails in place to keep up with ever-evolving technology like chatbots and make sure our kids’ safety, mental health, and we...

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...

These workstreams build on existing Government actions including already legislated criminal offences to ban the sharing of non-consensual deepfake sexually explicit material, and work to ban nudify apps.

A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...

Smuggled chips make future agreements based on compute governance more difficult to enforce because it is hard for either the US or the Chinese government to trace smuggled chips.

SIA members are fully committed to complying with export controls, and we strongly oppose the illicit diversion and misuse of our chip technologies. While we understand policymakers’ interest in addressing this issue, we cannot support blanket mandat...