Expert opinions on Privacy

Congress needs to listen to the American people and act urgently to stop the unholy alliance of AI and data brokers to fuel war and mass surveillance.

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. ...

International governance thus requires some way to track these high-end chips. [...] Chips can be designed or modified to remotely confirm their location. [...] Regulators can require chip manufacturers to install such mechanisms.

Enacting the current draft of the Chip Security Act (CSA) would erode trust and endanger the Administration’s vision to diffuse U.S. AI technology. Specifically, burdensome rules on U.S. companies not required for foreign competitors risk incentivizi...

We prohibit the use of our technology for mass surveillance of civilian populations, require compliance with law and contract, and use internal review mechanisms to assess and address higher-risk scenarios.

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...

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...

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.

AI companions — including those products that allow or even cater to younger users — should not be used by anyone under the age of 18 years.

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.

No company should deploy an AI system accessible to children without child-specific safety testing and independent oversight.

More important than that is recognizing that the harm comes from three things: the absence of consent, the collapse of context and the exercise of power.

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...

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.