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US midterms: Democrats look to big data to beat Trump
"To Mr McLaughlin, targeting people by values such as “equality” or “tradition” is fine, but profiling their emotional state is not. As AI improves, he bel…
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The Tinder-Bumble Feud: Dating Apps Fight Over Who Owns The Swipe
""You don't get a patent for saying 'cure dementia with a drug.' You have to say what the drug is," explains Daniel Nazer, a staff at…
Does AI Ethics Need to be More Inclusive?
Last week, MIT Media Lab researchers published results from its global survey on autonomous driving ethics. The survey, dubbed the “Moral Machine experiment”,…
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Florida man won't be compelled to reveal iPhone passcode, yet
""This case adds to the disagreement over how to analyze compelled decryption orders in the context of passcodes," said Riana Pfefferkorn, associ…
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This Week’s Attempted Bombings Raise Alarms. But Experts Say It Doesn’t Mean the Country Is More Violent
"Brian Nussbaum, a professor at the University of Albany who studies terrorism and cybersecurity, says waves of widespread violence come in “ideological bu…
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California agrees to delay enforcing net-neutrality law
"“This isn’t a setback,” said Ryan Singel, a fellow at Center of Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, who supports the law. It was expected that th…
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Lawmaker wants Uber, Lyft regulations to be reviewed for fairness
"The Transportation Network Companies Act (TNC) was passed in 2015. According to University of South Carolina Law Professor Bryant Walker Smith, who studie…
The Privacy Professional: A Modern Day Renaissance Man
Hollywood writers could not have scripted it better. Merely a month before the implementation date of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May this…
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DC Police: Body cam video of questionable search 'purged'
"“I think if somebody at the department knew about it, they should have at least flagged that footage,” said Harlan Yu runs a DC non-profit that studies bo…
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The new Audiovisual Media Services Directive: turning video hosting platforms into private media regulatory bodies
The European Parliament recently took the final vote on the new Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). The text, which can be considered final, now await…
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In a crash, should self-driving cars save passengers or pedestrians? 2 million people weigh in
"“There is this gray space of decisions that are not wrong and not right,” said Patrick Lin, a philosopher at the California Polytechnic State University w…
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Global preferences for who to save in self-driving car crashes revealed
"“What happens with autonomous vehicles may set the tone for other AI and robotics, since they’re the first to be integrated into society at scale,” Patric…