Canada is one of the few countries in the world that does not have access to Google’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot Bard, as the company’s war of words with the federal government over the Online News Act drags on. Google announced in a blog post on July 13 that it was expanding Bard to…
Google Being Sued Over New AI Data-Scraping Privacy Policy
July 13, 2023
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One week after Google updated its user privacy policy to allow data scraping from millions of users for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes, the tech giant is now facing a class-action lawsuit. Google, its parent company Alphabet, and Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind, were accused in a July 11 filing in a federal court in San…
Google Ordered to Reveal IP Details of Anonymous Email Sender
July 11, 2023
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Tech giant Google has been ordered to hand over the IP address and details of a person accused of emailing defamatory allegations about a Labor election candidate in Australia. On Nov. 9 last year, during the Victorian state election, an individual sent an email (from the address: davidjonesaus18@gmail.com) about Nurul Khan to ministers and news…
Google Will Record Everything Users Post Online to Train Its AI Products
July 7, 2023
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Google will record everything people post online in order to train its artificial intelligence products. On July 1, Google amended its privacy policy to allow it to scrape comments that posters put on the internet, to help it to hone its AI tools. The tech company’s plan to harvest and harness online public data is…
Consumer Groups Call on Washington and Brussels to Regulate AI Tech
June 21, 2023
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A coalition of consumer advocacy groups in the European Union and the United States called on their governments to develop regulations for generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. These groups are concerned about AI tech that power tools like ChatGPT are developing so quickly that consumers’ rights may be grievously harmed if state regulators fail to get involved….
U.S. Intelligence Agencies Are Buying Americans’ Personal Data From Private Companies
June 16, 2023
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U.S. government agencies are reportedly buying vast amounts of sensitive data on Americans from private sources, according to a recently released declassified report (pdf). Private data collection services have gathered commercially available information (CAI) over the years, including highly-revealing data on millions of American citizens, reported The Wall Street Journal. These data brokers are able…
Amazon Reaches $30.8 Million Settlement in FTC Complaints Over Ring Doorbell Surveillance, Use of Children’s Voice Recordings
Amazon has agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) $30.8 million to settle claims that it allowed employees and third-party contractors of its Ring video camera doorbell unit to surveil customers in their homes and illegally retained children’s voice recordings through its Alexa app. According to an FTC press release, Amazon’s Ring doorbell company was charged with compromising…
CBP Is Using Sophisticated AI Tool to Monitor Americans’ Social Media Activity
May 19, 2023
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using an artificial intelligence (AI) data collection tool to collect information from social media activity that can in some cases be linked to individuals’ social security or driver’s license numbers, according to a CBP document describing the software tool. The document was obtained by Vice magazine’s tech site…
NTD News Today (May 16): Report: Massive Failures in FBI Trump Probe; TSA Tests Facial Recognition at Airports
Special Counsel John Durham has concluded that there were massive failures in the FBI’s investigation of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. We hear analysis on the significance of this development, and what concerns it raises for the upcoming presidential election. The Transportation Security Administration is testing the use of facial recognition technology at a…
LIVE NOW: NTD News Today (May 16): Report: Massive Failures in FBI Trump Probe; TSA Tests Facial Recognition at Airports
Special Counsel John Durham has concluded that there were massive failures in the FBI’s investigation of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. We hear analysis on the significance of this development, and what concerns it raises for the upcoming presidential election. The Transportation Security Administration is testing the use of facial recognition technology at a…
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