Privacy & New Media

Amazon Key might help you avoid package theft, but the smart lock and camera aren’t good enough to warrant giving Amazon control of your door.

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How TV stations could soon begin to track you and use your viewing data.

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Privacy experts believe tens of millions of Americans are already being monitored by automakers.

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Google says its wildly popular art app doesn’t store your facial data. That’s not stopping some people from worrying about privacy.

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In comments to the National Science Foundation on “Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan”, EPIC warned that they there were considerable risks to public safety and personal privacy. EPIC urged the NSF to prioritize cybersecurity, protect individual privacy, and minimize the collection of personally identifiable information. EPIC regularly submits comments to federal agencies on emerging civil liberties issues, including cybersecurity, consumer protection, and other privacy issues.

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The Pew Research Center has released a report, “Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age.” The Pew report discusses the impact that experts expect algorithms to have on individuals and society. Among the themes in the report are the biases and lack of human judgment in algorithmic decisionmaking and the need for “algorithmic literacy, transparency, and oversight.” EPIC has promoted “Algorithmic Transparency” for many years and has proposed two amendments to Asimov’s Laws of Robotics that would require autonomous devices to reveal the basis of their decisions and their actual identity.

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The Aspen institute released a report on the Artificial Intelligence workshop on connected cars, healthcare, and journalism. “Artificial Intelligence Comes of Age” explored issues at “the intersection of AI technologies, society, economy, ethics and regulation.” The Aspen report notes that “malicious hacks are likely to be an ongoing risk of self-driving cars” and that “because self-driving cars will generate and store vast quantities of data about driving behavior, control over this data will become a major issue.” The Aspen report discusses the tension between privacy and diagnostic benefits in healthcare AI and describes “some of the alarming possible uses of AI in news media.” EPIC has promoted Algorithmic Transparency and has been at the forefront of vehicle privacy through testimony before Congress, amicus briefs, and comments to the NHTSA.

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