privacy Archives — Carrington Malin

    November 13, 2019
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    Dr Google will see you now

    It should come as no surprise that Google, one of the largest AI developers in the world, this week announced it a partnership agreement with Ascension, the second largest healthcare system in the US. The deal will gain Google access to the health records of millions of Americans across 21 states.

    What though has proved to be a surprise to the media, American public and other stakeholders is that the partnership (code-named “Project Nightingale”) began last year in secret and without communication with doctors or patients, reported the Wall Street Journal.

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    September 16, 2019
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    Will UK consumers ever accept face scans for retail?

    Thousands of retail stores in hundreds of cities across China are already using facial recognition technology to accept payments from their customers. Shoppers find it fast and convenient, in particular when self-checkout systems allow consumers to skip store checkout queues. In fact, it is becoming the new standard for in-store electronic payments, with Chinese shoppers even using face scan payments for buying everyday grocery items such as a loaf of bread.

    But, thousands of kilometres away in the British Isles, public distrust in facial recognition technology seems to be intensifying.

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    September 6, 2019
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    Does GDPR protect the privacy of your emotions?

    The increasing spread of emotional AI, brings with it new concerns about privacy, personal data rights and, well, freedom of expression (although, in a sense, perhaps, not thought about much in the past). The data that the emotion recognition captures could be considered to be biometric data, just like a scan of your fingerprint. However, there is little legislation globally that specifically addresses the capture, usage rights and privacy considerations of biometric data. Until GDPR.

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