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Accountability for Technology and AI

Originally posted on Substack AI and digital technologies have been unleashed upon us, with an unprecedented zeal and recklessness, and a reckoning is long overdue. The Meta and YouTube $6 million addiction verdict this week is an important milestone. I’m not an expert on the addiction issue, so I won’t opine on the merits of the case. […]

Are Warrants Enough?

Originally posted on Substack This year, in Chatrie v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether geofence warrants are valid under the Fourth Amendment. The geofence warrant at issue in the case was one that allowed the government to obtain account data from Google of hundreds of millions of users. It’s the equivalent to […]

Three TV Commercials Show What’s Wrong with Big Tech, Privacy, and AI

Originally posted on Substack This year’s Superbowl was a showcase for how out of touch tech companies are when it comes to privacy and AI. Several ads demonstrated that tech companies are obtuse about the dystopia they’re creating. Hopefully, public reaction will get through to policymakers that the tone deafness of tech companies reveals a […]

Why Consent Is Broken for Privacy and AI

Originally posted on Substack The following is an excerpt from my book ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY where I summarize my thinking on privacy consent: New technologies pose significant challenges to people’s ability to consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of their personal data. Under most privacy laws, consent makes permissible a wide array of data collection […]

Bizarre Dystopian Superbowl AI Commercial

Here’s a bizarre dystopian Superbowl commercial where AIexa+ tries to kill Chris Hemsworth many different ways, then offers him a massage. And this is to try to convince folks that AI is good? I thought it was a promo for a Black Mirror episode. <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/ha92_hfK9Po?si=ka8ErdwxqU_evaIs” title=”YouTube video player” frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; […]