Tag: regulation
-
Perspectives on tackling Big Tech’s market power
Written by Natasha Lomas on Techcrunch.
“Slaughter also argued that it’s important for regulators not to pile all the burden of avoiding data abuses on consumers themselves.
‘I want to sound a note of caution around approaches that are centered around user control,’ she said. ’I think transparency and control are important. I think it is really problematic to put the burden on consumers to work through the markets and the use of data, figure out who has their data, how it’s being used, make decisions… I think you end up with notice fatigue; I think you end up with decision fatigue; you get very abusive manipulation of dark patterns to push people into decisions.
‘So I really worry about a framework that is built at all around the idea of control as the central tenant or the way we solve the problem. I’ll keep coming back to the notion of what instead we need to be focusing on is where is the burden on the firms to limit their collection in the first instance, prohibit their sharing, prohibit abusive use of data and I think that that’s where we need to be focused from a policy perspective.’”
Read ‘Perspectives on tackling Big Tech’s market power’ on the Techcrunch site.
Tagged with: regulation, Big Tech, surveillance capitalism.
-
How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
Written by Rodrigo Ochigame on The Intercept.
“There is now an enormous amount of work under the rubric of “AI ethics.” To be fair, some of the research is useful and nuanced, especially in the humanities and social sciences. But the majority of well-funded work on “ethical AI” is aligned with the tech lobby’s agenda: to voluntarily or moderately adjust, rather than legally restrict, the deployment of controversial technologies.
…
No defensible claim to “ethics” can sidestep the urgency of legally enforceable restrictions to the deployment of technologies of mass surveillance and systemic violence.”
Read ‘How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation’ on the The Intercept site.
Tagged with: ethics, artificial intelligence, regulation.
-
Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It.
Written by Evan Greer on Buzzfeed News.
“The surveillance dystopia is on the horizon, and companies like Microsoft and Amazon are helping build it. Despite their platitudes of caution and ethics, we’ve seen the consequences of Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” ethos. And if we don’t stop the spread of facial recognition, its latest lucrative surveillance product, we’ll soon count our most basic freedoms among the things they’ve broken.”
…
“Company after company in Silicon Valley has been pushing furiously ahead with the development of face-scanning surveillance tools. They see money to be made selling this tech to governments, airlines, and other private businesses. Facing growing concern from the public and lawmakers, the industry has disingenuously asked for “regulation.” This is straight out of Big Tech’s lobbying playbook — asking Congress to pass laws and then swooping in to help write them. By doing so, they hope to avoid the real debate: whether facial recognition surveillance should be allowed at all.”
…
“There is no time to waste. Authoritarian surveillance programs are always used to target the most vulnerable and marginalized, and facial recognition enables the automation of oppression.”
Read ‘Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It.’ on the Buzzfeed News site.
Tagged with: facial recognition, surveillance, regulation.
-
How Big Tech’s cozy relationship with Ireland threatens data privacy around the world
Written by Nicholas Vinocur on Politico.
“Ireland’s failure to safeguard huge stores of personal information looms larger now that the country is the primary regulator responsible for protecting the health information, email addresses, financial records, relationship status, search histories and friend lists for hundreds of millions of Americans, Europeans and other users around the globe.”
“Despite its vows to beef up its threadbare regulatory apparatus, Ireland has a long history of catering to the very companies it is supposed to oversee…”
Tagged with: Facebook, regulation, Ireland.
-
Are you serious Mr Zuckerberg?
Written by Privacy International staff on Privacy International.
“Facebook is seeking yet again to apportion blame for its failures elsewhere - this time on governments for failing to regulate. Yet Facebook continually obstructs regulatory reform with its powerful lobbying capabilities, appeals against regulatory judgments and then investigates its critics.”
Read ‘Are you serious Mr Zuckerberg?’ on the Privacy International site.
Tagged with: facebook, regulation, privacy.