Most AI discussions on ethics and regulations focus on data privacy and biases. Emine Ozge Yildirim-Vranckaert of KU Leuven Center for IT & IP Law highlights the pressing need to address AI's impact on the lesser-known concerns around freedom of thought, as it becomes increasingly integrated into media practices.
With elections in more than 50 countries this year, bad actors and nation-states will likely misuse AI to misinform 2 billion voters. Mark Johnston, director of the office of the CISO at Google Cloud, explains how pre-bunking techniques can help users check AI-driven misinformation campaigns.
The Office of Management and Budget issued the first-ever governmentwide guidance for mitigating risks associated with the federal use of artificial intelligence, including specific actions agencies must complete within a year to help ensure the responsible use of emerging tools and technologies.
AI audits play a crucial role in ensuring that AI systems operate ethically, transparently, and within a legal framework. These audits help identify biases, data privacy issues and risks, ultimately enhancing trust in AI tech. Technology legal expert Ingrid Soares discusses key legal implications.
Part V of Sri Lanka's Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9, came into operation in July 2022. Practitioners from Sri Lanka, who were involved in the drafting of the PDPA, discussed recent updates on the Act and delved into the parallels with GDPR, Convention 108+ and APEC privacy framework.
President Joe Biden's recent executive order for artificial intelligence encourages investment in AI while setting a vision for a regulatory framework to address issues involving AI technology safety, bias and other concerns in healthcare, said attorney Wendell Bartnick of the law firm Reed Smith.
The Biden administration has unveiled its new national cybersecurity strategy, detailing top challenges facing the U.S. and plans for addressing them. Goals include minimum security requirements for critical infrastructure sector organizations and liability for poor software development practices.
A Scottish school system decided not to use facial recognition in its secondary school cafeterias after international outcry. The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said Tuesday that the North Ayrshire Council failed to obtain freely given consent for the system.
The two key digital channels of business - mobile apps and websites - are collecting way more personal data than required. The irresponsible sharing of this data with third parties and lack of transparency raise grave concerns about users' data privacy.
ISACA's recently published Privacy in Practice 2023 survey report shares new research related to the privacy workforce, privacy skills, privacy by design and the future of privacy. Expert Safia Kazi shares ways organizations can align privacy goals with business objectives.
Rackspace says the ransomware-wielding attackers who disrupted its hosted Microsoft Exchange Server environment last month wielded a zero-day exploit, described by CrowdStrike as being "a previously undisclosed exploit method for Exchange," to gain remote, direct access to servers it hosted.
The Bahamas Securities Commission seized digital assets worth $3.5 billion from local firm FTX Digital Markets. The regulator says the funds were at risk of "imminent dissipation" due to hack attacks and will temporarily remain under its exclusive control, stored in secure digital wallets.
California hospital operator Scripps Health has agreed to pay $3.57 million in "minimum cash settlements" of $100 per victim, plus some additional types of expenses, to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by victims of a 2021 data breach perpetrated by ransomware-wielding attackers.
Global Cyber Alliance CEO Philip Reitinger shares updates on the alliance's Internet Integrity and Capacity & Resilience programs, which tackle key challenges of internet infrastructure, privacy and safety. Success is measured by the number of partners and "who is using the platform," he says.
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