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|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The Portland, Ore., City Council unanimously adopted two landmark ordinances banning city and private use of facial recognition technology. The first bars all city bureaus from acquiring or using the controversial technology with minimal exceptions for personal verification.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Business Iinsider speaks with two neuroscientists discuss elements of Elon Musk's Neuralink whitepaper, highlighting three potential advancements made in the proposed design of the implant.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Pressure is mounting on ministers to let teacher-assessed grades stand in England to avoid a second wave of exams chaos hitting GCSE results this week.
|| Health and Medical Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Experts at the University of Tokyo are combining machine learning with brain imaging tools to distinguish between those with a mental health condition, specifically schizophrenia and autism.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
More than a dozen companies offer artificial-intelligence programs that promise to identify a person’s race, but researchers and even some vendors worry it will fuel discrimination
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Accusations of unfairness over this year's A-level results in England have focused on an "algorithm" for deciding results of exams cancelled by the pandemic.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Britain’s Court of Appeal ruled in the case of civil rights campaigner Ed Bridges, who argued that South Wales Police caused him “distress” by scanning his face as he shopped in 2017 and as he attended a peaceful anti-arms protest in 2018.
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
How coronavirus has accelerated the replacement of humans for safety reasons, and its potential ramifications on the work landscape.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The New York legislature passed a moratorium on the use of facial recognition and other forms of biometric identification in schools until 2022.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Long (10+ min)
In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Malicious actors have been using Google Chrome extensions to deliver spyware, and recent extension was downloaded over 32 million times. This breach highlights how big tech is failing to protect users.
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
One of the first national coronavirus contacts-tracing apps to be launched in Europe is being suspended in Norway after the country’s data protection authority raised concerns that the software, called “Smittestopp,” poses a disproportionate threat to user privacy — including
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
A Google research scientist explains why she thinks the police shouldn’t use facial recognition software.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
IBM CEO says in a lette to Congress that the company will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology.
|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
IBM CEO says in a lette to Congress that the company will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Analysts are tracking false rumours about COVID-19 in hopes of curbing their spread.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University say nearly half of all accounts tweeting about the coronavirus appear to be bot accounts.
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A study by an MIT professor finds that for each additional robot per thousand workers reduced the national employment-to-population ratio by 0.2%, disproportionally affecting some parts of the US more than others.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
AI systems are being used to detect whether people are standing less than 6 feet apart during the COVID-19 pandemic, but concerns are being raised around whether temperature tracking is. or could become a serious privacy concern.