Chatbots reveal troubling ability to infer private data
The ability of chatbots to infer private details about users from otherwise innocuous texts is a cause for concern, say Swiss university researchers at ETH Zurich.
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News tagged with personal privacy
Consumer & Gadgets
Right to be Forgotten laws must extend to generative AI, say researchers
If only the internet embraced the notion behind the popular Las Vegas slogan: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas."
Security
Australian report cites 'datafication' of childhood
To protect privacy in our homes we may build fences, grow shrubs, hang curtains and install security cameras.
Software
Microsoft's Viva reimagines intranet in post-COVID world
The promise of slowing numbers of COVID-19 cases and the development of vaccines are offering hope that workers exiled at home can get back to work again. While no one expects a rapid return to the workplace, one thing seems ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Researchers use radar technology to monitor the health status of a driver
Inspired by the medical bay of the USS Enterprise from "Star Trek," a research team from the University of Waterloo uses radar technology to monitor people's health while at the wheel, turning an ordinary car or truck into ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Machine 'unlearning' helps generative AI forget copyright-protected and violent content
When people learn things they should not know, getting them to forget that information can be tough. This is also true of rapidly growing artificial intelligence programs that are trained to think as we do, and it has become ...
Mar 22, 2024
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Security
Extracting personal information from anonymous cell phone data using machine learning
A research team at Illinois Institute of Technology has extracted personal information, specifically protected characteristics like age and gender, from anonymous cell phone data using machine learning and artificial intelligence ...
Oct 12, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Why the search for a privacy-preserving data sharing mechanism is failing
From banking to communication our modern, daily lives are driven by data with ongoing concerns over privacy. Now, a new EPFL paper published in Nature Computational Science argues that many promises made around privacy-preserving ...
Jun 2, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Efficient protocol to secure a user's private information when algorithms use it to recommend content
Algorithms recommend products while we shop online or suggest songs we might like as we listen to music on streaming apps.
May 13, 2022
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Software
Apple's iPhone privacy clampdown arrives after 7-month delay
Apple is following through on its pledge to crack down on Facebook and other snoopy apps that secretly shadow people on their iPhones in order to target more advertising at users.
Apr 26, 2021
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