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How Shady Companies Guess Your Religion, Sexual Orientation, and Mental Health

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Article (Media) - Slate
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Last week, I testified in a congressional hearing on the subject, which ended up being a strongly bipartisan discussion of an underexplored privacy problem that affects hundreds of millions of Americans. U.S. data brokers surreptitiously gather and sell personal information ranging from people’s health and mental health conditions to their income and credit score, political affiliation…

The Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) – Companion document – Canada

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Other / Misc - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
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What follows is a roadmap for the AIDA, explaining its intent and the Government's key considerations for operationalizing it through future regulations. It is intended to build understanding among stakeholders and Canadians on the proposed legislation, as well to support Parliamentary consideration of the Bill.

Artificial Intelligence and Data Act – Canada

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Other / Misc - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our economy and being used to tackle some of our toughest challenges, like fighting cancer, improving food production and reducing energy consumption. What's more, Canadian researchers and businesses are at the forefront of this transformation.

AI systems use data to automate complex tasks and sometimes to make decisions or predic…

The Battle for Your Brain: A Virtual Conversation with Duke Law’s Nita Farahany

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YouTube Indy Channel Video - Science Writers NYC
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Nita A. Farahany, the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke Law School, talks with SWINY co-chair David Levine about her new book, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology (March 14, St. Martin’s Press). One of the world’s foremost experts on the ethics of neuroscience, Professor Farahany offers a p…

Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better

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Article (Corporate) - World Economic Forum
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From WEF: "Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will u…

The professor trying to protect our private thoughts from technology

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Article (Media) - The Guardian
Prof Nita Farahany argues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain, that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections now.

The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

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Other / Misc - Nita Farahany
This book is an early warning and a call for immediate attention to put human rights legislation in place regarding neurotechnology and neural data collecting devices to protect everyone from both privacy invasion and its manipulative capabilities when coupled with AI. Professor Nita Farahany argues that intrusions into the mind are so close that lawmakers should enact protections now.

The AI Dilemma

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YouTube Indy Channel Video - Center for Humane Technology
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Creators of the netflix special - "The Social Dilemma" - Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught in a race to deploy as quickly as possible without adequate safety measures, and what it would mean to upgrade our institutions to a post-A.I. world

Americans Need a Bill of Rights for an AI-Powered World

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Article (Media) - Wired
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"...your right to know when and how AI is influencing a decision that affects your civil rights and civil liberties; your freedom from being subjected to AI that hasn’t been carefully audited to ensure that it’s accurate, unbiased, and has been trained on sufficiently representative data sets; your freedom from pervasive or discriminatory surveillance and monitoring in your home, com…

US Access Act of 2021 – HR 3849

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Other / Misc - U.S. Congress
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The H.R. 3849 - ACCESS Act of 2021 Summary:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3849

This bill requires large online platforms (e.g., YouTube, Salesforce) to facilitate consumers and businesses switching from one platform to another.

Specifically, the plat…