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Emmanuel Macron Talks About France's AI Strategy
The French government will spend €1.5 billion ($1.85 billion) over five years to support research in artificial intelligence, encourage startups, and collect data...
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Companies Seek Ways to Hold On to Customer Data nder New E Privacy Law
Nicholas Oliver gathers reams of personal information about users of his mobile app: age, sex, location, profession, relationship status, and more—and uses it to...
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The Scant Science Behind Cambridge Analytica's Controversial Marketing Techniques
The practices of Cambridge Analytica, a data-analytics firm involved in US President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, have made headlines around the world...
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A Needle in a Legal Haystack Could Sink a Major Supreme Court Privacy Case
It looks like one of the marquee cases before the U.S. Supreme Court is about to go bust—sabotaged by a needle in a legislative haystack.
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CR Researchers Take p Fight Against Fake News
Researchers are developing ways to address problems in social network analysis, including dissemination of malicious misinformation.
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What Lies Beneath: The Things Facebook Knows Go Beyond ser Data
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its...
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Not Even AI Can Make Total Sense of a Privacy Policy
A new tool uses artificial intelligence to crawl 7,000 of the Web's most popular sites to flag privacy policy issues of potential concern to specific users.
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Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to nlock Phones
Federal law enforcement officials are renewing a push for a legal mandate that tech companies build tools into smartphones and other devices that would allow access...
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Researchers Find Leaky Apps Put Privacy at Risk
Social media platforms, web browser extensions, and mobile platforms can leak user information, threatening user privacy.
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For the .S. and China, a Technology Cold War That's Freezing Over
A cold war is being waged across the world's most advanced industries. And it just got a lot chillier.
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Facebook's New Data Restrictions Will Handcuff Even Honest Researchers
Last week, when news broke (again) that Cambridge Analytica had allegedly misused 50 million Facebook users' data, it immediately raised a difficult question: When...
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ber Robocar Kills Pedestrian, Despite Presence of Safety Driver
This is the first fatality involving a robocar under the care of a professional human minder.
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Spot the Fake: Artificial Intelligence Can Produce Lifelike Photographs
Fraudulent images have been around for as long as photography itself. Take the famous hoax photos of the Cottingley fairies or the Loch Ness monster.
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Next Worry for Facebook: Disenchanted sers
Facebook Inc.'s handling of user data has upset lawmakers and regulators in multiple countries. But the biggest risk to its business could come from angry users...
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Targeting China, Trump Threatens Student Visas. That Would Hit a Big .S. Export
The Trump administration's proposed crackdown on China's trade practices could hit one sector where the U.S. runs a big trade surplus: higher education.
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Europe's New Privacy Law Will Change the Web, and More
Consumers have long wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data. But internet giants have little incentive...
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Five Things to Know about Russian Attacks on the Energy Grid
Trump administration officials on Thursday accused the Russian government of staging a multi-year cyberattack campaign against the energy grid and other elements...
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Field-Data Study Finds No Evidence of Racial Bias in Predictive Policing
Predictive policing does not lead police to make discriminatory arrests, according to research conducted at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
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sing Artificial Intelligence to Investigate Illegal Wildlife Trade on Social Media
Researchers in Finland say artificial intelligence can be used to help monitor illegal wildlife trade on social media.
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