You Thought You Were Taking a Selfie. The Law May Call What Happened Next Biometric Data.
A new court-authorized Skin360 settlement notice shows how easily a casual consumer interaction can become a legally significant data transaction.
The Convenience Is the Collection
Not every helpful app is secretly a data trap. But if the convenience requires a panoramic view of your life, it is worth asking who benefits from the panorama.
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The Camera Recorded It. That Doesn't Mean the AI Saw It.
Princeton researchers found that leading AI systems can miss basic events in police body-camera footage. The larger problem is what happens when we begin delegating observation itself.
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Your Backyard Has Analytics Now
BirdWeather's new bat detector turns the nearly invisible nighttime traffic over a home into a stream of timestamps, species guesses and behavioral data - raising a bigger question about what happens when ordinary nature becomes continuously measurable.
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Your Dog Is Becoming a Data Source
For most of human history, knowing a dog meant watching the dog. Connected collars are turning that relationship into a stream of location, activity and behavioral telemetry, and increasingly asking software to tell us what the animal means.
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