privacy concerns

Here’s how machine learning can violate your privacy

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Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several areas, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars and customized advertising. However, research has shown that these systems remember aspects of the data they were trained with to learn patterns, raising privacy concerns. In statistics and machine learning, the goal is to learn from past data to make new … Read more

New neurotechnology is blurring the boundaries around mental privacy – but are new human rights the answer?

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Neurotechnologies – devices that interact directly with the brain or nervous system – were once dismissed as science fiction. Not anymore. Several companies are developing and some are even testing ‘brain-computer interfaces’ or BCIs, with Elon Musk’s Neuralink probably the most notable. He announced on January 29, 2024 that he was the first human in … Read more