ECA News Compass #55: Massive data breach in retail, Bluesky versus X, AI and media.
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17 November?
Privacy & Data Ethics ??
57,000,000 Retail Customers Exposed In Massive Data Breach
What retailers were breached? Hot Topic, Torrid and Box Lunch.
Deep learning memorization, and why you should care
?Listen to Katharine on our last Ethics in eCommerce Summit 2023 in London:
'Data Privacy in Practice'
Meta to offer less personalized ads in Europe to appease regulators
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Genetic data is worth more than warm spit
"A Pew Research poll in the US last year found that 81 per cent of respondents were concerned about how companies collected their data; 71 per cent expressed similar concerns about the government (compared with 64 per cent in 2019)."
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What is Bluesky when it’s not the underdog?
"They want to do things differently. Focused on decentralisation, aggressive blocking features, reverse chronological (not algorithmic) feed, no AI training on users' posts and a future business model based on paid subscriptions rather than advertising.“
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Trustworthy AI & Customer Empowerment ??
Media and AI: the good, the bad and the uncertain (video)?
By Carissa Véliz and Dr Alex Connock
Does AI deliver democratic empowerment or in this era of fake news is democracy itself threatened?
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Is AI enabling us to live in a new Age of Enlightenment with amplified human understanding or as it trains itself on its own content generation are we moving one step further away from human experience?
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Evidence that LLMs are reaching a point of diminishing returns — and what that might mean
By Gary Marcus
Character.AI Is Hosting Pedophile Chatbots That Groom Users Who Say They're Underage
?Listen to this topic on our past conversation with Marc Silver and Tanya O’Carroll and their film Molly vs The Machines.
Online Ethics 101:
- An introduction to interoperability
- AI Governance Made Easy: US&EU AI Standard and Simple with Ravit Dotan
Ethics in Commerce ??
Will someone be watching every time you share your personal data, and from Know Your Customer (KYC) to Know Your AI Agent (KYA)
From our friend Jamie Smith?? 's newsletter 'Customer Futures':
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