ECA News Compass #9
Ethical Commerce Alliance
An alliance of retailers, brands and responsible tech makers committed to Ethical AI.
We recommend weekly news and headlines from a broad range of topics at the intersection of AI and society, technology, law & regulation, business and online retail.
Week: 2 - 9 January???
TOPIC 1: AI
AI & Ethics
What’s next for AI in 2024
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His Job Was to Make Instagram Safe for Teens. His 14-Year-Old Showed Him What the App Was Really Like.
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Canon, Nikon and Sony are banding together in the fight against fake images
The three photo giants have taken a step against fake images, deepfakes and other AI-generated imagery through an embedded digital signature containing information like the photographer's name, date, time and location the image was taken. Then authenticated via a free web-based application called Verify.
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Women in AI: Her story, AI’s script. (Yet) one more challenge for gender equality by Beatriz García Díaz
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ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Pay Politico Parent for Using Its Content
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Dr Stephanie Hare ’s AI Decoded on BBC
AI & Business
Thanks to AI, you don't need a computer science degree to get a job in tech, IBM AI chief says
IBM's global managing partner for generative AI, Matthew Candy told Fortune how skills like critical thinking and creativity skills will be much more important than a computer science degree for a job in tech.
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Google and the University of Cambridge join forces for ‘responsible AI innovation’
Google and the University of Cambridge have entered a multi-year research partnership focusing on responsible Artificial Intelligence. As part of the agreement, Google will collaborate with the University’s Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), concentrating on essential AI research initiatives in mutual areas of interest, as well as AI ethics and safety.
AI And The Human Connection: Why Marketing Needs Both To Succeed
Artificial intelligence can help marketing to provide personalisation and process automation but this won’t work without the creativity, empathy, and ethics in marketing. The need for a balanced collaboration between AI and humanity is highlighted as crucial for leading the future marketing revolution.
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Economics: what happened to the artificial-intelligence investment boom?
AI & POLICY
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OpenAI shifts responsibility for data privacy oversight to Dublin
OpenAI has updated its terms and conditions to make its Dublin-based subsidiary, OpenAI Ireland Limited, the data controller for users in the European Economic Area and Switzerland under GDPR. This aims to centralise privacy management under the Irish Data Protection Commission.
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Data Privacy
The Obscure Google Deal That Defines America’s Broken Privacy Protections
Google's doomed social network Buzz led to US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Insiders say the results were mixed, as pressure mounts for a federal privacy law.
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Google agrees to settle $5bn lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked users
谷歌 has agreed to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit for at least $5 billion over allegations that it tracked users' data in "incognito" mode on the Chrome browser.
Internal emails revealed that Google tracked users in incognito mode for web traffic measurement and ad selling.?
23andMe tells victims it’s their fault that their data was breached
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I'm a tech reporter. Can I still post my baby's picture responsibly?
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TOPIC 2:?
Digital Business and Legal
10 more predictions for retail media in 2024
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How will AI-driven inventory management revolutionise retail in 2024?
Artificial intelligence emerges as the secret weapon to predict shopper demand, reduce inventory imbalances, and optimise supply chains.
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Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies
Japan plans to regulate tech giants like Apple and Google to open up their mobile ecosystems. The legislation aims to break their dominance by allowing outside app stores and payment systems. The rules would restrict practices that keep users locked into their platforms and impose fines for violations. These actions follow global efforts to curb tech giants' control and come amid similar measures in the EU and recent legal actions in the US against Google's app store practices.
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Amazon crackdown on sellers?
“Merchants who have been suspended from selling goods on Amazon’s marketplace are turning to a cottage industry of lawyers to regain access to their accounts and money, amid growing scrutiny of how the retailer treats independents.”
New tax on second-hand selling apps: Selling goods online? Be warned: HMRC will soon know about it