Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2025

The name for this method is surveillance pricing, and the FTC has just released initial findings of a report looking into that practice. In July 2024, the FTC requested information from eight companies offering surveillance pricing products and services that incorporate data about consumers characteristics and behavior.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 3, 2023

This is surveillance capitalism , and AI is shaping up to be part of it. And, as with the rest of the internet, that somehow is likely to include surveillance and manipulation. Phone apps collect and sell your data. Quite possibly, it could be much worse with AI. These companies will need to monetize them somehow.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this. Advanced use cases.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 9, 2019

There is a need to ensure the integrity of the data and algorithms on which the AI is based, including “product safety checks by market surveillance authorities and consumer protection rules that implement place, whit appropriate minimum safety standards.”

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