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The city of Bucheon, population 830,000, is a satellite city southwest of Seoul and part of the greater metropolitan area and the site of a pilot program to apply AI …read more Continue reading Facial Recognition for Covid-19 Tracking in Seoul
It was discovered last month that a South Korean government project has been providing millions of facial images taken at Incheon International Airport to private industry without the consent of …read more Continue reading Korean Facial Recognition Project Faces Opposition
As governments around the world grapple with the problem of tracing those who have had contact with a person known to have been infected with the COVID-19 virus, attention has turned to the idea of mobile apps that can divulge who a person has been near so that they can …read more
Continue reading Iceland Is Doing Its COVID-19 Proximity Tracing The Open Source Way
As we continue through the pandemic, whether we are on lockdown or still at work, there is a chance for all of us that we could still pick up the virus from a stray contact. Mapping these infections and tracing those in proximity to patients can present a major problem …read more
Continue reading Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
Cruising through the children’s hands-on activity zone at Maker Faire Bay Area, we see kids building a cardboard enclosure for the Chatterbox smart speaker kit. It would be tempting to dismiss the little smiling box as “just for kids” but doing so would overlook something more interesting: an alternative to …read more
Continue reading Chatterbox Voice Assistant Knows To Keep Quiet For Privacy
After four years of debate, the General Data Protection Regulation is finally going into effect later this month. Personal privacy is of particular concern, but GDPR effect on consumers and Silicon Valley is still shaking out. Continue reading What Is GDPR and What Can America Learn From it?