Tag: privacy

A look at Big Tech’s efforts to influence data privacy in Maine

In an email shared with Maine Morning Star, the lobbyist working for Meta wrote Rep. Maggie O’Neil to inform her that he was working with Sen. Lisa Keim on a data privacy bill. (Leon Neal/Getty Images) Significant time and energy went into crafting two competing proposals for a landmark data privacy law during the last […]

Here’s how machine learning can violate your privacy

Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars and customized advertisements. Research has shown, however, that these systems memorize aspects of the data they were trained with in order to learn patterns, which raises concerns for privacy. In statistics and machine learning, the goal is to learn from past […]

Congress eyes new online privacy bills ahead of 2024 elections

WASHINGTON — The presidential election is a little more than five months away, but key Republicans and Democrats in Congress see a critical window to pass sweeping legislation to shield the online data of both children and adults from Big Tech companies. “I believe that there’s a moment here where, on behalf of the American […]

Maryland governor signs online data privacy bills

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed two measures into law on Thursday that are aimed at better protecting personal data online from Big Tech, including a bill making Maryland the second state to try to create strong limits on information collected on children. The measure, known as the Maryland Kids Code, seeks […]