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We did a deep dive into the underbelly of the AI supply chain powered by human labellers who have to sit through some of the most graphic footage to train AI models - often without knowing what company they're working for.
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But if these data labellers bring up these privacy concerns, some believe they are risking their jobs.
Data labellers, whose job it is to review swathes of footage to train AI models, have revealed that they've had to analyse footage where subjects don't appear aware they're being recorded - including in bathrooms.
Who knew letting people record everything they saw, everywhere they saw it, with a pair of Rayban glasses would be a privacy nightmare?
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There's nothing controversial about E2EE.
Unless you think it's controversial for private conversations to be.... private?
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Prosus - and any other company looking to get involved in the gig economy - need to face up to the responsibilities they have to their workers, who are after all the people who are ultimately the ones driving their profits.
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At the very least, Prosus should explain to JustEat drivers what AI models they intend to integrate, and how they will be affected.
For JustEat drivers the options are not good. Few companies are competing to offer them a better workplace; instead there seems to be a new race to the bottom for workers’ rights.
Jitse Groen - JustEat's outgoing boss - said it best when he said that the gig economy “led to precarious working conditions” and “comes at the expense of society and workers themselves”.
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Even if Prosus do make working conditions for drivers worse, then drivers may be disappointed (if not surprised) to find that their other options - big figures including Deliveroo and Uber Eats - have received huge fines in recent years for violating their drivers’ rights.
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All change at JustEat Takeaway - new owners promise an 'AI first' business, but what will that mean for drivers?
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But we won't stop. We keep fighting to ensure that everyone is protected against government overreach that undermines people's rights, autonomy and dignity.
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These findings are disturbing. They indicate a lack of respect for the authority and expertise of regulatory oversight bodies. When such mechanisms are undermined, so is our ability to hold the UK government to account and to effectively protect people.
The invasiveness and life-altering impact of continuous monitoring of people by compelling GPS tracking has no regard for the right to privacy and other fundamental rights.
Not only has the government not adequately addressed the data protection violations identified by the ICO, but it has pushed legislation that overlooks its findings completely.
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Since the Information Commissioner's Office concluded that the GPS tagging of migrants by the UK Home Office was in breach of data protection laws, we've been analysing the Home Office's policies.
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PI is concerned that the authority of regulatory oversight mechanisms is being undermined by the UK government.
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Anthropic refused to support the Department of War - but OpenAI stepped in to fill the gap.
And once again, the United States is bombing the Middle East.
We can’t rely on companies’ sense of morality to protect people from the militarisation of tech.
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No-one knows what JustEat Takeaway's new owners will mean for the working conditions of their drivers
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Anthropic and the US government have been fighting this week.
This fight is not just about surveillance, but is part of the wider trend towards the militarisation of tech.
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What does Prosus’s buyout mean for Just Eat drivers?
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Private military and security companies are using more drones, facial recognition and spyware to monitor people - and what starts on the battlefield will soon come to your backyard
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Discord pausing its age verification rollout emphasises what privacy advocates have been saying about the technology: it creates a honeypot for malicious individuals, with no guarantees for users that the company they’re uploading their face to is safe.
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The UK Home Office has just undertaken a public consultation on governing biometric technologies in policing, including FRT.
We hope this consultation leads to meaningful change to ensure this situation does not happen again.
This is not just a one off either. It’s a consequence of deploying biased, opaque biometric systems at scale with little legislation governing it.
What’s more, FRT has repeatedly been shown to misidentify people, disproportionately impacting racialised communities.
When police treat a match like this as sufficient grounds for arrest, the presumption of innocence is weakened and due process is undermined.
A high court ruling from back in 2012 ruled that holding data of innocent people was unlawful, yet 14 years on, that seems to have been ignored. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017...
The police retained an image of the man after he was attacked 5 years prior. Even an innocent person’s face can remain searchable in police databases, potentially triggering future ‘matches’ and further scrutiny.
FRT has led to yet another wrongful arrest in the UK. This time, a man was detained for hours after the technology matched him to a burglary 100 miles away in spite of clear differences.
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