You say child safety, I say data protection
Online child safety has become the cause célèbre of digital policymaking. But it can fundamentally undermine the basic tenets of digital privacy.
IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and many of you were likely traveling to RightsCon this week in Zambia. It looks like that global digital rights conference was canceled due to pressure from China.
— Protection for children online runs counter to long-standing fundamental privacy rights. It's time to acknowledge those opposing forces in digital policymaking.
— AI-enabled deepfakes are flooding the US mid-term elections. But it's the use of large language models to track voter behavior that is the real concern.
— Half of Americans polled remain wary of how artificial intelligence is going to affect daily life.
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