WE SHOULD BE BETTER AT ASKING THE INDUSTRY FOR MORE ANALYSIS AND RISK MANAGEMENT
capitalism is not always good.” There’s generally a trade-off between privacy and anonymity; offenders can hide ‘behind closed doors.’ In Denmark, certain individuals are turning to private groups on the social media platform Telegram, where they’ve shared hundreds of images and
regulations like the GDPR and CCPA – which ‘haven’t really been implemented yet in a satisfying way,’ says Mie – are often reactive rather than proactive. “Legislation will
always be behind tech developments,” Mie says. “But we should be better at asking the devs and the industry for more analysis and risk management before putting things on the market.” Take ChatGPT, a chatbot or text-only AI program launched last November, which does its best to respond to any question asked of it. “It was just released – in schools, to everyone. I mean, is that a good idea?” Mie wonders. It’s already being used to write academic essays and job applications, acting as an essentially undetectable tool in plagiarism. Its only giveaway: “The
videos of Danish young men and women in sexual, violent and degrading situations. They’ve also exposed personally identifiable information about their victims – otherwise known as doxxing. Some privacy issues have been around for over a decade, impacting users
on an individual level. Others are less obvious, more calculated and maybe more damaging. Facebook famously laid its users’ data bare, allowing
Cambridge Analytica to push political propaganda – and Mark Zuckerberg stayed silent
for five days after headlines broke. Facebook then promised privacy in the form of ‘clear history,’ encryption and audits of third-party apps. But ‘the overwhelming consensus from privacy experts’ was that this plan had ‘little to do with protecting privacy and everything to do with protecting market share,’ according to Julia Carrie Wong in The Guardian . REGULATIONS CAN’T KEEP UP Technology and its uses are rapidly evolving within the demands of a capitalist market. These advances, combined with an ever-changing geopolitical climate, mean that
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