States Take On Facebook In Antitrust Investigation
By: Jennifer Liberto, Avie Schneider September 6, 2019 The push to investigate Big Tech is picking up steam. Attorneys general from eight states and the District of Columbia have launched a formal investigation into Facebook over anti-competitive practices, the New York attorney general’s office confirmed Friday morning. And later in the day, Google’s parent acknowledged […]
More Robots Mean 120 Million Workers Need to be Retrained
By: Shelly Hagan September 6, 2019 More than 120 million workers globally will need retraining in the next three years due to artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs, according to an IBM survey. That’s a top concern for many employers who say talent shortage is one of the greatest threats to their organizations today. And the […]
Smile-to-pay: Chinese shoppers turn to facial payment technology
By: September 5, 2019 New technology is rolling out across the country, despite concerns over privacy China’s shoppers are increasingly purchasing goods with just a turn of their heads as the country embraces facial payment technology. In a country where mobile payment is already one of the most advanced in the world, customers can make […]
The only way is ethics
By: Alison Gill Alison Gill Nearly two decades since the creation of the first Corporate Governance Code, board accountability has evolved to place much greater emphasis on empowering directors to create the right culture and behaviours to navigate new social and environmental challenges. Even five years ago, corporate governance was quite retrospective – boards more […]
The Evolution of the Internet, Identity, Privacy and Tracking
By: Jordan Mitchell September 4, 2019 It’s time we speak frankly about a very personal matter: your privacy on the internet. It seems everyone these days wants to protect it. The European Union enacted a sweeping new set of laws, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to safeguard it. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), […]
Chinese deepfake app Zao sparks privacy row after going viral
By: Agence France-Presse in Shanghai September 2, 2019 A Chinese app that lets users convincingly swap their faces with film or TV characters has rapidly become one of the country’s most downloaded apps, triggering a privacy row. Released on Friday, the Zao app went viral as Chinese users seized on the chance to see themselves […]
Why Google’s Employee outrage is a Startup Opportunity
By: AngelList August 29, 2019 Google faced yet another employee protest this month—this time coming in the form of a public petition signed by nearly 15,000 Google employees—over Google’s work with the government. Employees are asking executives to commit to not servicing U.S. immigration agencies with “infrastructure, funding, or engineering resources, directly or indirectly.” As […]
Oxford Report: Technology At Work V2.0
By: Citi GPS January 26, 2016 It is a pleasure to introduce Technology at Work v2.0: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be. This report is the third in a long-term series of Citi GPS reports coproduced by Citi and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford in order to explore […]
Stanford’s AI 100 year Report
By: Stanford September, 2016 The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, launched in the fall of 2014, is a long-term investigation of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its influences on people, their communities, and society. It considers the science, engineering, and deployment of AI-enabled computing systems. As its core activity, the Standing […]