privacy

Consumer

Uber’s Behavior Prediction Model May Come With Privacy Problems

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Uber wants to know how you feel before you even get into your ride.

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Patent Drop

Apple Adds AI Patent as it Preps for AI-powered iPhones

“Generative AI could fuel the next big Apple iPhone refresh cycle.”

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Patent Drop

Ford Patent Signals Privacy Problems with Connected Vehicles

As vehicles become more connected and autonomous, they also collect a lot more data.

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Patent Drop

Disney Generative AI Patent Taps Into Users’ Memories

Disney wants to use AI to help you recall fond memories.

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Patent Drop

Snap Patent Brings Emotion Detection to Workplace Surveillance

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AI that’s meant to detect emotion is highly controversial.

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Intel Patent Takes on Privacy at Eye Level

The patents highlight the data privacy issues to come with the metaverse and its headsets.

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Big Tech

Microsoft May Use Emotion Detection for “Richer” Work Meetings

The patent highlights that tech firms of all manner are interested in reading people’s emotions.

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IBM Patent Highlights Double-Edged Sword of Synthetic Training Data

The tech underscores that offering AI services may be just as lucrative as building AI models themselves.

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Apple Could Bring Vision Pro to Healthcare with Recent Patents

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patents from Apple to make its artificial reality headset a little more health-aware could open up a whole new world of possibilities for AR in clinical…

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Patent Drop

Intel Patent Addresses Privacy Issues with Voice Assistants

Intel wants to lock your voice data down before it goes up to the cloud.

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Consumer

Airbnb Says Hosts Can No Longer Use Indoor Cameras

The vacation rental company is ramping up privacy as it continues to battle customer satisfaction issues.

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Patent Drop

Meta’s Eye Authentication System Keeps Metaverse Data Safe

Meta wants to make sure it’s actually you who’s wearing your mixed reality headset.

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Technology

Biden Wants to Stop Foreign Spies Buying Americans’ Data

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The president issued an executive order banning bulk sales of personal data to “hostile” countries like China and Russia.

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Patent Drop

Google’s Multimodal Assistant Patent Watches and Learns

The tech highlights that AI needs multiple streams of data to really get to know its users.

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Social Media

The EU Officially Wants to Know if TikTok is Bad for Kids

Regulators have opened “formal proceedings” to examine who well the popular platform is protecting children.

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Google Wants to Use Context to Drop Wakewords

Without a wakeword, a digital assistant has to monitor its users more closely.

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