Latest from Daniel Shin

• Sep 29, 2023

  How California’s Delete Act could impact the business of data brokering

  

  SB 362 would require data brokers and advertisers to create a mechanism for consumers to delete the data collected from them. It would even enable consumers to opt out of future data collection and selling. Legal adviser Jessica Rich, a former FTC official, explains.

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• Sep 28, 2023

  After a decade, the EU draws the curtains on its Human Brain Project

  

  Miryam Naddaf, science reporter with the publication Nature, discusses some of the scientific advances that emerged from the Human Brain Project as well as some of the problems it encountered.

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• Sep 27, 2023

  What the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit means for Amazon

  

  The Federal Trade Commission and 17 states claim the tech giant abused its power in an effort to stamp out competition. Neil Chilson, a former chief technologist at the FTC, says the commission’s case could be difficult to prove.

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• Sep 26, 2023

  What’s happening in the Google antitrust trial? It’s kind of a black box.

  

  Leah Nylen of Bloomberg says much of the testimony and many of the exhibits have been removed from public view to protect sensitive information. But that could keep us from having a full understanding of the outcome.

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• Sep 25, 2023

  How countries around the world shape their data policy

  

  Gillian Diebold, an analyst with the Center for Data Innovation, explains that governments are addressing privacy in different ways while designing their policies around advancing their national interests.

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• Sep 22, 2023

  AI in schools creates greater risk for marginalized students, researchers find

  

  Elizabeth Laird of the Center for Democracy & Technology recounts artificial intelligence’s chaotic introduction into education. Disabled students in particular are using AI more, she says, and getting into trouble more.

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• Sep 21, 2023

  “Model collapse” shows AI doesn’t have the human touch, writer says

  

  “To make a really good AI, you need real prose written by real humans,” says Clive Thompson, author of “Coders.”

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• Sep 20, 2023

  The race to develop earthquake warning tech

  

  Companies are competing to create better tech for systems that can save lives during seismic events. This type of investment used to be funded only by governments, but that’s changing.

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• Sep 19, 2023

  How presidential candidates are talking about tech on the campaign trail

  

  National security and censorship often come up in the contenders’ tech-centered rhetoric, and a lot of it revolves around China, says Dave Weigel, politics reporter for the news website Semafor.

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• Sep 18, 2023

  Have smartphones peaked?

  

  The atmosphere at Apple’s iPhone 15 gala last week was subdued, Wired’s Lauren Goode reports. The smartphone market is “generally saturated,” she says. “I think people are thinking more critically about whether they actually need to upgrade.”

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