![]() ![]() Popular therapy app BetterHelp will have to pay $7.8 million to consumers for disclosing their sensitive mental health information to advertisers, such as Facebook and Snapchat, without consent. Better Help NOT: Mental health app shared user data with Facebook Before taking such a step, Microsoft probably could have used input from the ethics team, but alas, it has already been sacked. Also worrying are reports that Microsoft, in an attempt to monetize the success of the new Bing, is planning to insert contextual ads into the chatbot’s responses. But if the dismissal of an ethics team signals that Microsoft is going to rush ahead with AI adoption no matter what, this could pose risks to users’ privacy and security. It’s understandable that Microsoft wants to win the AI race, in which it is currently outpacing Google, having just made its AI-powered search engine mode, Bing Chat, available to everyone. In a statement to Platformer, Microsoft denied any change in its approach to AI. The role of the ethics and society team, he said, was to explain what these principles mean in practice and to create rules. No ethics - no problem? Microsoft gets rid of AI ethics teamĪs Microsoft continues to integrate AI into its products at lightning speed, it has laid off an entire ‘ethics and society’ team that ensured it was doing so in a responsible way, The Platformer reported.Ī former team member told Platformer that while Microsoft still has an Office of Responsible AI, regular employees often have no idea how to apply its principles to reality. In this edition of AdGuard’s digest: Microsoft sacks AI ethics team, mental health platforms leak data, Firefox expands anti-tracking protections, while Germans oppose chat control. ![]() Blocks trackers and dangerous sites.įree the Web from ads and protect your privacy with AdGuard Browser Extension Fights trackers and phishing.īlocks ads in browsers and supports DNS filtering. Protects your privacy.ĭoesn’t need root access to block ads in browsers and apps. Protects from phishing and malware.ĭesigned with macOS specifics in mind. ![]() Blocks ads and trackers in browsers and apps. ![]()
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