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CALIF. VASTLY EXPANDS DIGITAL PRIVACY. WILL PEOPLE USE IT?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Forty million Californians will soon obtain sweeping digital privacy rights stronger than any seen before in the U.S., posing a significant challenge to Big Tech and the data economy it helped create. California residents will be able to see what personal information companies have collected on them, and request it be deleted, though they will have limited legal recourse if they face obstacles. The law is the strongest so far in the nation and companies across the world are preparing for it to go into effect. But it puts much of the burden to request and understand data on consumers.
ILLINOIS LAW WILL REGULATE A.I. IN JOB INTERVIEWS
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois is believed to be the first state to take a step toward regulating how companies use artificial intelligence in considering job applicants. A new law requires employers to get consent from potential employees being interviewed on video if they use AI analysis. Companies are increasingly relying on AI assessments, where computers analyze facial movements and word choice, for example, to rank candidates against each other or weed them out. While backers say computers can focus on things human interviewers miss, some experts have called it pseudo-science that opens the door to discrimination.
EVEN AMID AFFLUENCE OF TECH CAPITAL, LOCAL NEWS STRUGGLES
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The decline of local news outlets in the U.S. has been associated mostly with rural, lower income areas. But the demise of local daily newspapers that once served hundreds of thousands of readers throughout the eastern San Francisco Bay Area shows that local news is being hit hard even in relatively affluent areas with high education levels. That so many communities in the East Bay have lost their daily newspapers is somewhat ironic: Many of the people who live there work for the giant tech companies whose dominance has contributed to the steep decline of the traditional news industry. Facebook and Google, among the most prominent of those targets, say they are not to blame for the news industry’s downfall and have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to boost local news and help develop new business strategies.
UN GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO DRAFT TREATY TO COMBAT CYBERCRIME
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution that will start the process of drafting a new international treaty to combat cybercrime. The European Union, the United States and other countries opposed the resolution saying there was no international consensus that a treaty is necessary. The Russian-drafted resolution was approved by the 193-member world body by a vote of 79-60 with 33 abstentions. The resolution establishes an expert committee representing all regions of the world “to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes.”
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