Steven Mintz

APRIL 25, 2023

Regulation Dr. Ben Wagner , Assistant Professor and Director of the Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab at Vienna University of Economics and Business, wrote a paper, Ethics as an Escape from Regulation: From ethics-washing to ethics shopping?

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Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Before adopting AI, nonprofits should create a written pledge explaining that AI will be used only in human-centered ways. The Smart Nonprofit , which two of us coauthored, devotes an entire chapter to how leaders can start to answer these questions and understand the privacy issues related to different tools they are thinking of adopting.

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3BL Media

APRIL 20, 2022

Energy-hungry AI models are on a collision course with governments and corporates that have made sustainability pledges. Because of data privacy concerns, users would prefer to have smaller AI models maintained on the edge instead of large AI models trained in the cloud.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Even more problematically, the prospect of fully digitized mobility also raises critical questions about privacy, surveillance and security. A growing number of major automakers, in turn, have pledged to move to all electric in coming years -- a development that could happen sooner than many expect.

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Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Surveillance technology is just one strand of retail operations, but its implications relating to consumer privacy elevates its importance. As a retailer’s credibility can be undermined by the practices of its suppliers, a robust audit that periodically examines their sustainability is needed.

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Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Surveillance technology is just one strand of retail operations, but its implications relating to consumer privacy elevates its importance. As a retailer’s credibility can be undermined by the practices of its suppliers, a robust audit that periodically examines their sustainability is needed.

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Just Capital

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Google agrees to pay $392 million in a privacy settlement to 40 states over the company tracking the locations of users without telling them. Elon Musk , in a lambasted midnight email to employees that included a pledge that, if not signed by 5PM ET the next day, would lay you off with three months of severance pay.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Lockdowns and social distancing often meant holding work meetings from whatever remote corners of our homes—nooks in the closet, the kitchen counter, the bathtub—could afford us some sense of privacy. Pledges to diversify corporate boards yielded even more dismal results.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 11, 2022

Yet, finding medically accurate information about abortions is often confusing and can be further complicated by potential legal consequences for patients in states without privacy protections. One of the suggested actions under the pledge is to invest in unusual coalitions.

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