Kickstarter will be asking projects if artificial intelligence will be used from August 29. While AI can be used, a failure to disclose its use could lead to a project's suspension from the website.
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Microsoft started rolling out the Windows 10 2022 Update (version 22H2) just a few days ago, but the company has been mostly silent about what's new. So we dug around a bit and this is what we found.
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has laid out plans for a legislative reform in areas concerning big tech firms. The focus is on transparency of algorithms, privacy, and youth safety.
Microsoft has announced four U.S.-centric initiatives to foster a healthy culture at its workplace. These include removing non-compete clauses for almost all employee and increasing pay transparency.
EU has formally decided to adopt the Digital Services Act, a collection of new laws that attempts to reign in user profiling for targeted ads and seeks more transparency on content algorithms.
Supported by Mozilla, the NYU Ad Observatory will testify in Congress today, emphasizing the need for better laws for researchers. Its study on political ads was banned by Facebook over a month ago.
Advertiser pages are coming soon to Google's ad experience. They will allow consumers to make informed decisions about purchases based on disclosures and ads run by an advertiser in the past 30 days.
With Microsoft taking the wraps off of its "next-generation of Windows", creatively dubbed Windows 11, this week's column is dedicated to anything and everything we know about the upcoming OS.
Microsoft is launching ACTS, which is a long-term initiative to use new and emerging technologies like cloud, AI, machine learning, and data visualization to detect and curb corruption.
Twitter has launched its new Transparency Center website. It builds on transparency reports that it has been publishing since 2012 but hopes the new medium will make the data more accessible.
Google has outlined several measures it is pursuing in order to make online advertising more transparent. One change will let users see the author of an ad and their location information.
Facebook has announced that Ad Library will gain several new transparency and control features over the course of the year. One of the features will allow users to reduce the political ads they see.
The updated contract provisions that were announced in November have been rolled out in the commercial sector, and their usage will be monitored by Microsoft over the coming months.
Microsoft has announced that it will update its Online Services Terms to address concerns raised by various customers in Europe and to placate the EU's data privacy regulator, the EDPS.
Facebook is rolling out ad transparency measures to India in anticipation for the upcoming general election next year. Those looking to post political ads will have to be verified by Facebook.
Samsung has announced that it has joined the Partnership on AI, an industry consortium that looks at various aspects of AI. Samsung wants to focus on AI's impacts on safety, societies, and economies.
The Debian Project has announced that it will be releasing quarterly reports from its anti-harassment team which is tasked with enforcing the diversity statement and code of conduct documents.
Facebook has launched its Ad Archive Report tool which lets you search for political ads and those pertaining to issues of national importance. The social media company will update the archive weekly.
Twitter has announced its new privacy policy which will come into force on the 25th of May in line with the new GDPR now being enforced by the European Union. Users outside the EU will benefit too.
In an effort to make Windows 10 and its data collection techniques more transparent to its users, Microsoft is introducing more privacy tools in its OS, allowing for greater control over data.
Switzerland-based storage provider Tresorit has released its first transparency report. The document covers the firm's complex legal framework and user requests from September 2013 to November 2017.
Facebook is going to rollout tools to its platforms which allow users to check up on ads being displayed to them by Pages. Users will be able to look through archives of ads uploaded too.
To clarify some aspects around how ads are placed on the site and who is behind them, Twitter plans to launch a so-called Advertising Transparency Center to aid the company in this initiative.
Microsoft has detailed some new privacy features that will be heading to Windows 10 customers with the Fall Creators Update next month, that will allow for greater control over data and transparency.
The Redmond company has released the transparency reports that consist of the Law Enforcement Requests Report, U.S. National Security Orders Report, and Content Removal Requests Report.
While piracy continued throughout 2016, Google received more than 1.1 billion takedown requests. The amount falls just short of the total number of takedown requests received in the prior five years.
Gabe Aul tweeted a response to the new Start Screen being "so dull without that parallax effect" and said that transparency is coming to Windows 10, but will it arrive with the next Insider update?
A coalition of the internet's biggest companies is trying to push the US Senate into adopting the Freedom Act, which would limit data collection and bring greater transparency to the likes of the NSA
In the fourth 'Who Has Your Back' report into the privacy standards of companies online, Snapchat, AT&T & Amazon have been named as failing to provide adequate privacy protection for their customers.
Experience the native look of Aero Glass interface on Windows 8.x. Aero Glass for Windows 8 utility returns the complete glass effect into windows frames.
Experience the native look of Aero Glass interface on Windows 8.x. Aero Glass for Windows 8 utility returns the complete glass effect into windows frames.
Experience the native look of Aero Glass interface on Windows 8.x. Aero Glass for Windows 8 utility returns the complete glass effect into windows frames.
An open letter to Skype and Microsoft, signed by a number of organizations and individuals, requests that the company offer up more transparency in terms of the user information collected by Skype.
Twitter's first biannual transparency report sheds light on the number of government requests for user information or content removal, as well as data on DMCA takedown notices from copyright holders.
Ever wondered how regularly Google is requested to remove or show content? In another move intended to highlight the company's transparency, the search giant released statistics on Monday, June 27th. The statistics displayed are broken...
Glyn Moody hits the nail on the head with his critique of Microsoft's proposed approach to Windows 7: Say little so that the market expects little. It's not an unreasonable approach, and Microsoft did get...
A U.K. governance organization will review The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as it tries to increase transparency after criticism of its close U.S. government ties. The report from One World Trust...
