Quote:Today, representatives from tech companies including Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Facebook, Twitter, and Google will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on issues of consumer data privacy at a hearing with the limply stated purpose of finding “what Congress can do to promote clear privacy expectations without hurting innovation.” A former Google senior research scientist who resigned from the company this month is hoping the committee will dig further.

The existence of Google’s censored Chinese-market search product, dubbed Project Dragonfly, became public in August after nearly 1,400 employees drafted and signed an open letter to company leadership, decrying Dragonfly as unethical. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Jack Poulson, along with a handful of other employees, resigned from the company in protest. Poulson’s concerns are shared by a number of civil rights organizations, like Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Human Rights Watch, which drafted their own open letter late last month.

Poulson argues in his letter to the Senate committee that Dragonfly violates Google’s internal principles regarding artificial intelligence. The company released these principles in the wake of employee protests over the company’s work with the U.S. Department of Defense on Project Maven, an effort to develop AI that automatically identified objects and people in military drone footage. Gizmodo first reported Google’s work on Project Maven in early March, and the company said it would not renew its DoD contract in June following months of internal and external pressure against the program.

(09-26-2018 02:13 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  https://gizmodo.com/scientist-who-quit-g...1829310832

Quote:Today, representatives from tech companies including Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Facebook, Twitter, and Google will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on issues of consumer data privacy at a hearing with the limply stated purpose of finding “what Congress can do to promote clear privacy expectations without hurting innovation.” A former Google senior research scientist who resigned from the company this month is hoping the committee will dig further.

The existence of Google’s censored Chinese-market search product, dubbed Project Dragonfly, became public in August after nearly 1,400 employees drafted and signed an open letter to company leadership, decrying Dragonfly as unethical. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Jack Poulson, along with a handful of other employees, resigned from the company in protest. Poulson’s concerns are shared by a number of civil rights organizations, like Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Human Rights Watch, which drafted their own open letter late last month.

Poulson argues in his letter to the Senate committee that Dragonfly violates Google’s internal principles regarding artificial intelligence. The company released these principles in the wake of employee protests over the company’s work with the U.S. Department of Defense on Project Maven, an effort to develop AI that automatically identified objects and people in military drone footage. Gizmodo first reported Google’s work on Project Maven in early March, and the company said it would not renew its DoD contract in June following months of internal and external pressure against the program.