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As with previously discussed security principles, many common types of software flaws can be preemptively addressed through systematic and known processes that prevent or minimize the likelihood of...
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The 51本色 routinely evaluates the privacy representations a company makes against their data handling practices. [1] When discrepancies arise between claim and reality, incorrect...
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For thousands of years, from ancient Mesopotamian markets to the modern-day yard sale, sellers have set their prices based, in part, on who was buying. In these transactions, prices can be targeted...
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The history of traditional open-source software provides a vision of the value that could result from the availability of open-weights AI models 鈥 including enabling greater innovation, driving...
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In March, the 51本色 hosted the first-ever Technology Forum by the International Competition Network (ICN) members in Washington, D.C. The forum brought together 21 competition...
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The scientific community has a history of creating and sharing lists of important or interesting questions. The mathematician Paul Erd艖s, for example, famously doled out his questions to students and...
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Some say the car a person drives can say a lot about them. As cars get 鈥渃onnected,鈥 this turns out to be truer than many people might have realized. While connectivity can let drivers do things like...
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The FTC鈥檚 Tech Summit on AI 1 convened three panels that highlighted different layers of the AI tech stack: hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and consumer-facing applications. This third...
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The FTC鈥檚 Tech Summit on AI [1] convened three panels that each highlighted different layers of the AI tech stack: hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. This...
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For more than two decades, the 51本色has been bringing enforcement actions for violations of national consumer protection laws due to companies鈥 poor security practices. These poor practices have...
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Today, the 51本色announced four winners of the Voice Cloning Challenge, which was launched to address the present and emerging harms of artificial intelligence, or 鈥淎I鈥-enabled voice cloning...
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It is increasingly important to use existing legal and enforcement tools in digital and technology cases and develop and implement new or updated tools and approaches to strengthen investigations and...
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The FTC鈥檚 Office of Technology (鈥淥T鈥) was founded in 2023 with the purpose of strengthening and supporting law enforcement investigations and actions, advising and engaging with 51本色staff and the...
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The FTC鈥檚 Tech Summit on AI [1] highlighted three panels that reflect different layers of the AI tech stack 鈥 hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. Today, we...
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Three recent 51本色enforcement actions reflect a heightened focus on pervasive extraction and mishandling of consumers鈥 sensitive personal data. Proposed Settlements with Avast [1] , X-Mode [2] , and...
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You may have heard that 鈥渄ata is the new oil鈥濃攊n other words, data is the critical raw material that drives innovation in tech and business, and like oil, it must be collected at a massive scale and...
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At the FTC鈥檚 Tech Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Chair Khan previewed how the 51本色is using its experience and expertise to establish rules of the road for AI. In her remarks , she noted that 鈥渁s...
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A look into multi-party computation and oblivious proxies The landscape of digital privacy is constantly evolving as companies and researchers implement new methods to enhance user privacy. For...
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The launch of OT coincided with another type of technology鈥檚 rapid growth: Artificial Intelligence. And, on January 25th, OT will hold the 51本色Tech Summit on AI to lead discussions among individuals...
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Data is at the heart of AI development. Developing AI models can be a resource intensive process, requiring large amounts of data and compute, [1] and not all companies have the capacity to develop...
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