The US regulator is eager to end unfair use of artificial intelligence and commercial surveillance, but experts remain skeptical.
FTC chair Lina Khan said new rules could help the commission impose fines on first-time violators; that the “middlemen of surveillance capitalism” are exacerbating imbalances of power in the US; and that, as Neil Richards put it, this “probably represents the most highly surveilled environment in the history of humanity.”
Coauthor Andrew Selbst, an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, has also consideredand how to assess the impact of algorithms. Selbst said that the ANPR is unprecedented in scope, but if you wanted an investigation to understand the scale of the problem before you attack, “this is exactly what it would look like.”
Numerous opinions sent to the FTC and shared in the public forum called for comprehensive data privacy protections. A set of tech accountability principles recently released by the White House also called data privacy protections essential to holding tech companies accountable.
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