In a world where artificial intelligence is reshaping industries which are concerned about data privacy is escalating. Microsoft, a leading tech brand has recently faced scrutiny over whether its AI systems were using data from popular applications like Word and Excel for training purposes. Microsoft’s official stance on data privacy Microsoft has categorically stated that it does not use customer …
Two U.S. residents who claimed that Microsoft and Amazon violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act by using their photos to train facial recognition software, saw their putative class actions dismissed by a Washington federal judge on Monday. Microsoft and Amazon, which dominate the cloud-computing space, used IBM's 'Diversity in Faces' dataset to train their own facial recognition tools. However, Illinois …
The European Commission and European Parliament's use of cloud computing services provided by Amazon and Microsoft has prompted two EU privacy investigations over concerns about the transfer of personal data to the United States. In response, Europe's highest court last year rejected a transatlantic data transfer deal, known as the Privacy Shield, following a long-running dispute between Facebook and Austrian …
