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How AI Uses Our Data: An Overview
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How AI Uses Our Data: An Overview

PRESENTATION šŸ‘©šŸ¼ā€šŸ« As AI creates demand for consumer data, our ability to reasonably consider what we share can be hampered by a lack of understanding about how the data is actually used...

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Shannon Edwards
Mar 31, 2025
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I recently created a presentation explaining the very specific ways that AI uses data and how AI innovation changes the risk profile of information we previously thought of ā€œlow risk.ā€ The link below will take you to the slides outlining what data is most in-demand now for AI, and why we need to think of privacy risk differently.

Here’s an example:

Privacy Considerations for the Yearbook Then and Now

In, say 1995, you would expect:

  • Photos were seen by a few hundred people (at most)

  • To observe an image would require the physical possession of a book

  • Images were generally low-resolution and difficult to reproduce

  • There was, of course, no way to automate identification

Now in 2025, the landscape has changed:

  • Photos can be digitized and processed with facial recognition technology

  • Images can be combined with a name to create a persistent identifier

  • High-quality images are valuable to train age-progression algorithms

  • Images can be matched to social media profiles to create behavioral overview

  • Emotiona…

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