AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event Booked Random Meetings for Attendees

Gamescom, one of the biggest video game industry trade shows in the world, used AI to book meetings for attending publishers, developers, and media even if they didn’t want them. Attendees complained about random meetings showing up on their calendars, prompting Gamescom to turn off the feature and apologize.  Gamescom is a video game trade…

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Airline-Owned Data Broker Selling Your Flight Info to DHS Finally Registers as a Data Broker

The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), a data broker owned by the country’s major airlines which sells travellers’ detailed flight records in bulk to the government, only just registered as a data broker with the state of California, which is a legal requirement, despite selling such data for years, according to records maintained by the California…

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