Why Today’s Privacy Laws Don’t Work in the AI Age
Why Today’s Privacy Laws Don’t Work in the AI Age
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/ai-privacy-laws-data-26d9769f
Publish Date: 2026-06-23 15:06:00
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This century hasn’t been kind to privacy. The rise of the internet. Smartphones that track our geolocation. A never-ending stream of data about us being gobbled up by thousands of companies. Surveillance everywhere, multiplying exponentially. And recently, rapidly advancing artificial-intelligence technologies that can analyze the massive digital dossiers about us and infer nearly everything about us.
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