Module 7: Data Security and AI
Mandatory Watching - videos with quizzes - finish before 11 am, Tuesday, July 14
- 7.1 — Lecture: Data Security in the Era of AI, 34 minutes (May 5, 2026)
- 7.2 — Lecture: Intellectual Property in the Age of AI, 40 minutes (Feb. 16, 2025)
- 7.3 — Hank Green - Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos?, 30 minutes (Aug. 23, 2024)
- 7.4 — Yuval Noah Hariri: How to Safeguard Your Mind in the Age of Junk Information, 13 minutes (Aug. 11, 2025)
- 7.5 — Sandra Wachter - Privacy in the Age of Big Data, 5 minutes (May 6, 2019)
- 7.6 — John Ferrell - Is ChatGPT Stealing Our Data?, 10 minutes (May 25, 2023)
Written assignment - submit by end of Tuesday, July 14, give feedback by meeting on Thursday, July 16
7. Use an LLM to help read a privacy policy
Download the privacy policies of three apps or services. Use an LLM to help understand what data is gathered, and what the risks are.
Further watching/reading
- More on the OpenAI-DeepSeek controversy
- Anthropic
- The Claw Code fork of Claude Code (copyright violation) (March 31, 2026)
- Anthropic’s announcement of Glasswing and Mythos (finding security hacks in other software) (April 7, 2026)
- David Shapiro’s independent discussion of Glasswing (April 8, 2026)
- Hank Green and Sherri Davidoff discuss Mythos and Glasswing, 50 minutes (April 10, 2026)
- Past cases of technological IP change
- Mechanical licenses (1908)
- Napster (1999)
- Google Books (2008)
- Memes and copyright - in the US, and in the UK
- Shruti Rajagopalan, “A for Effort: How AI Upends Copyright Law”, (June 4, 2026) - an essay about how copyright protects text, not ideas, because historically text was the hard part to create but easy to copy, but that AI may change this now that text is easy to create
- The Panama Playlists (July 29, 2025) - Spotify accidentally leaked the listening habits of many politicians and celebrities
- Privacy and Data Security with AI for Educators, 6 minutes (Dec. 13, 2023)