{"id":7517,"date":"2022-10-26T07:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T05:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/26\/information-commissioner-warns-firms-over-emotional-analysis-technologies\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T07:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T05:37:34","slug":"information-commissioner-warns-firms-over-emotional-analysis-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/26\/information-commissioner-warns-firms-over-emotional-analysis-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Information commissioner warns firms over \u2018emotional analysis\u2019 technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies \u2018should not make meaningful decisions based on technology not backed by science\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The information commissioner has warned companies to steer clear of \u201cemotional analysis\u201d technologies or face fines, because of the \u201cpseudoscientific\u201d nature of the field.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time the regulator has issued a blanket warning on the ineffectiveness of a new technology, said Stephen Bonner, the deputy commissioner, but one that is justified by the harm that could be caused if companies made meaningful decisions based on meaningless data.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/25\/information-commissioner-warns-firms-over-emotional-analysis-technologies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a4de06e34367d198552990518b2aabf49d30ce5d\/0_168_3329_1997\/master\/3329.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b5e4af8acddc6827b67624c4913bb88e\" title=\"Information commissioner warns firms over \u2018emotional analysis\u2019 technologies\" \/>Companies \u2018should not make meaningful decisions based on technology not backed by science\u2019<br \/>\nThe information commissioner has warned companies to steer clear of \u201cemotional analysis\u201d technologies or face fines, because of the \u201cpseudoscientific\u201d nature of the field.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the first time the regulator has issued a blanket warning on the ineffectiveness of a new technology, said Stephen Bonner, the deputy commissioner, but one that is justified by the harm that could be caused if companies made meaningful decisions based on meaningless data. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies \u2018should not make meaningful decisions based on technology not backed by science\u2019 The information commissioner has warned companies to steer clear of \u201cemotional analysis\u201d technologies or face fines, because of the \u201cpseudoscientific\u201d nature of the field. It\u2019s the first time the regulator has issued a blanket warning on the ineffectiveness of a new technology, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/26\/information-commissioner-warns-firms-over-emotional-analysis-technologies\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Information commissioner warns firms over \u2018emotional analysis\u2019 technologies<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}