I had similar thoughts about the first article. My reaction was stronger at the beginning, when I thought they were suggesting legal protections, but it tapered off when I realized that they seemed to be mostly referring to institutional standards.

I agree about global enforcement for AI ethical standards. We see something similar already with some of the genetic research coming out of places like China.

I was also sort-of surprised by the inclusion of chromebook in the list in the last article, just because of Google's overall data-grabiness, but I'm not very familiar with the chromebook, so I didn't reach any conclusions. Good point about the extreme danger from compromise of biometric data, too.

Thanks for the comment!