And my students wonder why I don’t have a
cellphone.
Report –
Almost half of US cellphone calls will be scams by next year
Cision
Newswire: “First
Orion, a leading provider of phone call and data transparency
solutions, today announced their inaugural 2018 Scam Call Trends
and Projections Report, detailing the need for new, adaptive
technologies to combat the exponential increase in scam calls. First
Orion powers call protection solutions to tens of millions of mobile
subscribers in the U.S. market and has carefully analyzed over 50
billion calls made to these customers over the past 18 months. By
combining specific call patterns and behaviors with other phone
number attributes, First Orion now predicts that nearly half of all
calls to mobile phones will be fraudulent in 2019 unless the industry
adopts and implements more effective call protection solutions. To
combat this rapidly growing epidemic, First Orion will fully deploy
its groundbreaking, in-network technology known as
CallPrinting™—which quickly and accurately identifies new scam
techniques and thwarts fraudulent calls—into a Tier-One U.S.
carrier’s network this fall where the company projects it will
significantly mitigate the volume of scam traffic beginning in the
4th quarter of 2018. Over the past year, First Orion’s data shows
a drastic increase in mobile scam calls—from 3.7% of total calls in
2017 to 29.2% in 2018—and that number is projected to reach 44.6%
by early 2019…”
Automated policing…
Artificial
Intelligence and Policing: Hints in the Carpenter Decision
Joh, Elizabeth E., Artificial Intelligence and
Policing: Hints in the Carpenter Decision (August 24, 2018). __ Ohio
State Journal of Criminal Law __, 2018. Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3238212
“In the 2018
Carpenter case, Chief Justice Roberts focuses on the quality of
the information sought by the police as a means of deciding the case
in Carpenter’s favor. Less obviously, however, the majority
opinion also stresses the nature of the policing involved in
Carpenter’s case: new
technologies that do not just enhance human abilities.
The majority makes no explicit clams about this focus. But the
Carpenter decision reveals the Supreme Court’s first set of views
on how it might evaluate police use of artificial intelligence. That
contention, and the questions it raises, form the subject of this
essay.”
[From
the article:
In
these ways the tools of artificial
intelligence are changing the nature of policing itself.
Another
way to think of this development is that policing
is becoming increasingly automated.
… today
the increasing interest in social network analysis, locational
predictive policing, and threat analysis means that even those the
task of assessing suspicious behavior is subject to automation as
well.
… In
finding that we possess Fourth Amendment protections in locational
data even when recorded by third parties, the Court chose to describe
the data collection technique in Carpenter
as
superhuman,
passive, and automated.
This is noteworthy: these descriptions also characterize the very
technologies of artificial intelligence that are becoming more
commonplace in policing.
(Related)
UK Serious
Fraud Office trialling AI for data-heavy cases
naked
security – sophos: “The BBC says it looks like a kids’
digital game: a mass of blue and green rubber balls bounce around the
screen like they’re on elastic bands in a galaxy of paddle balls.
It’s no game, however. It is a new artificial intelligence (AI)
tool that connects, and then visualizes, the parties and their
interactions in a complex fraud inquiry. The UK’s Serious Fraud
Office (SFO) recently gave the BBC
a look at the system, called OpenText Axcelerate, which staff have
been training on Enron: a massive corporate fraud case from 2001
that’s no longer actively being investigated. The lines between
the colored balls represent links between two people involved in the
fraud inquiry, including the emails they sent and received, the
people they carbon-copied, and the more discrete messages in which
nobody was cc’ed. SFO investigator Edgar Pacevicius told the BBC
that a major advantage of the AI is that it can spot connections
between individuals far more quickly than humans can. It’s
designed to help investigators keep track of all the parties involved
in a given, wide-scale fraud, with all their communications, along
with individuals’ interactions with each other. The tool also
groups documents with similar content, and it can pick out phrases
and word forms that might be significant to an investigation…”
This should be useful.
LII
Announces U.S. Constitution Annotated
U.S.
Constitution Annotated – “This edition of the Congressional
Research Service’s U.S. Constitution Annotated is a hypertext
interpretation of the CRS text, updated to the currently published
version. It links to Supreme Court opinions, the U.S. Code, and the
Code of Federal Regulations, as well as enhancing navigation through
search, breadcrumbs, linked footnotes and tables of contents… The
content of the U.S. Constitution Annotated was prepared by the
Congressional
Research Service (CRS) at the Library
of Congress, and published electronically in plaintext and PDF by
the Government
Printing Office. Dating back to 1911, the initial online
annotations were published in 1992. This edition is a hypertext
interpretation of the CRS text, updated to the currently published
version. It links to Supreme Court opinions, the U.S. Code, and the
Code of Federal Regulations, as well as enhancing navigation through
linked footnotes and tables of contents. LII is grateful to
Professor William Arms and the CS 5150 “Save the Constitution”
team: Anusha Chowdhury, Garima Kapila, Tairy Davey, Brendan Rappazzo,
and Max Anderson for their work on the project. Special thanks go to
Josh Tauberer of GovTrack
and Daniel Schuman of Demand
Progress for their help with the data.”
I suppose that’s one way to save on your
Christmas shopping.
A man is wanted by police after being filmed
sending his daughter inside a BarBerCut Lite cabinet, where she was
able to get her tiny hands on some prizes and retrieve them before
the pair (and another child, believed to be the man’s son) left the
scene.
… You can see footage of the incident,
uploaded and modified by the Salem PD, below:
For my students.
Student researchers should look at these too.
10
Investigative Tools You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
Global Investigative Journalism Network:
“Investigations, the saying goes, are just regular stories with a
lot more labor put in. Investigative reporters spend inordinate
amounts of time sifting through documents, verifying sources and
analyzing data — and that’s if they can even get the data. As an
investigative reporter with way too many stories I want to do, these
are the tools I use to keep up with sources, stories and leads at a
rapid rate. Let’s
take a look at 10 of the best new tools for unearthing, accelerating,
and keeping track of investigations…”
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