GDPR will clearly mess with a lot of statistics.
Telecompaper reports:
The Belgian Data Protection Authority reported a sharp increase in the number of data breaches reported to the regulator since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation took effect in May, at 317 compared to 13 in 2017. The health, insurance, government, telecom and financial sectors were the top sources of the notifications.
The regulator said the increase is due to the notification obligation being extended to all sectors, compared to only telecoms before the GDPR took effect.
Read more on Telecompaper.
(Related)
Hunton writes:
On November 19, 2018, The Register reported that the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) issued a warning to the U.S.-based The Washington Post over its approach to obtaining consent for cookies to access the service.
The Washington Post presents readers with three options to access its service: (1) free access to a limited number of articles dependent on consent to the use of cookies and tracking for the delivery of personalized ads; (2) a basic subscription consisting of paid access to an unlimited number of articles that is also dependent on consent to the use of cookies and tracking; or (3) a premium subscription consisting of paid access to an unlimited number of articles with no on-site advertising or third party ad tracking for a higher fee.
Read more on the Privacy
& Information Security Law Blog.
[From
the article:
Responding to a complaint submitted by a reader of
The Register, the ICO concluded that since
The
Washington Post
has not offered a free alternative to accepting cookies, consent
cannot be freely given and the newspaper is in
contravention of Article 7(4) of the EU General Data Protection
Regulation (“GDPR”).
… The ICO has issued a written warning to The
Washington Post to ensure access to all three subscription
levels without users having to consent to the use of cookies.
You have to look carefully for evidence that
‘someone’ was messing with the 2018 elections.
The problem
with social media has never been about bots. It’s always been about
business models
Quartz
– “Researchers have found
that as many as 15% of Twitter accounts are bots, which drive
two-thirds of the links on the site. But not all bots are bad.
There are bots that make the internet more beautiful,
more useful,
even kinder.
Here at Quartz, we have a
whole department dedicated to making informative newsbots. The
issue is not that automated accounts exist; it’s that they can
be—and have been—weaponized.
“In
the run-up to the 2018 midterms, bots
were used to disenfranchise voters, harass activists, and attack
journalists,” says Sam Woolley, the director of the
digital lab at the Institute for the Future. “But at a fundamental
level, Facebook and Twitter are dis-incentivized from doing anything
about it.” The problem with social media always comes back to
business models. Platforms have never had an incentive to punish
accounts that worsen the experience for so many of their users; it’s
just that—until recently—they didn’t have a strong enough
incentive to eradicate the bad behavior either…”
Something to share with my students.
Framing
Algorithms – Competition Law and (Other) Regulatory Tools
Picht, Peter Georg and Loderer, Gaspare, Framing
Algorithms – Competition Law and (Other) Regulatory Tools (October
30, 2018). Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition
Research Paper No. 18-24. Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3275198
or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3275198
“As other fields of law, competition law is put
to the test by new technologies in general and algorithmic market
activity in particular. This paper takes a holistic approach by
looking at areas of law, namely financial regulation and data
protection, which have already put in place rules and procedures to
deal with issues arising from algorithms. Before making the bridge
and assessing whether the application of any such tool might be
fruitful for competition law, the paper discusses important
competition cases regarding algorithms, including the Google
Shopping, Lufthansa and Facebook case. It concludes with some policy
recommendations.”
[From
the Introduction:
‘Success
in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.
Unfortunately, it may also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid
the risks.’1
Two
pricing algorithms, competing to sell a genetics textbook,
strategized their interaction so ‘cleverly’ that they ended up –
not quite – selling the book for USD 23 million a copy.
What? You thought no one would ever do this?
Genome-edited
baby claim provokes international outcry
A Chinese scientist claims that he has helped make
the world's first genome-edited babies — twin girls who were born
this month. The announcement has provoked shock, and some outrage,
among scientists around the world.
He Jiankui, a genome-editing researcher from the
Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen,
says that he implanted into a woman an embryo that had been edited to
disable the genetic pathway that allows a cell to be infected with
HIV.
No
doubt Putin expects his pal Trump to treat this like the Khashoggi
killing. If you deny that it happened, you don’t have to do
anything about it.
Tension
escalates after Russia seizes Ukraine naval ships
Russia has fired on and seized three Ukrainian
naval vessels off the Crimean Peninsula in a major escalation of
tensions between the two countries.
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