Certainly hard to explain. Why would any client data
be unencrypted?
Jason
Bramwell reports:
Mexican authorities said KPMG Mexico could be fined as much as 30 million pesos (about $1.57 million) for exposing the confidential payroll data of employees at 41 of its clients, which was housed in an unsecured database that wound up on the Internet.
According to El Economista, the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) will decide whether KPMG was in compliance with the requirements of Mexico’s federal laws on personal data protection and, if not, whether the firm deserves a hefty penalty.
Read
more on GoingConcern.com.
As
expected.
F.B.I.
Warns of Russian Interference in 2020 Race and Boosts
Counterintelligence Operations
The F.B.I. director warned anew on Friday about
Russia’s continued meddling in American elections, calling it a
“significant counterintelligence threat.”
… The F.B.I., the intelligence agencies and
the Department of Homeland Security have made permanent the task
forces they created to confront 2018 midterm election interference,
senior American national security officials said.
Why the Washington law failed to pass?
How
lobbyists rewrote Washington state’s privacy law
The latest battle between Big Tech and privacy
campaigners is not in Brussels, Berlin or Washington, D.C.
It's in Washington state.
There,
lawmakers have days to resurrect data protection rules aimed at
giving local residents — as well as Microsoft and Amazon — some
of the toughest privacy standards in the United States. The
proposals borrow heavily from protections
already available in the European Union,
including the right for people to demand the removal of information
from companies' databases, and may soon become the foundation for
potential nationwide U.S. privacy rules.
… consumer
advocates and some Washington legislators complain that the process
of writing the law — originally some of the strongest privacy rules
to be proposed in the U.S. for decades — was co-opted by corporate
interests, tech lobbyists and industry-friendly lawmakers.
Will
overriding the autopilot become a crime?
… “What we’re going to see in the future
is a general decrease in crashes, we’ll see improvements in safety
across the board,” predicted Michael Manser, a researcher at the
Human Factors Program at Texas A&M University with almost two
decades of experience studying how human driver behavior changes with
new technology. “But you’re going to start to see a secondary
layer of problems start to crop up. And I think a big part of these
are going to relate to these breakdown in partnership between the
system and the driver.”
The big question facing the automotive industry,
one nobody has the answer to, is whether this secondary layer of
problems will, over time, end up causing more crashes than the
automation prevents.
Does this mean the Terminator won’t be replacing
Judge Judy?
Major tech
companies want to remain anonymous while criticizing the automation
of criminal justice
The
Partnership on AI, a trade organization founded by Apple, Amazon,
Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft to set best-practice standards
on AI research and implementation, released a new report
today
(April 26) condemning
the use of algorithms
to assess bail in
criminal justice.
Lots of talks (videos) to choose from.
Here’s
everything you missed at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI
For my next class discussion.
AI won’t
destroy us, it’ll make us smarter
… Advanced
AI is not on its way to ravage humanity. It’s going to inform the
next era of human life, and I think that life will be good.
Your
“busy work” will be automated
You’ll
spend more time in creative flow state
Your
human cognitive characteristics will become even more valuable
You’ll
never forget anything
It’ll
help us all get along (with ourselves and each other)
Cell
phones rat out bus riders?
LA’S
PLAN TO REBOOT ITS BUS SYSTEM—USING CELL PHONE DATA
… The
old rules for building a transit network concentrate service between
the places where the most people live and the places with the most
jobs. But that's actually a bad approximation of how a modern
American city works.
…
“Traditionally
we're trying to provide fast service for long-distance trips,” he
says. That's something the Orange Line and trains are good at. But
the cell phone data showed that only 16 percent of trips in LA County
were longer than 10 miles. Two-thirds of all travel was less than
five miles. Short hops, not long hauls, rule the roads.
This is NOT what I teach my architecture students!
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