Saturday, June 15, 2019


A caution for my students working in the defense industry.
Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets
Katie Jones sure seemed plugged into Washington’s political scene. The 30-something redhead boasted a job at a top think tank and a who’s-who network of pundits and experts, from the centrist Brookings Institution to the right-wing Heritage Foundation. She was connected to a deputy assistant secretary of state, a senior aide to a senator and the economist Paul Winfree, who is being considered for a seat on the Federal Reserve.
But Katie Jones doesn’t exist, The Associated Press has determined. Instead, the persona was part of a vast army of phantom profiles lurking on the professional networking site LinkedIn. And several experts contacted by the AP said Jones’ profile picture appeared to have been created by a computer program.




Learning from other laws?
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes:
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan recently signed into law House Bill 1154 (the “Bill”), which amends the state’s data breach notification law. Among other obligations, the amendments expand the required actions a business must take after becoming aware of a data security breach.
Under the existing data breach notification law, a business that owns or licenses personal information and becomes aware of a data security breach must conduct a reasonable, prompt and good faith investigation to determine the likelihood that personal information has been or will be misused as a result of the breach. The Bill expands this investigatory requirement to apply expressly to all businesses that own, license or maintain the personal information of Maryland residents.
[Other points:
based on the risk of harm, “the owner or licensee of the computerized data shall notify the individual of the breach.”
if the business that incurs the security breach is not the owner or licensee of personal information, that business may not charge the relevant owner or licensee for information necessary to carry out the owner or licensee’s notification obligations under Maryland’s breach law. [This must have happened once? Bob]




What App(s) in the US do the same thing?
WeChat Is Watching
Living in China with the app that knows everything about me.




Learning about stalkers…
The Predator in Your Pocket
A Multidisciplinary Assessment of the Stalkerware Application Industry
Part 1 discusses the harms which are associated with a person being targeted by stalkerware
Part 2 undertakes a technical assessment of specific stalkerware applications.
In Part 3, we evaluated how companies which sold stalkerware, and software which could be repurposed as stalkerware, marketed their products to prospective customers.
Part 4 of the report undertook a content assessment of companies’ user-facing public policies.
In Part 5, we conducted an assessment of stalkerware companies’ business practices through the lens of Canada’s federal commercial privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
In Part 6, we collect our major findings from our multidisciplinary research and propose a range of recommendations




If anyone should know...
Understanding artificial intelligence ethics and safety




New tech, new law.
Chapter 2: Regulating AI and Robotics: Ethical and Legal Challenges
Rapid progress in AI and robotics is challenging the traditional boundaries of law. Algorithms are widely employed to make decisions that have an increasingly far-reaching impact on individuals and society, potentially leading to manipulation, biases, censorship, social discrimination, violations of privacy and property rights, and more. This has sparked a global debate on how to regulate AI and robotics.
The purpose of this introductory chapter is twofold. First, it outlines some of the most urgent ethical and legal issues raised by the use of self-learning algorithms in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and (smart) robotics. Secondly, it provides an overview of several key initiatives at the international and European levels on forthcoming AI ethics and regulation.




Marketing is like politics?



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