Are
the courts thinking about GDPR and similar laws as they make these
rulings?
Facebook
fails to kill class-action lawsuit over data breach
A proposed class action lawsuit against Facebook
will move forward after a judge disagreed with the company’s
contention it should not be held liable for failing to protect users’
information.
Facebook
last
year announced that
a data breach allowed hackers to make off with information about some
30 million people. A vulnerability in Facebook’s code enabled
outsiders to access to users’ digital access tokens, which make it
possible to visit the site without logging in each time.
The company
had previously claimed that some of the plaintiffs’ information was
not “sensitive” because it was accessible on a public Facebook
profile and no real harm had been done because attackers had failed
to steal users’ financial information and passwords. Additionally,
the company said it should be absolved from responsibility due to the
sophistication of the hack.
U.S. District
Judge William Alsup disagreed, ruling on June 21 that the
evidence-gathering phase of the case should proceed “with
alacrity.”
… Judge
Alsup previously warned Facebook’s legal team he would authorize a
“bone-crushing” discovery process
on behalf of affected users, according
to Law360.
Alsup also said user concerns are worth “real money,” rather than
“some cosmetic injunctive relief.”
This
is one of the many legal matters besieging Facebook. The Silicon
Valley giant’s data-sharing deals with technology companies are
under criminal investigation, according
to the New York Times.
Meanwhile, the company is preparing to pay
a reported $5 billion to
settle a Federal Trade Commission probe into whether it improperly
shared information about tens of millions of users with Cambridge
Analytica.
(Related)
A
Judge Just Ruled You Can Sue The Media Over Facebook Comments From
Readers
Dylan
Voller, the Aboriginal man who was shown restrained and wearing a
spit hood at age 17 in shocking CCTV footage from an adult prison,
has been given the green light to sue media companies over
Facebook comments written by their readers.
… Voller
claims a number of comments on the post defamed him by
falsely suggesting, among other things, that he "savagely
bashed" a Salvation Army officer, causing him serious injury,
and that he is a rapist.
These
comments were written by readers.
Before
Voller's case went to trial, Justice Stephen Rothman considered
whether the media companies could be considered liable for the reader
comments.
The
three companies argued they were not liable during a three-day
hearing in February, in which social media managers took the stand
and were questioned about how they monitored and moderated Facebook
comments.
Rothman
ruled in Voller's favour on Monday afternoon, finding
that the media companies were the publishers, in a legal sense, of
the comments.
The
original, please.
Amol
Rajan: What kind of internet do you want?
In
recent months I have been influenced by a paper on The
Geopolitics of Digital Governance by
two University of Southampton academics, Kieron O'Hara and Dame Wendy
Hall. The paper popularised, but didn't invent, the idea of the
"splinternet" - namely, that there is not one internet, but
four.
These
four internets are, broadly:
the open, universalist version envisioned by the web's pioneers;
the current, largely Californian internet dominated by a few tech
giants (Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook);
a more regulated, European internet; and
an authoritarian, walled-garden approach, of the kind seen in China,
which has its own tech giants (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent).
Philosophy
from a psychologist? Not sure I agree with him, but I guess it’s a
start.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-thought/201906/how-build-ethical-artificial-intelligence
How to
Build Ethical Artificial Intelligence
… Because of the increasing impact of AI on
people's lives, concern is growing about how to take a sound ethical
approach to future developments. Building ethical artificial
intelligence requires both a moral approach to building AI systems
and a plan for making AI systems themselves ethical.
How to make money with technology? List and
Infographic.
Internet of
Things Leads Second Annual Top 10 List from CompTIA Emerging
Technology Community
Rankings based on
near-term business and financial opportunities for companies working
in the business of technology
The
Internet of Things (IoT) is the emerging technology that offers the
most immediate opportunities to generate new business and revenues,
according to the Emerging
Technology Community at
CompTIA,
the leading trade association for the global tech industry.
The
community has released its second annual Top
10 Emerging Technologies list,
ranked according to the near-term business and financial
opportunities the solutions offer to IT channel firms and other
companies working in the business of technology.
Big
and not-so-big data. Now “Moneyball” is everywhere!
How
the Seattle Seahawks use data to win — on and off the field
… The Seahawks were the first NFL franchise to
establish a sports science group seven years ago, an effort
spearheaded by general manager John Schneider and head coach Pete
Carroll.
Fast forward to today, and almost every major
league sports team has some type of sports science or analytics arm.
… The
Seahawks are also using data to improve the fan experience — and,
as a result, the team’s bottom line.
For
example, fans take surveys that gauge their level of happiness with
everything from concession stand options to WiFi connections. Recent
results showed complaints about stadium audio issues — but only
when the Seahawks created a heat map of the data did they figure out
that the issues were relegated to the four corners.
“Fans were
telling us this information, but we never visualized it,” Dunn
said.
It turned out
that speakers were never actually installed in those corners when the
stadium was built in 2002.
Instead of
replacing the stadium’s entire audio system, the team was able to
spend a fraction to fix the issues that the data visualization
surfaced, and used the saved costs on other more pressing capital
expenditures.
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