Thursday, August 08, 2019


I think we should be charging more for my Computer Security classes.
Cybersecurity Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell
It took a $650,000 salary for Matt Comyns to entice a seasoned cybersecurity expert to join one of America’s largest companies as chief information security officer in 2012. At the time, it was among the most lucrative offers out there.
This year, the company had to pay $2.5 million to fill the same role.
In the 12 months ended August 2018, there were more than 300,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the U.S., according to CyberSeek, a project supported by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. Globally, the shortage is estimated to exceed 1 million in coming years, studies have shown.




No doubt the FBI is hoping this will establish a precedent they can point to.
Whatsapp Is Fighting To Keep Millions Of Users Untraceable
WhatsApp, the encrypted messaging service that has built a 400 million strong user base in India, is squaring off in a Tamil Nadu courthouse in a case that could force the company to weaken its privacy protections. The Madras high court recently began hearing a case filed by two petitioners asking the country to force people to link their WhatsApp accounts to their Aadhaar, India’s controversial biometric ID number for nearly all of the country’s 1.4 billion residents.
The case — the first in the country to consider traceability in social media — could set legal precedent for all tech companies operating in India. Privacy experts fear the case is a convenient opportunity for India’s nationalist government to force platforms to become surveillance tools.




How many people will allow Walmart (or Amazon) into their homes?
Walmart’s new wireless bridge device looks to take on Amazon Key
When it comes to the smart home, maybe the partnership with Google isn’t enough for Walmart anymore. According to an FCC filing, the retailer has submitted an application for a Wi-Fi-to-Z-wave bridge product that links to a Z-wave garage door opener. The application was filed by Project Franklin LLC on behalf of Walmart. So what is this device and what is Project Franklin?
Answering the first question is relatively easy. According to the FCC filing, the device is a Wi-Fi bridge that will connect to a Nortek Z-wave-enabled garage door opener. What’s interesting is the user manual for the product states that the product should be installed professionally, and offers a phone number to call if there are issues. The number dials Walmart’s InHome customer care line, which is Walmart’s grocery delivery service.




Could we fine or imprison an AI?
When Robots Make Legal Mistakes
Morse, Susan C., When Robots Make Legal Mistakes (July 22, 2019). Oklahoma Law Review, Vol. 72, 2019. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3424110
The questions presented by robots’ legal mistakes are examples of the legal process inquiry that asks when the law will accept decisions as final, even if they are mistaken. Legal decision-making robots include market robots and government robots . In either category, they can make mistakes of undercompliance or overcompliance. A market robot’s overcompliance mistake or a government robot’s undercompliance mistake is unlikely to be challenged. On the other hand, government enforcement can challenge a market robot’s undercompliance mistake, and an aggrieved regulated party can object to a government robot’s overcompliance mistake. Especially if robots cannot defend their legal decisions due to a lack of explainability, they will have an incentive to make decisions that will avoid the prospect of challenge. This incentive could encourage counterintuitive results. For instance, it could encourage market robots to overcomply and government robots to undercomply with the law.”




So easy even Mark Zuckerberg can do it.
AI Ethics Guidelines Every CIO Should Read
You don't need to come up with an AI ethics framework out of thin air. Here are five of the best resources to get technology and ethics leaders started.
Future of Life Institute Asilomar AI Principles
Developed in conjunction with the 2017 Asilomar conference, this list of principles has been universally cited as a reference point by all other AI ethics frameworks and standards introduced since it was published.




Another viewpoint. (Colorado author)
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
according to statistics from Adobe, only 15 percent of enterprises are using AI as of today, but 31 percent are expected to add it over the coming 12 months, and the share of jobs requiring AI has increased by 450 percent since 2013.
As an increasing number of AI enabled devices are developed and utilized by consumers and enterprises around the globe, the need to keep those devices secure has never been more important. AI’s increasing capabilities and utilization dramatically increase the opportunity for nefarious uses. Consider the dangerous potential of autonomous vehicles and weapons like armed drones falling under the control of bad actors.
As a result of this peril, it has become crucial that IT departments, consumers, business leaders and the government, fully understand cybercriminal strategies that could lead to an AI-driven threat environment. If they don’t, maintaining the security of these traditionally insecure devices and protecting an organization’s digital transformation becomes a nearly impossible endeavor.
How can we ensure safety for a technology that is designed to learn how to modify its own behavior? Developers can’t always determine how or why AI systems take various actions, and this will likely only grow more difficult as AI consumes more data and grows exponentially more complex.




A future resource?
NHS to set up national artificial intelligence lab
The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said AI had "enormous power" to improve care, save lives and ensure doctors had more time to spend with patients.
He has announced £250m will be spent on boosting the role of AI within the health service.
Increasing the use of AI will also pose challenges for the health service - from training staff to enhancing cyber-security and ensuring patient confidentiality.
The other challenge with an AI is it can only ever be as good as the data it learns from.



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