A good month to teach Computer
Security.
National
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2019 Theme: ‘Own IT. Secure IT.
Protect IT’
Could
this become a model law? Please?
Dell
Cameron reports:
Starting next Tuesday, Nevada residents may choose to opt-out of having their personal information resold by online businesses. A privacy bill, signed into law this May, requires website operators to respond to requests from consumers and halt the sale of their personal information within 60 days—or potentially face strict fines.
Read
more on Gizmodo.
What could possibly go wrong?
Joe Cadillic writes:
It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done.
Delta Faucet’s “Voice IQ” takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns it into an Alexa eavesdropping center.
“Designed with the understanding that 20 percent of all WiFi-enabled homes are equipped with a connected home device, VoiceIQ Technology pairs with existing devices to dispense the exact amount of water needed, all with a simple voice command.”
Delta lets Alexa decide how much water everyone gets.
“VoiceIQ Technology allows users to easily warm water and turn it on and off with voice activation, lending a hand in an active kitchen space. Consumers can command the faucet to dispense a metered amount of water in various quantities for precise measurement. Additionally, consumers can customize commands to make everyday tasks easier, like filling a coffee pot, a child’s sippy cup, or a dog bowl.” (To learn more about Voice IQ click here. )
What they are really saying is Amazon will now monitor your home and individual water usage.
How is that for Orwellian?
Read
more on MassPrivateI.
Today
phones, tomorrow screaming children, loose pets and fast food.
Australia
rolling out AI cameras to catch and fine smartphone-distracted
drivers
Everyone
knows it's dangerous to text and drive, and yet smartphones seem an
irresistible temptation in traffic for too many people.
… If
the enforcement hasn't been sufficient to change this behavior,
that's about to change. Melbourne-based Acusensus says its
distracted driver detection system operates 24/7, in good or bad
weather, impervious to sun glare and perfectly capable in darkness.
It automatically detects violations using artificial intelligence
algorithms, then creates
encrypted, traceable, evidence-grade packages that can be
used by law enforcement to issue tickets, or take the matter all the
way through the court system.
… Given
that it's both a safety-focused system and one that can reliably haul
in revenue for governments, it's reasonable to expect this technology
will spread quickly.
GDPR
does not (yet) rule the world.
Google
wins in 'right to be forgotten' fight with France
Google
won its fight against tougher “right to be forgotten” rules after
Europe’s top court said on Tuesday it does not have to remove links
to sensitive personal data worldwide, rejecting a French demand.
The
case is seen as a test of
whether Europe can extend its laws beyond its borders and
whether individuals can demand the removal of personal data from
internet search results without stifling free speech and legitimate
public interest.
Automating
crime as a business strategy?
The
Extended Corporate Mind: When Corporations Use AI to Break the Law
Diamantis,
Mihailis,
The Extended Corporate Mind: When Corporations Use AI to Break the
Law (July 18, 2019). North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 97, Forthcoming
. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3422429
or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3422429
“Algorithms
may soon replace employees as the leading cause of corporate harm.
For centuries, the law has defined corporate misconduct — anything
from civil discrimination to criminal insider trading — in terms of
employee misconduct. Today, however, breakthroughs in artificial
intelligence and big data allow automated systems to make many
corporate decisions, e.g., who gets a loan or what stocks to buy.
These technologies introduce valuable efficiencies, but they do not
remove (or even always reduce) the incidence of corporate harm.
Unless
the law adapts, corporations will become increasingly immune to civil
and criminal liability as they transfer responsibility from employees
to algorithms.
This Article is the first to tackle the full extent of the growing
doctrinal gap left by algorithmic corporate misconduct. To hold
corporations accountable, the law must sometimes treat them as if
they “know” information stored on their servers and “intend”
decisions reached by their automated systems. Cognitive science and
the philosophy of mind offer a path forward. The “extended mind
thesis” complicates traditional views about the physical boundaries
of the mind. The thesis states that the mind encompasses any system
that sufficiently assists thought, e.g. by facilitating recall or
enhancing decision-making. For natural people, the thesis implies
that minds can extend beyond the brain to include external cognitive
aids, like rolodexes and calculators. This Article adapts the thesis
to corporate law. It motivates and proposes a doctrinal framework
for extending the corporate mind to the algorithms that are
increasingly integral to corporate thought. The law needs such an
innovation if it is to hold future corporations to account for their
most serious harms…”
Plays
on a smartphone only.
Introducing
‘Stealing Ur Feelings,’ an Interactive Documentary About Big
Tech, AI, and You
An
augmented reality film revealing how the most popular apps can use
facial emotion recognition technology to make decisions about your
life, promote inequalities, and even destabilize democracy makes its
worldwide debut on the web today. Using the same AI technology
described in corporate patents, “Stealing
Ur Feelings,”
by
Noah Levenson,
learns
the viewers’ deepest secrets just by analyzing their faces as they
watch the film in real-time.
Eventually,
we will get this right. Perhaps an AI will help.
10
policy principles needed for artificial intelligence
New policies need to be created for artificial
intelligence (AI) in order to govern its use while allowing for
innovation, according to the US Chamber's Technology Engagement
Center and Center for Global Regulatory Cooperation.
Perspective.
Denver
Broncos Are Utilizing AI Scanners To Upgrade The Food And Beverage
Experience
Just don’t Tweet like the President, just don’t.
Twitter 101
for Lawyers
Law
Technology Today:
“The recent 2019 “ABA
Profile of the Legal Profession”
report
says that only 25% of lawyers personally use or maintain a presence
on Twitter for professional purposes. That same report also states
that only 14% of law firms use Twitter (down from a high of 21% in
2016). My business clients—who in my opinion, are the greatest
sales professionals on the planet—like to use a word known as
“whitespace” to describe new potential opportunities with
customers. I believe that Twitter is “whitespace” for lawyers.
Embracing Twitter provides lawyers with a highly powerful—and
free—opportunity to learn, build your organization’s brand, build
your personal brand and develop relationships. In this article, we
explore some strategies for you to do so… The beauty of Twitter is
that you need to be “short and sweet” in your Tweets as you are
limited to 280 characters. Using Twitter has taught me to become a
more effective and efficient digital communicator with my business
clients. You can also enhance your Tweets—and increase the
likelihood they will be viewed—by adding
some visual content in the form of emojis, pictures, videos, GIFs,
etc….”
One way Congress should be analyzed. By members
or issues.
The
Language of Congress – What topics do members of Congress tweet
about most frequently?
The
Pudding – “We
fed thousands of Congressional tweets to a machine learning algorithm
in order to recognize political issues.
We’ll keep doing this every day of the 116th congress, from January
3 2019 through January 3, 2021. These are the topics that dominate
members
of Congress public
discourse—the
issues they discuss (and don’t discuss). We’ve visualized data,
for members
of Congress,
and issues.
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