Thursday, September 26, 2019


Trying to explain CCPA to my students.
Ready, Set, Sustain: Six Steps Toward CCPA Compliance
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the first major piece of United States privacy legislation, but it won’t be the last. There are already similar bills in the works in Washington, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Maryland. Introduced on June 28, 2018, the CCPA adopts much of its framework from the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – although there are some subtle differences. For example, the CCPA extends its protections to households and devices, not just individuals, and includes the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information.
Our research suggests a lot of companies were blindsided by how much time and money it takes to sustain compliance. With less than four months until the California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect on January 1, 2020, this article provides actionable steps for how to work toward a sustainable compliance program.


(Related)
ALI Data Privacy: Overview and Black Letter Text — Available for Download
Professor Paul Schwartz and I have posted the black letter text of the American Law Institute (ALI), Principles of the Law, Data Privacy. Professor Paul Schwartz and I were co-reporters on the project. Earlier this year, I wrote a post about our completion of the project. According to the ALI press release: “The Principles seek to provide a set of best practices for entities that collect and control data concerning individuals and guidance for a variety of parties at the federal, state, and local levels, including legislators, attorneys general, and administrative agency officials.”




Probably as much insight as we can find.
What's New In Gartner's Hype Cycle For AI, 2019
Gartner’s definition of Hype Cycles includes five phases of a technology’s lifecycle and is explained here. Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for AI reflects the growing popularity of AutoML, intelligent applications, AI platform as a service or AI cloud services as enterprises ramp up their adoption of AI.


(Related) Voice is being added to every ‘Internet of Things’ thing.
Alexa's 'Certified for Humans' wants to eliminate smart-home headaches
Amazon wants you to be able to set up your smart home even if you don't know anything about tech.
… To achieve the certification, devices need to use frustration-free setup. This allows Alexa to share your Wi-Fi credentials so you don't have to renter the info. The device needs to allow over-the-air updates to happen in the background. Finally, you need to be able to setup and control the devices with the Alexa app.


(Related)
Ring announces new cameras and a conversational doorbell
At its fall event today, Amazon announced two new versions of its Ring Stick Up security cameras and showed off a way for Alexa to have conversations with people who come to your door via a Ring doorbell.


(Related)
Amazon’s Echo Frames are eyeglasses with Alexa




Perspective.
The Internet Leads in Advertising by a Crazy Wide Margin
Zenith Media's Advertising Expenditure Forecasts June 2019 covers the world, looks at data from 2007 to 2018, and forecasts it clearly: in a couple of years, digital/online ad spending will account for 52 percent of all the dollars spent to get your attention.
TV is a distant second place at 27 percent of advertising spending projected for 2021. After that comes an even more precipitous drop. The third place goes to outdoor ads! That means billboards will get more money spent on them than newspapers (6 percent), radio (5 percent), or magazines (3 percent).




PowerPoint is unlikely to rise above ‘tolerable.”
Microsoft launches its AI presentation coach for PowerPoint
A few months ago, Microsoft announced that PowerPoint would soon get an AI-powered presentation coach that could help you prepare for that important next presentation by giving you immediate feedback. Today, the company is launching this new tool, starting with the web version of PowerPoint.
The new PowerPoint Presentation Coach aims to take the hassle out of practicing. In its current version, the tool looks at three things: pace, slide reading and word choice. Pace is pretty self-explanatory and looks at how fast or slow somebody is speaking. The “slide reading” feature detects when you are simply reading the words from your slides word for word. Nobody wants to sit through that kind of presentation. The “word choice” tool doesn’t just detect how often you say “um,” “ah,” “actually” or “basically,” it also gives you feedback when you are using culturally insensitive phrases like “you guys” or “best man for the job.”



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