Similar
to what Texas did. Interesting that the National Guard already has
the skills. Oh wait. They don’t!
Ohio
Establishes ‘Cyber Reserve’ to Combat Ransomware
The
civilian unit of the National Guard will be on call to assist local
governments that come under cyberattack.
…
Gov.
Mike DeWine signed
a bill into
law Friday that establishes a volunteer “cyber reserve” of
computer and information technology experts who will be able to
assist local governments in the face of a ransomware or cybersecurity
attacks.
The
reserve will consist of five teams of 10 people spread throughout the
state who will be vetted and trained to respond to cybersecurity
emergencies affecting local governments. The response will be
similar to the way the Ohio National Guard is placed on active duty
during a natural disaster, said Maj. Gen. John C. Harris Jr., the
Ohio Adjutant General who oversees the state’s National Guard.
… Unlike
the National Guard, the volunteer force would be comprised of
civilians who could not be called up for active military duty.
Members must vetted to join and the guard is currently accepting
applications. Members would only be paid when deployed.
Not
quite clarification (to a non-lawyer like me), but lots of detail.
These
Cookies are Out of This World
European
Court of Justice Planet 49 decision sets the record straight on
consent for online cookies and trackers.
On
October 1, 2019 the Court of Justice of the EU issued its much
awaited decision in the Planet 49 case. The case dealt with the
participation in an online lottery and what the consent for that
should look like, in view of online cookies / trackers deployed in
the website where the lottery was held.
Well
gosh! If Harvard says so…
We
Need AI That Is Explainable, Auditable, and Transparent
… Just
as we concern ourselves with who’s teaching our children, we also
need to pay attention to who’s teaching our algorithms. Like
humans, artificial intelligence systems learn from the environments
they are exposed to and make decisions based on biases they develop.
And like our children, we should expect our models to be able to
explain their decisions as they develop.
As
Cathy O’Neil explains in Weapons
of Math Destruction, algorithms
often determine what
college we attend,
if we get hired
for a job,
if we qualify for a loan to buy a house, and even who goes
to prison and for how long.
Unlike human decisions, these mathematical models are rarely
questioned. They just show up on somebody’s computer screen and
fates are determined.
We
should see many attempts at an ethical approach.
Mozilla
partners with Element AI to spearhead ethical artificial intelligence
… As
the technology continues to develop and grow, it is important to
create -- and hopefully stick to -- applications that maintain some
level of ethics (although what level, in turn, is debatable).
Element
AI,
an AI enterprise software provider that maintains existing
partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Intel, will work with
Mozilla to explore these aspects of ethical AI governance.
The
companies will also work on "data trusts," a new, proposed
technological solution born from AI to measure and maintain data
control, which may become key as AI works its way into data
collection solutions.
Data
trusts are third-party stewardship models based on "common law
trust." These tools, as documented in an Element
AI whitepaper,
are proposed as a way to give individuals more control over their
personal information; to balance power and data rights between
companies, governments, and individuals; to enhance privacy, and to
give the public the opportunity to "share in the value of data
and artificial intelligence."
Who
should we trust?
Automatic
braking can be life-saving (except when it's not), IIHS study finds
… A
new study released Tuesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety ranks a majority of midsize cars as "superior" or
"advanced" in their pedestrian crash prevention. But three
models ranked as "basic," and three got "no credit"
at all for their systems.
… The
IIHS study gauged the performance of these systems in the day. But a
separate, recent report by AAA exposed major flaws in automatic
emergency braking systems after dark.
"We
found that at night the
systems were completely ineffective," said Greg
Brannon, AAA's director of automotive engineering.
The
grocery wars continue.
Amazon
axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, making grocery delivery free for Prime
members to boost use
Amazon
is turning up the heat once again in the world of groceries, and
specifically grocery delivery, to make its services more enticing in
face of competition from Walmart, as well as a host of delivery
companies like Postmates. Today, the company announced that it would
make Amazon Fresh — the fresh food delivery service it now offers
in some 2,000 cities in the US and elsewhere — free to use for
Prime members, removing the $14.99/month fee that it was charging for
the service up to now.
Alongside
free delivery, Amazon is giving users one and two-hour delivery
options for quicker turnarounds, and it’s making users’ local
Whole Foods inventory available online and through the Amazon app.
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