So
far, nothing looks like AI. (Dem AIs is clever!)
New
Hacking Techniques Discovered In 2019 So Far
Hey! It’s
not funny! (Okay, maybe a little)
Dutch
Prostitution Site Hookers.nl Hacked—250,000 Users’ Data Leaked
Hackers have
obtained the data and personal details of around 250,000 users of the
Dutch sex-work forum Hookers.nl.
… “Offering
this information for sale is punishable by law, and if possible we
will take legal action,” the moderator added. “In addition, a
report has been made to the Dutch data protection authority.”
The site is
reportedly used by both sex workers and their customers. Though
prostitution is legal in the Netherlands, one serious concern around
such leaks is that users real identities will be exposed and they
will face blackmail, personal or professional consequences. That’s
what happened in the bigger
breach of adultery hook-up site Ashley Madison,
which resulted in many a personal catastrophe.
(Related)
Escort
forums in Italy and the Netherlands hacked, user data put up for sale
A
third forum for zoophilia and bestiality fans was also hacked. User
data put up for sale as well.
Now
will you start thinking about CCPA?
California
AG Releases Draft CCPA Regulations
On
October 10th, California state attorney general Xavier Becerra
announced the release of proposed
implementing regulations concerning
the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
(Related)
Nothing is ever so bad it can’t get worse!
New
Ballot Initiative Seeks to Redo the CCPA
The
author of the ballot initiative intends to include this proposal on
the November, 2020 ballot.
They’re
all potential mass murderers!
Kate
Fazzini reports:
Researchers from the Aspen Institute are raising concerns about a Florida initiative meant to collect and collate huge amounts of data on schoolchildren in the state, according to a report released Thursday.
Florida schools are now required to collect, store and crunch data on students in the name of predicting school shootings. The Florida Schools Safety Portal, or FSSP, executive order was issued by Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this year in response to the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Read
more on CNBC
Architecture.
Turning
IT Upside Down In a Machine Learning World
… The
process of IT systems development will be reversed or turned upside
down with machine learning. Those looking to win in the age of
machine learning will place data and analytics as the centerpiece of
their strategy for systems development. Data should no longer be
viewed as a necessary evil required to complete a process step,
rather it should be the foundation that informs the possibilities of
the future. IT investments will start with identifying the question
we want to answer, inventorying the data we possess, identifying the
data architecture gaps and then, as the last step, we will build
systems to support those objectives. Consider the comparison of how
these two paradigms contrast relative to traditional software
development phases.
At every step
in the software lifecycle you can see how mindsets need to shift.
Rather than optimizing for
‘how can I make your current pain points better,’ it
is about determining the questions, that if answered, would yield
groundbreaking results. Every
organization has one or two key metrics, that if changed, could
dramatically improve company performance. These metrics
could be customer retention, lead acquisition, win rate or any of a
large number of potential metrics/questions that if impacted by data,
insights, and action could produce order of magnitude results in
terms of revenue, margins, and valuation. As an example, in
environments where market share matters, high volume interactions
occur with low costs of sale and the difference of moving from a four
percent lead conversion rate to an eight percent conversion rate can
be the difference between average results and best in class results.
Two views of
amazing…
Jeff
Bezos’s Master Plan
… Today,
Bezos controls nearly 40 percent of all e-commerce in the United
States. More product searches are conducted on Amazon than on
Google, which has allowed Bezos to build an advertising business as
valuable as the entirety of IBM. One estimate has Amazon Web
Services controlling almost half of the cloud-computing
industry—institutions as varied as General Electric, Unilever, and
even the CIA rely on its servers. Forty-two percent of paper book
sales and a third of the market for streaming video are controlled by
the company; Twitch, its video platform popular among gamers,
attracts 15 million users a day.
(Related)
Is
Amazon Unstoppable?
Politicians
want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of
cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.
… Critics
say that Amazon, much like Google and Facebook, has grown too large
and powerful to be trusted. Everyone from Senator Elizabeth Warren
to President Donald Trump has depicted Amazon as dangerously
unconstrained. This past summer, at a debate among the Democratic
Presidential candidates, Senator Bernie Sanders said, “Five hundred
thousand Americans are sleeping out on the street, and yet companies
like Amazon, that made billions in profits, did not pay one nickel in
federal income tax.” And Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary,
declared that Amazon has “destroyed the retail industry across the
United States.” The Federal Trade Commission and the European
Union, meanwhile, are independently pursuing investigations of Amazon
for potential antitrust violations. In recent months, inquiries by
news organizations have documented Amazon’s sale of illegal or
deadly products, and have exposed how the company’s fast-delivery
policies have resulted in drivers speeding down streets and through
intersections, killing people.
I’m not sure
we need a supplement to the First Amendment, but perhaps banning
legislatures from banning companies from banning certain things
should be banned?
Michigan
bill aims to restrict what internet companies could ban from their
sites
Two Michigan
lawmakers are hoping to put new restrictions on what social media and
other technology companies like Facebook, YouTube or Google could ban
from their sites.
… It’s
unclear how the legislation would be enforced or regulated if signed
into law, and the bill hasn’t advanced past the committee level.
Geek out, Bob.
Breaking
Down The 10 Need-To-Know Emerging Technologies
Forrester’s
emerging
tech spotlights have
previously identified and characterized the various emerging
technologies that are worth your time. In order to help you figure
out how to best consume them, Will McKeon-White and I did our best to
help simplify this shifting landscape in our latest report, written
as a downloadable PowerPoint file: “Use
The Cloud Platforms To Drive Your Tech-Driven Innovations.”
From
this research, we came across three key takeaways:
- Don’t assume your business can’t be enhanced by the technologies covered.
- Open source is accelerating, but some technologies are far more proprietary than others.
- Breadth and strength of services is defining the next wave of cloud competition, and vendors know it
And
while we’ve touched upon some of the contents of this report in our
cloud
empowerment webinar and
video
blog so
far, to provide more context on what the PowerPoint contains, we
provide a breakdown of the various solutions/services offered by the
major cloud providers (Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud
Platform, IBM, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, and Salesforce) for the
following 10 technologies:
- Computer vision
- Deep learning
- Natural language generation
- Distributed ledger technology
- Edge computing
- Augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies
- Additive manufacturing
- Digital twins
- Serverless computing
- Quantum computing
Wally
asks another good question.
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