An
audit sampling tool, not a security guarantee.
CISA
Announces Open Source Post-Election Auditing Tool
… Called
Arlo,
the newly introduced auditing tool is being created by non-partisan,
non-profit firm VotingWorks, which is committed to developing secure
election technology. The tool includes support for various types of
post-election audits across numerous voting systems, including major
vendors.
Arlo
is built on auditing work performed by Colorado, which in 2017
implemented rigorous Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs) and conducted audits
in over 50 of its 64 counties.
… The
Arlo open source software is being offered for free to state and
local election officials, and their private sector partners. State
and local jurisdictions can also use a hosted Software-as-a-Service
version of the tool, for a fee.
“Arlo
provides an easy way to perform the calculations needed for the
audit: determining how many ballots to audit, randomly selecting
which ballots will be audited, comparing audited votes to tabulated
votes, and knowing when the audit is complete,” CISA says.
Another
pendulum swing!
PA
Supreme Court – Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password
EFF:
“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a forceful
opinion today
holding that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects
individuals from being forced to disclose the passcode to their
devices to the police. In a 4-3 decision in Commonwealth
v. Davis,
the court found that disclosing a password is “testimony”
protected by the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against
self-incrimination.
EFF
filed an amicus
brief in
Davis,
and we were gratified that the court’s opinion closely parallels
our arguments. The Fifth Amendment privilege prohibits the
government from coercing a confession or forcing a suspect to lead
police to incriminating evidence. We argue that unlocking and
decrypting a smartphone or computer is the modern equivalent of these
forms of self-incrimination…”
What
happens when “double secret probation” goes public?
California
Stepping Up Its Probe Into Facebook Privacy Practices
In
a new lawsuit, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is accusing
Facebook of failing to adequately comply with information and
subpoena requests related to the company’s privacy practices. The
investigation into Facebook privacy practices has been ongoing since
2018, but had never before
been publicly disclosed until now. The state attorney
general’s office had been working on a private investigation, but
had been repeatedly stonewalled by Facebook for key documents and
information, and had no other recourse than to make the investigation
public.
Is
there a polite way to surveil you employees and customers? Just an
extension of “This call may be monitored for training purposes?”
Uber
Embraces Videotaping Rides, Raising Privacy Concerns
The
New York Times –
“The
company says it is increasing the recording of rides to settle
disputes between drivers and passengers and to improve safety… Uber
began the video recording program in Texas in July, and is conducting
smaller tests of the program in Florida and Tennessee. In November,
it announced a similar effort in Brazil and Mexico to allow riders
and drivers to record audio during a trip. The audio recording
feature, first reported by Reuters, is managed by Uber, and begins a
recording if either the rider or driver requests it. At the end of
the trip, the rider or driver has the option to send the recording to
Uber for review, but cannot save it themselves, a safeguard Uber
built to prevent riders and drivers from recording each other and
posting the clips online, the company said. Uber’s video recording
feature is a partnership with Nauto, a technology company that uses
artificial intelligence to analyze video from vehicles…”
Interesting
ways to look at AI as it evolves.
The
Role of AI in the Future of Business Intelligence
Today’s
businesses leverage the power of AI in many ways, from call centers
deploying AI-based chatbots to banks using deep learning to analyze
countless data points in seconds and detect fraud.
… AI
also has the potential to change the dynamics of analytics.
Conventional data analytics focused on descriptive analytics
or analyzing data to report what happened. The present generation of
AI-enabled analytics tools enable predictive analytics or
using data to decipher future insights. This, however, is based on
“best guesses” with behavioral and historical data used to guess
probabilities.
Prescriptive
analytics is all set to take over in the near future. AI-powered
prescriptive analytics tools would scour through vast swathes of data
and enable users to prescribe various possible actions and advise
viable solutions. Prescriptive analytics not just predicts, but
offers sound advice as well, and explains why things will happen the
way it will or does.
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