Sunday, March 15, 2020


Information on the seminar is now on their website.

The Privacy Foundation at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Friday, March 20, 2020
12:00 - 1:00 pm
ROOM 155
Facial Recognition & Privacy




Election 2020: Who do you want to win and by how much?
Our Full Report on the Voatz Mobile Voting Platform
Voatz allows voters to cast their ballots from any geographic location on supported mobile devices. Its mobile voting platform is under increasing public scrutiny for security vulnerabilities that could potentially invalidate an election. The issues are serious enough to attract inquiries from the Department of Homeland Security and Congress.
However, there has been no comprehensive security report to provide details of the Voatz vulnerabilities and recommendations for fixing them—until now.
Our security review resulted in seventy-nine (79) findings. A third of the findings are high severity, another third medium severity, and the remainder a combination of low, undetermined, and informational severity.
Read our Voatz security report and threat model for full details.
Voatz has already piloted its mobile voting app with elections in West Virginia; Denver, Colorado; Utah County, Utah; and both Jackson and Umatilla Counties in Oregon.




Jobs my students might want.
The emergence of the professional AI risk manager
When the 1970s and 1980s were colored by banking crises, regulators from around the world banded together to set international standards on how to manage financial risk. Those standards, now known as the Basel standards, define a common framework and taxonomy on how risk should be measured and managed. This led to the rise of professional financial risk managers, which was my first job. The largest professional risk associations, GARP and PRMIA, now have over 250,000 certified members combined, and there are many more professional risk managers out there who haven’t gone through those particular certifications.
We are now beset by data breaches and data privacy scandals, and regulators around the world have responded with data regulations. GDPR is the current role model, but I expect a global group of regulators to expand the rules to cover AI more broadly and set the standard on how to manage it. The UK ICO just released a draft but detailed guide on auditing AI. The EU is developing one as well. Interestingly, their approach is very similar to that of the Basel standards: specific AI risks should be explicitly managed. This will lead to the emergence of professional AI risk managers.




Fake news or a demonstration of products developed with/by AI?
Goodyear invented a new tire that never needs to be changed. Here's how its self-regenerating tread works.
  • Goodyear has unveiled its reCharge Concept tires that are self-regenerating and self-charging with artificial intelligence features.
  • The tires can change its treads according to the climate and terrain.



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