Monday, March 16, 2020


The Privacy Foundation seminar on Facial Recognition and Privacy has been postponed until Friday October 30. Like many colleges and universities, DU is shut down.




Plenty of useful bits…
The Cyber Intelligence Analyst’s Cookbook
There’s a new — and free — OSINT resource from Open Source Researchers that I want to let you all know about:
The Cyber Intelligence Analyst’s Cookbook
Volume 1 : A primer for Open Source Intelligence Collection and Applied Research
An excerpt from the Preface:
Anyways, I started with this brain dump of my process for recording OSINT. The work initially started out just for me. I haven’t documented any of my methods, thoughts, what have you in quite some time. I was due for this knowledge transfer. However, as I began writing, I found that a manual wasn’t going to cut it. The next thing I know, I’m writing a book, and thirty days-ish later, the first draft was completed. Truthfully, it’s an awful book, and I apologize to anyone who attempts to read it. Yet, as I look back over the body of knowledge, I see that I’ve at least created a good foundation for future volumes. Opportunities for expansion and clarification. Who knows, maybe someone will find what’s in this book useful.
The book itself is explicitly written for cyber intelligence analysts. Still, anyone who performs intelligence as a discipline can deconstruct what’s here and apply it to any intelligence domain. I’m also assuming the reader, at a minimum, has access to the Internet and can look up the tools used within the book. I’ve tried my best to add references to the right level of detail and completeness. I do believe in citing sources. Well, I’ve been beaten into always citing sources through my academic career as a student. So, what exactly is in this book? Part 1 of this book goes over the way I collect and store OSINT into MISP. Part 2 goes over some higher-order analysis that can be applied to the data.
You can download the 3.8 MB pdf file here.




An Infographic for Criminal Justice majors? Predictive policing.
Crime Stopping AI




If this is true for the EU is it also true for California?
Will The GDPR Frustrate Europe’s Plans For AI?
The EU plans to become the most attractive, secure and dynamic data-agile economy in the world. The Commission’s new digital strategy includes an ambition for the EU to seize new opportunities in digitised industry and business-to-business artificial intelligence (AI) applications. However, the vital question of whether GDPR is an obstacle to the EU’s plans to become an AI hub has been scrupulously avoided by the Commission.
GDPR represents the gold standard for data protection worldwide. There is little political appetite in Europe to roll-back GDPR. Yet GDPR clearly does create friction with machine learning. For example, several of its core principles, including purpose limitation and data minimisation, restrict the creation of large datasets.
More flexible GDPR concepts exist which permit innovation, such as legitimate interest, public interest and scientific research. Yet these are vaguely defined and can also be interpreted differently by the member states’ various national data protection authorities. How can the Commission reduce the friction between GDPR and AI innovation?




Anti-trust, the new anti-big attack?
Apple fined a record $1.2 billion by French antitrust authorities
French antitrust authorities ordered Apple on Monday to pay a 1.1 billion euro ($1.23 billion) fine for anti-competitive behavior.
The French competition authority said the iPhone-maker was guilty of creating cartels within its distribution network and abusing the economic dependence of its outside resellers.
Two of Apple’s wholesalers were also fined for agreeing on prices: Tech Data and Ingram Micro received fines of 76.1 million euros and 62.9 million euros respectively.
A spokesperson for Apple told CNBC: “The French Competition Authority’s decision is disheartening. It relates to practices from over a decade ago and discards 30 years of legal precedent that all companies in France rely on with an order that will cause chaos for companies across all industries. We strongly disagree with them and plan to appeal.”




Don’t panic! Prep! (Also for my Disaster Recovery lecture.)
How to prepare for any type of emergency
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Something for the self-isolated?
You Can Virtually Tour These 500+ Museums and Galleries
If you are at home, take some time each day to enjoy, learn, and travel safely! Via Lifehacker: “Google Arts & Culture has a collection of more the 500 different museums and galleries up on its site that you can visit virtually. Clicking through to each one will bring up images of some of the museum or gallery’s collection, and in some cases full virtual tours of the museum you can take to pretend like, in a way, you’re actually there. You can check out the full (massive) list of included galleries and museums here. The list defaults to listing some of the most popular options first, but you can also sort them in alphabetic order or look at where they all are on a map…”




Because even I can’t teach them everything. (Wow! The Ego got away from me there.)
The 10 Best Free Online Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Courses For 2020



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