It’s for the security of our nation.
Trump to Order China’s ByteDance to Sell TikTok in U.S.
… The U.S. has been investigating potential national security risks due to the company’s control of the app, and Trump’s decision could be announced as soon as Friday, the people said.
“We are looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok,” Trump told reporters at the White House Friday. “We are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to TikTok.”
(Related) It’s for profit?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-bytedance-exclusive-idUSKBN24X3SK
Exclusive: ByteDance offers to forgo stake in TikTok to clinch U.S. deal - sources
… ByteDance was previously seeking to keep a minority stake in the U.S. business of TikTok, which the White House had rejected. Under the new proposed deal, ByteDance would exit completely and Microsoft Corp would take over TikTok in the United States, the sources said. Some ByteDance investors that are based in the United States may be given the opportunity to take minority stakes in the business, the sources added.
Securing data.
IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption
FHE allows computation of still-encrypted data, without sharing the secrets.
… FHE is a type of encryption that allows direct mathematical operations on the encrypted data. Upon decryption, the results will be correct. For example, you might encrypt 2, 3, and 7 and send the three encrypted values to a third party. If you then ask the third party to add the first and second values, then multiply the result by the third value and return the result to you, you can then decrypt that result—and get 35.
You don't ever have to share a key with the third party doing the computation; the data remains encrypted with a key the third party never received. So, while the third party performed the operations you asked it to, it never knew the values of either the inputs or the output. You can also ask the third party to perform mathematical or logical operations of the encrypted data with non-encrypted data—for example, in pseudocode, FHE_decrypt(FHE_encrypt(2) * 5) equals 10.
Security is being offered, will it be accepted?
Volunteer hacker army boosts U.S. election cybersecurity
As election officials across the country prepare for November without knowing if they'll receive additional federal funds, a new volunteer group hopes to ease their cybersecurity concerns for free.
… While the federal government does provide some free election cybersecurity tools, states are under no obligation to use them. The Department of Homeland Security offers state and local election directors some free cybersecurity services, and the Election Assistance Commission, an advisory agency that is the closest thing election officials and election system makers have to a federal regulator, recently released a free online cybersecurity course.
Ben Hovland, the chair of the commission, said he welcomed any free help to local election officials.
… Now, a University of Chicago initiative called the Election Cyber Surge aims to act as matchmaker between local election officials who may not have access to cybersecurity services and qualified experts who want to help. Officials will be able to choose an area of concern, then pick from a list of professionals willing to help via phone or video chat, a necessity during the pandemic.
Coming soon to a ballot near you!
Massachusetts Ballot Question Poses Privacy Concerns
Kathryn Rattigan of Robinson & Cole writes:
Ballot Question 1 in Massachusetts, if passed in November, would require car manufacturers that sell cars equipped with telematics systems (i.e., a method of monitoring a vehicle by combining a GPS system with on-board diagnostics to record – and map – exactly where a car is and how fast it’s traveling, etc.) to install a standardized, open data platform beginning with model year 2022. Such a system would allow the cars’ owners to access their telematics system data through a mobile app and give their consent for independent repair facilities to access those data and send commands to the system for repair, maintenance, and diagnostic testing.
An open data platform is primarily designed to help big-data developers in creating big-data applications on a common platform. It provides a baseline model to build applications and services that can be interoperable on different platforms. While this platform would allow for use by many different users, this proposed open data platform may also presents security risks to those providing the information. From loss of confidentiality, to the higher potential for compromising personal information, releasing data inherently puts the data at risk.
So on the one hand, consumers would get access to their own car’s data and system so that they do not have to rely on the manufacturer for diagnosis and repairs. On the other hand, detractors claim that opening up access to the data puts consumers at more risks of being hacked and having their personal information compromised.
I don’t know about Massachusetts voters, but I doubt most voters in my area would wade through a real discussion of the pros and cons behind this ballot issue and might just flip a switch or pull a lever or make a check mark randomly on voting day. And yet this is a ballot that might actually impact consumers’ privacy and data security if the detractors are right. But are they?
Read more on Data Privacy & Security Insider
[Correct link: https://www.dataprivacyandsecurityinsider.com/2020/07/massachusetts-ballot-question-poses-privacy-concerns/
Some thoughts…
https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/07/31/the-6-unholy-ai-systems-thou-shalt-not-develop/
The 6 unholy AI systems thou shalt not develop
TLDR; don't pretend a Magic 8 Ball is a useful tool for grownups and don't build hate machines
Getting softy on AI?
https://www.brookings.edu/research/soft-law-as-a-complement-to-ai-regulation/
Soft law as a complement to AI regulation
Corporate leaders including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft President Brad Smith, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and IBM ex-CEO Ginni Rometty have called for increased regulation of artificial intelligence. So have politicians on the both sides of the aisle, as have respected scholars at academic research institutes and think tanks. At the root of the call to action is the understanding that, for all of its many benefits, AI also presents many risks. Concerns include biased algorithms, privacy violations, and the potential for injuries attributable to defective autonomous vehicle software. With the increasing adoption of AI-based solutions in areas such as criminal justice, health care, robotics, financial services, and education, there will be incentives that conflict corporate interests with societal benefits. That conflict raises the question of what systems should be put in place to mitigate potential harms.
THE ROLE OF SOFT LAW
While the dialogue on how to responsibly foster a healthy AI ecosystem should certainly include regulation, that shouldn’t be the only tool in the toolbox. There should also be room for dialogue regarding the role of “soft law.” As Arizona State University law professor Gary Marchant has explained, soft law refers to frameworks that “set forth substantive expectations but are not directly enforceable by government, and include approaches such as professional guidelines, private standards, codes of conduct, and best practices.”
Soft law isn’t new. The authors of a 2018 article in the Colorado Technology Law Journal point out that uses of soft law go back decades.
Perspective.
Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become world’s most valuable company
… Apple shares closed up 10.47% Friday, giving it a market valuation of $1.84 trillion. Saudi Aramco, which had been the most valuable publicly listed company since its market debut last year, now trails at $1.76 trillion as of its last close.
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