Would this be the same as admitting liability for any security issues?
West Mifflin Area School District recalls student devices for ‘urgent security updates’
I wonder how many districts are going through this same thing this month. Lacretia Wimbley reports:
The West Mifflin Area School District is recalling all district-issued student computers for “urgent security updates” beginning Monday.
In a letter sent home to parents last week, officials said the school district’s technology department is working with tech vendors to resolve issues some students experienced during the first week of remote classes. The security updates are required to ensure a “safe remote learning experience,” said Steven Fort, the district’s director of technology.
Read more on Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
You can bet Russia, China, Iran and many others have copies of this App.
A bug in Joe Biden’s campaign app gave anyone access to millions of voter files
Zack Whittaker reports:
A privacy bug in Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s official campaign app allowed anyone to look up sensitive voter information on millions of Americans, a security researcher has found.
The campaign app, Vote Joe, allows Biden supporters to encourage friends and family members to vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election by uploading their phone’s contact lists to see if their friends and family members are registered to vote.
Read more on TechCrunch.
Hacking wholesale. Adobe told the hackers what to look for last November!
https://www.databreaches.net/magento-online-stores-hacked-in-largest-campaign-to-date/
Magento online stores hacked in largest campaign to date
Catalin Cimpanu reports:
More than 2,000 Magento online stores have been hacked over the weekend in what security researchers have described as the “largest campaign ever.”
The attacks were a typical Magecart scheme where hackers breached sites and then planted malicious scripts inside the stores’ source code, code that logged payment card details that shoppers entered inside checkout forms.
Read more on ZDNet.
[From the article:
Ironically, attacks against sites running the now-deprecated Magento 1.x software were anticipated since last year when Adobe — which owns Magento — issued the first alert in November 2019 about store owners needing to update to the 2.x branch.
Can your face be copyrighted? Would that solve this debate?
Professors Hartzog and Richards: Clearview AI Gets Privacy and First Amendment Wrong
From EPIC.org:
In a recent Boston Globe op-ed Professors Woody Hartzog, an EPIC Advisory Board member, and Neil Richards assert that Clearview AI’s claim of a First Amendment right to scrape, analyze, and disseminate publicly available photos is a threat to privacy that misunderstands the right to free speech. Clearview AI’s claim is a response to a lawsuit filed under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) challenging the company’s collection of photos and sale of facial recognition services. EPIC filed an amicus brief before the 9th Circuit defending an individual’s right to sue companies who violate BIPA and other privacy laws. Recently EPIC filed FOIA requests with several government agencies revealed as users of Clearview AI technology. Earlier this year, EPIC and over 40 organizations urged the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to recommend the suspension of face surveillance systems across the federal government.
In related news, see EPIC Urges EU to Enact Comprehensive AI Legislation.
Moving lawyers into the machine?
INSIGHT: Legal AI 2.0 Is Now Appealing to the Masses
… The first products developed in the legal tech space were tailored for law firms, given that’s where the high-volume, expensive legal work was taking place. However, the market is no longer chasing law firms that have been slow to adopt and is instead shifting to law firm clients—the ones who control the nearly $450 billion of annual spend that goes into law firms’ pockets. This is where we’ll see accelerating disruption.
… Legal AI 2.0 doesn’t come without controversy, however. As we continue to see the shift away from law firms to corporate and consumer-focused products, this change has brought about legal battles such as the case between lawyers in Hamburg, Germany, and Wolters Kluwer, the parent company of a German contract platform that sold legal documents to the public without a lawyer engaged in the process.
The Hamburg Bar Association claimed that offering contract generation is a legal service, for which Wolters Kluwer has no license and that Wolters Kluwer engaged in unfair competition
… While no one has a crystal ball, Legal 3.0 looks like it will be defined by legal chat bots that have unique user context and take dynamic actions on your behalf (i.e., the ability to link things back to an older contract, conversations you’ve previously had, etc.).
Gartner predicts that by 2023, virtual legal assistants (VLAs) will field 25% of internal requests to legal departments at large enterprises, increasing operational capacity for in-house corporate teams.
Sounds like they think people have no role...
AI could help root out bad cops—if only the police allowed it
There must be more to this article than I suspected.
https://bdtechtalks.com/2020/09/14/guardian-gpt-3-article-ai-fake-news/
The Guardian’s GPT-3-written article misleads readers about AI. Here’s why.
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