Saturday, October 17, 2020

Covid-19 seems to crossover as a computer virus.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/new-security-report-breaks-down-increase-in-cyber-attacks-due-to-remote-work-lack-of-training-overwhelmed-it-departments-are-the-main-issues/

New Security Report Breaks Down Increase in Cyber Attacks Due to Remote Work; Lack of Training, Overwhelmed IT Departments are the Main Issues

Cybersecurity in the Remote Work Era: A Global Risk Report surveyed 2,215 IT and information security personnel in the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. All of these organizations have directed employees to work remotely due to the pandemic conditions; on average each organization had about 58% of its workforce working remotely, up from 22% before the pandemic began.





Oops? Probably more the result of wishful thinking.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/iab-europes-ad-tracking-consent-framework-found-to-fail-gdpr-standard/

IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard

The inspection service of the Belgium DPA makes a number of findings in a report reviewed by TechCrunch — including that the TCF fails to comply with GDPR principles of transparency, fairness and accountability, and also the lawfulness of processing.

It also finds that the TCF does not provide adequate rules for the processing of special category data (e.g. health information, political affiliation, sexual orientation etc) — yet does process that data.





Guidance.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/singapore-releases-ai-ethics-governance-reference-guide/

Singapore releases AI ethics, governance reference guide

Singapore businesses looking to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technologies responsibly now can access a reference document to help them do so. The AI Ethics & Governance Body of Knowledge (BoK) is touted to provide a reference guide for business leaders and IT professionals on the ethical aspects related to the development as well as deployment of AI technologies.

The BoK was developed based on Singapore's latest Model AI Governance Framework, which was updated in January 2020, and will be regularly updated as the local digital landscape evolved, said SCS during its launch Friday.





To ensure we’re all on the same page. It ain’t rocket science, it’s just computer science.

https://techxplore.com/news/2020-10-algorithm.html

What is an algorithm? How computers know what to do with data

In the most general sense, an algorithm is a series of instructions telling a computer how to transform a set of facts about the world into useful information. The facts are data, and the useful information is knowledge for people, instructions for machines or input for yet another algorithm. There are many common examples of algorithms, from sorting sets of numbers to finding routes through maps to displaying information on a screen.



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