Two years. Can you be ready in time?
CPRA explained: New California privacy law ramps up restrictions on data use
The California Privacy Rights Act more closely aligns with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. Mid-sized companies not yet GDPR compliant face the biggest impact.
In November, Californians approved a ballot measure, Proposition 24, a.k.a. the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), to create a new consumer data privacy agency. It puts California yet another step ahead of other states in terms of privacy productions for consumers—and data security requirements for enterprises.
… The law goes into effect on January 1, 2023, Lee says, and enforcement will begin six months later. "Companies essentially have two years to prepare," she says.
At last, a word of caution.
https://chiefexecutive.net/ceos-ai-is-not-a-magic-wand/
CEOs: AI Is Not A Magic Wand
… Earlier this year, a joint study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group and MIT Sloan Management Review found that only 11 percent of the firms that have deployed artificial intelligence sees a “sizable” return on their investments.
… What, then, is the main culprit? According to researchers, it seems to be a lack of strategic direction during the implementation process.
“The people that are really getting value are stepping back and letting the machine tell them what they can do differently,” Sam Ransbotham, a professor at Boston College who co-authored the report, commented. “The gist is not blindly applying AI.”
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https://insights.dice.com/2020/12/21/managers-should-learn-a-i-and-machine-learning-skills-too/
Managers Should Learn A.I. and Machine Learning Skills, Too
Given all the focus on building A.I. and machine-learning applications, you might be forgiven for thinking that these technologies are largely the providence of software developers and engineers. But while those technologists are certainly building the next generation of “smart” apps and services, it’s important to note that A.I. and machine learning skills are going to become increasingly important to everyone—including managers.
“A.I. is not going to replace managers but managers that use A.I. will replace those that do not,” Rob Thomas, senior vice president of IBM’s cloud and data platform, recently told CNBC.
Trying to understand the new anti-trust?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/technology/antitrust-case-google-facebook.html
The Antitrust Case Against Big Tech, Shaped by Tech Industry Exiles
Three years ago, before she became an antitrust scholar whose work laid the blueprint for a new wave of monopoly lawsuits against Big Tech, Dina Srinivasan was a digital advertising executive bored with her job and worried about the bleak outlook for the industry.
“It just felt like, OK, Facebook and Google were going to win and everybody else is going to lose and that’s just the way the cards were stacked,” Ms. Srinivasan said. “I don’t think this was widely understood.”
So she quit her job at a unit of WPP, the world’s largest advertising agency, and pursued something she hadn’t done since her days as a law student at Yale: writing a legal treatise.
With no background in academia but an insider’s understanding of the digital ad world and a stack of economics books, she wrote a paper with a novel theory — that Facebook harmed consumers by extracting more and more personal data for using its free services. This year, she argued in another paper that Google’s monopoly in advertising technology allowed for the type of self-dealing and insider trading that would be illegal on Wall Street.
… When Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, accused Facebook of buying up rivals to illegally crush the competition as part of a multistate lawsuit against the company earlier this month, she noted that consumers paid the price with reduced privacy protections. That notion of consumer harm is the crux of Ms. Srinivasan’s thesis in her paper, “The Antitrust Case Against Facebook.”
When Texas and nine other states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google last week, the complaint identified many of the same conflicts of interest as Ms. Srinivasan’s paper, “Why Google Dominates Advertising Markets” in the Stanford Technology Law Review. The lawsuit said Google controlled every part of the digital advertising pipeline and used it to give priority to its own services, acting as “pitcher, batter and umpire, all at the same time.”
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