Did they get it right, at last?
Why Washington state could finally pass data privacy laws with a bill backed by the tech industry
Washington state will once again try to pass data privacy regulations akin to Europe and California’s laws this year — and the third time could be the charm, according to Reuven Carlyle, the state senator who has sponsored the legislation for three years running.
The Washington Privacy Act grants consumers the right to access, transfer, correct, and delete the data that companies such as Facebook or Google hold on them. Consumers can also opt-out of targeted advertising and the sale of their personal data under the legislation.
… Carlyle believes that his third-generation bill will succeed where previous attempts have failed due to support from the tech industry and stronger enforcement authority for the attorney general. Public policy representatives from Microsoft and the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) testified in support of the bill during a virtual hearing this month.
Too much or just too soon?
https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01/27/amnesty-international-calls-for-ban-on-facial-recognition/
Amnesty International calls for ban on facial recognition
… Amnesty notes that the software is often prone to errors. But even when it “works,” it can exacerbate discriminatory policing, violate our privacy, and threaten our rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression.
The human rights group wants a total ban on the use of facial recognition for government surveillance and a block on any exports of the systems.
The first Audit Guidance I’ve seen. Gracias!
Spanish Supervisory Authority Issues Guidance on Auditing Data Processing Activities Involving Artificial Intelligence
On January 12, 2020, the Spanish Supervisory Authority (“AEPD”) issued guidance on how to audit personal data processing activities that involve Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) (available here, in Spanish). The AEPD’s guidance is directed at data controllers and processors, as well as AI developers, data protection officers (“DPO”), and auditors. The guidance aims to help ensure that products and services which incorporate AI comply with the requirements of the European Union’s (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
Another opinion.
US has 'moral imperative' to develop AI weapons, says panel
The US should not agree to ban the use or development of autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software, a government-appointed panel has said in a draft report for Congress.
… Its vice-chairman, Robert Work, a former deputy secretary of defense, said autonomous weapons are expected to make fewer mistakes than humans do in battle, leading to reduced casualties or skirmishes caused by target misidentification.
“It is a moral imperative to at least pursue this hypothesis,” he said.
… The commission is due to submit its final report to Congress in March, but the recommendations are not binding.
Similar to measuring the military potential of a neighboring country?
Why the OECD wants to calculate the AI compute needs of national governments
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) wants to help national governments understand their AI compute demand needs. As part of the work, the multinational economic policy group is creating a task force that draws together data from a range of sources to make it easy for policymakers to understand how their investment strategy compares to that of other nations. Alongside datasets and algorithms, compute or computing power is an essential part of training predictive models.
… “Think of it this way — if no one measured resources like electricity or oil, it’d be difficult to build national and international policy around these things,” he said. “Compute is one of the key inputs to the production of AI, so if we can measure how much compute exists within a country or set of countries, we can quantify one of the factors for the AI capacity of that country.”
Research for Twits? Researching Twits?
Twitter is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free
To help researchers better study online discourse and platform trends
(Related)
https://www.bespacific.com/enabling-the-future-of-academic-research-with-the-twitter-api/
Enabling the future of academic research with the Twitter API
Twitter Developer Blog: “…With the new Academic Research product track, qualified researchers will have access to all v2 endpoints released to date, as well as:
Free access to the full history of public conversation via the full-archive search endpoint, which was previously limited to paid premium or enterprise customers
Higher levels of access to the Twitter developer platform for free, including a significantly higher monthly Tweet volume cap of 10 million (20x higher than what’s available on the Standard product track today)
More precise filtering capabilities across all v2 endpoints to limit data collection to what is relevant for your study and minimize data cleaning requirements
New technical and methodological guides to maximize the success of your studies
The release of the Academic Research product track is just a starting point. This initial solution is intended to address the most requested, biggest challenges faced when conducting research on the platform. We are excited to enable even more research that can create a positive impact on the world, and on Twitter, in the future. For more in-depth details about what’s available, see our post on the Twitter community forum …”
For the toolkit.
https://www.makeuseof.com/free-data-visualization-tools/
5 Free Data Visualization Tools to Visualize Data in Minutes
A tool for SciFi fans.
https://www.bespacific.com/historical-dictionary-of-science-fiction/
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
“Welcome to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. This work-in-progress is a comprehensive quotation-based dictionary of the language of science fiction. The HD/SF is an offshoot of a project begun by the Oxford English Dictionary (though it is no longer formally affiliated with it). It is edited by Jesse Sheidlower. Please explore the menu links to learn more.”
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