This was not a small breach but we are only learning how many companies were involved very slowly.
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/kroger-is-latest-victim-of-third-party-software-data-breach
Kroger is latest victim of third-party software data breach
Kroger Co. says it was among the multiple victims of a data breach involving a third-party vendor's file-transfer service and is notifying potentially impacted customers, offering them free credit monitoring.
… Kroger said it was among victims of the December hack of a file-transfer product called FTA developed by Accellion, a California-based company, and that it was notified of the incident on Jan. 23, when it discontinued use of Accellion's services.
… Accellion has more than 3,000 customers worldwide. It has said that the affected product was 20 years old and nearing the end of its life. The company said on Feb. 1 that it had patched all known FTA vulnerabilities.
Other Accellion customers affected by the hack include the University of Colorado, Washington State's auditor, Australia's financial regulator, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the prominent U.S. law firm Jones Day.
The debate continues…
Facebook pulled the trigger on Australian news — and shot itself in the foot
Facebook today made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting news content. The ban includes blocking links to Australian and overseas news publishers.
… The social media giant claims news publishers derive more value from news sharing than Facebook does. This is plausible, as news content makes up only 4% of sharing on the platform, whereas many news sites gain a large fraction of their traffic from Facebook referrals.
But this is probably more about flexing some muscle. Facebook may be demonstrating to the Federal government that if it doesn’t like the rules, it can damage national interests.
… Facebook’s actions may send a message to the government, but they will also send one to their Australian users.
Readers are likely to find other ways to get their news. If we learn from the experience of Google’s news ban in Spain, we can see that after an initial dip in traffic, most major news organizations in Spain regained much of their web traffic after about a year.
Asimov’s “laws” were a science fiction plot device. Are these now laws any better?
Now that science fiction is reality, it’s time for new laws of robotics
Eighty years ago, Isaac Asimov dreamed up three rules to ensure machines would serve humanity. It’s a framework that has shaped decades of debates about AI ethics, but it needs an update. Here are four laws of robotics for the real world.
Worth consideration.
http://www.uaos.unios.hr/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ENG-zbornik-prijelom-2021_02_15.pdf#page=51
REGULATION OF FAKE NEWS AND HATE SPEECH ON SOCIAL NETWORKS
The fight against the dissemination of fake news and hate speech on social media over the past three years has become a major topic in European media policy. Bearing in mind the newly developed European regulatory framework, this paper considers the responsibility and the task of trying to regulate such content, and finding the best suitable way of regulation – the one by the state through the law or the one by the global private companies who own those platforms through self-regulation? The main objective of the paper is to give an overview of the efforts made so far to combat fake news and hate speech on social networks in terms of setting legal frameworks and self-regulatory measures.
Curious.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-021-01147-7
Endowing Artificial Intelligence with legal subjectivity
This paper reflects on the problem of endowing Artificial Intelligence (AI) with legal subjectivity, especially with regard to civil law. It is necessary to reject the myth that the criteria of legal subjectivity are sentience and reason. Arguing that AI may have potential legal subjectivity based on an analogy to animals or juristic persons suggests the existence of a single hierarchy or sequence of entities, organized according to their degree of similarity to human beings; also, that the place of an entity in this hierarchy determines the scope of subjectivity attributed to it. Rather, it is participation or presence in social life, whatever the role, that is the true criterion of subjectivity. In addition, it is clear that even if AI is not currently a significant participant in social life, it will be in the nearest future. Despite the potential dangers associated with endowing AI with some kind of subjectivity, such a course is inescapable, and should be considered sooner rather than later.
… Legal subjectivity is understood here as a concept indistinguishable from that of legal personhood; however, this does not entail accepting that moral subjectivity is that same as moral personhood.
A ‘How to” to keep handy.
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-design-format-ebook-google-docs/
How to Design and Format an Ebook Using Google Docs
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