As predicted, vaccination cards are like passports and counterfeiting was inevitable. (It is easier to lie than comply.)
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/12/fake_vaccine_cards/
COVID-19 cases surge as do sales of fake vaccination cards – around $100 for something you could get free
… That has led to vaccination requirements in California for healthcare workers and education workers, in New York for new hires, at private sector companies like Google, and soon in the US military. Other countries like England, France, and Greece have said they will mandate vaccines for healthcare workers, as Italy did in March.
The availability of fake vaccination certificates has risen, too.
Since March, there's been a 257 per cent increase in the number of sellers using the Telegram messaging app to advertise fake vaccination cards to "those who do not want to take the vaccine," according to security biz Check Point.
Another invincible security tool proven ‘vincible.’
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78ygn/researchers-create-master-faces-to-bypass-facial-recognition
Researchers Create 'Master Faces' to Bypass Facial Recognition
According to the paper, their findings imply that facial recognition systems are “extremely vulnerable.”
… In their paper, researchers at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science and the School of Electrical Engineering in Tel Aviv detail how they successfully created nine "master key" faces that are able to impersonate almost half the faces in a dataset of three leading face recognition systems. The researchers say their results show these master faces can successfully impersonate over 40 percent of the population in these systems without any additional information or data of the person they are identifying.
Really nothing new, but you might be surprised how often organizations fail at number five.
Ransomware recovery: 8 steps to successfully restore from backup
According to a ransomware survey report released in June by Keeper Security, 49% of companies hit by ransomware paid the ransom—and another 22% declined to say whether they paid or not. Part of the reason is the lack of backups—specifically, the lack of usable backups.
Canadian judges have ethics? What a concept!
The Updated Ethical Principles for Judges: Reaction From the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics / Association Canadienne Pour L’ethique Juridique (CALE/ACEJ)
After several years in development, the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) has published its updated Ethical Principles for Judges (EPJ). The updated EPJ can be found here.
The Canadian Association for Legal Ethics/Association Canadienne pour L’ethique Juridique (CALE/ACEJ), of which we are President and Vice-President, has followed the revision of the EPJ with considerable interest and has offered comments and suggestions to the CJC along the way (see here, here, here, and here for CALE/ACEJ’s submissions to the CJC). Now that the updated EPJ have been released, it is time to take stock. Below we provide comments on behalf of CALE/ACEJ that substantially reflect a statement about the updated EPJ posted to the CALE/ACEJ website in early July.
Worth being repetitive.
https://hbr.org/2021/08/how-to-build-accountability-into-your-ai
How to Build Accountability into Your AI
When it comes to managing artificial intelligence, there is no shortage of principles and concepts aiming to support fair and responsible use. But organizations and their leaders are often left scratching their heads when facing hard questions about how to responsibly manage and deploy AI systems today.
That’s why, at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, we’ve recently developed the federal government’s first framework to help assure accountability and responsible use of AI systems. The framework defines the basic conditions for accountability throughout the entire AI life cycle — from design and development to deployment and monitoring. It also lays out specific questions to ask, and audit procedures to use, when assessing AI systems along the following four dimensions: 1) governance, 2) data, 3) performance, and 4) monitoring.
Note that bias is possible here too.
https://www.eetimes.com/what-is-synthetic-data-and-why-is-it-critical-for-the-future-of-ai/
What Is Synthetic Data and Why Is It Critical for the Future of AI?
Advanced AI development today is still deeply rooted in 1950s computer science philosophies, including the phrase “garbage in, garbage out.” The adage reminds us that an AI model is only as good as the data it’s trained on.
… Synthetic data is information that computer simulations or algorithms generate as an alternative to real-world data to fill the gap between model needs and data availability.
Tools & Techniques. (Why do they still print copies?)
https://www.bespacific.com/what-is-the-constitution-annotated/
What is the Constitution Annotated?
In Custodia Legis: “For over a hundred years, the Constitution Annotated—officially The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation —has served as Congress’s Constitution of record. A Senate document, the Constitution Annotated surveys and illuminates how the Supreme Court of the United States has interpreted every provision of the Constitution throughout the nation’s history. Because the Constitution shapes congressional oversight and legislative actions, Congress has ensured its availability to members of Congress from the Republic’s earliest days. Beginning in 1795, “for the more general promulgation of the laws of the United States” (ch. 50, 1 Stat. 443 (1795) ) Congress required “a complete edition of the laws of the United States, comprising the constitution” and other laws of the land, to be collected and printed. On March 3, 1797, Congress passed legislation (ch. 27, 1 Stat. 517 ) to print a personal copy of the above-mentioned collection for each member. By the 1830s, these copies were indexed so that members could quickly locate relevant provisions. Lists of Supreme Court decisions interpreting constitutional provisions were featured in copies of the Constitution that Congress provided to members in 1896. By the turn of the century, the length of these lists of decisions led to another innovation—a Constitution annotated (50 Cong. Rec. 197 (1913) ) with explanations of Supreme Court decisions that interpreted constitutional provisions. This annotated version proved popular not only with Congress but also with the general public. Responding to public demand, Congress provided for the publication of additional copies of the annotated Constitution so they could be distributed to federal courts, depository libraries, and sold to the public. This version of the document has evolved into today’s hard-bound Constitution Annotated, which is published every 10 years with a supplement insert issued every two years containing cumulative updates. The next hard-bound edition, which has grown to almost three thousand pages, is scheduled to be published in 2022…”
Perspective. I didn’t realize ‘gofers’ were so valuable.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/doordash-recently-held-talks-to-buy-instacart
DoorDash Recently Held Talks to Buy Instacart
DoorDash held talks to buy Instacart over the past two months, say people familiar with the situation, for a price that likely would have been between $40 billion and $50 billion. It would have combined a leading restaurant-delivery service with one of the leading grocery-delivery services.
But the talks fell apart in recent weeks, at least partly due to questions about whether a combination could get approval from antitrust regulators, which, under the Biden administration, are taking a hard line toward most mergers.
Perspective. Interesting contrasts…
Robots are the new farmhands
… With the United Nations predicting the world population will grow to 9.7 billion people by 2050, the agriculture industry says it will need to double the amount of food, feed, fiber and bioenergy it produces.
… Yes, but: There aren't enough farmworkers. Agriculture jobs are projected to grow just 1% from 2019 to 2029, slower than other occupations, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
… Despite the overall shortage of skilled farm labor, the BLS expects jobs for agricultural equipment operators to jump 11% between 2019 and 2029 — much faster than the average for all occupations.
Perspective. I wonder what the total return was on Sweden’s investment? Could this be done on a smaller scale?
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-sweden-became-silicon-valley-europe-2021-08-11/
How Sweden became the Silicon Valley of Europe
As Klarna's billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the biggest-ever European fintech company listings, a feast of capitalism, he credits an unlikely backer for his runaway success: the Swedish welfare state.
In particular, the 39-year-old pinpoints a late-1990s government policy to put a computer in every home.
"Computers were inaccessible for low-income families such as mine, but when the reform came into play, my mother bought us a computer the very next day," he told Reuters.
Siemiatkowski began coding on that computer when he was 16. Fast-forward more than two decades, and his payments firm Klarna is valued at $46 billion and plans to go public. It hasn't given details, though many bankers predict it will list in New York early next year.
One possible outcome as we replace people with AI.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-08-12
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