Promises, promises. Despite which, we turned over information from those logs we promised not to keep.
ProtonMail Shares Activist's IP Address With Authorities Despite Its "No Log" Claims
… On its website, ProtonMail advertises that: "No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first."
Despite its no IP logs claims, the company acknowledged that while it's illegal for the company to abide by requests from non-Swiss law enforcement authorities, it will be required to do so if Swiss agencies agree to assist foreign services such as Europol in their investigations.
"There was no possibility to appeal or fight this particular request because an act contrary to Swiss law did in fact take place (and this was also the final determination of the Federal Department of Justice which does a legal review of each case)," the company said in a lengthy response posted on Reddit.
Put simply, ProtonMail will not only have to comply with Swiss government orders, it will be forced to hand over data when individuals use the service to engage in activities that are deemed illegal in the country.
A Security matter? Yes, and from either end.
Proofpoint lawsuits underscore risk of employee offboarding
Nearly every employee leaving a company takes data or intellectual property, but few companies adequately screen and monitor for it. Recent court cases underscore the risk.
… The current imbroglio between Proofpoint and Abnormal Security provides an example of what Payne refers to. Court documents show that Proofpoint is piqued that seven of its employees moved on to Abnormal Security and accuses Abnormal of targeting Proofpoint’s employees “to gain access to Proofpoint’s confidential and proprietary information.” The company’s perspective is buttressed by the actions of former Proofpoint channel sales director Samuel Boone, who admits to having exited with a “USB drive containing some of his work-related documents from Proofpoint” and having “sent two emails with Proofpoint material to an Abnormal colleague,” according to court documents.
Staying with Proofpoint for the moment, the company was recently awarded a $13.5 million judgement in a separate intellectual property (IP) theft case which involved a former vice president of Gateway Technology at Cloudmark, Olivier Lemarié, who took Proofpoint’s technology in 2017 when he departed and moved on to Vade Security. Two years later, Proofpoint filed suit. Two years after that, the verdict arrived.
Vade was found to have incorporated Proofpoint’s IP into its product suite. Proofpoint is doing what every company should do: It is protecting its IP, even if the journey took four years. But they are doing it in the courts.
Know what your AI is doing. Then ask, is that what I wanted it to do?
Companies Need More Workers. Why Do They Reject Millions of Résumés?
… Employers today rely on increasing levels of automation to fill vacancies efficiently, deploying software to do everything from sourcing candidates and managing the application process to scheduling interviews and performing background checks. These systems do the job they are supposed to do. They also exclude more than 10 million workers from hiring discussions, according to a new Harvard Business School study released Saturday.
Job prospects get tripped up by everything from brief résumé gaps to ballooning job descriptions from employers that lessen the chance they will measure up. Lead Harvard researcher Joseph Fuller cited examples of hospitals scanning résumés of registered nurses for “computer programming” when what they need is someone who can enter patient data into a computer. Power companies, he said, scan for a customer-service background when hiring people to repair electric transmission lines. Some retail clerks won’t make it past a hiring system if they don’t have “floor-buffing” experience, Mr. Fuller said. This reliance on automation filters big sections of the population out of the workforce and companies lose access to candidates they want to hire, he added.
And the reciprocal question: will AI treat humans as well as they treat other AIs? Should we establish an SPCAi? Simple but asks all the questions.
https://www.makeuseof.com/should-ai-be-treated-like-humans/
Should AI Be Treated Like Humans?
Artificial intelligence (AI) has not yet reached the human level. But with technology closing the gap more and more each year, many ethical problems have arisen.
One important question is: How similar will artificial intelligence be to human beings? Will they think for themselves or have desires and emotions? Should they have legal rights like humans? Should they be forced into work, or be accountable if something goes wrong?
Know your tech. Technologies, even surveillance tech, will spread to any area where they might be useful. Even if they are not welcome.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/05/surveillance-towers-set-up-along-us-mexico-border/
High-tech virtual wall is the latest defense at the US-Mexico border
The feds have turned to cutting-edge cameras developed by a virtual-reality wunderkind to help them monitor the southern border — by creating an invisible border wall.
The high-tech watch poles known as Autonomous Surveillance Towers are powered by solar energy and use artificial intelligence to detect movement along a two-mile radius, sending the information in real-time to agents patrolling the area.
Can we learn anything from the history of regulating telegraph and telephone?
Democracy Is Losing Its Race With Disruption
If you can’t develop true AI in the cars, put some of it in the streets?
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article253944728.html
Artificial intelligence is growing, but wide use at U.S. intersections is still to come
Question: Artificial Intelligence (AI) controlling stop lights seems much easier than AI driving a car. I’m not sure whether any are on the market yet, but seemingly AI stoplights could be an alternative to widening roads or installing new interchanges. And they would save fuel and help air quality by reducing vehicle stops and idling. When might we see AI stoplights in Washington?
Answer: So instead of a robot driving a car, you want robots to tell you how to drive your car? Actually, you’re totally right. Developing AI traffic control signals is more doable than building fully self-driving cars. How do I know that? Because you can drive through cities with AI traffic control right now. One thing you can’t do right now is go buy a fully autonomous car. Yes, there are a few places you can ride in an AI taxi or shuttle, but those are essentially test vehicles limited to specific routes in a handful of cities across the US.
(Related) Self-driving is hard!
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/is-it-smarter-than-a-seven-month-old/21804141
Is a self-driving car smarter than a seven-month-old?
By the age of seven months, most children have learned that objects still exist even when they are out of sight. Put a toy under a blanket and a child that old will know it is still there, and that he can reach underneath the blanket to get it back. This understanding, of “object permanence”, is a normal developmental milestone, as well as a basic tenet of reality.
It is also something that self-driving cars do not have. And that is a problem. Autonomous vehicles are getting better, but they still don’t understand the world in the way that a human being does. For a self-driving car, a bicycle that is momentarily hidden by a passing van is a bicycle that has ceased to exist.
Resources. It never hurts to have alternative explanations on hand.
https://www.makeuseof.com/websites-download-free-textbooks/
5 Websites to Download Free Textbooks
https://www.makeuseof.com/best-websites-download-free-audiobooks/
The 8 Best Websites to Download Audiobooks for Free
Correlation is not causation.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-09-06
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