Making speech less free.
Beware ‘anti-trolling’ legislation that is just another attempt to increase surveillance and strip you of privacy and free speech
The Age reports:
The federal government has proposed new laws to unmask anonymous online trolls and to make social media companies that publish the defamatory posts of third parties liable.
Under the new regime, a social media company would be legally responsible for defamatory posts unless they revealed to the victim the identity of the trolls. Companies such as Google can already be sued for defamation (former NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro is now suing Google over videos posted by YouTube personality Jordan Shanks).
Read more on The Age.
So trolling is a crime now? Australians aren’t the only ones to try to try to use trolling as a way to impose more draconian surveillance laws and restrictions on free speech. We also saw a social media real name measure proposed in the U.K. that also seems to think trolling is an adequate justification for eliminating anonymous or pseudoanonymous speech:
The AU and UK bills are misguided, at best. Don’t give governments more excuses to require collection of your personal information that the government will then just obtain from social media platforms.
Recognition, other than facial.
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol71/iss3/4/
Your Voice Gave You Away: the Privacy Risks of Voice-Inferred Information
Our voices can reveal intimate details about our lives. Yet, many privacy discussions have focused on the threats from speaker recognition and speech recognition. This Note argues that this focus overlooks another privacy risk: voice-inferred information. This term describes non-obvious information drawn from voice data through a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining, and natural language processing. Companies have latched onto voiceinferred information. Early adopters have applied the technology in situations as varied as lending risk analysis and hiring. Consumers may balk at such strategies, but the current United States privacy regime leaves voice insights unprotected. By applying a notice and consent privacy model via sector-specific statutes, the hodgepodge of U.S. federal privacy laws allows voice-inferred information to slip through the regulatory cracks. This Note reviews the current legal landscape and identifies existing gaps. It then suggests two solutions that balance voice privacy with technological innovation: purpose-based consent and independent data review boards. The first bolsters voice protection within the traditional notice and consent framework, while the second imagines a new protective scheme. Together, these solutions complement each other to afford the human voice the protection it deserves.
Dealing with the ubiquitous.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_18
The Attention Economy and the Impact of Artificial Intelligence
The growing ubiquity of the Internet and the information overload created a new economy at the end of the twentieth century: the economy of attention. While difficult to size, we know that it exceeds proxies such as the global online advertising market which is now over $300 billion with a reach of 60% of the world population. A discussion of the attention economy naturally leads to the data economy and collecting data from large-scale interactions with consumers. We discuss the impact of AI in this setting, particularly of biased data, unfair algorithms, and a user-machine feedback loop tainted by digital manipulation and the cognitive biases of users. The impact includes loss of privacy, unfair digital markets, and many ethical implications that affect society as a whole. The goal is to outline that a new science for understanding, valuing, and responsibly navigating and benefiting from attention and data is much needed.
A reference to the “Apple’s video zoom alters evidence” argument? (If you don’t know what it does, how do you know it doesn’t?)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3969474
Legal Forensic Issues In The Use Of AI Algorithms Amid Evidentiary
AI algorithms are increasingly at the core of many software systems, including being utilized in software used as part of evidentiary materials preparations. This provides for some weighty questions entailing the legal underpinnings of specialized forensic efforts. Attorneys need to make sure they are up-to-speed on this topic, otherwise, they will get caught off-guard and ill-prepared in their legal cases (as widely and publicly displayed in a recent prominent criminal trial).
Judge Terminator?
https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/265169
From the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence by Society to the Regulation of Society by Artificial Intelligence: All Along the Watchtower
This paper discusses the bidimensional definition of regulation by design, i.e., “any alteration of human or technological behaviour through algorithmic code or data” (p. 448). The author argues that cyberspace made possible the advent of the digital society. If code is the new regulation, coders are the new regulators. Questions nevertheless remain as to how law can ensure appropriate regulation by design mechanisms in the AI Age. This conceptual paper identifies these questions and proposes two solution – a procedural and a substantive – that would render by-design regulation through AI more fundamental rights-proof.
(Related)
https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/71641
Artificial Intelligence as a New Component of the Justice System: How it creates Possibilities but has Limitations especially with Regards to Governance
The aim of this paper is to contribute to identifying the real potential of the use of AI tools not only to promote efficiency of judicial Systems but to strengthen the guarantees of the rule of law, together with the quality of public justice, discovering the role that modern societies should give to the use of AI and Expert Systems. It is important to discover how AI may help, in which sectors AI would have a useful impact, and what kind of safeguards should be implemented to avoid the difficulties in using AI. The work takes into consideration the impact of the proposed EU Regulation for AI.
(Related)
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:42891/
The Future of Right to Privacy and Data Governance in The Era Of AI
In the 21st century, innovations and technologies have paved their way towards varying fields and society. And artificial intelligence came out as a real-time challenge to work with. In frame, there are experiences of deformities and issues regarding data protection and privacy control. It is high time to come up with some better regulations and data protection solutions. Here, we have discussed what can be the possible pros and cons of Artificial Intelligence and, to what extent it can be beneficial to our companies and industries adopting it. Like, Microsoft has agreed to supply the US government with HoloLens AR tech into weapons repertoire for American army soldiers[1]; keeping such updates in mind we tried to figure out what can be the future impact with such expansion of AI. Lastly, discussed the possible ways to protect the province of data privacy and how it creates conflict with human rights.
God knows I need this...
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3966725
Quick And Handy Primer On AI And Law
As a handy primer about AI and the law, you can envision that there are two primary ways of intertwining the domain of AI and the domain of the law. In brief, these are the two branches: (1) AI as applied to the law, and (2) Law as applied to AI. The most flash and interest generally seems to be toward applying AI to the law. Nonetheless, gradually and inevitably the attention toward applying the law to AI is gaining steam.
Just because…
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/can-get-microsoft-word-free/
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