I hope everyone already knows this?
Tech Companies, Buckle Up. Things Are About To Get Even Bumpier With Data Privacy
It has been well documented that the U.S. has no federal data privacy law, despite the EU, China and many other nations enacting their own governing policies. That may be about to change. On June 3, a group of bipartisan senators introduced a draft of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). The bill has since entered the markup process, where it is starting to face some pushback on both sides of the aisle. Until ADPPA or a different federal privacy bill is passed, data privacy is slowly becoming more of a states-rights issue. California got the wheels in motion with its landmark California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2020, and it is already set to up the ante with an upgraded version – the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) – set to go into effect on January 1, 2023.
A re you operating an intelligence gathering device?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tesla-autopilot-data-scope
The Radical Scope of Tesla’s Data Hoard
Logs and records of its customers’ journeys fill out petabytes—and court case dockets
You won’t see a single Tesla cruising the glamorous beachfront in Beidaihe, China, this summer. Officials banned Elon Musk’s popular electric cars from the resort for two months while it hosts the Communist Party’s annual retreat, presumably fearing what their built-in cameras might capture and feed back to the United States.
Back in Florida, Tesla recently faced a negligence lawsuit after two young men died in a fiery car crash while driving a Model S belonging to a father of one of the accident victims. As part of its defense, the company submitted a historical speed analysis showing that the car had been driven with a daily top speed averaging over 90 miles per hour (145 kilometers per hour) in the months before the crash. This information was quietly captured by the car and uploaded to Tesla’s servers. (A jury later found Tesla just 1 percent negligent in the case.)
Meanwhile, every recent-model Tesla reportedly records a breadcrumb GPS trail of every trip it makes—and shares it with the company. While this data is supposedly anonymized, experts are skeptical.
Alongside its advances in electric propulsion, Tesla’s innovations in data collection, analysis, and usage are transforming the automotive industry, and society itself, in ways that appear genuinely revolutionary.
In a series of articles (story 2; story 3), IEEE Spectrum is examining exactly what data Tesla vehicles collect, how the company uses them to develop its automated driving systems, and whether owners or the company are in the driver’s seat when it comes to accessing and exploiting that data. There is no evidence that Tesla collects any data beyond what customers agree to in their terms of service—even though opting out of this completely appears to be very difficult.
After 20 years, TSA still hasn’t figured out how to secure an airport?
Hakimo AI to Help Reduce Unauthorized Access at Punta Gorda TSA Checkpoint
… PGD turned to Hakimo to help monitor for and reduce incidents of unauthorized access by people and vehicles (piggybacking and tailgating) at the airport. U.S. airports are required to implement access control measures to prevent unauthorized access as part of their airport security program which is approved and checked by the TSA. The Hakimo software helps address these requirements by applying artificial intelligence to the airport’s existing access control and video surveillance systems.
Wait for them to make it personal, then pound them into insignificance? Has the non-lawyer got this figured out? How about a bounty program?
https://www.ksl.com/article/50453680/alex-jones-493m-verdict-and-the-future-of-misinformation
Alex Jones' $49.3M verdict and the future of misinformation
… "I think a lot of people are thinking of this as sort of a blow against fake news, and it's important to realize that libel law deals with a very particular kind of fake news," said Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment professor at the UCLA School of Law.
U.S. courts have long held that defamatory statements — falsehoods damaging the reputation of a person or a business — aren't protected as free speech, but lies about other subjects, like science, history or the government, are. For example, saying COVID-19 isn't real is not defamatory, but spreading lies about a doctor treating coronavirus patients is.
That distinction is why Jones, who attacked the parents of Sandy Hook victims and claimed the 2012 shooting was staged with actors to increase gun control, is being forced to pay up while Holocaust deniers, flat-earthers and vaccine skeptics are free to post their theories without much fear of a multimillion-dollar court judgment.
"Alex Jones was attacking individuals," said Stephen D. Solomon, a law professor and founding editor of New York University's First Amendment Watch. "And that's important. A lot of disinformation does not attack individuals."
Tools and Techniques. You never know when you might need one...
https://www.makeuseof.com/free-portable-apps-for-students/
16 Free Portable Apps for Students They Can Carry Everywhere
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