An argument with no basis?
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/13/clientside_scanning_csam_anderson/
Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking
Laws in the UK and Europe have been proposed that would give authorities the power to undermine strong end-to-end encryption in the pursuit of, in their minds, justice.
If adopted, these rules would – according to a top British computer security expert – authorize the reading and analysis of people's previously private communication for the sake of potentially preventing the spread of child sex abuse material and terrorism communications.
Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the UK's University of Cambridge, argues that these proposed regulations – which, frankly, rely on technical solutions such as device-side message scanning and crime-hunting machine-learning algorithms in place of police, social workers, and teachers – lead to magical thinking and unsound policies.
In a paper titled Chat Control or Child Protection?, to be distributed via ArXiv, Anderson offers a rebuttal to arguments advanced in July by UK government cyber and intelligence experts Ian Levy, technical director of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, and Crispin Robinson, technical director of cryptanalysis at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK's equivalent to the NSA.
That pro-snoop paper, penned by Levy and Robinson and titled Thoughts on Child Safety on Commodity Platforms, was referenced on Monday by EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, before the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties (LIBE) Committee in support of the EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (2022/0155), according to Anderson.
Podcast.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/computers-vs-crime/
Computers v. Crime
In police departments and courts across the country, artificial intelligence is being used to help decide who is policed, who gets bail, how offenders should be sentenced, and who gets parole. But is it actually making our law enforcement and court systems fairer and more just? This timely investigation digs into the hidden biases, privacy risks, and design flaws of this controversial technology.
Perspective.
SEC’s Gary Gensler on how artificial intelligence is changing finance
… “I think that we’re living in a truly transformational time,” said Gensler, who spoke at the recent AI Policy Forum summit at MIT. Artificial intelligence is “every bit as transformational as the internet,” especially when it comes to predictive data analytics, “but it comes with some risks.”
During the conversation, Gensler shared his thoughts on how artificial intelligence is changing finance. Here are four of his takeaways:
Translating technical terms for managers…
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-10-13
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