Is there anyplace where we can find all “terrorist” content, if
for no other reason, to train our defensive AI systems to recognize
it.
EU Tells
Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content'
We've
been trying to explain for the past few months just how absolutely
insane
the new EU Terrorist Content Regulation will be for the internet.
Among many other bad provisions, the big one is that it would require
content removal within one
hour as long as any "competent authority" within the EU
sends a notice of content being designated as "terrorist"
content. The law is set
for a vote
in the EU Parliament just next week.
And
as if they were attempting to show just how absolutely insane the law
would be for the internet, multiple European agencies (we can debate
if they're "competent") decided to send over
500 totally bogus takedown demands to the Internet Archive
last week, claiming it was hosting terrorist propaganda content.
And
just in case you think that maybe the requests are somehow legit,
they are so obviously bogus that anyone with a browser would know
they are bogus. Included in the list of takedown demands are a bunch
of the Archive's "collection pages" including the entire
Project Gutenberg page of
public domain texts, it's collection
of over 15 million freely downloadable texts,
the famed
Prelinger Archive of
public domain films and the Archive's massive Grateful
Dead collection.
Oh yeah, also a page of CSPAN
recordings.
So much terrorist content!
You
may get answers to these questions next Friday at the Privacy
Foundation Seminar on the CCPA. (See details at
https://www.law.du.edu/privacy-foundation)
Their seminar on GDPR completely changed the way I teach my Computer
Security and System Architecture classes.
Companies
Are Ready and Willing to Comply with CCPA – But First, They Need to
Know How
No
one disputes the importance of guarding the privacy of consumer
information. But the recently enacted California Consumer Privacy
Act (CCPA) threatens businesses with potentially crippling
liabilities, while also harming consumers who benefit from innovation
(including new ways to use data to offer personalized services and
product recommendations) and enjoy free services made possible by
data collection, processing and usage.
California’s
Attorney General and legislature are currently proposing amendments
to the law. Their proposals, however, may do little to aid
businesses in knowing how to comply with CCPA, and may instead
dramatically increase liability risks for non-compliance. Indeed,
the amendments currently
under consideration appear calculated to please the plaintiff class
action bar above all others. The proposed amendments
would incentivize private enforcers to sue defendants for
annihilating penalties, even where the alleged violations are morally
blameless and do not cause actual harm, while also removing the
limited mechanisms currently available by which companies can obtain
guidance on how to comply.
Another
strange Alexa “skill.”
Joe Cadillic writes:
If ever there was a red flag story about Amazon’s Alexa then this is it.
If you watch the “Alexa for Medical Care Advice” video posted above, you will hear Alexa asking Peggy, to “tell me about the symptoms or problems that are troubling you the most.”
Divulging your health issues to a private corporation is extremely troubling as you will see.
Let’s start with the obvious concerns and talk about something you will not see in the video.
Like Peggy telling Alexa, it is none of Amazon’s business what her health concerns are and Alexa should stop listening to everything she says.
Read
more on MassPrivateI.
Who sets moral standards? Do they vary by
geography or ethnicity?
Instagram
Will Now Judge Posts That Can be Classified as Inappropriate, as it
Adopts The Nanny Role
Artificially
intelligent algorithms and machine learning are possibly going to
dictate morals and perhaps more.
Facebook owned Instagram is making tweaks to the
Community Guidelines that dictate the posts that you see in the
recommendations as well as with hashtag searches. The social network
is reworking the algorithms to filter out posts that could be labeled
as “inappropriate” but may actually not be breaking any rules or
going against community guidelines.
“We have begun reducing the spread of posts that
are inappropriate but do not go against Instagram’s Community
Guidelines, limiting those types of posts from being recommended on
our Explore and hashtag pages,” says Instagram in an official post.
But what sort of posts would these be?
Apparently, Instagram will judge the content of
each post and then decide whether it violates any community
guidelines or not. If it doesn’t, but Instagram still doesn’t
like the looks of it, the post will be classified as “inappropriate”
and sent to sit on the naughty step. Instagram gives the example of
a sexually suggestive post, which may be targeted in this new regime
where artificially
intelligent algorithms and machine learning are possibly going to
dictate morals and perhaps more.
Instagram
says such a post will still appear on your Feed if you follow the
account that posts it. [So
you can still see what the Grand Kleagle has to say, but recruiting
new klansmen might become a bit more difficult. Bob]
However, these posts will be downrated in a way, and may not appear
in the Explore tab, the hashtag pages as well as when a user makes a
specific search with a hashtag.
(Related) Would we be better off if the
government set the standards?
No smoking,
no tattoos, no bikinis: inside China’s war to ‘clean up’ the
internet
- China’s social media companies employ thousands to censor content that falls afoul of the country’s stringent regulations governing the internet
- While AI is used to remove banned content, many decisions are taken by humans, especially if they involve context
Little lawyers
have big ears. (More polite than: Admirals have big mouths.)
How
the Navy’s top commander botched the service's highest-profile
investigation in years
… One
officer asked a question that touched on a sensitive topic: two
collisions of warships in the Pacific in the summer of 2017 that left
17 sailors dead in the Navy's worst maritime accidents in decades.
The
Navy had recently announced that it would criminally prosecute the
captains of the vessels and several crew members for negligence
leading to the fatal accidents. The questioner wanted to know
whether officers now had to worry about being charged with a crime
for making what could be regarded as a mistake.
Richardson
answered by saying that he could not discuss pending cases. As a
bedrock principle of military law, commanders cannot signal a
preferred outcome. But then, almost as an afterthought, he attempted
to reassure the man that the collisions were no accidents.
“I
have seen the entire investigation. Trust me, if you had seen what I
have seen, it was negligent," Richardson told the audience,
according to court records.
Pollio,
a Navy attorney, was alarmed. It appeared to her that Richardson had
effectively pronounced guilt before trial. And he had done so in
public, in front of an audience whose members could conceivably
participate in the military's judicial proceedings.
This is sort
of a: Microsoft wouldn’t let us have data stored in Ireland, so
we wrote a law so now they have to.
Department
of Justice Releases White Paper on CLOUD Act
On
Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice released a white paper and
FAQ on the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (“CLOUD”) Act,
which was enacted in March 2018 and creates a new framework for
government access to data held by technology companies worldwide.
The paper, titled “Promoting
Public Safety, Privacy, and the Rule of Law Around the World: The
Purpose and Impact of the CLOUD Act,”
addresses the scope and purpose of the CLOUD Act and responds to 29
frequently asked questions about the Act.
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