How to best employ and defend against weapons cheap enough for your average terrorist to create?

Rules of war need rewriting for the age of AI weapons

‘Killer robots’ combine mass destructive power with cheap production

Whoever becomes the leader in artificial intelligence “will become the ruler of the world”, Vladimir Putin said in 2017, predicting future wars would be fought using drones. Even then, for all the Russian leader’s own ambitions, China and the US were the frontrunners in developing the technology. Yet four years later, the vision of autonomous fighting units is becoming a reality, with potentially devastating consequences. The computer scientist Stuart Russell — who will devote a forthcoming Reith Lecture on BBC radio to the subject — met UK defence officials recently to warn that incorporating AI into weapons could wipe out humanity.

AI promises enormous benefits. Yet, like nuclear power, it can be used for good and ill. Its introduction into the military sphere represents the biggest technological leap since the advent of nuclear weapons. While atomic bombs were used on real cities in 1945, however, it took more than two decades before the first arms control treaties were signed.

No guarantees in the ransomware wars.

https://www.databreaches.net/double-extortion-ransomware-victims-soar-935/

Double Extortion Ransomware Victims Soar 935%

Phil Muncaster reports:

Researchers have recorded a 935% year-on-year increase in double extortion attacks, with data from over 2300 companies posted onto ransomware extortion sites.

Group-IB’s Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2021/2022 report covers the period from the second half of 2020 to the first half of 2021.

During that time, an “unholy alliance” of initial access brokers and ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) affiliate programs has led to a surge in breaches, it claimed.

Read more at InfoSecurity.

Of special note if you are trying to convince people not to pay ransom:

Group-IB warned that, even if victim organizations pay the ransom, their data often end up on these sites.

Another instance of change. Still no universal definition?

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3642372/chinas-personal-information-protection-law-pipl-presents-challenges-for-cisos.html#tk.rss_all

China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) presents challenges for CISOs

The manner in which companies do business in China saw a monumental change take effect on November 1 when China’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) took effect. First announced in August 2021, it was clear entities with a China footprint were faced with the dilemma: Comply or face the consequences.

… While the PIPL is similar in makeup to the GDPR, notes Armaan Mahbod, director of security and business intelligence at DTEX Systems, compliance isn’t any easier and substantive differences exist. He wryly notes, “The PIPL may in fact spur business in China, as companies create their own versions of their offering in a ‘China-light’ format. The companies will have to hire a development and support team for their offering. There might be a bit of vulnerability for each company as complying may in fact reveal a bit of their infrastructure which had previously been protected information to the Chinese government.”

Some very interesting interactive graphics at the top of the article.

https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2021/12/02/crime-prediction-software-promised-to-be-free-of-biases-new-data-shows-it-perpetuates-them

Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them

Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police patrol decisions directed by crime prediction software called PredPol.

The company that makes it sent more than 5.9 million of these crime predictions to law enforcement agencies across the country—from California to Florida, Texas to New Jersey—and we found those reports on an unsecured server.

… Residents of neighborhoods where PredPol suggested few patrols tended to be Whiter and more middle- to upper-income. Many of these areas went years without a single crime prediction.

… “No one has done the work you guys are doing, which is looking at the data,” said Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at American University who is a national expert on predictive policing. “This isn’t a continuation of research. This is actually the first time anyone has done this, which is striking because people have been paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for this technology for a decade.”

“Social” media becomes even more anti-social.

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/02/1060597759/debt-collectors-can-now-text-email-and-dm-you-on-social-media

Debt collectors can now text, email and DM you on social media

New rules approved by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that took effect on Tuesday dictate how collection agencies can email and text people as well as message them on social media to seek repayment for unpaid debts.

Kathleen L. Kraninger, the former CFPB director who oversaw the rule changes, said last year that they were a necessary update to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which is more than four decades old.

"We are finally leaving 1977 behind and developing a debt collection system that works for consumers and industry in the modern world," Kraninger said in a blog post.

Perspective.

https://gizmodo.com/37-percent-of-the-worlds-population-has-never-been-onli-1848145327?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

37 Percent of the World's Population Has Never Been Online, U.N. Report Finds

Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population now have the opportunity to waste away their life online just like you. Specifically, around 2.9 billion (or 37%) of the world’s population have still never used the internet, with the vast majority of those people residing in developing countries. Those figures are part of a new report conducted by the UN’s International Telecommunication Union which simultaneously found a rapid increase in new global internet connections, seemingly fast-tracked by the pandemic.

According to the report, the number of people using the internet worldwide surged from 4.1 billion in 2019 to 4.9 billion in 2021. This “Covid Connectivity boost” was likely the result of lockdowns, pivots towards remote work and school, and huge increases in e-commerce and online banking. Overall, global internet users grew by more than 10% in 2020, the largest annual increase in a decade, the report notes.

I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you!

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/1/22812956/shopify-textbook-publishers-lawsuit-piracy-copyright?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

Shopify has a ‘textbook pirate’ problem, publishers allege

Five major publishers have sued Shopify over pirated learning materials like PDFs of ebooks and test materials, saying the e-commerce platform fails to remove listings and stores that violate the publishers’ trademarks and copyrights. The lawsuit, filed today in the US District Court for Eastern Virginia, claims statutory damages higher than $500 million.

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https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-sites-for-college-textbooks/

The 11 Best Sites to Get College Textbooks Online

Don't let college textbooks empty your pockets every semester. Use these websites to buy or rent cheap college books.

Unless there was an (human) error in determining the cause…

https://www.databreaches.net/nz-opc-finds-leading-cause-of-privacy-breaches-is-human-error/

NZ: OPC finds leading cause of privacy breaches is human error

Catherine Knowles reports:

Human error is the leading cause of serious privacy breaches, according to a new report released today by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC).

Privacy Commissioner John Edwards says, “We are seeing clear patterns emerging since mandatory reporting of serious privacy breaches came into effect with the Privacy Act 2020 on 1 December last year.”

Since reporting of serious privacy breaches became a legal requirement, OPC has seen a nearly 300% increase in privacy breach reporting compared to the same 11-month period the year before.

Human error has been the leading cause of serious privacy breaches during this period (61%), with email error accounting for over a quarter of those breaches.

Read more at ITBrief.

Let me ‘splain the rules.

https://www.databreaches.net/vendors-and-hipaa/

Vendors and HIPAA

Matt Fisher of Carium writes:

An important part of establishing strong security for an organization rests with how it interacts with its vendors. The creation of a chain of entities creating, interacting with, storing, or otherwise handling sensitive patient information starts at the top, but can easily and frequently go down many layers. Given the layered approach, every time an organization introduces a new sublayer that organization must keep security as a forefront consideration. The risks associated with vendors not appropriately deploying security measures can be seen with the increasing number of data breaches resulting from an issue at the vendor level. Given that reality, what should or should not happen at each vendor level?

Read some of his down-to-earth advice at The Pulse

We already have cameras almost everywhere, now they will be much harder to spot.

https://www.slashgear.com/princeton-researchers-latest-salt-grain-sized-camera-has-massive-potential-30700790/

Princeton researchers’ latest salt grain-sized camera has massive potential

There are many uses for cameras in medicine and other areas, but typical modern cameras are too large for many medical uses. A group of researchers from Princeton University and the University of Washington has teamed up to create an extremely small camera about the size of a coarse grain of salt. Cameras of such small size have excellent potential for exploring inside the human body, among other things.

Must link to some interesting papers?

https://dailynous.com/2021/12/01/multi-million-euro-award-for-philosopher-of-artificial-intelligence/

Multi-Million Euro Award for Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence

Vincent C. Müller, currently professor of philosophy and ethics of technology at the Technical University of Eindhoven, was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship to support his work on the philosophy of artificial intelligence.

What do I know well enough to match this? Certainly not TikTok…

https://www.theverge.com/22807858/tiktok-influencer-microsoft-excel-instagram-decoder-podcast

HOW AN EXCEL TIKTOKER MANIFESTED HER WAY TO MAKING SIX FIGURES A DAY

Kat Norton is a Microsoft Excel influencer. She has over a million followers on TikTok and Instagram, where she goes by the name Miss Excel, and she’s leveraged that into a software training business that is now generating up to six figures of revenue a day. That’s six figures a day. And she’s only been doing this since June 2020.

Kat is a one-woman operation, with no staff or management layer.

Perspective.

https://www.makeuseof.com/technology-trends-2022/

The 8 Massive Technology Trends Set for 2022

… 5. AI Everywhere

I like lists.

https://www.bespacific.com/the-new-york-times-best-books-of-2021/

The New York Times Best Books of 2021

The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

• Best Books of 2021

• The Year’s 10 Best Books

• 100 Notable Books

• Vote: Best Book of Past 125 Years

Resource.

https://www.bespacific.com/justia-portal-by-the-numbers-resources-for-aspiring-lawyers-and-practicing-lawyers-too/

Justia Portal by the Numbers: Resources for Aspiring Lawyers (And Practicing Lawyers Too!)

Via LLRX – Justia Portal by the Numbers: Resources for Aspiring Lawyers (And Practicing Lawyers Too!) – Justia’s mission is to make the law and legal resources free for all. In keeping with this mission, the Justia Portal offers free access to statutes from all 50 states, cases from federal courts and the highest state courts, legal guides, and more! While these resources make the law more accessible to the general public, they also help aspiring lawyers just beginning their journeys into the profession and ease the early stages of legal research for practicing attorneys looking for quick access to relevant laws. Additionally, Justia Law Schools helps prospective law students (and those already studying to become lawyers) gather information on U.S. law schools and the law school admissions process. In this post, Justia’s team shares some data about some of the most frequently viewed law schools nationwide, as well as some information about the most viewed provisions of the law and cases on their site.

A new definition of war?

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/30/lloyds_london_cyber_insurance_clauses/

Lloyd's of London suggests insurers should not cover 'retaliatory cyber operations' between nation states

Lloyd’s of London may no longer extend insurance cover to companies affected by acts of war, and new clauses drafted for providers of so-called "cyber" insurance are raising the spectre of organisations caught in tit-for-tat nation state-backed attacks being left high and dry.

The insurer's "Cyber War and Cyber Operation Exclusion Clauses", published late last week, include an alarming line suggesting policies should not cover "retaliatory cyber operations between any specified states" or cyber attacks that have "a major detrimental impact on… the functioning of a state."

"The insurer shall have the burden of proving that this exclusion applies," warn the exclusion policies published by the Lloyd's Market Association.

Although the wordings in the four clauses are published as a suggestion for insurers in Lloyd's-underwritten policies and are not concrete rules, they provide a useful indicator for the direction of travel in the slow-moving cyber insurance world.

The policy clauses also raise the idea of insurance companies attributing cyber attacks to nation states in the absence of governments carrying out attribution for specific incidents, an idea that seems extremely unlikely to survive contact with reality. All four of the clauses, available as PDFs from the bulletin, contain this wording:

Pending attribution by the government of the state (including its intelligence and security services) in which the computer system affected by the cyber operation is physically located, the insurer may rely upon an inference which is objectively reasonable as to attribution of the cyber operation to another state or those acting on its behalf. It is agreed that during this period no loss shall be paid.

Your results may vary…

https://www.databreaches.net/recovering-from-ransomware-one-organizations-inside-story/

Recovering from ransomware: One organization’s inside story

Yann Serra reports:

On Sunday 21 February 2021, Manutan, a large office equipment distributor, discovered that two-thirds of its 1,200 servers had succumbed to a cyber attack by the DoppelPaymer ransomware crew.

Commercial activity at the France-headquartered company – which has 25 subsidiaries spread across Europe – would be frozen for 10 days and did not resume fully until May. This has now led to a total overhaul of its IT systems, which started in September and is set to take 18 months.

Manutan cannot reveal the scale of the economic losses it suffered in the cyber attack, and when asked that exact question, Jérôme Marchandiau, the group’s director of IT operations, says that the more profound impact was on the employees themselves.

Read more on ComputerWeekly. This company admits mistakes it had made and lessons learned. And it really does shine some light on what goes on — the impact on employees, and the failure of big companies that you may have contracts with and rely on to actually help you when you need it the most (spoiler alert: Microsoft gets slammed in this report)

Providing potential evidence without realizing it?

https://www.pogowasright.org/as-critics-warn-of-genetic-surveillance-rcmp-explores-use-of-dna-matching-in-criminal-probes/

As critics warn of genetic ‘surveillance’, RCMP explores use of DNA matching in criminal probes

Catharine Tunney reports:

… While law enforcement’s use of genetic genealogy has been credited with advancing and solving cold cases, it’s also raising ethical questions about how police are taking advantage of the at-home DNA testing trend.

“There have been some pretty big wins with this technology, but the downsides are pretty big as well,” said Brenda McPhail, director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association’s privacy, surveillance and technology program.

Read more on CBC.

If I tell you how my algorithm works, would you know if that was the proper/best way to do it?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/29/working-of-algorithms-used-in-government-decision-making-to-be-revealed

Working of algorithms used in government decision-making to be revealed

Ministers and public bodies must reveal the architecture behind algorithms that influence exam results, housing benefit allocations and pothole repairs, under new transparency standards.

The UK government has published a transparency standard for algorithms, the series of instructions that a computer follows to complete a task or produce a single outcome. Algorithms have become the focus of increasing controversy, whether through their role in deciding A-level results last year or making decisions about benefit claims.

Under the new approach, government departments and public sector bodies will be required to explain where an algorithm was used, why it was used and whether it achieved its aim. There will also be an obligation to reveal the architecture behind the algorithm. It will be tested by several government departments and public sector bodies in the coming months before being reviewed again and formally launched next year.

Automated auditing? Data flows and processes change constantly. How often must you try to identify privacy risks?

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/soveren-seed-gdpr-compliance/

Soveren launches from stealth with $6.5M seed funding to automate GDPR compliance

Soveren, a London-based startup that automates the detection of privacy risks to help organizations comply with GDPR and CCPA, has launched out of stealth with $6.5 million in seed funding.

The company analyzes real-time data flows inside an organizations’ infrastructure to discover personal data and detect privacy risks to make it easier for CTOs and CISOs to recognize and address privacy gaps.

… “Security software successfully addresses security threats, but has a limited impact on addressing privacy challenges,” Peter Fedchenkov, founder and co-CEO of Soveren, tells TechCrunch. “This is because, unlike other confidential data that can be easily isolated, personal data is actually meant to be accessed, used, and shared in day-to-day business operations. We believe that privacy is the new security because it demands the same automated, continuous protection measures.”

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https://hbr.org/2021/11/how-to-navigate-the-ambiguity-of-a-digital-transformation

How to Navigate the Ambiguity of a Digital Transformation

Summary: A successful digital transformation can be hard to predict or plan; it is often the result of new customer interactions, new combinations of talent and teams, unexpected alliances with new partners, and entirely new business models. These components are constantly evolving, shaped, and influenced by algorithmic systems, aggregated in such a way that their collective behavior is more than the sum of their parts. More is different. Just as water becomes ice when cold enough, or graphite turns into diamond under enough pressure, at a critical point, more data and algorithms can transform an organization or an industry into something else entirely. That raises a question for leaders: how do you navigate a transformation from what you know to what you have yet to define? What you need is an emergent approach to digital transformation, focused on the three principles described in this article.

(Related)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/your-money/credit-score-alternatives-options.html

No Credit Score? No Problem! Just Hand Over More Data.

To determine your risk, start-ups are applying technology to data points as various as your college and the mileage on the used car you want to buy.

Perspective. Is this a good thing? Plain as in written at a sixth grade level?

https://www.bespacific.com/the-rise-of-plain-language-laws/

The Rise of Plain Language Laws

Blasie, Michael, The Rise of Plain Language Laws (October 1, 2021). University of Miami Law Review, 2022 Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3941564 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3941564

“When lawmakers enacted 778 plain language laws across the United States, no one noticed. Apart from a handful, these laws went untracked and unstudied. Without study, large questions remain about these laws’ effects and utility, and about how they inform the adoption or rejection of plain language. This Article creates a conceptual framework for plain language laws to set the stage for future empirical research and normative discussions on the value of plain language. It unveils the first nationwide empirical survey of plain language laws to reveal their locations, coverages, and standards. In doing so, the Article creates a systematic method to find these laws. Then it coins categories and terminology to describe their coverage and standards, thus creating a timely launchpad for future scholarship on domestic and international plain language laws. Along the way, the Article exposes the previously unknown scope of these laws—from election ballots and insurance contracts to veterans housing and consumer contracts to regulatory drafting and governor reports. That scope underscores the pervasive influence of plain language across public and private sectors, and over lawyers and non-lawyers alike. More, the survey reveals significant intrastate and interstate variations and trends in coverages and standards. With this knowledge, for the first-time empirical research can more precisely measure the benefits and costs of plain language laws while controlling for variables. Plus, the Article sets the stage for a forthcoming series of normative assessments on the role and design of plain language laws. Ultimately, the Article reignites a lively discourse on plain language amongst lawmakers, practitioners, and academics.”

You won’t use these every day, but keep them in your toolkit.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-anything-free/

How to Download Anything on the Web for Free: 12 Tips and Tools

There are countless useful things online that aren't easy to download. Photos, music, videos, maps, and other exciting content often doesn't come with a download button. It's also possible they're no longer free or may be gone from the web altogether.

Here, we'll show you how to download anything from the web that you thought you couldn't for free (but without breaking the law).

As a class or individually? The latter must be “Important People.”

https://www.makeuseof.com/apple-alert-state-sponsored-attacks/

How Apple Will Alert You When You’ve Been Hacked by State-Sponsored Attackers

… State-sponsored attacks tend to be very complex, often using uncommon resources. They also target a small number of people, making the attacks more difficult to detect. Fortunately, Apple has found a way to combat this issue.

Perspective. It’s a new world.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/move-over-ge-tech-conglomerates-amazon-apple-microsoft-are-the-new-leaders-of-industry-11637965497?mod=djemalertNEWS

Move Over, GE. The Tech Conglomerates Are the New Leaders of Industry.

As General Electric and other old-school behemoths break up, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta are taking their place as the do-everything companies of the future

The eulogies for the corporate conglomerate have been pouring in fast. But in fact, these monsters of modern business are now bigger, more powerful and perhaps more world-consumingly durable than ever—they also look very different than in the past.

The dismantling of General Electric, Toshiba, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, DowDuPont, United Technologies and other sprawling business empires in recent years has been heralded as the end of the conglomerate and the demise of the idea that brilliant management teams can succeed operating in very different industries. But just as those giants of traditional industry are being dismembered, today’s tech giants have arisen as latter-day conglomerates —what some even call “neo-conglomerates.” They boast valuations bigger than any other companies in history, and have diversified their businesses through acquisitions and new starts just like conglomerates of old.

Interesting. Is number 10 more common than it used to be?

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3641635/13-traits-of-a-security-conscious-board-of-directors.html#tk.rss_all

13 traits of a security-conscious board of directors

A CISO's success (and job longevity) is often dependent on support from the board of directors. Answers to these questions will reveal how security savvy a BoD is.

Perspective.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/29/futurists-predict-how-well-eat-vacation-and-work/

Futurists predict how we’ll one day eat, vacation and work

Forget about Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and all the talk about a metaverse. The real future will be a world that is convenient and scary and fantastical — at least according to futurologists. As this year ends, here’s a glimpse at what life might be like … one day.

… “The projection is that we will need 3 million more Artificial Intelligence engineers by 2030,” Thomas Frey, founder and executive director of DaVinci Institute, a futuristic think tank in Colorado, told The Post. “We’ll need people to be drone command-center operators who will fly surveillance drones” — which, Frey believes, will play a role in stopping crime by providing eyes everywhere, responding to gunshots (picked up from sensitive receivers all around cities) and following criminals until police on the ground can cuff them.

(Related)

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-11-29/artificial-intimacy-sex-technology

Commentary: What virtual reality and artificial intelligence will mean for sex, love and intimacy

Making speech less free.

https://www.pogowasright.org/beware-anti-trolling-legislation-that-is-just-another-attempt-to-increase-surveillance-and-strip-you-of-privacy-and-free-speech/

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.

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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.

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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/

Yes, You Can Get Microsoft Word for Free: Here's How

As far as word processors go, Microsoft Word is still the king. But you don't have to pay for the expensive Microsoft Office suite to use it. Here are all the ways to get Microsoft Word free.