A real programming challenge. I don’t think you could hire enough humans to check everything uploaded each hour.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/remove-terror-content-within-an-hour-eu-tells-web-firms/story-uwency1TohUTnp7UCKg6kN.html

Remove ‘terror content’ within an hour, EU tells web firms

Online platforms should take down “terrorist content” within an hour of it being reported, the EU said Thursday in new recommendations to internet companies to stem the flow of harmful content on the web.

What happens when you write a law because someone else wrote one first?

https://www.justsecurity.org/60374/u-s-gdpr-close/

A U.S. GDPR? Not Even Close

At the end of June, California enacted a new data privacy regime that some are comparing to the European Union’s recently operative General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). The statute will not take effect until January 1, 2020, but when it does, it may serve as a de facto U.S. national data privacy statute in the absence of federal action given the size of California’s economy and population. Yet, as enacted, the new statute may only provide marginal privacy benefits for consumers while potentially imposing significant new compliance burdens on entities doing business in California.

A most interesting interview.

https://www.bespacific.com/will-privacy-first-be-the-new-normal-an-interview-with-privacy-guru-ann-cavoukian/

Will Privacy First Be The New Normal? An Interview With Privacy Guru, Ann Cavoukian

This is a two-part series that explores the rise of Privacy by Design (PbD) from the basic framework, to its inclusion in the GDPR, to its application in business practices and infrastructure especially in the wake of Artificial Intelligence.

Forbes – “We had the pleasure of sitting down with Ann Cavoukian, former 3-Term Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, and currently Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, leading the Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada to discuss this massive shift that will upend current business practices. This article includes contributions from Scott Bennet, a colleague researching privacy and GDPR implications on emerging technology and current business practices.

I call myself an anti-marketer, especially these days. My background has predominantly come from database marketing and the contextualization of data to make more informed decisions to effectively sell people more stuff. The data that I saw, whether it be in banking, loyalty programs, advertising and social platforms – user transactions, digital behavior, interactions, conversations, profiles – were sewn together to create narratives about individuals and groups, their propensities, their intents and their potential risk to the business. While it was an established practice to analyze this information in the way that we did, the benefit was largely to businesses and to the detriment of our customers. How we depicted people was based on the data they created, based on our own assumptions that, in turn, informed the analysis and ultimately, created the rules which governed the data and the decisions. Some of these rules unknowingly were baked in unintended bias from experience and factors that perpetuated claims of a specific cluster or population. While for many years I did not question the methods we used to understand and define audiences, it’s clear that business remained largely unchecked, having used this information freely with little accountability and legal consequence…”

I wish my students could write their weekly papers this well.

https://attackofthekillerapp.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/googles-location-tracking-blip/

Google’s Location Tracking Blip

Earlier this month, the Associated Press (AP) disclosed Google’s location-tracking practices. Specifically, Google uses GPS tracking to provide accurate directions and data for users. When the app is on, the users’ location is tracked on a map to guide users to their requested destination. However, by default, each location is stored unless the user toggles the option off.

This toggle-off-option is titled Location History. Google’s support page on the subject states: “You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.” However, Associated Press (AP) revealed that even when users turned this off, Google still stored user’s location data.

Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton computer scientist and former chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission’s enforcement bureau, explained to AP that, “If you’re going to allow users to turn off something called ‘Location History,’ then all the places where you maintain location history should be turned off… That seems like a pretty straightforward position to have.”

Strangely, the only way to prevent Google from storing your location information is to turn off an entirely different setting, which doesn’t even mention “locations” – Web and App Activity.” Enabled by default, you can find this setting under Activity Controls.”