An
interesting perspective for my students.
A New Era
of Privacy – Why Regulations like the GDPR Are Actually a Good
Thing for Your Business
… On the surface, the purpose of the GDPR (and
of related legislation, such as the data
privacy law that came into effect in California in July) is to
give consumers more control over their personal information. While
they certainly accomplish that, they also achieve something else.
Something much more valuable to your organization.
They provide a framework for better cybersecurity.
Think about it. One of the core tenets of the
GDPR is the right to be forgotten. At any given time, an EU citizen
may request that a business delete all data related to their personal
information – the business has to comply. Doing
so is impossible without good data hygiene and a strong security
posture.
Are they concerned about the tool or the users?
(Long article, so I cut a bunch)
From the ACLU:
A coalition of over 85 racial justice, faith, and civil, human, and immigrants’ rights groups today sent letters to Microsoft, Amazon, and Google demanding the companies commit not to sell face surveillance technology to the government.
… “History has clearly taught us that the government will exploit technologies like face surveillance to target communities of color, religious minorities, and immigrants.
Background for my Software Architects.
One day
your voice will control all your gadgets, and they will control you
… It’s tied to an idea that leading AI
expert Kai-Fu Lee calls OMO, online-merge-of-offline. OMO, as he
describes it, refers to combining our digital and physical worlds in
such a way that every object in our surrounding environment will
become an interaction point for the internet—as well as a sensor
that collects data about our lives. This will power what he dubs the
“third wave” of AI: our algorithms, finally given a comprehensive
view of all our behaviors, will be able to hyper-personalize our
experiences, whether in the grocery store or the classroom.
But this
vision requires everything to be connected. It requires
your shopping cart to know what’s in your fridge so it can
recommend the optimal shopping list. It requires your front door to
know your online purchases and whether you’re waiting for an
in-home delivery.
(Related)
The NYT's
plan to make money from voice
The New York Times plans to build custom Alexa
skills for advertisers through its branded content studio for roughly
six figures. The campaigns will be sold as a white label service,
with no distribution offering — just production.
… One of the research findings presented to
advertisers includes that fact that consumers think voice is a
healthier form of technology than other types of tech, like social
media.
''The first thing we do, let's program
replacements for all the lawyers!”
Meet ATJ
Bot – The World’s First Legal Aid Voice Assistant
Artificial
Lawyer: “LawDroid,
the legal bot developer, has now launched ATJ
Bot, a voice operated legal aid assistant that
initially will focus on giving help on uncontested divorces. The
project has been backed by America’s main legal aid body, the Legal
Services Corporation, plus West Tennessee Legal Services and the
Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services, with the system operating in
that State. Development began in early 2018. ATJ Bot can be used
either with voice or use typed in text via a web portal. The voice
system is based on the
Google Duplex system and allows a user to speak and receive
answers, as well as to be guided through the process of filling in
the legal forms necessary to file an uncontested divorce. Other
legal tech businesses have used voice before – and LawDroid and its
founder, Tom Martin,
have developed several such bots in the past. But, this appears to
be the first one to be officially backed by a legal aid organisation.
Once a ‘client’ has completed their forms, with the help of the
bot – which speaks in a man’s voice – it’s up to the
divorcing parties to print out the documents and take them to a court
in person to file them…”
Perspective. Some people plan for the future,
some plan for a wall.
Microsoft
to set up 10 AI labs, train 5 lakh youth in India
Microsoft India plans to train 5 lakh youth in
artificial intelligence across the country over the next three years
and set up AI labs in 10 universities.
The company would also upskill 10000 developers in
emerging technology areas.
The software major said 700 organizations
including government bodies in the country are using its AI solutions
now and nearly 60% of them are large enterprises.
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