For
anyone who relies on (or might be fooled by) emails.
News
outlet’s email security gap
Axios:
“An Axios study shows that very few news organizations — around
6% of a broad sample — successfully use a critical technology that
guarantees emails they send are authentic. The
big picture: We’ve written before
about the Department of Homeland Security’s struggle to get federal
agencies and the White House to implement DMARC, a security
protocol that prevents someone from successfully sending an email
using someone else’s email address. It’s only fair to turn that
lens on our own industry.
Why it
matters: As the news industry
increases its reliance on email alerts and newsletters (represent!),
our credibility makes us a target for spammers, scammers and
purveyors of disinformation or fraud.
- Imagine a news alert that appears to come from a business publication claiming a company was going bankrupt.
- Or consider a newsletter on Election Day claiming a candidate had suddenly changed position on a key issue.
I should have linked to this yesterday. Worth
looking at the Cyber and AI issues.
22nd Annual
Global CEO Survey
Last year, our survey revealed record-breaking CEO
optimism. This year, chief executives tell a different story. Trade
conflicts, political upset, and a projected slowdown in global
economic growth have increased uncertainty and decreased confidence
in revenue prospects. Explore the strategies organisations are using
to navigate this new environment.
As expected, since it significantly tightens
controls. It’s getting there that’s hard.
GDPR
Compliance Brings Other Benefits: Cisco Study
… The
Data
Privacy Benchmark Study shows that organizations that have
invested in customer privacy requirements, mainly to become GDPR
compliant and to avoid fines
and penalties, are seeing some benefits beyond GDPR compliance.
… Meeting
data security requirements, internal training, keeping up with
evolving developments, complying with privacy-by-design requirements,
and meeting data subject access requests were cited as some of the
most significant challenges in getting ready for GDPR.
The
number of organizations that have reported sales delays due to data
privacy concerns has increased to 87%, from 66% in the previous year.
However, Cisco found that sales delays were 1-2 weeks shorter in the
case of GDPR-ready organizations, compared to ones that expect to
become compliant within a year or more.
While
a majority of the surveyed companies admitted being hit by a data
breach in the past year, the percentage of GDPR-ready organizations
affected was 74%, compared to 80% in the case of organizations that
expect to become ready in less than a year and 89% for ones that
still have a long way to go.
Furthermore,
GDPR-ready organizations that have suffered a data breach reported
that the average number of impacted records was 79,000, compared to
212,000 reported by non-compliant organizations.
Cisco
also found that the system downtime associated with a breach was
shorter in the case of GDPR-ready firms, and the costs of dealing
with the incident were also considerably smaller.
(Related)
You have to get it right in the eyes of each EU country.
Google to
Appeal 50-Million-Euro French Data Consent Fine
"We've
worked hard to create a GDPR consent process for personalised ads
that is as transparent and straightforward as possible, based on
regulatory guidance and user experience testing," the company
said in a statement.
"We're
also concerned about the impact of this ruling on publishers,
original content creators and tech companies in Europe and beyond,"
it added.
"For
all these reasons, we've now decided to appeal."
This might work, until I figure how to keep the
tag and change the content.
Twitter is
testing an 'original tweeter' label for threads
Twitter is testing a way to make it easier to spot
the person who started a thread. A small percentage of iOS and
Android users are seeing an "original tweeter" label. The
company said
earlier this month that it would publicly test some context and
organization features.
It's a useful feature, and it could reduce some
types of abuse, particularly if the original tweeter is, say, Bill
Gates and the replies include those from scammy imitation accounts.
The label, along with the blue verified checkmark, could make it more
immediately obvious when Gates himself is replying
Just in time for my
Cryptography lecture.
Zuckerberg
Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive,
plans to integrate the social network’s messaging services —
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger — asserting his control
over the company’s sprawling divisions at a time when its business
has been battered by scandals.
… Mr. Zuckerberg has also ordered all of the
apps to incorporate end-to-end encryption, the people said, a
significant step that protects messages from being viewed by anyone
except the participants in the conversation. After the changes take
effect, a Facebook user could send an encrypted message to someone
who has only a WhatsApp account, for example. Currently, that isn’t
possible because the apps are separate.
Select the new machines
as if everyone expects you to rig the election.
Georgia
Official Seeks to Replace Criticized Voting Machines
Georgia's
new elections chief asked lawmakers Wednesday for $150 million to
replace the state's outdated electronic voting machines. In doing
so, he
all but closed the door on a hand-marked paper balloting system that
experts say is cheapest and most secure.
… The
current machines and Georgia's registration practices became
the subject of national criticism during last year's governor's
race between Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp. Kemp
served as secretary of state and refused
calls to resign from overseeing his own election. He stepped down
two days postelection after declaring himself the winner.
Perhaps we should think
about ethics before the AI systems do?
Genevieve
Bell and David Thodey push for AI ethics body
High profile Australian business and technology
leaders Genevieve Bell and David Thodey are backing a push to create
a new organisation to lead the development of an ethical framework
for artificial intelligence.
In an open letter to be released on Friday, Ms
Bell and Mr Thodey say there are significant
challenges that need to be addressed as AI becomes more commonplace,
be it the further entrenchment of discrimination on the basis of
gender or "minority status", creating "ethical
algorithms for autonomous vehicles, bias in AI-powered hiring
processes" or "the impact of fake news bots".
(Related)
An MIT
researcher who analyzed facial recognition software found eliminating
bias in AI is a matter of priorities
When we talk about algorithms and automation, we
can't assume that handing responsibilities over to a machine will
eliminate human biases. Artificial intelligence, after all, is
constructed and taught by humans.
MIT Media Lab researcher and Algorithmic
Justice League founder Joy Buolamwini has made it her mission not
only to raise awareness of bias in facial recognition software, but
also to compel companies around the world to make their software more
accurate and to use its capabilities ethically.
… There are real stakes here. As she noted in
a viral TED
Talk and a New
York Times editorial, it's one thing to have Facebook confuse
people when analyzing a photo, but another when law enforcement or a
potential employer is utilizing such software.
Dilbert continues to explore AI and Self-driving
cars.
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