Contrast with the FBI’s push to eliminate encryption, or at least
provide them with a backdoor. Perhaps this kind of tool should be
used by US campaigns to communicate.
Security
flaw in French government messaging app exposed confidential
conversations
The
French government just launched
its
own messaging app called Tchap
in
order to protect conversations from hackers, private companies and
foreign entities. But Elliot Alderson, also known as Baptiste
Robert, immediately
found a
security flaw. He was able to create an account even though the
service is supposed to be restricted to government officials.
Tchap
wasn’t built from scratch. The DINSIC, France’s government
agency in charge of all things digital, forked an open-source project
called Riot,
which
is based on an open-source protocol called Matrix.
… Developing
Tchap became essential as Emmanuel
Macron’s campaign team relied heavily on Telegram
— the French government still uses Telegram and WhatsApp for many
sensitive conversations. By default, Telegram
doesn’t
use
end-to-end encryption.
In other words, people working for Telegram could easily read
Macron’s conversations.
A most interesting topic. If you are going to die
soon (according to the AI) will the AI Nurse just give you morphine?
Lots and lots of morphine?
AI COULD
PREDICT DEATH. BUT WHAT IF THE ALGORITHM IS BIASED?
EARLIER
THIS MONTH the
University of Nottingham published a study
in
PloSOne about a new artificial intelligence model that uses machine
learning to predict the risk of premature death, using banked health
data (on age and lifestyle factors) from Brits aged 40 to 69. This
study comes months after a joint
study between
UC San Francisco, Stanford, and Google, which reported results of
machine-learning-based data mining of electronic health records to
assess the likelihood that a patient would die in hospital. One goal
of both studies was to assess how this information might help
clinicians decide which
patients might most benefit from intervention.
The
FDA is also looking at how AI will be used in health care and posted
a
call earlier this month for
a regulatory framework for AI in medical care.
Clearly we will need some new names.
“e-Antitrust” seems a bit unwieldy.
The
Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over
Big Tech and monopoly
In
2017, a 28-year-old law student named Lina Kahn turned the antitrust
world on its ear with her Yale
Law Review
paper, Amazon's
Antitrust Paradox,
which showed how Ronald
Reagan's antitrust policies,
inspired by ideological extremists at the University of Chicago's
economics department, had created a space for abusive monopolists who
could crush innovation, workers' rights, and competition without ever
falling afoul of orthodox antitrust law.
Now,
Dina Srinivasan, a self-described technology
entrepreneur and advertising executive who
trained Yale Law School has done it again, with a magesterial, deftly
argued paper for the Berkeley
Business Law Journal
called
The
Antitrust Case Against Facebook.
It's one of the most invigorating, significant contributions to a
new theory of antitrust for the digital age that I've ever read,
ranking with Kahn's 2017 paper.
… Srinivasan
shows how Facebook came to dominate our online discourse through
activities that would have been prohibited under pre-Reagan theories
of antitrust, and how, prior to these monopolistic tactics, Facebook
was not able to conduct surveillance on its users, having to contend
with multiple, bruising PR disasters and user revolts when it tried
to do so.
[Interesting
sub-title:
A
MONOPOLIST’S JOURNEY TOWARDS PERVASIVE SURVEILLANCE IN SPITE OF
CONSUMERS’ PREFERENCE FOR PRIVACY
Perspective. Perhaps this is why they are the
next country to have a GDPR-like law…
Digital
Life: Brazilians are Among the Most Avid Internet Users
This is the first
series of infographics on Digital Life in Brazil.
- More than two out of three Brazilians have access to smartphones and the internet
- Brazilians spend more than 9 hours per day connected (among the highest rates in the world)
- They rank very high in the world in social media use, including the use of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Netflix, WhatsApp, and Pinterest
- Digital advertising continues to grow in double digits
- E-Commerce, the sharing economy, and home delivery services are booming
Perspective. I would like to see cities owning
the monopoly with anyone able to buy access.
Big Telecom
Is Killing Your Rights To Municipal Internet Service In 26 States
High-speed
internet and robust infrastructure is often the life blood of growing
communities looking to attract high tech business and satisfy
citizens. In most cases, however, residents and businesses only have
access to one, or at the most two, broadband internet providers.
You'll usually have access to broadband cable as one option and DSL
as the other. So, municipal
internet –
where cities and towns build out and run their own broadband service
– is an obvious solution.
BroadbandNow,
which is a company that keeps tabs on broadband availability across
the United States, has published a rather sobering study on the state
of municipal broadband. Sadly, the company has discovered that over
half of U.S. states (26 to be exact) have either outright banned the
formation of municipal broadband networks or limit their expansion.
While municipal internet seems like a win-win for Americans, big
telecom is doing everything in its power to crush
them at every turn.
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