Surveilling
‘domestic terrorists’ who never cross the boarder?
CBP’s
New Social Media Surveillance: A Threat to Free Speech and Privacy
U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a required Privacy
Impact Assessment (PIA)
on March 27 for the social media monitoring it carries out as part of
its new Situational Awareness Initiative. The release of the
assessment may have come in response to a March 6 report from NBC7
in San Diego revealing
that the U.S. government created a surveillance target list of
“Suspected Organizers, Coordinators, Instigators and Media.” The
list
featured
journalists, activists, social media influencers, and lawyers working
on immigration issues, and was the subject of a recent article
for Just Security on
the immense growth in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s)
intelligence gathering programs.
Looks like the 2020 election will be interesting.
Study
identifies 80% of journalists falling for false online info
Poynter
–
“In
a new study conducted
by the Institute for the Future, a California-based nonprofit think
tank, researchers found more than 80% of journalists admitted to
falling for false information online. The data was based on a survey
of 1,018 journalists at regional and national publications in the
United States. Perhaps more concerning: Only
14.9% of journalists surveyed said they had been trained on how to
best report on misinformation…”
Privacy laws move at different rates.
South
Africa Data Protection Regulations Expected to Take Effect in 2019
Although
South Africa’s first comprehensive piece of data protection
legislation, the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), was
originally signed
into law in November 2013,
the substantive provisions of the law have not yet taken legal
effect. That is likely to change since South Africa’s data
protection authority, the Information Regulator, published the final
draft of its POPIA regulations in
December 2018.
Will
US laws conflict with HIPAA?
EDPB’s
Position on Clinical Trials Creates Friction with Other EU
Legislation
Clinical
trials in the EU include the collection of sensitive health data from
patients. Trial sponsors are obliged to reconcile their respect of
regulations governing data protection with regulations governing the
conduct of clinical trials. The GDPR¹
could
not fully harmonize these rules since this area is already heavily
regulated by public health regulations that vary between EU Member
States. One of the most disconcerting areas of divergence between EU
Member States is the different national positions on whether patient
consent is a valid legal ground for processing personal data in
clinical trials.
We need a catcher name.
MIT finally
gives a name to the sum of all AI fears
Now we know what to call it, that vast, disturbing
collection of worries about artificial intelligence and the myriad of
threats we imagine, from machine bias to lost jobs to Terminator-like
robots: "Machine
behaviour."
That's the term that researchers at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab have proposed for a
new kind of interdisciplinary field of study to figure out how AI
evolves, and what it means for humans. (They use the British
spelling, as this is a European journal.)
… Commentators and scholars, they write, "are
raising the alarm about the broad, unintended consequences of AI
agents that can exhibit
behaviours and produce downstream societal effects –
both positive and negative – that are unanticipated
by their creators." There is "a fear of the
potential loss of human oversight over intelligent machines,"
and the development of "autonomous weapons" means that
"machines could determine who lives and who dies in armed
conflicts."
[Buy the
paper here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1138-y
(Related) In this case, the ‘elite and
powerful’ company is McDonalds. (and the AI is reduced to: Would
you like fries with that?)
How
artificial intelligence will serve the elite and powerful — and
leave working people behind
Speaking
at the 2019 Forum on China Intellectual Property Protection, Zhang
Wen, president of the Beijing Internet Court — which was
established in September 2018, and has since processed 14,904 cases —
reportedly said that the court employs technologies such as
artificial intelligence (AI)
and blockchain
to
render judgement.
Zhang reportedly told the Global Times that “of
the 41 cases concluded [with blockchain technology] so far, parties
chose to settle out of court rather than litigate in 40 cases with
compelling evidence from blockchain. This fosters social credibility
development in the country.” He also noted that the court had
deployed blockchain in 58 cases to collect and provide evidence.
Zhang said:
"In the current use of AI as an assistant to make rulings, efficiency is prioritized over accuracy. A human judge is ultimately responsible for the fair ruling. [...] But we are heading toward a future when we can see an AI judge sitting at the podium."
… In
September of last year, China’s Supreme Court ruled that evidence
authenticated with blockchain technology is binding in legal
disputes. The Supreme Court declared that "Internet courts
shall recognize digital data that are submitted as evidence if
relevant parties collected and stored these data via blockchain with
digital signatures, reliable timestamps and hash value verification
or via a digital deposition platform, and can prove the authenticity
of such technology used."
I
would be shocked to find that AI was not being used frequently today.
In three years it will probably be testifying about its findings.
Artificial
Intelligence Will Change E-Discovery in the Next Three Years
Law
Technology Today:
“…According to Andrew Ng, Co-Founder of Coursera and Adjunct
Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, artificial
intelligence (AI) is the new electricity. [Shocking!
Bob]
“Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100 years ago,”
he explains, “today I actually have a hard time thinking of an
industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several
years.” Ng is not alone. Consumers’ lives, tastes, and habits
have been profoundly altered by artificial intelligence, with
companies like Amazon, Google, Netflix, Spotify, and Uber (to name a
few) disrupting well-established industries. Legal technology
including e-discovery (and software as a service in general) will not
be spared. No less an authority than Gartner
estimates that 80% of emerging technologies will be built on a
foundation of artificial intelligence by 2021…
AI facilitates e-discovery by playing a number of roles in the
process: curator, advisor, and orchestrator. Both curator and
advisor roles are familiar to e-discovery professionals. AI can
recommend documents for deeper review (much like Netflix recommends a
new movie or TV show), or it can advise a project manager on scoping
custodian lists or collection criteria (as it can suggest a response
to a text message or email). But newer AIs can also function as an
orchestrator of the entire e-discovery process, learning from past
actions and results, and coordinating tasks across multiple
channels…”
I’m not sure how this would work. But then I’m
not a techno-lawyer...
Chinese
Internet Court Employs AI and Blockchain to Render Judgement
Perspective. A child without a smartphone is
deprived? Abused?
California
approves free phones, internet for foster youth
… The California Public Utilities Commission
passed the $22 million pilot program that will provide smartphones to
more than 30,000 current and former foster youth between 13 and 26.
The phones come with an unlimited calling plan, wireless service and
mobile hotspot.
… In addition to the cellphones and internet
access, the program will partner with the state's 50 county welfare
departments for digital literacy training. The classes will teach
online safety, effective social media use and how to present
professionally for potential employment, Cox said.
Perspective. Another device I’m out of touch
for not owning?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/04/airpods-open-plan-offices/588112/?utm_source=feed
AirPods Are
the New Cubicles
… The arrival of these now-ubiquitous devices
has ushered in a new era of office etiquette—and created a whole
new set of problems.
Beyond their tethered forebears, Bluetooth
wireless headphones are convenient because they allow workers to
forget they’re wearing a device and leave their desks without
yanking their laptops onto the floor. In open offices, people
commonly wander around with their headphones on all day, into
bathrooms and kitchens, sometimes listen to nothing at all in order
to avoid the constant distraction of compulsory social interaction.
Perspective. Imagine the logistical challenge.
Amazon says
it’s working on free one-day Prime shipping
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