Wouldn’t it be interesting if the hackers had the best AI?
Internet
bots are getting smarter and imitating people
Bots
are becoming a bigger threat as they get smarter, a new report says.
A
whopping 73.6 percent of bad bots are so-called Advanced Persistent
Bots, which use anonymous proxies, change their identities and mimic
human behavior, according to the 2019
Bad Bot Report from
Distil Networks, which provides Web content protection services.
… Sophisticated
bad bots reproduce mouse movements and clicks that fool even
sophisticated detection methods and mask their activity by “reverse
engineering detection systems,” Distil said.
“Advanced
attackers now show definitive behavior that they know about the
technology they’re trying to defeat, and they’re continuously
learning how to adapt their tactics,” the study said.
Short
answer: Nope.
IAPP
FAQs: Are GDPR-compliant companies prepared for CCPA?
The California
Consumer Privacy Act is top of mind for many privacy professionals
across the U.S., who are working to leverage their GDPR preparation
to build CCPA-compliance programs. They are learning that while
their recent GDPR preparation is helpful, the CCPA has nuanced
requirements that go beyond the GDPR. Emphasis is often placed on
the novel “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link.
After
listening to two useful web conferences comparing the CCPA and GDPR
(available here
and
here,
in case you missed them), I wondered if companies outside of the U.S.
have realized that California-specific adjustments will be needed.
If not, the CCPA’s private right of action and what many consider
the litigious nature of the U.S. might soon draw the attention of
foreign C-suites.
Does
this mean TSA is unable to read the dates on a visa to determine if
the passenger has overstayed?
The
US wants to scan the faces of all air passengers leaving the country
The
US immigration system was designed to track who comes into the
country, not who leaves. For more
than two decades,
authorities have been trying to find an effective way to keep tabs on
departing foreigners—and those who overstay their visas.
US
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now says it’s found a solution:
facial recognition. It expects to be able to scan 97% of commercial
passengers within the next four years, according to a
report released
by the Department of Homeland Security today.
What
employee privacy?
Employee
privacy in the US is at stake as corporate surveillance technology
monitors workers’ every move
A
2018 survey by Gartner found that 22% of organizations worldwide are
using employee-movement data, 17% are monitoring work-computer-usage
data, and 16% are using Microsoft Outlook- or calendar-usage data.
… “Employees
are in a difficult position. As more and more consumer privacy laws
take shape, we’ve seen that there’s been a concern from companies
that those privacy
laws don’t apply to employees,”
said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation.
In
the workplace, almost any consumer privacy law can be waived. Even
if companies give employees a choice about whether or not they want
to participate, it’s not hard to force employees to agree. That
is, unless lawmakers introduce laws that explicitly state a company
can’t make workers agree to a technology, he said.
One
example: Companies are increasingly interested in employee social
media posts out of concern that employee posts could reflect poorly
on the company. A teacher’s aide in Michigan was
suspended in
2012 after refusing to share her Facebook page with the school’s
superintendent following complaints about a photo she had posted.
Since then, dozens
of similar cases prompted
lawmakers to take action. More than 16 states have passed social
media protections for individuals.
… Still,
the dearth of specific laws or guidelines around employee data
privacy makes it tricky for companies to know what to do. “It
would be beneficial to have sort of those standards so that people
could understand what you should and shouldn’t do. Today,
especially in the U.S. and a lot of places in Asia, there’s sort of
no laws around it,” said Waber.
We
are still a long way from, “Alexa, do my taxes.”
Smart
speakers are great for answering basic questions, like "what's
the weather tomorrow" or "what's the population of Brazil"
(it's 209.3 million, in case you were wondering). However, since the
answers to many of these questions come from Google's ability to
scrape the content of webpages, they can sometimes be inaccurate or
purposely
manipulated.
Answers to questions about the UK government should now be fairly
accurate, as the country has added "more than 12,000 pieces of
information" to both Google Assistant and Alexa.
Old
technology and the law.
EU
lawmakers back wifi-based car standard in win for Volkswagen
The
European Commission’s push for a wifi-based standard for cars
backed by Volkswagen took a big step forward on Wednesday after EU
lawmakers endorsed wifi over 5G technology promoted by BMW and
Qualcomm.
… Wifi
technology supporters include Renault, Toyota, NXP, Autotalks and
Kapsch TrafficCom. The technology primarily connects cars to other
cars.
… Fifth
generation, or 5G, standard hooks up to both cars and devices in the
surrounding environment, with a wider range of applications in areas
such as entertainment, traffic data and general navigation.
The
Commission has defended its stance on wifi technology, saying that it
is available unlike 5G and that it would help to boost road safety.
Critics
have said a requirement that new technologies be modified to be
compatible with older technology is unrealistic and would put a brake
on innovation.
There’s a joke here somewhere, but also (maybe)
some truth.
Ukraine’s
Comedian President Doesn’t Plan to Rule
The landslide victory of comedian and TV producer
Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Sunday’s run-off presidential election in
Ukraine poses a problem both for the country’s Western backers and
those in the Kremlin who hope to exert control again. The Ukrainian
people haven’t voted for a specific path, or even simply against
politics as usual: They voted against being told what to do.
… Zelenskiy
is Jewish, and he speaks better Russian than Ukrainian, which means
most voters have proved unsusceptible to hardcore Ukrainian
nationalism, which is traditionally anti-Semitic and intolerant to
all things Russian. Zelenskiy is only 41, and he’s not a member of
the post-Soviet political elite, a notoriously corrupt and
self-serving bunch, and he’s a self-made millionaire with a
successful production company.
But
none of this is as important as why, and how, he won.
Poroshenko’s
strategy had been to stress his dedication to nation-building: An
alliance with the West, strengthening the military, gaining spiritual
independence from the Russian Orthodox Church, supporting the
Ukrainian language.
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