Every generation does something
that infuriates prior generations.
Player
Battlegrounds: How A Ban On A Viral Video Game Sent Young PUBG
Players To Jail
… Gaming
has only become part of India’s still-young digital culture in the
last few years as millions of residents who just got their first
smartphones suddenly found themselves swept up in phenomena like
Candy Crush Saga and Pokémon Go. But nothing — nothing — has
come close to becoming as viral as PUBG.
… In
January, an activist based in Hyderabad demanded a national ban of
the game, saying it promoted violence and cruelty. In February, an
11-year-old boy from Mumbai and his mother filed a court petition to
get PUBG banned in schools because, she claimed, it promoted
“violence, aggression, cyber bullying” and was addicting. And in
March, India’s National Commission for the Protection of Child
Rights sought a report from the country’s Information and
Technology Ministry asking what action it was taking against the
game.
No state went
as far, however, as the western state of Gujarat. On March 6, police
in the Gujarati city of Rajkot banned the game within its city
limits.
The
effort to suppress Tiananmen is probably what keeps the memory alive.
Sort of a Streisand Effect repeated every year.
China's
robot censors crank up as Tiananmen anniversary nears
…
Censors
at Chinese internet companies say tools to detect and block content
related to the 1989 crackdown have reached unprecedented levels of
accuracy, aided by machine learning and voice and image recognition.
Think
retailers are ready for this?
Spies
with that? Police can snoop on McDonald's and Westfield wifi
customers
People
accessing the internet at McDonald’s and Westfield in Australia
could be targeted for surveillance by police under new encryption
legislation, according to the home affairs department.
A
briefing by the department, obtained under freedom of information,
reveals that police can use new powers to compel a broad range of
companies including social media giants, device manufacturers,
telcos, retailers
and providers of free wifi
to provide information on users.
…
Social
media companies including Facebook, search engine Google, equipment
providers including the Apple store, cloud computing providers,
providers of free wifi including McDonald’s and Westfield, and “any
Australian retailer who offers a mobile phone application for online
shopping or offers an application for mobile viewing”
are named as potential targets.
Architecture.
I prefer the term ‘steward’ rather than ‘owner.’
X
Marks the Spot Where the Personal Information is Stored
X
Marks the Spot Where the Personal Information is Stored: Avoiding
Common Mistakes in Data Mapping –
“With new global privacy laws requiring consumer access to specific
pieces of personal information and documentation of processing
generally, organizations are now finding themselves having to go on
treasure hunts for buried personal information within the company.
Between the explosion of cheap electronic storage methods and
expansion of the definition of personal information in new laws,
these “data mapping” exercises often feel as cryptic and fabled
as a treasure hunt.
[From
the article:
Most
organizations start data mapping with surveys asking system owners to
report on the data processed by their systems. But unless the
organization has a strict policy of requiring systems to have
individual "owners," there often is no one to send the
survey requests to or, alternatively, the requests are overlooked.
Keeping score?
The
stats are in for the first year of GDRP, Europe’s gold-standard
data privacy law. GDPR fines totalled €56M, with more than 200,000
investigations, 64,000 of which were upheld.
However,
the fines were dominated by a single case, with most ranging in the
single-digit thousands
Governments
are starting to take notice…
New
OECD Artificial Intelligence Principles: Governments Agree on
International Standards for Trustworthy AI
On
22 May, the Organization
for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD),
an international team working on creating stronger policies in order
to improve lives, adopted and approved new Artificial
Intelligence
(AI)
principles.
(Related)
The
World Economic Forum wants to develop global rules for AI
This
week, AI experts, politicians, and CEOs will gather to ask an
important question: Can the United States, China, or anyone else
agree on how artificial intelligence should be used and controlled?
… The
WEF will also announce the creation of an “AI Council” designed
to find common ground on policy between nations that increasingly
seem at odds over the power and the potential of AI and other
emerging technologies.
Organizations
that fail to adapt AI may not be able to compete. The same goes for
countries.
Artificial
Intelligence to double innovation rate in India by 2021: Study
Artificial
Intelligence (AI) is expected to more than double the rate of
innovation and employee productivity in India by 2021, said a new
Microsoft-IDC study on Monday.
While
only one-third of organisations in India have embarked on their AI
journeys, those companies that have adopted this technology expect it
to increase their competitiveness by 2.3 times in 2021, said the
study that surveyed 200 business leaders and 202 workers in the
country.
[The
study:
Why
is it news that the TSA finally recognizes that legal drugs are
legal?
TSA
approves cannabis-containing epilepsy drug for flights
The
Transportation Security Administration will now permit a pediatric
epilepsy drug containing cannabis on flights, according to the
agency's guidelines.
Its
guidelines
now
say that, subject to "special instructions,"
"products/medications that contain hemp-derived CBD or are
approved by the FDA are legal
I
opine otherwise.
Why
Privacy Is an Antitrust Issue
… many of the most pressing concerns about
Facebook are its privacy abuses, which unlike price gouging, price
discrimination or exclusive dealing, are not immediately recognized
as antitrust violations. Is there an antitrust case to be made
against Facebook on privacy grounds?
Yes, there is
(Related)
Privacy Is
Not An Antitrust Issue
… How
can ensuring reasonable competitive conduct in markets advance
consumer privacy interests? It seems like a classic case of apples
and oranges.
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