Our technology is more fragile than we realize.
Mystery in
North Olmsted solved: Source of key fob, garage opener problems
identified
After
weeks of speculation, sleepless nights and confusion, the mystery
of the key fob and garage door opener problems in
North Olmsted has been solved.
The
cause was a custom, man-made device inside a resident’s home.
… So
as to not identify the homeowner, Glassburn would only say it is a
notification system which allows the resident to know if there is
movement in the house/someone is in the house.
There
is no malicious intent of the device, Glassburn noted.
Glassburn
and Bill Hertzel, a retired communication employee, found the device
after a resident agreed to allow them inside a home.
“The
device, which ran on a battery backup, was identified and disabled,”
Glassburn wrote in a statement. “There will be no further
interference and the resident has agreed to not make such devices in
the future.
Should it be personal?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/technology/federal-trade-commission-facebook-mark-zuckerberg.html
Facebook
Faces a Big Penalty, but Regulators Are Split Over How Big
The F.T.C. chairman
seems to have the votes to approve a settlement. One of the biggest
issues has been whether to hold Mark Zuckerberg liable for future
violations.
… Along
with disagreement about the appropriate financial penalty, one of the
most contentious undercurrents throughout the negotiations has been
the degree to which Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive,
should be held personally liable for any violation of a 2011
agreement, according to two of the people.
… “This
is a hugely important decision because it will be watched by all
these big companies to see if there is actually going to be a new day
on the enforcement front,” said Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon
Democrat who has pushed for Mr. Zuckerberg to be held personally
liable in any settlement.
… But the
settlement probably won’t include limits on Facebook’s ability to
track users and share data with its partners, mandates that privacy
advocates have raised as important for regulation in the United
States, and that Facebook has fought. Mr. Simons has argued that the
settlement proposal sets a new bar for enforcement of privacy
violations and wants to avoid litigation that risks losing that
opportunity.
Does the existence of the GDPR change the
environment enough to encourage this type of lawsuit?
Verizon,
T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over
Selling Customers’ Location Data
On
Thursday, lawyers filed lawsuits against four of the country’s
major telecommunications companies for their role in various location
data scandals uncovered by Motherboard, Senator Ron Wyden, and The
New York Times. Bloomberg
Law was
first to report
the
lawsuits.
The
news provides the first instance of individual telco customers
pushing to be awarded damages after
Motherboard revealed in January
that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint had all sold access to the
real-time location of their customers’ phones to a network of
middlemen companies, before ending up in the hands of bounty hunters.
“Through
its negligent and deliberate acts, including inexplicable failures
to follow its own Privacy Policy, T-Mobile permitted
access to Plaintiffs and Class Members’ CPI and CPNI,” the
complaint against T-Mobile reads, referring to “confidential
proprietary information” and “customer proprietary network
information,” the latter of which includes location data.
Perspective.
As a non-lawyer, I need all the perspective I can get. Could this
just be jealousy?
The
push to break up Big Tech, explained
There’s a
pervasive feeling that the tech giants are too powerful ... but
they’re also really good for consumers.
Technology
companies based in Seattle or Silicon Valley now account for five out
of the five most valuable companies in America, leading to a spate of
commentary last year from lawyers
like Columbia’s Tim Wu to
economists like Harvard’s
Kenneth Rogoff arguing
that Big Tech has, in some sense, gotten “too big.” And in 2019,
politicians are starting to listen.
Even academics can write interesting papers.
Teaching
AI, Ethics, Law and Policy
The cyberspace and the development of new
technologies, especially intelligent systems using artificial
intelligence, present enormous challenges to computer professionals,
data scientists, managers and policy makers. There is a need to
address professional responsibility, ethical, legal, societal, and
policy issues. This paper presents problems and issues relevant to
computer professionals and decision makers and suggests a curriculum
for a course on ethics, law and policy. Such a course will create
awareness of the ethics issues involved in building and using
software and artificial intelligence.
… 6.1 Why to Teach Ethics?
Following are justifications to teach ethics: (1)
Employers are not looking only for technical skills but they prefer
to hire persons with good soft skills that include work ethics and
responsibility. (2) Many cases of unethical behavior suggest that
ethics education is important. (3) Law develops slower than new
technologies and often does not provide a solution to many dilemmas.
Law presently has difficulties to assign responsibility for problems
that emerge from software. (4) Acts can be legal, but not
appropriate from an ethical point of view (5) Ethics provides tools
helping to make better decisions for the benefit of a person and
society.
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