Home Security is a real issue.
Walmart and
Amazon want to see inside your house. Should you let them?
… Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc., the two
largest retailers in the U.S., are now offering to send delivery
people inside your house to safely deposit your packages indoors and
your groceries inside your fridge.
To calm fears that delivery people might get up to
no good, both companies are promising to let you watch the deliveries
happen live on video. There’s one catch: Amazon and Walmart get to
hang on to that video too.
… risks include having sensitive home data —
including voice and video recordings and codes for the front door’s
smart lock — hacked and released online, or having the same private
data subject to search by law enforcement.
More prosaically, with the advent of computer
vision analytics, which offer the ability to extract consumer
insights from millions of hours of video, the companies behind these
smart-home services could use imagery from your living room to
improve their ad targeting or as raw material to train their computer
vision algorithms.
For my Security Compliance class.
New York
Privacy Act Would Be Considerably Tougher Than California’s Bill
… A patchwork system of state-by-state privacy
legislation would require companies to be much more careful and
cautious in order to avoid running afoul of any state laws. Law
experts are now calling New York State “the next battleground in
the fight for state privacy laws.”
… there
are several notable exceptions between the New York Privacy Act and
the CCPA. For example, the New York Privacy Act gives New Yorkers
the right to sue companies directly, without waiting for the State
Attorney General to take action on their behalf.
… the New York privacy legislation does not
impose any minimum sizes on which companies would be covered by the
new sweeping legislation. California, by way of contrast, says that
companies must have at least $25 million in gross annual revenue in
order to fall within the purview of the CCPA. In New York State, a
small social media startup with just a few employees and zero revenue
would also be expected to follow the full scope and spirit of the New
York Privacy Act.
… Under the current interpretation of the New
York Privacy Act, businesses must act as “data fiduciaries” when
interacting with state residents. In such a way, they would be
expected to act much more like attorneys or doctors, which must
adhere to very stringent guidelines when it comes to protecting the
privacy of citizens.
… The big question is whether large tech
companies like Facebook and Google – which have constructed very
profitable business models around the idea of trading in personal
data – would ever be able to transform into data fiduciaries.
Worth a read.
What Does
an AI Ethicist Do?
… many
organizations are increasingly paying attention to ethical issues
around AI. In a 2018
Deloitte survey,
32% of AI-aware executives ranked the ethical risks of AI as one of
their top three AI-related concerns. Microsoft and O’Brien are
essentially bellwethers on this issue — the figurative sheep at the
head of the flock — in creating a role focused on, as O’Brien
puts it, AI ethics “advocacy and evangelism.”
I talked with
O’Brien to find out how his role came about, what he does in it,
and what kinds of policies might emerge at Microsoft because of his
work. I also asked him how the AI ethicist role might relate to
similar positions at other companies.
...
He
began to realize, he said, that leaving
all of businesses’ ethical and policy issues to the lawyers was not
sufficient.
O’Brien was seeing that, as data and processing move to the cloud,
technology, policy, and geography issues all were starting to
collide.
Perspective. What happens when you remove
“barriers to entry.”
The number
of American taxi drivers has tripled in a decade
… The
CPS data likely underestimates the true number of Americans who work
as part- or full-time taxi drivers and chauffeurs. That’s because
the CPS counts US adults who give this occupation as their primary
job, while many people who drive for a service like Uber do it as a
secondary gig. For context, a 2016
study by
Uber and labor economist Alan Krueger found that more than half of
drivers worked full time at another job, and 14% worked part time at
another job. Lots of those people aren’t being captured by the CPS
estimate.
Could be amusing…
New tool by
Harvard Law lets people explore language usage in caselaw
abajournal.com
ABAJournal:
“Parsing 6.7 million federal and state cases and 12 billion words,
a new tool allows the public to explore the use of language over 360
years of caselaw. Released [June 19, 2019], “Historical
Trends ”
was built by the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab and is
free
to use.
“I think it’s a good example of a research tool that we can
offer that the commercial providers have never been inclined to
explore,” says Adam Ziegler, director of the Harvard Law School
Library Innovation Lab.
The
tool allows a user to explore the use of language in caselaw dating
back to the colonial period. A
user can track the historical utilization of a word like “privacy,”
which was fairly dormant during the 19th and early 20th centuries
before receiving much more attention in the 1950s and 1960s. Or, a
comparison can be made to see which is more commonly referred to in
litigation, such as Harvard or Yale. (Turns out, it’s Yale by a
mile.) The tool can also visualize the use of a word across various
states, as explained in a blog
post by
Kelly Fitzpatrick, a research associate at the Library Innovation
Lab. For example, Nevada is currently leading the country in cases
mentioning the Fifth Amendment, while Iowa has seen a recent uptick
in Ninth Amendment mentions, for some reason. The tool is plugged
into the repository of cases released
last fall as
the Caselaw Access Project. Outside of the Library of Congress, it
is the most comprehensive database of its kind—totaling 200
terabytes of information…”
Perspective.
Watching what could be a multi-day match in five minute chunks?
Cricket
World Cup highlights just how big video streaming is in India
… More
than 100 million users tuned in to Hotstar,
an
on-demand streaming service owned
by Disney,
on June 16, the day India and Pakistan played a league match against
each other. That’s the highest engagement the four-year-old
service has clocked on its platform to date, it said in a statement
today.
Hotstar
said about 66% of its viewers came from outside of big metro cities
… To
be sure, these 100 million users are not paying subscribers. Hotstar
offers five-minute streaming of live events to users at no cost.
Coming soon to a classroom near me!
The Best
Machine Learning Resources
Medium
– The
Best Machine Learning Resources
– “A
compendium of resources for crafting a curriculum on artificial
intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning
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