These
are lawyer words, so you have to take them with a pillar of salt.
Facebook
lawyer says 'there is no privacy,' hinting at the challenges of
Zuckerberg's pivot
A
lawyer for Facebook argued on Wednesday that its users had no
expectation of privacy when using the social network, pushing for a
judge to throw out a class-action
lawsuit related
to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
“There
is no invasion of privacy at all, because there is no privacy,” on
Facebook or any other social media site, company attorney Orin Snyder
told U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria.
… his
lawyer’s line of reasoning in court echoes what the company and
Zuckerberg previously said both publicly
and
privately
in
past years — and explains how the company built an online
advertising business that is now rivaled only by Google.
And
while some changes to Facebook, such as a broad embrace of encrypted
messaging, have been welcomed by privacy advocates, others remain
concerned that Zuckerberg’s “privacy-focused vision” leaves the
company’s core business of data-targeted ads mostly
unscathed.
(Related)
On the other hand, many who should know better assume you have no
privacy.
Schools
Are Deploying Massive Digital Surveillance Systems. The Results Are
Alarming
Last
December, early on a Sunday morning, Amanda Lafrenais tweeted about
her cats.
“I
would die for you,” the 31-year old comic book artist from Clute,
Texas wrote.
To
human eyes, the post seems innocuous.
But
in an age of heightened fear about mass school shootings, it tripped
invisible alarms.
The
local Brazosport Independent School District had recently hired a
company called Social Sentinel to monitor public posts from all
users, including adults, on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media
platforms. The company’s algorithms flagged Lafrenais’s tweet as
a potential threat. Automated alerts were sent to the district’s
superintendent, chief of police, director of student services, and
director of guidance. All told, nearly 140 such alerts were
delivered to Brazosport officials during the first eight months of
this school year, according to documents obtained by Education Week.
… Social
media monitoring companies track the posts of everyone in the areas
surrounding schools, including adults. Other companies scan the
private digital content of millions of students using district-issued
computers and accounts. Those services are complemented with
tip-reporting apps, facial-recognition software, and other new
technology systems.
Florida
offers a glimpse of where
it all may head:
Lawmakers there are pushing for a state database that would combine
individuals’ educational, criminal justice, and social-service
records with their social media data, then share it all with law
enforcement.
More
than selling encrypted phones.
Canadian
sentenced for selling encrypted phones to criminals
A
Canadian man who sold encrypted Blackberry smartphones to criminals
worldwide that enabled them to sell drugs and even plan murders while
avoiding the prying eyes of law enforcement was sentenced Tuesday to
nine years in prison.
Vincent
Ramos, 41, of Richmond in the Vancouver area was sentenced Tuesday in
federal court in San Diego. He
pleaded guilty last fall to one count of racketeering conspiracy.
Ramos
also was told to forfeit $80 million in earnings, which included
homes, international bank account holdings, cryptocurrency and gold
coins.
Ramos
ran a company called Phantom Secure that offered gutted, uncrackable
smartphones that, for a subscription, could send encrypted text
messages through a secure network based in Panama and Hong Kong.
The
company also could wipe the phones remotely if they were seized.
… It
was the first U.S. conviction involving someone who provided
encryption technology to criminal organizations.
The
next GDPR?
Michael
Hollander, William Johnson, Phyllis Sumner of King & Spalding
write:
New York’s State Senate is considering a bill that would impose sweeping new requirements upon companies that collect and process consumer data, including a fiduciary-like duty to protect such data. On May 9, 2019, New York State Senator Kevin Thomas introduced S. 5642, the New York Privacy Act (“NYPA”), which has been referred to the New York State Senate Consumer Protection Committee. If enacted, the NYPA will roll out strict rules for the collection, use, control, processing, and transfer of data by entities that conduct business in New York or produce products or services intentionally targeted at New York residents.
Of particular interest is the NYPA’s proposed definition of “personal data,” which references a whole host of data points including mother’s maiden name, records of personal property, biometric information, internet search history, certain education records, and even thermal and olfactory data. Similar to the sweeping definition of personal data provided by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), the NYPA’s definition of “personal data” also includes a catch-all for “inference[s] drawn from any of the information described in [the NYPA’s definition of personal data] to create a profile about an individual reflecting the individual’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, preferences [sic], predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, or aptitudes.” The bill also contains a provision that would create a private right of action for consumers to sue companies for violations of the law and seek injunctive and compensatory relief.
Read
more details on JDSupra.
Sure
they could, but to what purpose?
The
Army is eyeing facial recognition tech for its next-generation rifle
…
The
Army may request iterative prototyping efforts to achieve
higher-level performance capabilities such as:
- Advanced camera-based capabilities such as automatic target recognition, target tracking and facial recognition.
How
does this play against GDPR? Data is entered by the App user, not
the person identified.
“Betrayed
by an app she had never heard of” – How TrueCaller is endangering
journalists
While
TrueCaller may have laudable intentions, the privacy implications for
people who end up in their database raise concerns. When a number is
tagged, the person who is tagged ends up having their name and phone
number stored on the TrueCaller database, despite not having
consented – or even being aware – that their data was collected.
Toward
robo-lawyer?
Reviewing
35 AI Applications for Law
Emerj
(via Joe
Hodnicki) – AI in Law and Legal Practice – A Comprehensive View
of 35 Current Applications. “Artificial intelligence (AI)
companies continue to find ways of developing technology that will
manage laborious tasks in different industries for better speed and
accuracy. In the legal profession, AI has already found its way into
supporting lawyers and clients alike. The growing interest in
applying AI in law is said to be slowly transforming the profession
and closing in on the work of paralegals, legal researchers, and
litigators.
In
this article, we’ll discuss the different ways in which AI is
currently applied in the legal profession and how technology
providers are trying to streamline work processes. We break down
AI’s current legal applications into the following categories of
applications:
- Helping lawyers perform due diligence and research
- Providing additional insights and “shortcuts” through analytics
- Automating creative processes (including some writing) in legal work
Because
of the breadth of our research (and hence the length of this
article), we encourage readers to feel free to skip ahead to the
applications areas of greatest interest for them. We’ll conclude
this article with some thoughts on AI’s promise and limitations
across the legal industry…”
Something
to think on...
Less
Like Us: An Alternate Theory of Artificial General Intelligence
The
question of whether an artificial general intelligence will be
developed in the future—and, if so, when
it might arrive —is
controversial. One (very uncertain) estimate suggests 2070
might be the earliest we
could expect to see such technology.
Some
futurists point to Moore’s Law and the increasing capacity of
machine
learning algorithms to
suggest that a more general breakthrough is just around the corner.
Others suggest that extrapolating exponential improvements in
hardware is unwise, and that creating narrow algorithms that can beat
humans at specialized tasks brings us no closer to a “general
intelligence.”
But
evolution has produced minds like the human mind at least once.
Surely we could create artificial intelligence simply by copying
nature, either by guided
evolution of simple algorithms or
wholesale
emulation of the human brain.
For
the Forensics toolkit.
Stanford
Univ – ePADD – Open Source Downloadable Software for Archival
Analysis
“ePADD
is free
and open source software
developed by Stanford University’s Special Collections &
University Archives that supports the appraisal, processing,
preservation, discovery, and delivery of historical email archives.
Visit
the Discovery
Module for
Stanford University’s Special Collections & University Archives
to see ePADD in action.
ePADD
has been awarded a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the
Institute of Museum & Library Studies (IMLS) to build out
functionality that furthers the development of a National Digital
Platform. Phase 2 of ePADD development commenced on November 1,
2015. Additional information can be found on the About
page
and in the IMLS
announcement …”
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