This
is not what we meant when we said politicians should learn from
Russia’s interference.
FAKE
BIDEN CAMPAIGN WEBSITE BEING RUN SECRETLY BY TRUMP CAMPAIGN
OPERATIVE: REPORT
… The
New York Times tracked down the owner of a site with the URL
JoeBiden.info, a "parody" campaign website featuring
out-of-context quotes from the former vice president and leading 2020
Democratic candidate. The site also includes GIFs of him touching
women in ways that others alleged made them uncomfortable.
Makes
you wonder if they know what to look for.
With a
single wiretap, police collected 9.2 million text messages
For four months in 2018, authorities in Texas
collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single
court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show.
… Little
is known about the case, except that 149 individuals involved in the
case were targeted by the wiretap. The wiretap expired last year,
allowing the judiciary to disclose the case.
To
date, no arrests have been made
Trailing
behind it was another narcotics investigation in the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania saw police obtain a three-month wiretap that
collected 9.1 million text message from 45 individuals. No arrests
were made either.
Answers
an interesting question, did anyone notice that GDPR thing?
The
Privacy Policy Landscape After the GDPR
Every
new privacy regulation brings along the question of whether it
results in improving the privacy for the users. The EU General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the most demanding and
comprehensive privacy regulations of all time. Hence, a few months
after it went into effect, it is natural to study its impact on the
landscape of privacy policies online.
… We
create a diverse corpus of 3,686 English-language privacy policies
for which we fetch the pre-GDPR and the post-GDPR versions. Our user
study, with 460 participants on Amazon MTurk, does not indicate a
significant change in the visual representation of privacy policies
from the users’ perspective. We also find that the
readability of privacy policies suffers under the GDPR,
due to almost a 23% more sentences and words, despite the efforts to
reduce the reliance on passive sentences.
(Related)
We
Value Your Privacy ... Now Take Some Cookies: Measuring the GDPR's
Impact on Web Privacy
… Many
companies had to adjust their data handling processes, consent forms,
and privacy policies to comply with the GDPR’s transparency
requirements. We monitored this rare event by analyzing changes on
popular websites in all 28 member states of the European Union. For
each country, we periodically examined its 500 most popular websites
– 6,579 in total – for the presence of and updates to their
privacy policy between December 2017 and October 2018.
AI,
explain thyself! (Please select one of our ‘pre-written’
explanations.)
Generating
User-friendly Explanations for Loan Denials using GANs
… State-of-the-art
explainable AI systems mostly serve AI engineers and offer little to
no value to business decision makers, customers, and other
stakeholders. Towards addressing this gap, in this work we consider
the scenario of explaining loan denials. We build the
first-of-its-kind dataset that is representative of loan-applicant
friendly explanations.
Turing
asked if a machine could fool a human. Can an Artificial General
Intelligence fool another AGI?
Turing
Test Revisited: A Framework for an Alternative
This
paper aims to question the suitability of the Turing Test, for
testing machine intelligence, in the light of advances made in the
last 60 years in science, medicine, and philosophy of mind.
Perspective.
Because sticking your head out the window isn’t enough.
The
Real Cloud Wars: The $6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather
Forecasting
… Today conservative estimates of
AccuWeather’s annual revenues exceed $100 million. Customers
include hundreds of TV and radio stations across the country plus
major print outlets like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal
and USA Today. More than 1,000 companies use Accuweather’s private
weather forecasts to improve their bottom lines. Those range from
the obvious—railroads and amusement parks like Six Flags—to the
less obvious—say, Clemson University’s campus police department
and Starbucks.
… For
decades, private weather forecasting has been a cozy industry,
dominated in the U.S. by AccuWeather, The
Weather Company (founded
as The Weather Channel in 1982 and bought by IBM for $2.3 billion in
2016) and DTN,
which focuses on industrial concerns and was purchased by a Swiss
holding company for $900 million in 2017.
But
now a perfect storm of macro-trends—ever cheaper
processing power, cloud computing, vastly improved AI and a
proliferation of low-cost sensors—has opened up the
field to a fresh crop of ambitious startups. In aggregate, they have
raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, who think the
incumbents look vulnerable to creative new business models.
They
are fighting over a big and growing pie. Recent numbers are hard to
come by, but a 2013 article
from the Wharton School estimated
that overall revenues for climate and weather companies were about $3
billion and that, in aggregate, the industry was worth some $6
billion. A 2017
report from the National Weather Service included
a prediction that the sector could quintuple in size.
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