“Bad algorithm! You did exactly what I told you to do.”
Campbell
Kwan reports:
Google has suspended an email alert system in New Zealand after receiving backlash by the country’s government for releasing suppressed information relating to an ongoing murder trial.
The company in December released automated emails that included the name of a suspect of a high-profile murder trial.
During the trial, the court had ordered for the name of the accused murder to be suppressed while the trial was still in process to ensure a fair trial, but Google’s automated Trends email alerts sent the murder suspect’s name to thousands of users.
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more on ZDNet.
[From
the article:
Google's
decision to suspend its email alerting system, Trends, on Friday --
seven months after it breached the court order -- comes almost
immediately after Justice Minister Andrew Little on Wednesday posted
a video on Twitter saying
to Google: "don't be evil".
Nifty little
graphic that shows how much larger fines are under GDPR.
British
Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach
British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m
for last year's breach of its security systems.
The airline, owned by IAG, says it is "surprised
and disappointed" by the penalty from the Information
Commissioner's Office (ICO).
… The ICO said it was the biggest penalty it
had handed out and the first to be made public under new rules.
The ICO said the incident took place after users
of British Airways' website were diverted to a fraudulent site.
Through this false site, details of about 500,000 customers were
harvested by the attackers, the ICO said.
… I
imagine that many people's first reaction to the £183m fine that the
Information Commissioner plans to levy on British Airways will have
mirrored mine - surely the decimal point must be in the wrong place?
After
all the proposed penalty is roughly
367 times as high as the previous record fine, the
£500,000 imposed on Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The
difference, of course, is that the law has changed between the two
incidents, with the arrival of a new law mirroring Europe's GDPR.
This allows fines of up to 4% of annual turnover.
The problems AI has to overcome before it can
replace all those human workers.
Machine
learning helps robot harvest lettuce for the first time
Engineers from the University of Cambridge have
developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify
and harvest iceberg lettuce, one of the more manually demanding crops
for human pickers.
… The resulting machine, called Vegebot,
demonstrated impressive identification results, with a localization
success rate of 91 percent. The system still needs work before it
can be translated into a commercial solution, with a particularly
high damage rate of around 38 percent reported.
… The
new research was published in the Journal
of Field Robotics.
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