For
the Security literature collection.
These
Are a Few of Our Favorite IoT: NIST Finalizes Internet of Things
Cyber Guidance
How
do we make this work?
Trusted
data and the future of information sharing
MIT
Technology Review –
How
policy innovation is promoting data sharing and AI. “Data
in some form underpins almost every action or process in today’s
modern world.
Consider that even farming, the world’s oldest industry, is on the
verge of a digital revolution, with AI, drones, sensors, and
blockchain technology promising to boost efficiencies. The market
value of an apple will increasingly reflect not only traditional
farming inputs but also some value of modern data, such as weather
patterns, soil acidity levels and agri-supply-chain information. By
2022 more than 60% of global GDP will be digitized,
according to IDC. Governments seeking to foster growth in their
digital economies need to be more active in encouraging safe data
sharing between organizations. Tolerating
the sharing of data and stepping in only where security breaches
occur is no longer enough.
Sharing data across different organizations enables the whole
ecosystem to grow and can be a unique source of competitive
advantage. But businesses need guidelines and support in how to do
this effectively. This is how Singapore’s data-sharing worldview
has evolved, according to Janil Puthucheary, senior minister of state
for communications and information and transport, upon launching the
city-state’s new Trusted
Data Sharing Framework in
June 2019…”
Serious
about privacy or fanatical about privacy?
Brian
Min reports:
The French state had been ordered by an administrative court in Versailles to pay 500 euros to Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the ISIS group that carried out a series of coordinated terror attacks here 131 civilians died in and around Paris on November 13, 2015.
Although the court order against the French state took place in March 2017, it is becoming publicized now in France and across the world because Le Figaro, a French daily newspaper, discovered this news yesterday in a new book about Abdeslam’s lawyer titled The Diary of Frank Berton.
A
typical New Yorker article.
The
Fight for the Future of YouTube
Earlier
this year, executives at YouTube began mulling, once again, the
problem of online speech. On grounds of freedom of expression and
ideological neutrality, the platform has long allowed users to upload
videos endorsing noxious ideas, from conspiracy theories to
neo-Nazism. Now it wanted to reverse course. “There are no sacred
cows,” Susan Wojcicki, the C.E.O. of YouTube, reportedly told her
team. Wojcicki had two competing goals: she wanted to avoid
accusations of ideological bias while also affirming her company’s
values. In the course of the spring, YouTube drafted a new policy
that would ban videos trafficking in historical “denialism” (of
the Holocaust, 9/11, Sandy Hook) and “supremacist” views (lauding
the “white race,” arguing that men were intellectually superior
to women). YouTube planned to roll out its new policy as early as
June. In May, meanwhile, it started preparing for Pride Month,
turning its red logo rainbow-colored and promoting popular L.G.B.T.Q.
video producers on Instagram.
On
May 30th, Carlos Maza, a media critic at Vox, upended these efforts.
In a Twitter thread that quickly went viral, Maza argued that the
company’s publicity campaign belied its lax enforcement of the
content and harassment policies it had already put in place. Maza
posted a video supercut of bigoted insults that he’d received from
Steven Crowder, a conservative comedian with nearly four million
YouTube followers; the insults focussed on Maza’s ethnicity and
sexual orientation.
… Perhaps
because of the vast scale at which most social platforms operate,
proposed solutions to the problem of online hate speech tend to be
technical in nature. In theory, a platform might fine-tune its
algorithms to deëmphasize hate speech and conspiracy theories. But,
in practice, this is harder than it sounds.
… Business
challenges compound the technical ones. In a broad sense, any
algorithmic change that dampens user engagement could work against
YouTube’s business model.
Captain
Obvious or an oracle? Either way it might get management to think
about ethics.
Ethical
Artificial Intelligence Becomes A Supreme Competitive Advantage
Ethical
AI ensures more socially conscious approaches to customer and
employee interactions, and in the long run, may be the ultimate
competitive differentiatior as well, a recent survey suggests. Three
in five consumers who perceive their AI interactions to be ethical
place higher trust in the company, spread positive word of mouth, and
are more loyal. More than half of consumers participating in a
recent survey say they would purchase more from a company whose AI
interactions are deemed ethical.
… An
AI Ethics infographic:
https://www.capgemini.com/in-en/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/07/Ethics-in-AI-Infographic_Web.pdf
Kind
of a reverse perspective. Self-driving cars will love it!
Americans
Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It
The
Atlantic – Gregory H. Shill – The
automobile took over because the legal system helped squeeze out the
alternatives.
“…In America, the freedom of movement comes with an asterisk: the
obligation to drive. This truism has been echoed by the U.S. Supreme
Court, which has pronounced
car
ownership a “virtual necessity.” The Court’s pronouncement is
telling. Yes, in a sense, America is car-dependent by choice—but
it is also car-dependent by law. As I
detail in a forthcoming journal article, over
the course of several generations lawmakers rewrote the rules of
American life to conform to the interests of Big Oil, the auto
barons, and the car-loving 1 percenters of the Roaring Twenties.
They gave legal force to a mind-set—let’s call it automobile
supremacy—that kills
40,000 Americans a year and
seriously injures more
than 4 million more.
Include all those harmed by emissions and climate change, and the
damage is even greater. As a teenager growing up in the shadow of
Detroit, I had no reason to feel this was unjust, much less
encouraged by law. It is both…”
Perspective.
The
top 10 things you need to know from China Internet Report 2019
Our
new China
Internet Report brings
you insights into the most important trends shaping the world’s
largest internet population. You can click the link to read the full
report.
Dilbert announces his own doom?
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