What
constitutes a “conflict short of war?”
U.S.
Offensive Cyber Operations against Economic Cyber Intrusions: An
International Law Analysis – Part I
Would
Economic Cyber Intrusions Against U.S. Entities Violate International
Law?
I
teach my students how to create their own encryption. Am I
facilitating crime?
The
Movement to Ban End-to-End Encryption Has Hit Another Inflection
Point
… It
now appears that key agencies within the federal government have
mixed feelings about the idea to ban end-to-end encryption. For
example, on one hand are law enforcement agencies such as the FBI and
Department of Justice, which view end-to-end encryption as a
roadblock in their efforts to track down criminals and terrorists.
On the other hand, the Commerce and State departments are less
willing to take the heavy-handed step to ban end-to-end encryption,
due to fears of the potential economic, security and diplomatic
consequences.
Another
GDPR nuance.
Dutch
DPA: Banks May Not Use Payment Data for Marketing Purposes
In
the wake of a recent announcement by a major Dutch bank that it would
start providing its customers with personalized advertisements based
on their spending patterns, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA)
has sent a letter to all Dutch banks urging them to thoroughly review
their direct marketing practices. The DPA specifically asked any
bank contemplating the use of transaction data for direct marketing
to reconsider. In its analysis, the DPA may have introduced a very
onerous obligation to re-collect personal data for every single use.
… Under
the GDPR, personal data must be collected for a specific purpose and
not further processed for a different purpose if that further purpose
is incompatible with the original purpose.
… The
DPA then specifically held that a bank does not collect transaction
data for the purpose of direct marketing (contrary to the Dutch
bank’s privacy statement).
The
DPA subsequently concluded that the purpose of direct marketing is
incompatible with the purpose of enabling financial transactions.
Another
perspective on AI.
The
Metamorphosis
AI
will bring many wonders. It may also destabilize everything from
nuclear détente to human friendships. We need to think much harder
about how to adapt.
HENRY
A. KISSINGER, ERIC SCHMIDT, DANIEL HUTTENLOCHER
A
lot of questions about privacy, AI, liability, etc.
Amazon
Alexa will now be giving out health advice to UK citizens
MIT
Technology Review –
“The UK’s National Health Service hopes that its partnership with
Amazon could help to reduce demand on its services.
The news: From this week, when UK users ask their Amazon smart speaker health-related questions, it will automatically search the official NHS website, which is full of medically-backed health tips and advice.
The aim: The government believes it will ease the burden on over-stretched doctors and hospitals, but also help elderly, disabled or blind patients who may struggle to access this information otherwise.
The worries: There are concerns that the voice service might discourage genuinely ill people from seeking proper medical help. It being Amazon, there are also concerns over data privacy, especially over an area as sensitive as health. The firm says all data can be deleted by customers…”
(Related) My students are writing a policy for
firms that sell voice activated devices to ensure that any evidence
of criminal (or terrorist) activity is identified and reported to the
proper authorities. Wish them luck.
GOOGLE, AMAZON, AND Apple say their AI-powered
virtual assistants make it easier to get things done on smartphones
or at home. Last month, a couple in the Waasmunster area of Belgium
got an unexpected lesson in how these supposedly automated helpers
really work.
Tim Verheyden, a journalist with Belgian public
broadcaster VRT, contacted the couple bearing a mysterious audio
file. To their surprise, they clearly heard the voices of their son
and baby grandchild—as captured by Google’s virtual assistant on
a smartphone.
Verheyden says he gained access to the file and
more than 1,000 others from a Google contractor who is part of a
worldwide workforce paid to review some audio captured by the
assistant from devices including smart speakers, phones, and security
cameras.
… WIRED
reviewed transcripts of the files shared by VRT, which published
a report on its findings Wednesday.
In roughly 150 of the recordings, the broadcaster says the assistant
appears to have activated incorrectly after mishearing its wake word.
[So,
the other 850 were not recorded “in error?” Bob]
… Privacy
scholars say Google’s practices may breach the European Union
privacy rules known as GDPR introduced last year, which provide
special protections for sensitive data such as medical information
and require transparency about how personal data is collected and
processed.
A privacy podcast.
Internet
Privacy: What Issues Arise Over Accessing Private Information Online?
Gov.
Janet Mills recently signed into law The
Act to Protect the Privacy of Online Consumer Information.
It is one
of the nation’s strictest internet privacy protection bills.
It requires Maine ISPs to get customers' approval before sharing or
selling their personal data. The law prohibits ISPs from offering
customers discounts in exchange for selling their data. We discuss
the issues that arise over how best to protect private information.
Listen
to the full program here..52:48 :
Another swing of the pendulum.
Five new
bills threaten California's privacy act, experts say
Five
digital privacy
bills
are up for consideration in the California Senate’s judiciary
committee on Tuesday that would drastically alter the California
Consumer Privacy Act. The new legislation could reverse many of the
measures improving security of consumers’ personal data under the
landmark privacy bill, which is set to go live in 2020.
The
bills — AB
1416, AB
25,
AB
873, AB
846 and
AB
1564 —
are intended to repeal and amend much of the CCPA,
which
set a new standard for consumer data protection after being signed
into law last June.
… AB
1416, identified by privacy advocates as the most pernicious of the
five bills up for consideration, would allow any business to sell
personal information even after a consumer opts out, if the sale is
conducted for the purposes of detecting fraud or other illegal
activity.
Because
we can? Will IP lawyers be able to determine what the AI based its
design on? (Note the company’s URL)
AI'S
LATEST JOB? DESIGNING COOL T-SHIRTS
THE
T-SHIRTS SOLD by
Cross
& Freckle,
a New York–based fashion upstart, don't look revolutionary at first
glance. They come in black or white, they're cut for a unisex fit,
and they sell for $25. Each of them has a little design embroidered
into the cotton that references staples of New York City life:
pigeons, dollar pizza slices, subway rats.
… Cross
& Freckle doesn't just use AI to create its designs; it also got
the brand's name and logo from a neural net, called the Hipster
Business Name Generator and
used an AI text generator to create the mumbo-jumbo marketing
copy on
the company's website. It's a new model for a brand that relies
entirely on AI.
Perspective.
Technology moves too fast for employees to make a full career of one
skill.
Amazon
commits $700M to retrain 100k employees, acknowledging impact of tech
on jobs
Amazon
is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce,
in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact of technology and
automation on jobs and the workforce.
The
company says it will spend the money over the next five years to
“upskill” roughly 100,000 employees, about one-third of its U.S.
workforce. The free program, announced Thursday morning, will allow
Amazon workers to reboot their careers in hot
areas such as data mapping specialist, data scientist, solutions
architect and business analyst.
An
Amazon enabled occupation I knew noting about.
ROAD-TRIPPING
WITH THE AMAZON NOMADS
… Anderson
is an Amazon nomad, part of
a small group of merchants who travel the backroads of America
searching clearance aisles and dying chains for goods to sell on
Amazon. Some live out of RVs and vans, moving from town to town,
only stopping long enough to pick the stores clean and ship their
wares to Amazon’s fulfillment centers.
Dilbert
give a great example of something so many people believe that it
can’t possibly be “fake news!”
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