I
think we should be charging more for my Computer Security classes.
Cybersecurity
Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell
It
took a $650,000 salary for Matt Comyns to entice a seasoned
cybersecurity expert to join one of America’s largest companies as
chief information security officer in 2012. At the time, it was
among the most lucrative offers out there.
This
year, the company had to pay $2.5 million to fill the same role.
… In
the 12 months ended August 2018, there were more than 300,000
unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the U.S., according to CyberSeek,
a project supported by the National Initiative for Cybersecurity
Education. Globally, the shortage is estimated to exceed 1 million
in coming years, studies
have
shown.
No
doubt the FBI is hoping this will establish a precedent they can
point to.
Whatsapp
Is Fighting To Keep Millions Of Users Untraceable
WhatsApp,
the encrypted messaging service that has built a 400 million strong
user base in India, is squaring off in a Tamil Nadu courthouse in a
case that could force the company to weaken its privacy protections.
The Madras high court recently began hearing a case filed by two
petitioners asking the country to force people to link their WhatsApp
accounts to their Aadhaar, India’s controversial biometric ID
number for nearly all of the country’s 1.4 billion residents.
… The
case — the first in the country to consider traceability in social
media — could set legal precedent for all tech companies operating
in India. Privacy experts fear the case is a convenient opportunity
for India’s nationalist government to force platforms to become
surveillance tools.
How
many people will allow Walmart (or Amazon) into their homes?
Walmart’s
new wireless bridge device looks to take on Amazon Key
When
it comes to the smart home, maybe the partnership
with Google isn’t
enough for Walmart anymore. According to an
FCC filing,
the retailer has submitted an application for a Wi-Fi-to-Z-wave
bridge product that links to a Z-wave garage door opener. The
application was filed by Project Franklin LLC on behalf of Walmart.
So what is this device and what is Project Franklin?
Answering the
first question is relatively easy. According to the FCC filing, the
device is a Wi-Fi bridge that will connect to a Nortek Z-wave-enabled
garage door opener. What’s interesting is the user manual for the
product states that the product should be installed professionally,
and offers a phone number to call if there are issues. The number
dials Walmart’s InHome customer care line, which is Walmart’s
grocery delivery service.
Could
we fine or imprison an AI?
When
Robots Make Legal Mistakes
Morse,
Susan C., When Robots Make Legal Mistakes (July 22, 2019). Oklahoma
Law Review, Vol. 72, 2019. Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3424110
“The
questions presented by robots’ legal mistakes are examples of the
legal process inquiry that asks when the law will accept decisions as
final, even if they are mistaken. Legal
decision-making robots include market robots and
government robots . In either category, they can make mistakes of
undercompliance or overcompliance. A market robot’s overcompliance
mistake or a government robot’s undercompliance mistake is unlikely
to be challenged. On the other hand, government enforcement can
challenge a market robot’s undercompliance mistake, and an
aggrieved regulated party can object to a government robot’s
overcompliance mistake. Especially
if robots cannot defend their legal decisions due to a lack of
explainability, they will have an incentive to make
decisions that will avoid the prospect of challenge. This incentive
could encourage counterintuitive results. For instance, it could
encourage market robots to overcomply and government robots to
undercomply with the law.”
So
easy even Mark Zuckerberg can do it.
AI
Ethics Guidelines Every CIO Should Read
You
don't need to come up with an AI ethics framework out of thin air.
Here are five of the best resources to get technology and ethics
leaders started.
Developed in
conjunction with the 2017 Asilomar conference, this list of
principles has been universally cited as a reference point by all
other AI ethics frameworks and standards introduced since it was
published.
The Public Voice Universal
Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence
EU Council of Europe Guidelines
on Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection
Another viewpoint. (Colorado author)
The Ethics
of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
… according
to statistics
from Adobe,
only 15 percent of enterprises are using AI as of today, but 31
percent are expected to add it over the coming 12 months, and the
share of jobs requiring AI has increased by 450 percent since 2013.
… As an
increasing number of AI enabled devices are developed and utilized by
consumers and enterprises around the globe, the need to keep those
devices secure has never been more important. AI’s increasing
capabilities and utilization dramatically increase the opportunity
for nefarious uses. Consider the dangerous potential of autonomous
vehicles and weapons like armed drones falling under the control of
bad actors.
As a result of
this peril, it has become crucial that IT departments, consumers,
business leaders and the government, fully understand cybercriminal
strategies that could lead to an AI-driven threat environment. If
they don’t, maintaining the security of these traditionally
insecure devices and protecting an organization’s digital
transformation becomes a nearly impossible endeavor.
How can we
ensure safety for a technology that is designed to learn how to
modify its own behavior? Developers can’t always determine how or
why AI systems take various actions, and this will likely only grow
more difficult as AI consumes more data and grows exponentially more
complex.
A
future resource?
NHS
to set up national artificial intelligence lab
The
Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said AI had "enormous power"
to improve care, save lives and ensure doctors had more time to spend
with patients.
He
has announced £250m will be spent on boosting the role of AI within
the health service.
… Increasing
the use of AI will also pose challenges for the health service - from
training staff to enhancing cyber-security and ensuring patient
confidentiality.
… The
other challenge with an AI is it can only ever be as good as the data
it learns from.
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