Because
it’s California and no one will notice another crazy driver?
… if
you live in California you can soon stay home and have all your stuff
delivered by autonomous delivery robots. Starting January 17,
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will start approving
permits for self-driving delivery vehicles. These permits allow for
testing and commercial use, and there are separate permits for
vehicles with and without backup drivers.
… The
requirements
for
testing with a driver include certifying that the vehicles have been
tested in controlled conditions, maintaining a training program for
test drivers, and ensuring that the drivers have a clean record and
are capable of taking over manual control.
Requirements
for driverless testing include certifying Level 4 or 5 autonomous
capability, having a remote operator, and having a “law enforcement
interaction plan,” among other things.
Paying
is cheaper than recovery on your own. What is an ethical response
worth?
Ransomware:
The number of victims paying up is on the rise, and that’s bad news
The
number of organisations that are giving into the extortion demands of
cyber criminals after falling victim to ransomware
attacks has
more than doubled this year.
A
rise in the number of ransomware attacks in the past year has
contributed to to the increased number of organisations opting to pay
a ransom for the safe return of networks locked down by
file-encrypting malware.
That’s
according to figures in the newly released 2019
CrowdStrike Global; Security Attitude Survey,
which said the total number of organisations around the world that
pay the ransom after falling victim to a supply-chain attack has more
than doubled from 14% of victims to 39% of those affected.
Read
more on ZDNet.
About
time! Architecture.
Are
cookie banners indeed compliant with the law? Deciphering EU legal
requirements on consent and technical means to verify compliance of
cookie banners
In
this work, we analyze the legal requirements on how cookie banners
are supposed to be implemented to be fully compliant with the
ePrivacy Directive and the GDPR. Our contribution resides in the
definition of 17 operational and fine-grained requirements
on cookie banner design that are legally compliant, and moreover, we
define whether and when the verification of compliance of each
requirement is technically feasible.
… For
each requirement, we exemplify with compliant and non-compliant
cookie banners.
“Hey!
We gotta do something!”
Schools
are using facial recognition to try to stop shootings. Here’s why
they should think twice.
For
years, the Denver public
school system worked with Video Insight, a Houston-based video
management software company that centralized the storage of video
footage used across its campuses. So when Panasonic acquired Video
Insight, school officials simply transferred the job of updating and
expanding their security system to the Japanese electronics giant.
That meant new digital HD cameras and access to more powerful
analytics software, including Panasonic’s facial recognition, a
tool the public school system’s safety department is now exploring.
Denver,
where some activists are pushing for a
ban on government use of facial recognition,
is not alone. Mass
shootings have
put school administrators across the country on edge, and they’re
understandably looking at anything that might prevent another
tragedy.
… High-tech
security software could make students feel policed and surveilled,
and research has already demonstrated that facial recognition can be
inaccurate, especially for people
of color and
women, as well as other groups. (Those findings were
confirmed by
a National Institute of Standards and Technology report released
Thursday.)
… to
make use of these tools to preemptively stop a violent event, school
staff would have to already know that a person was potentially
dangerous and unwelcome on campus — and flag them in the system.
It’s
important to note that school shooters are often not previously
banned by school staff. Systems like these, though, could
theoretically allow a school official to flag a student for any
reason, or no reason at all (and regulation of these tools isn’t
clear, more on that later).
Ask
the Terminator why HAL did what he did. (PDF)
On the
occasion of its 30th anniversary, the KU Leuven Centre for IT &
IP Law (CiTiP) organized a conference on 4 October 2019 which
gathered prominent specialists in technology law, cybersecurity, data
protection, privacy and artificial intelligence. One of the parallel
sessions chaired by Prof. Els Kindt was dedicated
to the legal regulation of artificial intelligence, especially in the
field of data protection (GDPR).
Will AI
systems be elected or appointed? (PDF)
This
presentation was delivered to the students of the International
Summer School on IT Law at the Institute of Legal Informatics,
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. It provides an introduction
to the challenges of international responsibility created by the
introduction of artificial intelligence in global decision-making
processes.
No
surprises.
7
Ethically Controversial Research Areas in Science and Technology
Scientific
research contains a plethora of ethical and moral dilemmas – at
what point have we gone too far?
An
un-natural monopoly.
Fed
up with slow and spotty internet, a small Texas town built its own
high-speed network
… The
problem facing Mont Belvieu is one familiar to many towns and rural
areas in Texas and around the country. Major internet service
providers don’t see a strong enough business case to expand their
footprint, upgrade internet speeds or offer any internet service at
all.
… Starting
in June 2018, every household in Mont Belvieu could sign up for the
city’s homegrown internet service, MB Link. It costs $75 a month
for speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second.
Comcast
charged $75 a month and Verizon FiOS — now Frontier Communications
— $60 a month for 75 megabits per second, according to a 2016 study
by the city. If residents wanted faster speeds closer to what MB
Link ultimately delivered, they were paying up to $280 a month.
MB
Link sold internet to nearly a third of households before even
flipping the switch.
Why
Wally may be the smartest of the Dilbert characters.
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