Perhaps
we need another definition? (Would 100 per week change the UK’s
mind? How about 100,000?)
The
Application of International Law to Cyberspace: Sovereignty and
Non-intervention
The term
“cyber attack” sounds dramatic, invoking images of war. Many
commentators have talked about how the law on the use of force and
the law of armed conflict apply to cyber attacks. But the reality is
that cyber incursions by one State into another State’s territory
are both more frequent and less dramatic than attacks that rise to
the level of a use of force. The United
Kingdom estimates that
it is on the receiving end of an average of ten cyber attacks a week,
most by State-sponsored hackers. These low level, persistent attacks
do not constitute a use of force nor reach the level of intensity
required to trigger an armed conflict. They will often leave no
physical trace. But they can cause significant economic and
political damage in the victim State. And they can violate other
rules of international law, namely the principle of sovereignty,
and/or the prohibition on intervention in another State’s affairs.
A
start on Best Practices. A metric for failures.
5
Steps to Securing Your Enterprise Mobile App
Better
lawyers or naive management?
Facebook
Won’t Change Web Tracking in Response to California Privacy Law
Facebook
Inc. has told advertisers it doesn’t need to make changes to its
web-tracking services to comply with California’s new
consumer-privacy law, setting up a potential early clash over how the
closely watched law will be enforced once it goes into effect.
Facebook
is one of several companies in the $130 billion U.S. digital-ad
industry that maintains that routine data transfers about consumers
may not fit the law’s
definition of “selling” data. Other major
competitors, including Alphabet Inc. ’s Google, have introduced new
tools to comply with the law’s mandate to stop collecting data if a
user opts out.
Worth
a deep read.
EFF
has published
a
comprehensible and very readable "deep dive" into the
technologies of corporate surveillance, both on the Internet and off.
Well worth reading and sharing.
Boing
Boing post.
A
book list for Privacy wonks. I picked a couple…
Notable
Privacy and Security Books 2019
Here
are some notable books on privacy and security from 2019. To see a
more comprehensive list of nonfiction works about privacy and
security, Professor Paul Schwartz and I maintain a resource page on
Nonfiction
Privacy + Security Books.
For
my students. And me. Streaming FREE.
‘The
Age Of A.I.’: Robert Downey Jr. Hosts YouTube Documentary Series –
Watch The Trailer
Hey
Alexa, how is artificial intelligence reshaping our world? Robert
Downey Jr. will explain in The
Age of A.I., a
new documentary series from YouTube
originals that
premieres December 18. Check out the first trailer above and key art
below.
The
eight-episode series takes a deep dive into the fascinating world of
the most transformational technology in the history of humankind, per
YouTube’s logline.
My
AI says I find this article troubling.
Emotion-detecting
tech should be restricted by law - AI Now
A
leading research centre has called for new laws to restrict the use
of emotion-detecting tech.
The
AI Now Institute says the field is "built on markedly shaky
foundations".
Despite
this, systems are on sale to help vet job seekers, test criminal
suspects for signs of deception, and set insurance prices.
It
wants such software to be banned from use in important decisions that
affect people's lives and/or determine their access to opportunities.
… AI
Now refers to the technology by its formal name, affect recognition,
in
its annual report.
… "It
claims to read, if you will, our inner-emotional states by
interpreting the micro-expressions on our face, the tone of our voice
or even the way that we walk," explained co-founder Prof Kate
Crawford.
… Prof
Crawford suggested that part of the problem was that some firms were
basing their software on the work of Paul Ekman, a psychologist who
proposed in the 1960s that there were only six basic emotions
expressed via facial emotions.
But,
she added, subsequent studies had demonstrated there was far greater
variability, both in terms of the number of emotional states and the
way that people expressed them.
Does
this have any direct parallel in Standard Oil or other busted trusts?
FTC
Weighs Seeking Injunction Against Facebook Over How Its Apps Interact
If it materializes, the action by the Federal
Trade Commission would focus on Facebook’s policies concerning it
how it integrates its apps or allows them to work with potential
rivals, these people said. Alongside its core social network,
Facebook’s key products also include Instagram, Messenger and
WhatsApp.
The potential FTC action would likely seek to
block Facebook from enforcing those policies on grounds that they are
anticompetitive, the people said. An injunction could seek to bar
Facebook from further integrating apps that federal regulators might
look to unwind as part of a potential
future breakup of the company, one of the people said.
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