Local
CO:
Aurora Water announces data breach involving Click2Gov payment system
Janet
Oravetz reports:
Personal information of some Aurora Water customers, such as names, card numbers and expiration dates, may have been compromised through a data breach, according to the city’s water department.
The department made an announcement about the security incident on Monday and said customers who used the Click2Gov payment system to make one-time payments or set up recurring payments between Aug. 30 and Oct. 14 were impacted.
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more on 9News.
Let’s
face it...
Fight
against facial recognition hits wall across the West
Face-scanning
technology is inspiring a wave of privacy fears as the software
creeps into every corner of life in the United States and Europe —
at border crossings, on police vehicles and in stadiums, airports and
high schools. But efforts to check its spread are hitting a wall of
resistance on both sides of the Atlantic.
One
big reason: Western governments are embracing this technology for
their own use, valuing security and data collection over privacy and
civil liberties. And in Washington, President Donald Trump’s
impeachment and the death of a key civil rights and privacy champion
have snarled expectations for a congressional drive to enact
restrictions.
The
result is an impasse that has left tech companies largely in control
of where and how to deploy facial recognition, which they have sold
to police agencies and embedded in consumers’ apps and smartphones.
The
joy of universal ID?
Man
endures ‘living hell’ as Aadhaar card is put online
… He
was told while his Aadhaar number could not be changed, it could be
cancelled and that he should do so. However, Dhapre was reluctant to
cancel his number it since it was linked to his legitimate accounts
as well, and doing so would throw his life into turmoil.
… They
wanted me to lodge a complaint for every single fraudulent
transaction. That is an impossible task. They need to have a better
solution to my problem as I am suffering for no fault of my own.”
Since
no one complained, we went hunting ourselves.
Belgian
Supervisory Authority Imposes Cookie Fine
On
December 17, 2019, the Belgian Supervisory Authority (“SA”)
imposed a fine of € 15,000 on an SME operating a legal information
website that welcomes approximately 35,000 unique visitors a month.
Interestingly, in the apparent absence of any actual complaints
submitted to the SA, it carried out this enforcement action on its
own initiative.
Papers
for techies.
2019
in Review: 10 AI Papers That Made an Impact
The
volume of peer-reviewed AI research papers has grown by more than 300
percent over the past three decades (Stanford AI
Index 2019 ),
and the top AI conferences in 2019 saw a deluge of paper. CVPR
submissions
spiked to 5,165, a 56 percent increase over 2018; ICLR
received
1,591 main conference paper submissions, up 60 percent over last
year; ACL
reported
a record-breaking 2,906 submissions, almost doubling last year’s
1,544; and ICCV
2019
received 4,303 submissions, more than twice the 2017 total.
As
part of our year-end series, Synced spotlights 10 artificial
intelligence papers that garnered extraordinary attention and
accolades in 2019.
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