Saturday, February 29, 2020


Is this common? First time I’ve see it.
Ca: LifeLabs files petition to keep cyberattack report from B.C. privacy commissioner
Andrew Weichel reports:
The B.C.-based laboratory testing company that was targeted in a cyberattack last fall is trying to keep the province’s privacy commissioner from accessing a third-party report on the breach.
In a petition filed this month in B.C. Supreme Court, LifeLabs argued it shouldn’t have to turn over a report prepared by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike because it’s protected by solicitor-client privilege.
Read more on CTV News.
[From the article:
Beyond solicitor-client privilege, the company argued the report is protected by litigation privilege, which covers documents and communications prepared expressly in anticipation of a lawsuit.




Sometimes you are your own worst enemy.
Catastrophic data loss’ affects thousands of Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office dashcam videos
Rosana Hughes reports:
A “catastrophic data loss” caused thousands of Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office videos from dashboard cameras to disappear — and potentially could jeopardize criminal and civil cases.
All dash camera footage for all 130 patrol deputies between Oct. 25, 2018, and Jan. 23 of this year was lost after a software failure on Jan. 13, according to a letter hand-delivered to the District Attorney’s Office this week. The footage could not be recovered, as that was the only server used to store the videos.
Read more on Chattanooga Times Free Press. This was not a cyberattack situation but a drive failure and discovery that the system had not been making backups correctly disaster.




How influential are these companies (or their users)?
IANS reports:
A coalition comprising digital media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter (among others) have spoken out against the new regulations approved by the Pakistani government for social media, threatening to suspend services in the country if the rules were not revised, it was reported.
In a letter to Prime Minster Imran Khan earlier this month, the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) called on his government to revise the new sets of rules and regulations for social media, The News International reported on Friday.
Read more on Business Standard.




True for all fields?
How accurate is AI in legal research?
… “Lawyers have an exceptionalism fallacy, and they’re trained to do things completely perfect,” he said, mentioning legal research. “Lawyers are far better at research than most humans, but that doesn’t mean we’re good at it. It means we’re less horrible at it than other humans.”
That being said, Hamilton argued that there may come a time when courts demand lawyers use artificial intelligence to research arguments. He noted how quickly lawyers have gone from books, to computer programs, to online services for legal research.




A case study?
How Going All-In on Machine Learning Changed Data Collection at Morningstar
Ahmad joined Morningstar, which provides research and proprietary tools to investors, in 2010 and stepped into the role of head of technology for the data collection group in the summer of 2018. His first order of business was to automate the data collection process which, up until that point, had relied on analysts to gather information from numerous sources — ranging from SEC filings to managed investment documents — and verify its quality.
Generating training data was a challenging task in itself because we cover so many datasets. We created additional tooling to capture contextual information that had previously gone uncollected. This contextual information allowed us to train machine learning models and deliver runtime inferences to an analyst who either accepts or rejects the output, forming a feedback loop for retraining that further improves the model.




What can I say? As I used to tell my Statistics class, “Half the world is below average.”
Survey: 38% of Americans won’t buy Corona beer ‘under any circumstances’ because of coronavirus outbreak



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