It
could happen here. How would you use this data if you were running
for office? If you were a crook? If you were Russia?
Voter
Data of Every Israeli Citizen Leaked by Election Management Site
While
most of the attention of international media was on the voting snafus
in the Iowa Democratic caucus earlier this month, a much more serious
incident was developing in Israel. The registration data of all of
Israel’s 6.5 million voters was leaked thanks to a faulty download
site for the Likud party’s election management app. The breach
included full names, addresses and identity card numbers for all
users.
I
wonder what the FBI recommends?
EU
Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
The
European Commission has told its staff to start using Signal, an
end-to-end-encrypted messaging app, in a push to increase the
security of its communications.
… The
app is favored by privacy activists because of its end-to-end
encryption and open-source technology.
You
can tell when something is important to a company.
No,
Facebook’s is not telling you everything
Despite
Facebook claim, "Download Your Information" doesn't provide
users with a list of all advertisers who uploaded a list with their
personal data
As
a user this means you can't exercise your rights under GDPR because
you don't know which companies have uploaded data to Facebook
Information
provided about the advertisers is also very limited (just a name and
no contact details), preventing users from effectively exercising
their rights
Biometrics.
New
DNA test that reveals a child’s true age has promise, but ethical
pitfalls
Epigenetic
clocks are a new type of biological test currently capturing the
attention of the scientific community, private companies and
governmental agencies because of their potential to reveal
an individual’s “true” age.
Over
the past two years, companies such as Chronomics
and
MyDNage
have
started to sell epigenetic age tests to the public online, and the
life insurance company YouSurance
has
announced that it would be testing the epigenetic age of their policy
holders to
assign them to risk groups.
Forensic scientists are also contemplating how epigenetic clocks
could help determine
the age of suspected criminals.
Recently,
the Kobor
Lab developed
the first pediatric
epigenetic clock designed
specifically for testing the age of young people, with an eye towards
its applications in research and medical settings. This test uses a
small sample of cells collected cheaply and easily from a cheek swab,
and can predict a child’s age with a degree of precision within
approximately four months.
But
pediatric epigenetic clocks are likely to have non-medical
applications as well. They could soon be used in immigration cases
to prove the age of undocumented migrants
seeking asylum as minors.
Other future uses can be imagined, such as for child labour and
trafficking surveillance, or even for the identification of child
combatants in armed conflicts.
… However,
most epigenetic tests have not yet been scientifically validated to
confirm their precision and accuracy in different sub-groups of the
population, and the ethical,
legal and social implications of their use are not well understood.
Rearchitecting
the business.
AI
is not just another technology project
AI,
unlike any other initiative is a business transformation enabler and
not another technology system implementation that business users need
to be trained on. Traditionally, businesses choose either the
classic waterfall approach of linear tasks, or the agile approach,
where teams review and evaluate solutions as they are tested out.
In
contrast, implementing AI technology requires a different approach
altogether. AI requires that you look at a problem and see if
there’s a way to solve it by reframing the business process itself.
Instead of solving a problem with a 10-step strategy, is there a way
to cut it down to six steps using data already available or by using
new types of untapped internal or publicly available data and
applying AI to it? A study
by
IDC last year found that 60% of organizations reported changes in
their business model that were associated with AI adoption.
We’re
still asking this question? Really? I expect the car to put my life
first – hit the kids! (It’s how self-driving cars and car
services will be marketed.)
Who
Lives and Who Dies When Artificial Intelligence Drives Your Car?
We
can expect AI to perform as well as we do in difficult situations,
and hopefully much better. But we can't expect it to play at amateur
philosophy. We should be afraid if it did. Would you trust a car
that thought deeply about issues of life and death? Or would you
rather your car just got on with the driving, and left the big moral
questions to the philosophers?
Toward
automated lawyers.
Artificial
Intelligence ante portas: The End of Comparative Law?
Artificial
intelligence (AI) can do many things that were not thought of some
years ago and that are unimaginable for non-AI experts even today.
In contrast, it is relatively easy to understand that AI can be used
to compare contents and structures of laws and legal documents. In
fact, the comparative abilities of AI are the reason why AI is now
playing an increasing role—for example, in due diligence exercises
where contracts, documents as well as other materials and legal data
of target companies are benchmarked against standard patterns. If
the ‘ability to compare’ is one of the core features of AI it is
only natural to assume that AI is an ideal tool to conduct
comparative law work. This article explores if this assumption is
correct. This article first highlights key features of the
comparative law work process, which, for some strange reason, is
hardly ever discussed in the legal literature. This article
describes and analyses the different stages and investigates which
parts can (or cannot) be conducted by AI. It also asks if
AI will—within the scope of its comparative abilities—in fact,
‘take over’ from human comparatists. On the basis of the
findings, this article
concludes that it is more likely than not that comparative law work
will, in the future, be AI based.
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