Forrest
Gump was right, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Nine
million logs of Brits' road journeys spill onto the internet from
password-less number-plate camera dashboard
In
a blunder described as "astonishing and worrying,"
Sheffield City Council's automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR)
system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys
made by thousands of people, The Register can reveal.
The
ANPR camera system's internal management dashboard could be accessed
by simply entering its IP address into a web browser. No login
details or authentication of any sort was needed to view
and search the live system – which logs where and when vehicles,
identified by their number plates, travel through Sheffield's road
network.
… The
unsecured management dashboard could have been used by anyone who
found it to reconstruct a particular vehicle's journey, or series of
journeys, from its number plate, right down to the minute with ease.
A malicious person could have renamed the cameras or altered key
metadata shown to operators, such as a camera's location, direction,
and unique identifying number.
Our
legislature is too smart to pass this bill, that’s why we came to
you.
Microsoft
can’t get its privacy bill passed in its home state. It’s trying
its luck elsewhere.
Microsoft's
multiyear effort to get privacy legislation passed in its home state
of Washington came up short for a second time last month when state
legislators couldn't agree on a compromise version of what would have
become the Washington Privacy Act.
But
the losses at home haven't stopped Microsoft from trying elsewhere.
Protocol has identified four other states — Arizona, Hawaii,
Illinois and Minnesota — where the company is trying to get
versions of the Washington legislation passed.
How
common will this become? Will I have drones in my back yard?
Sara
Merken report:
A federal judge in Maryland has cleared the way for the Baltimore police department to go ahead with an aerial surveillance pilot program.
U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett in Baltimore on Friday denied a bid by local activists backed by the American Civil Liberties Union for a preliminary injunction that sought to prevent the Baltimore Police Department from operating the six-month pilot program aimed at combating crime.
Read
more on Reuters.
Worth
reading!
The
Case for AI Insurance
Most
major companies, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, and
Tesla, have had their artificial intelligence (AI) and machine
learning (ML) systems tricked, evaded, or unintentially misled. Yet
despite these high profile failures, most organizations’ leaders
are largely unaware of their own risk when creating and using AI and
ML technologies. This is not entirely the fault of the businesses.
Technical tools to limit and remediate damage have not been built as
quickly as ML technology itself, existing cyber insurance generally
doesn’t fully cover ML systems, and legal remedies (e.g.,
copyright, liability, and anti-hacking laws) may not cover such
situations. An emerging solution is AI/ML-specific insurance. But
who will need it and exactly what it will cover are still open
questions.
Boy,
is my AI ticked… It’s looking for a good AI lawyer to appeal.
Artificial
Intelligence Cannot Be Inventors, US Patent Office Rules
On
Monday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published
a decision that
claims artificial intelligences cannot be inventors. Only “natural
persons” currently have the right to get a patent.
Finding
needles in haystacks is easy.
How
to make sense of 50,000 coronavirus research papers
As
of last week, the CORD-19 dataset
had
ballooned to over 50,000 medical papers and has been downloaded over
75,000 times, the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) said in an updated
paper.
That A.I. research group, founded by late Microsoft
co-founder
Paul Allen, is among the firms working on the project.
Kyle
Lo, an AI2 applied research scientist, told Fortune
that
one of the challenges was to consolidate tens of thousands of
academic papers into something readable that neural networks—software
used for deep learning—can understand. Each part of the document,
from the chart captions to the annotations, must be preserved for the
A.I. technologies reviewing them to work well. While this may seem
trivial, anyone who has ever tried copy-and-pasting text from a PDF
file into another document can likely tell you how that process
introduces errors.
… Although
it’s unclear whether the CORD-19 A.I. project will result in any
immediate coronavirus breakthroughs, Lo said he hopes that at
minimum, the project will lead to more A.I. researchers developing
machine-learning tools for rapidly scanning medical literature. He’s
also wishing that the CORD-19 project leads to more medical papers
being released for free, an idea referred to as “open science.”
Perspective.
How
AI is changing the customer experience
AI
is rapidly transforming the way that companies interact with their
customers. MIT Technology Review Insights’ survey of 1,004
business leaders, “The
global AI agenda,” found
that customer service is the most active department for AI deployment
today. By 2022, it will remain the leading area of AI use in
companies (say 73% of respondents), followed by sales and marketing
(59%), a part of the business that just a third of surveyed
executives had tapped into as of 2019.
Tools
you can use in isolation.
Google
Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody
Google is
opening up its Google Meet videoconferencing service to anybody who
wants to use it, instead of just offering it to enterprise and
education customers via G Suite. The company says anybody with
a Google account will now be able to create free meetings
of up to 100 people
that can last any amount of
time — though after September 30th it may restrict
meeting length to 60 minutes.
(Related)
Google’s
Meet teleconferencing service now adding about 3 million users per
day
Virtual tours.
The
Coolest Ways to Experience Boston Museums Virtually Right Now
Boston
City Life – Simple
slideshows? No way. Check out these interactive, multi-sensory, and
downright fun online resources.
“Even as art galleries sit empty and museum doors stay shut,
cultural
institutions everywhere are
still coming up with creative
ways to connect with
the public during the pandemic. Beyond virtual museum tours
available for free via Google
Arts & Culture,
Boston’s best museums are rolling out plenty of innovative new
ideas and activities
this spring.
From a digital music playlist that animates an urban art exhibit, to
an interactive game that lets history buffs play sailor, check out
these exciting ways to engage online with Boston’s museums right
now…”
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