I
thought this was clearly understood. Silly me.
No
cookie consent walls — and no, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU
data protection body – TechCrunch
You
can’t make access to your website’s content dependent on a
visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent
cookie wall’. Not if you need to be compliant with European data
protection law.
That’s
the unambiguous message from the European Data Protection Board
(EDPB), which has published updated
guidelines on
the rules around online consent to process people’s data.
Under
pan-EU law, consent is one of six lawful bases that data controllers
can use when processing people’s personal data.
But
in order for consent to be legally valid under Europe’s General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) there are specific standards to
meet: It must be clear and
informed, specific and freely given.
Some
interesting conclusions…
Some
Observations on the Clearview AI Facial Recognition System – From
Someone Who Has Actually Used It …
Clearview
is a facial recognition search engine licensed to law enforcement
agencies by Clearview AI, Inc. that permits an investigating officer
to upload a photo of an individual of interest (a possible suspect,
witness or victim) and search a database compiled by Clearview of
over 3 billion publicly available images posted by individuals and
organizations on the web. According to the company Clearview employs
state of the art facial recognition technology to try to match the
image uploaded by law enforcement to Clearview’s database to try to
find a match, and if a likely match is found the program displays the
publicly available image located along with its associated public
link. Clearview refers to its system as being like a ‘Google
search for faces.’
… The
Clearview interface is very simple in structure and operation. Once
a police officer logs into Clearview an initial ‘splash screen’
is displayed. This initial screen describes how Clearview works
advising the officer to upload the best photo s/he has (faces facing
forward both eyes showing not wearing glasses), that the search may
be saved (or not) if the officer so chooses, that all users are
reminded to follow the law and only use Clearview for authorized
purposes, and that matches
cannot be used as evidence in court.
"Quod
erat demonstrandum"
Global
health crises are also information crises: A call to action
Xie
B, He D, Mercer T,et al. Global
health crises are also information crises: A call to action.
J Assoc Inf Sci Technol.2020;1–5.
https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24357:
“In this opinion paper, we argue that global health crises are also
information
crises.
Using as an example the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19)
epidemic, we (a) examine challenges associated with what we term
“global information
crises”;
(b) recommend changes needed for the field of information science to
play a leading role in such crises; and (c) propose actionable items
for short‐ and long‐term research, education, and practice in
information science.”
It’s
a start.
How
Microsoft, OpenAI, and OECD are putting AI ethics principles into
practice
Microsoft’s
AI ethics committee helped craft internal Department of Defense
contract policy, and G20 member nations wouldn’t have passed AI
ethics principles if it weren’t for Japanese leadership. That’s
according to a case
study examining
projects at Microsoft, OpenAI, and OECD out this week.
Published
Tuesday, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)
case study examines how organizations are putting AI ethics
principles into practice. Ethics principles are often vaguely
phrased rules that can be challenging to translate into the daily
practices of an engineer or other frontline worker. CLTC research
fellow Jessica Cussins Newman told VentureBeat that many AI ethics
and governance debates have focused more on what is needed, but less
on the practices and policies necessary to implement goals enshrined
in principles.
Probably
some possiblility this is true.
Work
From Home Is Here to Stay
Vanity
Fair – The future of jobs after the pandemic is a blurry mix of
work, life, pajamas, and Zoom.
“…. While working remotely confers some mental-health and other
benefits, the “job” as we know it might never be the same.
Conferences, in-person meetings, and even handshakes might be deemed
not worth the risk of infection. What might emerge is a future in
which results-oriented introverts prevail while those who thrive on
face-to-face interactions and office politics fumble. In
the post-pandemic workplace, nerds may get their revenge…”
A
research tool.
New
Search Engine for State Legislation
“BillTrack50
offers
both a free and a paid service. Our genuinely free service allows
citizens to search by keyword or bill number to discover and review
an unlimited number of state and federal bills. Unlimited free
access to bill data is fundamental to the working of our sharing
tools and is fundamental to our mission. It won’t be going away.
BillTrack50 does not sell your data to third parties or accept paid
advertising. We make our money from our subscription services…”
Solace
or enhanced depression? Probably not bedtime reading for children.
Finding
Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books
The
New York Times Coronavirus Notebook:
“…In this time of crisis, we are reminded that literature
provides historical empathy and perspective, breaking through the
isolation we feel hunkered down in our homes to connect us, across
time zones and centuries, with others who once lived through not
dissimilar events. It
conjures our worst nightmares
(Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” Katherine Anne Porter’s
“Pale Horse, Pale Rider”). And it highlights what we have in
common with people in distant cultures and eras, prompting us to
remember that others have not only grappled with traumatic events
that slammed home the precariousness of life, but have also
experienced some of the same things we are dealing with today.
Writers, chronicling the plagues that repeatedly afflicted London in
the 17th century, remarked on the silence that descended upon the
city (Pepys noted in a letter that “little noise” was to be heard
“day or night but tolling of bells” for burials); the shuttering
of businesses, theater and sport events; and nervous efforts to use
weekly death counts to try to ascertain whether the disease curve was
flattening or ascending…”
Dilbert
on “big data.”
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