Congress, we’re downgrading you from Dummies…

https://www.bespacific.com/cybersecurity-for-idiots/

Cybersecurity for Idiots

Bambauer, Derek E., Cybersecurity for Idiots (March 18, 2021). 106 Minnesota Law Review Headnotes __ (2021 Forthcoming), Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 21-04, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3807529

“Cybersecurity remains a critical issue facing regulators, particularly with the advent of the Internet of Things. General-purpose security regulators such as the Federal Trade Commission continually struggle with limited resources and information in their oversight. This Essay contends that a new approach to cybersecurity modeled on the negligence per se doctrine in tort law will significantly improve cybersecurity and reduce regulatory burdens. It introduces a taxonomy of regulators based upon the scope of their oversight and the pace of technological change in industries within their purview. Then, the Essay describes negligence per se for cybersecurity, which establishes a floor for security precautions that draws upon extant security standards. By focusing on the worst offenders, this framework improves notice to regulated entities, reduces information asymmetries, and traverses objections from legal scholars about the cost and efficacy of cybersecurity mandates. The Essay concludes by offering an emerging case study for its approach: regulation of quasi-medical devices by the Food and Drug Administration. As consumer devices increasingly offer functionality for both medical and non-medical purposes, the FDA will partly transition to a general-purpose regulator of information technology, and the negligence per se model can help the agency balance security precautions with promoting innovation.”

Beware of celebrities offering exclusive deals...

https://threatpost.com/deepfake-attacks-surge-experts-warn/165798/

Deepfake Attacks Are About to Surge, Experts Warn

… A drastic uptick in deepfake technology and service offerings across the Dark Web is the first sign a new wave of fraud is just about to crash in, according to a new report from Recorded Future, which ominously predicted that deepfakes are on the rise among threat actors with an enormous range of goals and interests.

“Within the next few years, both criminal and nation-state threat actors involved in disinformation and influence operations will likely gravitate towards deepfakes, as online media consumption shifts more into ‘seeing is believing’ and the bet that a proportion of the online community will continue to be susceptible to false or misleading information,” the Recorded Future report said.

Because it’s cool!

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-dark-web-websites/

The Best Dark Web Websites You Won't Find on Google

The dark web isn't for everyone, but some of it is worth exploring. Here are the best dark web websites worth checking out.

Worth grabbing to understand how it functions.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-new-open-source-tool-could-stop-your-ai-from-getting-hacked/

Microsoft's new open-source tool could stop your AI from getting hacked

Microsoft has released an open-source tool called Counterfit that helps developers test the security of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Microsoft has published the Counterfit project on GitHub and points out that a previous study it conducted found most organizations lack the tools to address adversarial machine learning.

Like sculpture, keep chipping away the parts that are not true AI.

https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/05/03/artificial-intelligence-fallacies/

4 key misunderstandings in AI

… Part of the continued cycle of missing these goals is due to incorrect assumptions about AI and natural intelligence, according to Melanie Mitchell, Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute and author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide For Thinking Humans.

In a new paper titled “Why AI is Harder Than We Think,” Mitchell lays out four common fallacies about AI that cause misunderstandings not only among the public and the media, but also among experts.

Familiar warning, new voice.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/kangaroo-court-developing-trustworthy-ai-2558450/

Kangaroo Court: Developing Trustworthy AI

AI ethics is a sub-field of applied ethics, focusing on the ethical issues raised by the development, deployment and use of AI. Its central concern is to identify how AI can advance or raise concerns to the good life of individuals, whether in terms of quality of life, or human autonomy and freedom necessary for a democratic society.

You must use data to counter data.

https://thenextweb.com/news/how-politicians-manipulate-the-masses-with-simple-ai

How politicians manipulate the masses with simple AI

Trump, Russia, and Facebook were only the beginning. It can get much, much worse

… The age of data-based politics is coming to a close thanks to the innovations created by the 2016 Donald Trump campaign and the counteracting tactics employed by the Biden team in 2020.

Data used to be the most important commodity in politics. When Trump won in 2016, it wasn’t on the strength of his platform (he didn’t have one). It was on the strength of his data gathering and ad-targeting.

But that strategy was proven ineffective when it went up against the Biden team who, unlike Hillary Clinton’s campaign, conducted effective counter-messaging across the social media spectrum.

Anything applicable elsewhere?

https://www.bespacific.com/law-search-in-the-age-of-the-algorithm/

Law Search In The Age Of The Algorithm

Livermore, Michael A. and Beling, Peter and Carlson, Keith and Dadgostari, Faraz and Guim, Mauricio and Rockmore, Daniel, Law Search In The Age Of The Algorithm (April 27, 2021). 2020 MICH. ST. L. REV. 1183, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-26, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3835362

“The process of searching for relevant legal materials is fundamental to legal reasoning. However, despite its enormous practical and theoretical importance, law search has not been given significant attention by scholars. In this Article, we define the problem of law search and examine the consequences of new technologies capable of automating this core lawyerly task. We introduce a theory of law search in which legal relevance is a sociological phenomenon that leads to convergence over a shared set of legal materials and explore the normative stakes of law search. We examine ways in which law scholars can understand empirically the phenomenon of law search, argue that computational modeling is a valuable epistemic tool in this domain, and report the results from a multi-year, interdisciplinary effort to develop an advanced law search algorithm based on human-generated data. Finally, we explore how policymakers can manage the challenges posed by new machine learning-based search technologies.”

Learning where I can learn.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tech-giants-offering-free-it-upskilling-courses/

These 5 Tech Giants Are Offering Free IT Upskilling Courses Online