Hello, I’m a Nigerian Prince, currently enrolled here at Harvard… Would this technique work at most schools? Probably.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/using-fake-student-accounts-to-shill-brands.html
Using Fake Student Accounts to Shill Brands
It turns out that it’s surprisingly easy to create a fake Harvard student and get a harvard.edu email account. Scammers are using that prestigious domain name to shill brands:
Basically, it appears that anyone with $300 to spare can – or could, depending on whether Harvard successfully shuts down the practice — advertise nearly anything they wanted on Harvard.edu, in posts that borrow the university’s domain and prestige while making no mention of the fact that it in reality they constitute paid advertising….
A Harvard spokesperson said that the university is working to crack down on the fake students and other scammers that have gained access to its site. They also said that the scammers were creating the fake accounts by signing up for online classes and then using the email address that process provided to infiltrate the university’s various blogging platforms.
Wow! Clearview can identify Australians just by looking at their face? Clearview scraped public images. Perhaps we need a more nuanced definition of “public?”
Clearview AI ordered to delete all facial recognition data belonging to Australians
Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been ordered to destroy all images and facial templates belonging to individuals living in Australia by the country’s national privacy regulator.
Clearview, which claims to have scraped 10 billion images of people from social media sites in order to identify them in other photos, sells its technology to law enforcement agencies. It was trialled by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) between October 2019 and March 2020.
Now, following an investigation, Australia privacy regulator, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), has found that the company breached citizens’ privacy.
(Related) Face it, they never liked my face.
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/11/update-on-use-of-face-recognition/
An Update On Our Use of Face Recognition
In the coming weeks, we will shut down the Face Recognition system on Facebook as part of a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in our products. As part of this change, people who have opted in to our Face Recognition setting will no longer be automatically recognized in photos and videos, and we will delete the facial recognition template used to identify them.
This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history. More than a third of Facebook’s daily active users have opted in to our Face Recognition setting and are able to be recognized, and its removal will result in the deletion of more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates.
How would this change your approach to data protection?
https://www.ft.com/content/4b1dc219-ce9c-49a7-8fff-b7c3cb79870f
The data officers who have become China’s most sought-after staff
Chinese data protection officers will wake up on Monday morning as highly sought-after individuals.
The introduction of sweeping data protection laws by Beijing has transformed what was unglamorous compliance work into a critical role for companies of all sizes.
Salaries are soaring as companies scramble to hire DPOs, especially since the new laws will put these staff in the uncomfortable position of being held personally responsible for any failures.
Microsoft broaden access to voice-to-text by moving it into the operating system. In order to use this tool, you must be connected to the Internet. Will Microsoft record and analyze everything you say?
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-start-voice-typing-on-windows-11/
How to Start Voice Typing on Windows 11
… The built-in voice typing or dictation tool can type everything you say without installing any third-party applications.
A war of words.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/information-combat-inside-fight-myanmars-soul-2021-11-01/
'Information combat': Inside the fight for Myanmar's soul
As Myanmar's military seeks to put down protest on the streets, a parallel battle is playing out on social media, with the junta using fake accounts to denounce opponents and press its message that it seized power to save the nation from election fraud, eight people with knowledge of the tactics said.
The army, which was banned by the country's dominant online platform Facebook after the Feb. 1 coup, has tasked thousands of soldiers with conducting what is widely referred to in the military as "information combat", according to the people, who include four military sources.
Has common sense returned to Spain?
Google News to relaunch in Spain after mandatory payments to newspapers scrapped
Who should get paid when big tech platforms aggregate news stories? This was the question that prompted Google to shut down its Google News platform in Spain in 2014, after the country decided the US tech giant should cough up a monthly fee to Spanish papers. Today, though, Google announced that Google News will return to Spain “early next year” after the country overhauled its online copyright laws in line with EU regulation.
The big difference from Google’s point of view is that it no longer has to pay a fee to Spain’s entire media industry and can instead negotiate fees with individual publishers. Some may want to charge Google for sharing stories in Google News, and Google can pay them or exclude them, depending on its preference. Other outlets will no doubt waive these fees, judging that the traffic offered by Google News outweighs any lost advertising revenue.
Perspective. Podcast.
AI: Decoded: Data protection watchdog on AI — Parliament’s AI roadmap — Small data
This week:
— Europe’s data protection watchdog warns that society is not ready for facial recognition in public places.
— A first look at the European Parliament’s roadmap for the future of AI.
— The power of small data.
Tools & Techniques. I use Feedly myself.
https://www.bespacific.com/chromes-newest-feature-resurrects-the-ghost-of-google-reader/
Chrome’s newest feature resurrects the ghost of Google Reader
Popular Science: “The best way to keep up with your favorite websites. Part of the appeal of Google Chrome is that it gets new features on a regular basis, and that includes the mobile versions of the browser, too. One of the most recent additions to Chrome for Android is RSS or Really Simple Syndication support. RSS is actually one of the oldest web technologies still around, and if you’re already a fan, you know how useful it can be. But if you’re unfamiliar with it, you may find RSS can open up a whole different way of keeping up with the flood of content hitting the web every day, whether you use Chrome for Android or any other RSS reader tool…”
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