More GDPR level thinking about security?
https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/25/product_security_telecoms_bill_parliament/
UK.gov emits draft IoT and smartphone security law for Parliamentary scrutiny
A new British IoT product security law is racing through the House of Commons, with the government boasting it will outlaw default admin passwords and more.
The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill was introduced yesterday and is intended to drive up security standards in consumer tech gadgetry, ranging from IoT devices to phones, fondleslabs, smart TVs, and so on.
… As for enforcement of these new regs, UK.gov isn't messing around. A government statement said: "This new cyber security regime will be overseen by a regulator, which will be designated once the Bill comes into force, and will have the power to fine companies for non-compliance up to £10 million or four per cent of their global turnover, as well as up to £20,000 a day in the case of an ongoing contravention."
The draft bill can be viewed as a 72-page PDF on the Parliamentary website. It is now subject to normal Parliamentary debate and amendment, which The Register will be following.
(Related) Can’t target political ads based on my political views?
EU Pushes to Limit How Tech Companies Target Political Ads
The European Union is proposing a ban on media companies targeting political ads at people based on their religious views or sexual orientation, a new volley in the continent’s expansion of global tech regulation.
A bill proposed Thursday by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, would restrict online tech platforms from targeting political ads at individual users based on a list of categories that regulators deem sensitive, including their race, political beliefs and health status, without users’ explicit consent. But it stops short of a broader ban on so-called microtargeting based on personal information that some activists had demanded.
The bill would also impose broad new requirements on social-media companies to disclose more information about every political ad they run, including how widely viewed an ad is and what criteria are used to determine who sees it, including targeting via the use of third-party data.
Companies that fail to comply could face fines of as much as 5% of their annual global revenue—higher than EU fines for privacy violations.
Doom and gloom economics?
https://interestingengineering.com/will-ai-cause-more-harm-than-good
Here's Why an MIT Professor Thinks AI Will Cause More Harm Than Good
… The problem isn’t AI itself, of course. It’s how we use it. According to professor Daron Acemoğlu, whose 2013 book Why Nations Fail was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, organizations that are good at applying statistical pattern recognition to large datasets gain too great of an advantage over consumers, workers, and competitors. Acemoğlu isn’t concerned with fairness for its own sake. He’s worried that AI, as it’s currently being developed, will lead to consequences that far outweigh the benefits of the technology in the long run.
The good news is that regulation can fix the problem, but only if we act soon. [Too optimistic? Bob]
Fear of robots before we had the word robot? I imagine Science Fiction started with someone saying, ‘Imagine what the world would be like if we could control fire!”
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-ancient-history-of-intelligent-machines/
Surveillance, Companionship, and Entertainment: The Ancient History of Intelligent Machines
Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years.
… As early as 3,000 years ago we encounter interest in intelligent machines and AI that perform different servile functions. In the works of Homer (c. eighth century BCE) we find Hephaestus, the Greek god of smithing and craft, using automatic bellows to execute simple, repetitive labor. Golden handmaidens, endowed with characteristics of movement, perception, judgment, and speech, assist him in his work. In his “Odyssey,” Homer recounts how the ships of the Phaeacians perfectly obey their human captains, detecting and avoiding obstacles or threats, and moving “at the speed of thought.” Several centuries later, around 400 BCE, we meet Talos, the giant bronze sentry, created by Hephaestus, that patrolled the shores of Crete.
… Buddhist legends focused on north-eastern India from the fourth and third centuries BCE recount the army of automata that guarded Buddha’s relics
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