I remind you: War is an economic event.
EXCLUSIVE-IMF, 10 countries simulate cyber attack on global financial system
Israel on Thursday led a 10-country simulation of a major cyber attack on the global financial system in an attempt to increase cooperation that could help to minimise any potential damage to financial markets and banks.
The simulated cyber attack evolved over 10 days, with sensitive data emerging on the Dark Web along with fake news reports that ultimately caused chaos in global markets and a run on banks.
The simulation featured several types of attacks that impacted global foreign exchange and bond markets, liquidity, integrity of data and transactions between importers and exporters.
"These events are creating havoc in the financial markets," said a narrator of a film shown to the participants as part of the simulation and seen by Reuters.
… "Attackers are 10 steps ahead of the defender," Micha Weis, financial cyber manager at Israel's Finance Ministry, told Reuters.
… The narrator of the film in the simulation said governments were under pressure to clarify the impact of the attack, which was paralysing the global financial system.
Any information would be available to both prosecution and defense, right? Does knowing what they might have change your request for data?
The Worrying Expansion of the Social Media Surveillance-Industrial Complex
Sinclair Cook and Michael DelRossi are doing a deeper dive into the proliferation of social media surveillance tools, with a special focus on their use by government agencies. They write, in part:
That’s why we are submitting FOIA requests to CID and the FBI today. CID has contracted for Clearview AI and acknowledged its use publicly, but how and for what purpose remain unclear. Similarly, the precise nature of the services for which the FBI contracts with Dataminr and ZeroFox is still undisclosed. Learning the scope of the services provided under these contracts is necessary to inform the public of potential burdens to their First Amendment rights and to address concerns of bias built into the tools the government uses for social media surveillance.
Read more at Knight First Amendment Institute.
How would this be different from looking at a few hours of video?
Murder defendant challenges police use of ‘tower dump’
IN 2018, law enforcement officers were investigating five armed robberies and a sixth attempt in Dorchester, Mattapan, and Canton, one of which led to a fatal shooting. The police believed the same perpetrator, with a getaway driver, committed all the robberies, but they didn’t have a suspect. So they obtained search warrants for cell phone data from the towers closest to the robberies, on a suspicion that the same cell phone would have been in the vicinity of each robbery.
Through these warrants, the police obtained information about 50,951 unique phone numbers. They used the data to identify Jerron Perry and Gregory Simmons as suspects. After obtaining additional warrants to search the men’s phones, homes, and cars, both were arrested.
Perry, who was indicted for murder and other charges, is now challenging police use of data obtained from a so-called “tower dump.” His case, which will be heard by the Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday, has the potential to regulate or even eliminate the police’s ability to obtain mass location data from cell phone towers.
A number of privacy organizations have filed briefs in the case arguing that the concept of a “tower dump” is unconstitutional, and that investigators are casting too wide a net in gathering information.
Funny how “normal” keeps changing.
Who’s watching? How governments used the pandemic to normalize surveillance
… “The idea that you have any kind of anonymity is rapidly disappearing, in public spaces but also in private life,” said Steven Feldstein, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who focuses on democracy and technology. “The way my kids now are being tracked, their medical information, the music they stream, what they watch, all of that is noted and recorded, and accessed in different ways.”
Bad AI, bad!
Future of Life Institute continues call to ban AI-powered drone swarms
A new Orwellian video released by the Future of Life Institute calls on the United Nations to ban AI-powered drone swarms. Showcasing a hypothetical future, the video’s been watched more than 3 million times – and even artificial intelligence pioneer Elon Musk seems alarmed.
While the video may not be real, it raises important questions about the future of drone-based weapons the regulations surrounding them.
… New Zealand is pushing for a ban, the superpowers are not. It’s the old argument, that if one country doesn’t develop the weapons, its rivals will.
But Professor Max Tegmark, the co-founder of FLI and AI researcher at MIT, told Forbes the argument isn’t valid. Other weapons of mass destruction like chemical and biological agents have been successfully outlawed:
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https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-12-10/soon-hackers-wont-be-human
Soon, the Hackers Won’t Be Human
… While the motley crew of cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers who constitute the offense has not yet widely adopted artificial intelligence techniques, many AI capabilities are accessible with few restrictions. If traditional cyberattacks begin to lose their effectiveness, the offense won’t hesitate to reach for AI-enabled ones to restore its advantage—evoking worst-case future scenarios in which AI-enabled agents move autonomously through networks, finding and exploiting vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed. Indeed, some of the most damaging global cyberattacks, such as the 2017 NotPetya attack, incorporated automated techniques, just not AI ones. These approaches rely on prescriptive, rules-based techniques, and lack the ability to adjust tactics on the fly, but can be considered the precursors of fully automated, “intelligent” agent–led attacks.
Interesting but myopic. What will we miss with all this concentration on Facebook?
https://www.bespacific.com/a-foia-for-facebook-meaningful-transparency-for-online-platforms/
A FOIA for Facebook: Meaningful Transparency for Online Platforms
Karanicolas, Michael, A FOIA for Facebook: Meaningful Transparency for Online Platforms (November 16, 2021). 66 St. Louis University Law Journal (Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3964235 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3964235
“Transparency has become the watchword solution for a range of social challenges, including related to content moderation and platform power. Obtaining accurate information about how platforms operate is a gatekeeping problem, which is essential to meaningful accountability and engagement with these new power structures. However, different stakeholders have vastly different ideas of what robust transparency should look like, depending on their area of focus. The platforms, for their part, have their own understanding of transparency, which is influenced by a natural drive to manage public perceptions. This paper argues for a model of platform transparency based on better practice standards from global freedom of information or right to information systems. The paper argues that moves by platforms to assume responsibility over the truth or falsity of the content they host and amplify justifies a shift in how we understand their obligations of transparency and accountability, away from traditional self-reporting structures and towards a quasi-governmental standard where data is “open by default. This change in posture includes creating a mechanism to process information requests from the public, to accommodate the diverse needs of different stakeholders. The paper also suggests establishing a specialized quasi-independent entity (a “Facebook Transparency Board”) which could play a role analogous to an information commission, including overseeing disclosure decisions and acting as a broader champion of organizational transparency. Although these changes represent a significant conceptual shift, they are not entirely unprecedented among private sector entities whose role includes a significant public function, and the paper notes a number of examples, such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ Documentary Information Disclosure Policy, which could serve as a model for the platforms to follow.”
Perspective.
https://www.ft.com/content/a79c9f8f-ca0d-4cb1-9f41-86da4d2e64f9
Law firms focus on digital skills to ease legal pressures
Far from the jury boxes and witness stands, the mundane but vital administrative tasks that law firms must grapple with have become one of the hottest areas in legal tech.
Like the corporations they represent, lawyers have been forced to embrace new technologies to survive. And artificial intelligence and machine learning tools are becoming ever more of a necessity for law firms, which traditionally have been slow to invest in tech upgrades.
This tech transition has become a boon for some early movers, such as CS Disco, a Texas-based technology provider for law firms. Disco listed in July, becoming one of a few standalone lawtech public companies. Founded in 2013 by a computer scientist-turned lawyer, the company says it wagered there had to be a better way to automate much of the work that goes into legal document review.
Perspective.
https://www.bespacific.com/workers-are-using-mouse-movers-so-they-can-use-the-bathroom-in-peace/
Workers Are Using ‘Mouse Movers’ So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace
Vice: “…At the beginning of the pandemic almost two years ago, there was much speculation about how the global crisis of COVID-19 would bring a newfound appreciation for how short life is, and how no one really wants to spend it chained to a desk. Out of that, we got the “Great Resignation” with people leaving their jobs in record numbers, and a new word for micromanagers of remote workers: Bossware. Bossware is spyware from your boss. Some companies make employees use keyboard or mouse-tracking software to ensure that they’re working every moment they’re on the clock, even if they’re at home. Even if managers aren’t spying on your mouse, chat apps quickly turn users’ activity bubbles to “away” when they’re inactive for a short time, like in Leah’s case. The Electronic Frontier Foundation denounced bossware as being invasive, unnecessary and unethical, and the Center for Democracy and Technology called it out as being actively detrimental to employees’ health, demanding that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration update its policies on worker safety to include at-home workers…”
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https://www.makeuseof.com/why-you-hate-working-remotely-make-it-better/
5 Reasons Why You Hate Working Remotely, and How to Make It Better
It's hard to make remote working a success if you don't enjoy it. Here are some tips and digital tools you can use to get back on track.
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