Centennial Man: 2021-01-17

Saturday, January 23, 2021

Another visible leak. How many invisible leaks are out there?

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/chinese-startup-leaks-318-million-private-records-obtained-through-data-scraping-facebook-instagram-and-linkedin-social-profiles/

Chinese Startup Leaks 318 Million Private Records Obtained Through Data Scraping Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn Social Profiles

A Chinese social media management startup leaked over 400GB of personally identifiable information (PII) of social media users, including celebrities and social media influencers worldwide and the US. SocialArks obtained the information by data scraping social media networks, which remains a controversial practice banned [but not prevented Bob] by the affected networks.

… More concerning was the presence of private personal information not publicly provided by the victims on their public social profiles. The data leak affected 214 million social media users on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

A ‘starter’ paper?

https://www.pogowasright.org/the-ethics-of-facial-recognition-technology/

The Ethics of Facial Recognition Technology

New article of note. I hope we can get those involved in the development of such technology, and legislators and policymakers thinking about these issues more. This article is a great starting point for them.

The Ethics of Facial Recognition Technology

Evan Selinger Rochester Institute of Technology – Department of Philosophy Brenda Leong affiliation not provided to SSRN

Abstract

This is a comprehensive presentation of leading ethical issues in debates about facial recognition technology. After defining basic terms (facial detection, facial characterization, facial verification, and facial identification), the following issues are discussed: standards, measures, and disproportionately distributed harms; erosions of trust; ethical harms associated with perfect facial surveillance; alienation, dehumanization, and loss of control; and the slippery slope debate.

You can download the paper (for free) at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3762185

Clearly not a way to ‘sell’ AI.

https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/22/center-for-applied-data-ethics-suggests-treating-ai-like-a-bureaucracy/

Center for Applied Data Ethics suggests treating AI like a bureaucracy

A recent paper from the Center for Applied Data Ethics (CADE) at the University of San Francisco urges AI practitioners to adopt terms from anthropology when reviewing the performance of large machine learning models. The research suggests using this terminology to interrogate and analyze bureaucracy, states, and power structures in order to critically assess the performance of large machine learning models with the potential to harm people.

“This paper centers power as one of the factors designers need to identify and struggle with, alongside the ongoing conversations about biases in data and code, to understand why algorithmic systems tend to become inaccurate, absurd, harmful, and oppressive. This paper frames the massive algorithmic systems that harm marginalized groups as functionally similar to massive, sprawling administrative states that James Scott describes in Seeing Like a State,” the author wrote.

… The paper, titled “To Live in Their Utopia: Why Algorithmic Systems Create Absurd Outcomes,” was recently published and accepted by the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), which will be held in May.

How far back would we need to go to avoid copyright issues? Abe Lincoln endorsing a brand of axes? Would we have enough images to go much farther back?

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01/22/ai-resurrects-legendary-spanish-singer-lola-flores-to-hawk-beer/

AI resurrects legendary Spanish singer to hawk beer

The celebrated Spanish singer Lola Flores died in 1995, but a brewery is using AI to bring her back to life.

Sevillan beer company Cruzcampo made a deepfake of the iconic Andalusian the star of a new ad campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yewm6TfLZ3Q&feature=emb_logo

The company recreated her voice, face, and features using hours of audiovisual material, more than 5,000 photos, and a painstaking composition and post-production process, according to El País.

… The ad was released shortly after a report named deepfakes the most concerning use of AI for crime and terrorism. But the campaign shows the tech can also turn the dead into effective booze peddlers.

Don’t panic, it’s just a tool.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remove-drm-every-ebook-own/

How to Remove the DRM on Any Ebook You Own

… Given the diversity of ebook publishers and ebook file formats, it's not surprising that there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution. There are many ways to remove ebooks' DRM.

If you buy your books through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or the other typical well-known ebook stores, the best solution is Calibre.

Calibre is a free and open-source ebook library management application that's packed full of useful features. For this process, you'll need Calibre and apprenticealf's DRM removal plugins.

Perspective. Say it isn’t so!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/23/page-refresh-how-the-internet-is-transforming-the-novel

Page refresh: how the internet is transforming the novel

Doom scrolling, oversharing, constantly updating social media feeds ... the internet shapes how we see the world, and now it’s changing the stories we tell, writes author Olivia Sudjic

Perspective.

https://www.popsci.com/story/technology/biden-fcc-net-neutrality-digital-divide/

The FCC is about to undergo a huge shift that could drastically affect the internet

On January 20th, the day of Joe Biden’s Presidential Inauguration, Ajit Pai stepped down from his role as Chair of the Federal Communications Commission. Pai’s departure came well before the end of his current term, which was scheduled to finish in June of 2021. Democratic commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has been appointed as acting chair for the moment as the Commission faces down a number of daunting issues that will play out during the Biden presidency. Here are some of the key issues you can expect the FCC to tackle in the coming years.

We Need a Fundamental Reset.' Shoshana Zuboff on Building an Internet That Lets Democracy Flourish

Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, argues the threat to our democracy won’t recede unless we address the fundamental flaws of the business model that companies like Google and Facebook have ridden to market dominance — a model built on extracting data about our behaviors, and using the insights from those data to manipulate us. Zuboff spoke to TIME on what to expect from the next 10 years.

Friday, January 22, 2021

Sounds like a management failure…

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3604368/4-ways-security-has-failed-to-become-a-boardroom-issue.html#tk.rss_all

4 ways security has failed to become a boardroom issue

New research finds that despite being more engaged with cybersecurity, business executives and board members continue to view cybersecurity as a technology domain rather than a business concern.

Future privacy?

https://www.pogowasright.org/privacy-legislation-proposed-in-virginia-and-oklahoma/

Privacy Legislation Proposed In Virginia And Oklahoma

David Stauss of Husch Blackwell writes:

Five states are now considering online privacy legislation.

Virginia and Oklahoma join Washington, New York and Minnesota as states where lawmakers have proposed online privacy legislation this year. It is expected that lawmakers in other states will propose similar legislation in the coming weeks. As discussed in our prior posts, the fact the legislation has been proposed is not indicative of whether it has any chance of becoming law. Since lawmakers passed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2018 numerous states have considered similar bills, but none of them has become law. That said, presumably one day another state (or more) will join California in passing such legislation.

Below is a brief summary of the two bills. To the extent that the bills appear poised for advancement we will provide a more detailed analysis.

Thursday, January 21, 2021

This is unlikely to deter future rioters but it does illustrate one aspect of social media. Would an image and GPS location be enough to convict?

https://www.wired.com/story/faces-of-the-riot-capitol-insurrection-facial-recognition/

This Site Published Every Face From Parler's Capitol Riot Videos

WHEN HACKERS EXPLOITED a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing social media platform's contents last week, they were surprised to find that many of the pictures and videos contained geolocation metadata revealing exactly how many of the site's users had taken part in the invasion of the US Capitol building just days before. But the videos uploaded to Parler also contain an equally sensitive bounty of data sitting in plain sight: thousands of images of unmasked faces, many of whom participated in the Capitol riot. Now one website has done the work of cataloging and publishing every one of those faces in a single, easy-to-browse lineup.

Late last week, a website called Faces of the Riot appeared online, showing nothing but a vast grid of more than 6,000 images of faces, each one tagged only with a string of characters associated with the Parler video in which it appeared. The site's creator tells WIRED that he used simple open source machine learning and facial recognition software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos that were posted to Parler from inside and outside the Capitol building on January 6, the day when radicalized Trump supporters stormed the building in a riot that resulted in five people's deaths. The creator of Faces of the Riot says his goal is to allow anyone to easily sort through the faces pulled from those videos to identify someone they may know or recognize who took part in the mob, or even to reference the collected faces against FBI wanted posters and send a tip to law enforcement if they spot someone.

To answer some questions from my Security students. We do use their exam guide as a text…

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3602822/cissp-certification-guide-requirements-training-and-cost.html#tk.rss_all

CISSP certification guide: Requirements, training, and cost

… Because CISSP covers some management-related material, you may be wondering about the difference between it and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), another popular infosec certification. In a nutshell, a CISSP certification demonstrates in-depth technical knowledge over a broad range of security domains, along with an understanding of managerial responsibilities. CISM, on the other hand, is more strongly oriented towards managers, with an emphasis on understanding infosec incentives from a business point of view.

… The CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide is widely beloved, [??? Bob] and has a companion set of practice exams.

(Related) As long as you are a shut-in with nothing to do…

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3604314/fortinet-extends-free-nse-security-training-courses-to-close-industry-s-skills-gap.html#tk.rss_all

Fortinet Extends Free NSE Security Training Courses to Close Industry’s Skills Gap

… In April 2020, Fortinet addressed the need to further build security expertise by making all its self-paced courses from the Network Security Expert (NSE) Training Institute available for free to all. The Fortinet NSE Training Institute programs provide IT professionals, students, veterans and more the opportunity to expand and learn new security skillsets, opening doors to the field of cybersecurity.

Since making more than 30 courses available for free to anyone worldwide, there have been more than 800,000 registration for the free training courses. Given the demand and interest in the company’s free training in 2020, Fortinet’s advanced self-paced courses will remain available free of charge beyond 2021 to continue developing the world’s cyber workforce of the future.

A scorecard.

https://blogs.dlapiper.com/privacymatters/dla-piper-gdpr-fines-and-data-breach-survey-january-2021/

DLA Piper GDPR fines and data breach survey: January 2021

… A theme of this year’s report, in common with our previous reports, is that there is significant variance in compliance and enforcement practice across the countries surveyed. The level of individual fines imposed, the aggregate values of fines per country and the number of personal data breaches notified per country all varied widely. As our weighted rankings of the number of personal data breaches notified per 100,000 capita demonstrate, there are notable cultural differences in the approach to breach notification with France and Italy, both with populations in excess of 60 million people, ranking well down the table.

There has also been year on year double digit growth in both the aggregate value of fines issued – for a wide range of alleged infringements of GDPR – and in the number of personal data breaches notified since 28 January 2020.

A total of EUR158.5m (USD193.4m / GBP142.7m) in fines were imposed in the period from 28 January 2020, a 39% increase on the previous 20 month period since the application date of GDPR on 25 May 2018. On average 331 personal data breach notifications were made per day since 28 January 2018 compared to 278 breach notifications per day for the previous year.

… The report is available to download here.

Let AI make some of those complex IT decisions… Beware of “the AI made me do it!”

https://devops.com/measuring-the-business-benefits-of-aiops/

Measuring the Business Benefits of AIOps

Staffing levels within IT operations (ITOps) departments are flat or declining, enterprise IT environments get more complex by the day and the transition to the cloud is accelerating. Meanwhile, the volume of data generated by monitoring and alerting systems is skyrocketing, and Ops teams are under pressure to respond to incidents more quickly.

Faced with these challenges, companies are increasingly turning to AIOps – the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze large volumes of IT operations data – to help automate and optimize IT operations. But before investing in a new technology, leaders want assurances that it will bring value to end users, customers and the business at large.

New ways to find anti-trust or new definitions of anti-trust?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/antitrust-watchdogs-around-the-world-are-going-back-to-school-to-study-blockchain-and-ai

Antitrust watchdogs around the world are going back to school to study blockchain and AI

… On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced that it would be participating in a new initiative at Stanford University to onboard more advanced technological tools into its fight against monopolies.

The DoJ is merely the most vocal addition to Standord’s Computational Antitrust project. It joins the competition watchdogs of 46 other countries and the U.S.’s Federal Trade Commission.

The announcement is part of a broad surge in interest in cutting-edge tech and antitrust law, the culmination of a lot of motion at both academia and global regulators.

… The Computational Antitrust project was only publicized on Monday. It aims to bring “together academics from different backgrounds (law, computer science, economics…) with developers, policymakers, and regulators.” Alongside the program’s announcement, founding professor Thibault Schrepel published objectives for research that envisione:

“A world in which artificial intelligence ('AI') and blockchain combined with quantum computing will soon provide valuable support by enabling a better understanding of the world’s complexity, and eventually, capturing part of it.”

A good backgrounder for my students.

https://marker.medium.com/the-improbable-tale-of-how-the-lowly-pdf-played-the-longest-game-in-tech-d143d2ba9abf

The Inside Story of How the Lowly PDF Played the Longest Game in Tech

… The Portable Document Format that essentially strives to replicate paper in digital form has been around since the early pre-Web 1990s. Thoroughly lacking in glamor or sizzle, the PDF has not only persisted for decades, but prevailed. Even stalwarts like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint get challenged by rival offerings from Google or Apple. But no PDF-killer has emerged. In fact, PDF inventor Adobe reports that in its 2020 fiscal year alone, about 303 billion PDFs were opened using its Document Cloud service — a 17% annual increase during a year in which the tech conversation was dominated by things like videoconferencing, autonomous vehicles, and facial recognition technology.

… Upon its 1993 release, the specs of the PDF format were made freely available. While Adobe’s specific version remained proprietary, others could tinker with it at will — “allowing it to become a de facto standard,” as a 2018 Vice overview of the format put it. Soon, the company dropped the fee for its reader software, focusing entirely on the creation product as a revenue stream — but gambling that the more people who could read the format, the more attractive it would be to the creator side.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Wrong on the face of it?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9163863/AI-app-allows-banks-screen-loan-applicants-face-voice-determine-trustworthiness.html

Sorry, our computer doesn't trust your face: New AI app will allow banks to deny or approve loan applicants by screening their face and voice to determine 'trustworthiness

… Tokyo-based DeepScore unveiled its facial and voice recognition app last week at the Consumer Electronics Show that is touted as a 'next-generation scoring engine' for loan lenders, insurance companies and other financial institutions.

While a customer answers 10 question, the AI analyzes their face and voice to calculate a 'True Score' that can be help companies with the decision to deny or approve.

Are they asking the EEOC to “find’ something wrong or ‘make’ something wrong?

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/senators-letter-to-eeoc-signals-scrutiny-ai-bias

Senators’ Letter to EEOC Signals Scrutiny of AI Bias

Ten U.S. senators are asking the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to hone in on employers’ use of artificial intelligence (“AI”), machine-learning, and other hiring technologies that may result in discrimination.

The group of senators—Michael Bennet (D-CO) … jointly penned a December 8, 2020 letter to EEOC Chair Janet Dhillon. The letter urges that EEOC is responsible for combatting discrimination resulting from the use of hiring and other employment technologies. The senators voice concern about a number of hiring technologies, including:

“[T]ools used in the employee selection process to manage and screen candidates after they apply for a job”;

“[N]ew modes of assessment, such as gamified assessments or video interviews that use machine-learning models to evaluate candidates”;

“[G]eneral intelligence or personality tests”; and

“[M]odern applicant tracking systems.”

… This latest letter to the EEOC and the attention of the White House undoubtedly signal increased enforcement and regulatory activity on the horizon for employment-related uses of technology in the hiring and employment process. Employers should act now to evaluate their current and planned use of AI-based hiring and employment tools for potentially disparate impact on protected classes of workers. The scrutiny imposed on these tools by government agencies and lawmakers will only increase in 2021 and beyond.

I listened to Grace Hopper recommend that organizations replace COBOL at a conference in 1983. (Yes, I’m old) Imagine the thrill to find that the Social Security Administration still relies on it.

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/in-an-uncertain-world-you-can-count-on-these-four-trends-in-2021/

In an Uncertain World, You Can Count on These Four Trends in 2021

… While 2021 feels largely uncharted, there are a few trends that are bound to define this year’s plans and investments. Companies that capitalize on these trends will position themselves not only to be competitive and stronger than ever, but to respond when the next disruption hits.

Reinforced mainframe recruiting and retention

A call for COBOL programmers

A shift towards value stream management

The hyperautomation takeover

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

I’m not sure how this works. Are the re-tweeters running scared after the aggressive pursuit of the people who stormed the capital?

https://thenextweb.com/politics/2021/01/18/report-trumps-twitter-ban-led-to-a-73-drop-in-election-fraud-misinformation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29

Report: Trump’s Twitter ban led to a 73% drop in election fraud misinformation

Trump‘s bans from Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms may have been controversial. but they appear to have been effective in achieving one goal: combatting misinformation. According to research firm Zignal Labs, and as reported by the Washington Post, online misinformation about election fraud dropped by 73%, following Trump’s ban.

… Earlier research had suggested that Trump’s tweets were retweeted by his supporters at massive rates regardless of their content, giving him huge huge power for shaping conversations and perceived truths among his audience. Similarly, a study released in October found that just 20 accounts, including Trump’s, were responsible for a fifth of misinformation about voting and mail-in ballots.

Apparently governments are paying attention now.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/19/india-asks-whatsapp-to-withdraw-new-privacy-policy-expresses-grave-concerns/

India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’

… In an email to WhatsApp head Will Cathcart, the nation’s IT ministry said the upcoming update to the app’s data-sharing policy has raised “grave concerns regarding the implications for the choice and autonomy of Indian citizens… Therefore, you are called upon to withdraw the proposed changes.”

The ministry is additionally seeking clarification from WhatsApp on its data-sharing agreement with Facebook and other commercial firms and has asked why users in the EU are exempt from the new privacy policy but their counterpoint in India have no choice but to comply.

What is “better tourism” and how does this help you change?

https://www.bespacific.com/venice-is-watching-tourists-every-move/

Venice is watching tourists’ every move

CNN Travel – “They’re watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you pause, when you slow down and speed up, and they count you in and out of the city. What’s more, they’re tracking your phone, so they can tell exactly how many people from your country or region are in which area, at which time . And they’re doing it in a bid to change tourism for the better. Welcome to Venice in a post-Covid world. The canal city may have been known as La Serenissima, or The Most Serene, during its centuries ruling the waves as the powerful Republic of Venice. In the past few years, however, things have become rather less serene, thanks to the almost 30 million visitors who descend each year on the city of just 50,000 inhabitants. Before Covid-19 struck, tourists were arriving in often unmanageable numbers, choking the main streets and filling up the waterbuses. Authorities had tried various measures, from introducing separate residents’ lines at major vaporetto (waterbus) stops to bringing in turnstiles that would filter locals from tourists on busy days. A planned “entrance tax,” due to debut in 2020, has been postponed to January 2022, due to the pandemic. But as well as controlling footfall, the authorities wanted to track tourism itself — not just by registering overnight guests but, in a city where the vast majority of visitors are daytrippers, by counting exactly who is in the city — and where they go…”

Something to attend?

https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/human-rights-in-the-era-of-ai-europe-as-international-standard-setter-for-artificial-intelligence

Human Rights in the Era of AI: Europe as international Standard Setter for Artificial Intelligence

The Federal Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection of Germany, in cooperation with the Council of Europe, are organising a conference entitled “Human Rights in the Era of AI - Europe as international Standard Setter for Artificial Intelligence”. Taking place on 20 January under the German Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the conference will address issues such as the impact of AI on human rights, democracy and the rule of law as well as the feasibility of a future legal framework for AI.

The president of the Council of Europe´s Ad hoc Committee on AI (CAHAI), Gregor Strojin, will present the conclusions of a study recently adopted by the committee on the feasibility of a Council of Europe legal framework on AI.

The conference will start at 13h00 and end at 17h45 (CET).

Conference page Live streaming

Honor thy secretary, or else.

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-01-19

Monday, January 18, 2021

Talk to your AI about this.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-set-to-replace-humans-in-cybersecurity-by-2030-says-trend-micro/

AI set to replace humans in cybersecurity by 2030, says Trend Micro

In 2021 Trend Micro predicts that cybercriminals will look to home networks as a critical launch pad to compromising corporate IT and IoT networks.

… Dallas, TX-based cloud security firm Trend Micro recently carried out new research which reveals that over two-fifths (41%) of IT leaders believe that AI will replace their role by 2030.

Its predictions report, Turning the Tide, forecasts that remote and cloud-based systems will be ruthlessly targeted in 2021.

Number two might be a bit optimistic…

https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/whats-in-store-for-data-privacy-in-2021/

What’s in Store for Data Privacy in 2021?

… The new year will see the continuation of some long-time trends with a few notable additions. Here are my top 4:

1. Long-tail COVID-19 impacts

2. Appetite for comprehensive federal regulation

3. Tipping point for security automation

4. Maturing data governance standards

Interesting.

https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/17/language-ai-is-really-heating-up/

Language AI is really heating up

The ability for computers to effectively understand all human language would completely transform how we engage with brands, businesses, and organizations across the world. Nowadays most companies don’t have time to answer every customer question. But imagine if a company really could listen to, understand, and answer every question — at any time on any channel?

My students figured this our years ago.

https://thenextweb.com/shift/2021/01/18/nhtsa-wont-need-wing-mirrors-regulations-trump-administraion-nuro/

You won’t need wing mirrors in the US any more — if you’re a self-driving car

… This document dictates what features vehicles should have and what safety testing they should be subject to, Autoblog reports.

The update now recognizes the changing nature of vehicles on our streets, and acknowledges, in the case of self-driving cars, that they may not have a steering wheel, pedals, and other components typically required for human operation. In some cases, self-driving vehicles don’t even have space for human passengers, but were previously required to meet the same standards set for passenger vehicles.

Sunday, January 17, 2021

Hold my beer and watch this” is now “Hold my beer and start the video on your phone.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/selfie-snapping-rioters-leave-fbi-a-trail-of-over-140-000-images

Selfie-Snapping Rioters Leave FBI a Trail of Over 140,000 Images

Doxxing insurrectionists: Capitol riot divides online extremism researchers

The uprising has sparked a tense debate about the right way to stitch together the digital scraps of someone's life to publicly accuse them of committing a crime.

What results would you like from your poll of randomly selected citizens, and by what percentage?

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/artificial-intelligence-machine-was-able-to-dupe-medicaidgov

Artificial intelligence machine was able to dupe Medicaid.gov

Deepfake text manipulation has the power to throw governmental agencies off, a Harvard medical student has shown.

Public feedback is a crucial element of shaping and carrying out state and federal level programs. Your responses, as a civilian, inform how these governmental agencies go forward (or not) with policy decisions. At least, that's what the idea of public feedback is based on. But deepfake text manipulation — just like deepfake videos and photos — has the ability to dupe even the smartest of observers, Wired reports.

A Harvard medical student named Max Weiss proved this in 2019. Back then, Idaho had plans to change its Medicaid program. It needed federal approval to do so, which required public input fed into Medicaid.gov. The state government sought public responses and became Weiss' little science experiment, in which he used an OpenAI program, GPT-2, to generate nearly-believable responses on the issue. Out of approximately 1,000 comments put into Medicaid.gov that round, half of them came from Weiss' artificial intelligence machine. When he asked volunteers to differentiate between the real and fake ones, Wired says the volunteers "did no better than random guessing."

AI won’t learn proper (or improper) behavior from a family, so what did you expect?

https://thediplomat.com/2021/01/chatbot-gone-awry-starts-conversations-about-ai-ethics-in-south-korea/

Chatbot Gone Awry Starts Conversations About AI Ethics in South Korea

… Screengrabs show Luda saying, “they give me the creeps, and it’s repulsive” or “they look disgusting,” when asked about “lesbians” and “black people,” respectively. Further, it was discovered that groups of users in certain online communities were training Luda to respond to sexual commands, which provoked intense discussions about sexual harassment (“can AI be sexually harassed”?) in a society that already grapples with gender issues.

Everything you ever wanted to know?

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-64254-9#about

Economics and Law of Artificial Intelligence

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the alterations and problems caused by new technologies in all fields of the global digital economy. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) not only on law but also on economics is examined.

In the first part, the economics of AI are explored, including topics such as e-globalization and digital economy, corporate governance, risk management, and risk development, followed by a quantitative econometric analysis which utilizes regressions stipulating the scale of the impact. In the second part, the author presents the law of AI, covering topics such as the law of electronic technology, legal issues, AI and intellectual property rights, and legalizing AI. Case studies from different countries are presented, as well as a specific analysis of international law and common law.

Another free alternative to MS Office.

https://www.makeuseof.com/switch-from-microsoft-office-to-wps-office/

Getting Started With WPS Office: How to Switch Over From Microsoft

… WPS Office is an office suite that’s compatible with Windows, macOS, Linux, along with Android and iOS apps. Its name is an acronym for Writer, Presentation, and Spreadsheets.

It’s also one of Microsoft Office's top alternatives as the free version offers WPS Writer, WPS Presentation, WPS Spreadsheets, PDF Viewer, and direct, in-app cloud syncing.

… Go to the download page on the WPS Office official website. There, you can download the WPS Office version for your operating system.

… Similar to many applications, you can use WPS Office comfortably without an account. But a free WPS account unlocks unique features, like automatic syncing, that make using it much more convenient.

By signing up for an account, you get 1GB of free cloud storage to store your files and documents, which you can access remotely on your phone or other devices.

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