Saturday, February 27, 2021

Did they did or did they didn’t, this may be a low price to avoid the facial recognition backlash.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56210052

TikTok agrees legal payout over facial recognition

TikTok has agreed to pay $92m (£66m) to settle a lawsuit accusing it of misusing artificial intelligence to track and store users' data.

A group challenge alleged it breached laws by using software to recognise facial features in user videos and algorithms to identify age, gender and ethnicity.

It also alleged that user data was sent to China.

TikTok denied any wrongdoing but said it wanted to avoid a court case.

… The firm has also agreed to state in its privacy policy whether the apps collect users' biometric information or GPS data, as well as whether it stores or transmits user data outside the US.



(Related)

https://www.pogowasright.org/judge-approves-historic-650m-facebook-privacy-settlement/

Judge Approves Historic $650M Facebook Privacy Settlement

Nicholas Iovino reports:

A federal judge gave his final blessing Friday to a $650 million deal to resolve claims that Facebook illegally collected and stored users’ facial data without consent, making it one of the largest privacy-related settlements in U.S. history.
Overall, the settlement is a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy,” U.S. District Judge James Donato wrote in a 21-page ruling.

Read more on Courthouse News.





Handy-dandy little comparison chart.

https://www.insideprivacy.com/data-privacy/2021-state-privacy-legislation-roundup-california-virginia-new-york-and-washington/

2021 State Privacy Legislation Roundup: California, Virginia, New York, and Washington

In the high-level chart below, we compare five of the key state privacy frameworks: the CPRA, VCDPA (which we blogged about here ), the NYPA, the general privacy provisions of the Washington Privacy Act, and the newly introduced Washington People’s Privacy Act (HB 1433 ).





The latest chapter.

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/02/26/a-beginners-guide-to-ai-ethics-in-artificial-intelligence/

A beginner’s guide to AI: Ethics in artificial intelligence

Welcome to Neural’s beginner’s guide to AI. This long-running series should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. In addition to the article you’re currently reading, the guide contains articles on (in order published) neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing, algorithms, artificial general intelligence, the difference between video game AI and real AI, and the difference between human and machine intelligence.

For the purposes of this article, when we discuss the ethics of AI we’re asking two simple questions:

  1. Is it ethical to build an AI for this specific purpose?

  2. Is it ethical to build an AI with these capabilities?



Friday, February 26, 2021

Be suspicious of addresses that include words like “Cellblock 4”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/02/how-100m-in-jobless-claims-went-to-inmates/

How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

The U.S. Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. That’s a tiny share of the estimated tens of billions of dollars in jobless benefits states have given to identity thieves in the past year.

A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5 billion in fraudulent jobless benefits — nearly two-thirds of the phony claims it reviewed — was paid out to individuals with Social Security numbers filed in multiple states. Almost $100 million went to more than 13,000 ineligible people who are currently in prison.





I recognize faces, it’s the rest of the ID I struggle with: names, places, relationships, etc. Note that there is no question about Facebook’s technical ability to offer facial recognition.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-considers-facial-recognition-smart-glasses?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

Facebook Is Considering Facial Recognition For Its Upcoming Smart Glasses

Facebook Vice President Andrew Bosworth told employees that the company is evaluating the legal and privacy issues around facial recognition for its upcoming wearable gadget.

During a scheduled companywide meeting, Andrew Bosworth, Facebook’s vice president of augmented and virtual reality, told employees that the company is currently assessing whether or not it has the legal capacity to offer facial recognition on devices that are reportedly set to launch later this year. Nothing had been decided, he said, and he noted that current state laws may make it impossible for Facebook to offer people the ability to search for others based on pictures of their face.





I still don’t get it.

https://www.protocol.com/Policy/house-hearing-antitrust

Bad news for Big Tech: There's bipartisan agreement on antitrust reforms

During the first House antitrust hearing of the new Congress, Democratic chairman David Cicilline and Republican ranking member Ken Buck made it clear they intend to forge ahead with a series of bipartisan reform efforts that could cut into the power of the largest technology companies.

"We will work on a serious bipartisan basis to advance these reforms together," Cicilline said during his opening remarks Thursday.

Buck said he still doesn't agree with his Democratic counterpart's efforts to create "Glass-Steagall legislation" for the internet age, a sweeping reform that would prevent companies like Amazon from owning a marketplace while competing within it. Buck argued that could take a "chainsaw to the whole economy."

But the two top members of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee did tee up multiple pieces of antitrust legislation that could have a chance of making it through the Senate, which requires some Republican support.





First they storm the Capital, then they kidnap dogs! Will this escalation never end?

https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/fbi-launches-probe-in-lady-gagas-dog-theft/

FBI reportedly involved in probe of Lady Gaga dognapping

The feds are investigating whether the kidnapping of Lady Gaga’s dogs was politically motivated since she sang at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, according to a report.

The FBI is working on the case with Los Angeles police detectives, The Sun reported.

Lady Gaga is high profile of course but she sang at President Biden’s inauguration which takes this case to another level,” a source told the outlet. “The FBI wants to know exactly what motivated this incident.”



Thursday, February 25, 2021

Summary. How many more before the Feds act?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90606571/state-data-privacy-laws-2021

These states are on track to pass data privacy laws this year





Perspective.

https://healthlawpulse.wordpress.com/

Privacy Policy Ponderings

… Could a Privacy Policy be viewed as a contract of adhesion?

… While a contract with no room for negotiation seems unfair, a contract of adhesion will still be enforceable. One of the keys to enforcement when being reviewed by a court is whether there are any unconscionable, hidden, or buried terms in the agreement. That boils down to making each statement known and not trying to hide the ball on the user. Given the prevalence of so-called click thru agreements or agreements through use, how many users have any awareness of the terms that are being agreed to? The answer is likely few if any.





Much wider role than NSA…

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56182274

Spy agency turns to AI to tackle child abuse

UK intelligence agency GCHQ intends to use artificial intelligence to tackle issues from child sexual abuse to disinformation and human trafficking.

The UK's adversaries were already using the technology, it said.

The agency has published a paper, Ethics of AI: Pioneering a New National Security, saying the technology will be put at the heart of its operations.

And officials say it will help analysts spot patterns hidden inside large - and fast growing - amounts of data.

This could include:

    • trying to spot fake online messages used by other states spreading disinformation

    • mapping international networks engaged in human or drug trafficking

    • finding child sex abusers hiding their identities online

But it cannot predict human behaviour such as moving towards executing a terrorist attack.





Very curious to see what a click is worth. Facebook gets to choose who gets paid and who gets ignored? (Should all content generators be compensated?)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/media/australia-media-legislation-facebook-intl-hnk/index.html

Australia passes new law requiring Facebook and Google to pay for news

Australia has passed a new law that will force tech companies to pay publishers for news content, setting the stage for potential, similar action in other countries.

The new code, which the Australian parliament approved Thursday, "will ensure that news media businesses are fairly remunerated for the content they generate," Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said in a statement.

Facebook even shut down news pages in Australia last week in opposition to the legislation. But it said earlier this week that it would restore them after the country made some changes to the code, including a provision that "must take into account whether a digital platform has made a significant contribution to the sustainability of the Australian news industry through reaching commercial agreements with news media businesses."

Arbitration, meanwhile, will now only be used as a "last resort" following a period of "good faith" mediation.

Facebook said after those revisions were made that the new agreement would allow it to "support the publishers we choose to." It later revealed a deal with major Australian news company Seven West Media, with plans to sign more with other publishers.





Internal combustion is dead?

https://thenextweb.com/shift/2021/02/25/chinas-best-selling-ev-general-motors-cheap-tesla/

This teensy Chinese EV outsold Tesla last month — and it’s cheaper than some ebikes

Oh, and it's partly made by General Motors

Over in the US, General Motors has made its statement of intent, pledging to go electric and remove tail-pipe emissions from its light passenger vehicles by 2035.

It looks like GM still has a way to go before we see its electric dreams realized on English-speaking shores. However, if we turn our gaze to China, GM is already helping to produce electric vehicles, and it turns out, the fruit of its labor is outselling Tesla, by a long way — last month at least.

It costs just $4,500. No, that’s not a typo, it is actually cheaper than some ebikes. But if you’re a person of luxury, which I’m sure you are, there is an upgraded version that has air conditioning that costs $5,000. And of course, in this blazing fireball called Earth, the one with A/C is the one to buy…



Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Ukraine has been a ‘special’ target of Russian hackers. Following their attacks gives us some idea how they might wage cyberwar. Not all attacks are aimed at shutting down systems.

https://www.databreaches.net/ukraine-says-russian-hackers-attacked-state-document-system/

Ukraine says Russian hackers attacked state document system

Reuters reports:

Ukraine accused an unnamed group of Russian hackers on Wednesday (Feb 24) of trying to disseminate malicious documents through a web-based system on which government documents are circulated, but did not say whether any damage was caused.
Kyiv has previously accused Moscow of orchestrating large cyber attacks as part of a “hybrid war” against Ukraine, which Russia denies.

Read more on The Straits Times.





I try to keep up.

https://www.pogowasright.org/new-sweeping-data-privacy-legislation-introduced-in-minnesota/

New Sweeping Data Privacy Legislation Introduced in Minnesota

Lisa Ellingson and Nadeem Schwen of Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. write:

Minnesota is now the latest state to take strides towards enacting an omnibus consumer data privacy law. On February 22, 2021, the “Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act” was introduced as HF 1492 by Rep. Steve Elkins (DFL) and Rep. Mohamud Noor (DFL) in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
The proposed Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (“MCDPA”) is largely based on the 2021 version of the proposed Washington Privacy Act (SB 5062), and bears many similarities to the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“CDPA”).

Read more on JDSupra.





The kerfuffle down under is really a Global Kerfuffle..

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56168843

Facebook v Australia: Who blinked first?

The former boss of Facebook in Australia is pretty clear.

"I'd say Facebook may have blinked a bit here," Stephen Scheeler told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"I think there's no question that global backlash against this was pretty stern.

"And I think Facebook probably observed that governments around the world were taking a harder line maybe than they had anticipated."



(Related) All news is not created equal? If I post ‘news’ about my cat, should I not get the same rate per click as the New York Times?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-tussle-with-australia-over-news-is-just-the-beginning-11614126091

Facebook’s Tussle With Australia Over News Is Just the Beginning

Facebook Inc.’s battle with publishers and regulators around the world over how the social-media giant handles news is far from finished after striking an agreement this week with the Australian government to pay for content.

The agreement Facebook reached Tuesday with Australia’s government to restore news content to its platform comes as political leaders elsewhere have pledged to increase scrutiny on tech giants, and as news outlets also plan to amp up pressure on the company to cut deals. The matter also raises questions about which publishers should get paid for news content and how much.



(Related)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-google-antitrust-exclusive-idUSKBN2AN268

Exclusive: French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with news publishers - sources

French antitrust investigators have accused Alphabet Inc’s Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over copyright, two sources who read the investigators’ report said.

In the 93-page report, known as a statement of objections, the investigators wrote that Google’s failure to comply was of an exceptionally serious nature, the sources said.

This comes amid complaints by French news publishers that Google failed to hold talks with them in good faith to find an agreement. The same publishers were not part of the $76 million three-year deal signed between the U.S. firm and and a group of 121 publications, as Reuters reported earlier this month.

The agreement was presented as a major step forward by both Google and the publishers who signed it, but left many publications infuriated.



(Related) How pervasive are they?

https://www.bespacific.com/a-new-browser-extension-blocks-any-websites-that-use-google-facebook-microsoft-or-amazon/

A new browser extension blocks any websites that use Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Amazon

The Verge: “The Economic Security Project is trying to make a point about big tech monopolies by releasing a browser plugin that will block any sites that reach out to IP addresses owned by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Amazon. The extension is called Big Tech Detective, and after using the internet with it for a day (or, more accurately, trying and failing to use), I’d say it drives home the point that it’s almost impossible to avoid these companies on the modern web, even if you try. Currently, the app has to be side-loaded onto Chrome, and the Economic Security Project expects that will remain the case. It’s also available to side-load onto Firefox. By default, it just keeps track of how many requests are sent, and to which companies. If you configure the extension to actually block websites, you’ll see a big red popup if the website you’re visiting sends a request to any of the four. That popup will also include a list of all the requests so you can get an idea of what’s being asked for…”





This is something that will really bother Auditors. “We dump in a bunch of data and a miracle happens!”

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/companies-are-using-ai-to-hit-business-goals-even-though-they-cant-explain-how-it-works/

Companies are using AI to hit business goals, even though they can't explain how it works

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are hard at work for many businesses, despite the fact that no one has figured out explainability, according to a new survey. Research from Modzy found that security is also a serious concern with 72% of companies reporting that security breaches or threats to AI systems. Modzy surveyed 821 decision-makers about how companies are deploying and managing AI for the new report, "The Race Towards Artificial Intelligence Adoption."

The survey found that 85% of decision-makers consider the explainability of AI to be extremely or very important. At the same time, leaders are also skeptical about the ability of organizations or government agencies to mandate this capability, with 59% agreeing it is impossible to do so.





Hard core lawyers?

https://www.bespacific.com/artificial-intelligence-and-legal-disruption-a-new-model-for-analysis/

Artificial Intelligence and Legal Disruption: A New Model for Analysis

Liu, Hin-Yan and Maas, Matthijs M. and Danaher, John and Scarcella, Luisa and Lexer, Michaela and Van Rompaey, Léonard, Artificial Intelligence and Legal Disruption: A New Model for Analysis (September 16, 2020). Law, Innovation and Technology 12, no. 2 (September 16, 2020): 205–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/17579961.2020.1815402 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3761620

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the latest example of an emerging technology that pushes regulatory and social boundaries. Stakeholders tasked with resolving these up-and-coming issues face a variety of choices in the selection and implementation of the most appropriate solution. In an effort to contribute to the analysis of alternatives, this Article summarizes the lessons learned from the utilization of soft law in the governance of four emerging technology fields as described in this special issue: (1) Environmental Technologies; (2) Nanotechnology; (3) Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); and (4) Life Sciences. Specifically, it examines the factors that contributed to the implementation of soft law by stakeholders and highlights the characteristics that differentiate it from its counterpart, hard law. The common denominator between AI and the technologies featured herein is their ability to influence significant changes in our society. With its analysis, this Article’s objective is to underscore practices that may maximize AI’s positive impact in the world.”





No doubt students will want this as a phone App.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-can-write-a-passing-college-paper-in-20-minutes/

AI can write a passing college paper in 20 minutes

AI can do a lot of things extremely well. One thing that it can do just okay – which, frankly, is still quite extraordinary – is write college term papers.

That's the finding from EduRef, a resource for students and educators, which ran an experiment to determine if a deep learning language prediction model known as GPT-3 could get passing marks in an anonymized trial.





Education.

https://globalcompliancenews.com/na-ai-machine-learning-video-series110221/

Eye on AI: North America Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Video Chat Series

Listen on-demand to our Eye on AI video chat series, which covers the need-to-know legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence and machine learning.





For the toolkit? Find that exact Terminator image?

https://www.bespacific.com/flim-an-intelligent-movie-screenshot-search-engine/

Flim, an Intelligent Movie Screenshot Search Engine

Kottke.org: “Flim is a movie search engine currently in beta that returns screenshots from movies based on keywords like “clock” or “tree” … You can filter results by things like genre, year, and film ratio. You can search by color and within movies, e.g. “tuxedo” in Titanic...”

Flim is the answer to the statement: images are everywhere: movies, TV, movie clips, internet. Images are needed at every creative process level. From fashion and design, via cinema and music video. Flim is the best tool for iconographic search…over 50,000 HD screen shots provided daily. Stills come from movies, documentaries and soon from Ads and music videos. Each picture is registered by film, director, DOP, actor, genre, style topics, release date…”



Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Defining a good hacker: Stealing from the best the government has without being noticed. Of course this could just be normal everyday espionage.

https://www.wired.com/story/china-nsa-hacking-tool-epme-hijack/

China Hijacked an NSA Hacking Tool in 2014—and Used It for Years

The hackers used the agency’s EpMe exploit to attack Windows devices years before the Shadow Brokers leaked the agency’s zero-day arsenal online.

MORE THAN FOUR years after a mysterious group of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers began wantonly leaking secret NSA hacking tools onto the internet, the question that debacle raised—whether any intelligence agency can prevent its "zero-day" stockpile from falling into the wrong hands —still haunts the security community. That wound has now been reopened, with evidence that Chinese hackers obtained and reused another NSA hacking tool years before the Shadow Brokers brought it to light.





Something for my Ethical Hackers?

https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/22/eu-report-warns-that-ai-makes-autonomous-vehicles-highly-vulnerable-to-attack/

EU report warns that AI makes autonomous vehicles ‘highly vulnerable’ to attack

The dream of autonomous vehicles is that they can avoid human error and save lives, but a new European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) report has found that autonomous vehicles are “highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks” that could be dangerous for passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles. Attacks considered in the report include sensor attacks with beams of light, overwhelming object detection systems, back-end malicious activity, and adversarial machine learning attacks presented in training data or the physical world.





I suspect China has quite a different perspective on privacy.

https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2021/02/23/hunton-partner-dora-luo-publishes-china-the-draft-pipl-and-the-gdpr-a-comparative-perspective/

Hunton Partner Dora Luo Publishes “China: The Draft PIPL and the GDPR – A Comparative Perspective”

In the February 2021 issue of the Data Protection Leader, Hunton partner Dora Luo discusses China’s draft Personal Information Protection Law (“Draft PIPL”) (in Chinese ) in the context of other comprehensive data protection frameworks, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

The article examines the Draft PIPL in the context of advanced technologies that have accelerated the collection of personal information more frequently than before. The Draft PIPL marks the introduction of a comprehensive system for the protection of personal information in China, which does not merely incorporate or replace rules that are already enshrined in other Chinese laws, but also draws inspiration from the GDPR.





Raises some interesting questions indeed.

https://www.pogowasright.org/fbi-seized-congressional-cellphone-records-related-to-capitol-attack/

FBI Seized Congressional Cellphone Records Related to Capitol Attack

Ken Klippenstein and Eric Lichtblau report:

Within hours of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the FBI began securing thousands of phone and electronic records connected to people at the scene of the rioting — including some related to members of Congress, raising potentially thorny legal questions.
Using special emergency powers and other measures, the FBI has collected reams of private cellphone data and communications that go beyond the videos that rioters shared widely on social media, according to two sources with knowledge of the collection effort.
In the hours and days after the Capitol riot, the FBI relied in some cases on emergency orders that do not require court authorization in order to quickly secure actual communications from people who were identified at the crime scene. Investigators have also relied on data “dumps” from cellphone towers in the area to provide a map of who was there, allowing them to trace call records — but not content — from the phones.

Read more on The Intercept.





Lots to read.

https://fpf.org/blog/acting-ftc-chairwoman-slaughter-highlights-priorities-in-privacy-papers-for-policymakers-event-keynote/

ACTING FTC CHAIRWOMAN SLAUGHTER HIGHLIGHTS PRIORITIES IN PRIVACY PAPERS FOR POLICYMAKERS EVENT KEYNOTE

The Future of Privacy Forum’s 11th-annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers event – the first event in the series to take place virtually – was a success!

In her keynote address, which was also her first major speech as acting chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Acting FTC Chairwoman Slaughter outlined three of her major privacy-related priorities for the Commission:

1. Making enforcement more efficient and effective. 

2. Protecting privacy during the pandemic.

3. Racial equity concerns in data use and abuse. 

You can read Acting FTC Chairwoman Slaughter’s full remarks at PPPM 2021 on the FTC website.

Click the links below to read each of the winning papers, or read the 2021 PPPM Digest to read summaries of the papers and learn more about the authors and judges.





This came quicker than I had thought possible. Still much work to be done.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-users-australia-can-again-share-news-links-n1258589

Facebook users in Australia can again share news links

Facebook said late Monday it will restore the ability of Australian users to share links to news articles following a new deal with the local government.

The agreement, which gives Facebook and the Australian government two more months to negotiate a long-term agreement, ends a nearly weeklong period during which Facebook users in Australia could not access or share news stories on the platform.

Facebook had restricted news-sharing in response to impending legislation that would have required it to let an independent arbiter determine how much compensation it had to give to publishers for linking to their stories. Users could not share links or access news stories from Australian or global outlets.

The new deal includes amendments that give Facebook greater control over how it compensates publishers.



(Related) Does this mean war?

https://www.makeuseof.com/microsoft-google-facebook-eu/

Microsoft Plans to Take Down Google and Facebook in the EU

A proposed Australian law caused Google and Facebook to flee the country, and Microsoft wants it to happen in Europe too.

As such, the government put forward a new law that would mean Google and Facebook would have to pay the source website for every time they displayed a news snippet. Facebook responded by removing its Australian news coverage in light of the law.

Google, however, put up a fight. It argued that its snippets encouraged people to click on it to read more, thus driving more traffic to the news website. It also said that such a law would be too expensive to maintain in the long run.

When Microsoft caught wind of this news, it flew in to save Australia from Google. Not only did it declare that its own search engine, Bing, was ready to fill the void that Google would leave, but it also fully supported Australia's news laws. Granted, the news law wasn't aimed at Microsoft at all; but if it were, the company stated it'd abide by them.

However, Microsoft isn't stopping there. The company has likely realized that, wherever this law goes, it would bring with it the pressure on Google to scale down or leave. That's good news for Bing, who struggles to keep up with the search engine giant's popularity.

As such, US News reported on how Microsoft plans to encourage EU countries to adopt this new law too.





Perhaps compliance isn’t as well defined as we thought? More likely, it’s a case of asking forgiveness rather than asking permission?

https://digiday.com/media/new-york-times-cafemedia-california-privacy-law/

How The New York Times and CafeMedia have taken divergent approaches to complying with California’s privacy law

More than a year after the California Consumer Privacy Act took effect, publishers and programmatic ad sellers are still split on how they are required to comply with California’s privacy law.

Some like The New York Times have taken a strict interpretation, adopting a conservative approach in complying with the law. Others like ad management firm CafeMedia have taken a looser interpretation of the CCPA’s notoriously ambiguous definition of sale and may eventually find themselves running afoul of regulators.





A clear statement of the issue. If as Arthur C. Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” then it should be no surprise that politicians (Okay, all non-techies) are mystified.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/we-need-to-talk-about-artificial-intelligence/

We need to talk about Artificial Intelligence

While consensus starts to form around the impact that AI will have on humankind, civil society, the public and the private sector alike are increasing their requests for accountability and trust-building. Ethical considerations such as AI bias (by race, gender, or other criteria), and algorithmic transparency (clarity on the rules and methods by which machines make decisions) have already negatively impacted society through the technologies we use daily.

The AI integration within industry and society and its impact on human lives, calls for ethical and legal frameworks that will ensure its effective governance, progressing AI social opportunities and mitigating its risks. There is a need for sound mechanisms that will generate a comprehensive and collectively shared understanding of AI’s development and deployment cycle. Thus, at its core, this governance needs to be designed under continuous dialogue utilizing multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary methodologies and skills.

Yet, this dialogue is hampered by the fact that creators of AI technology have all the information and understanding of the subject, while policymakers trying to regulate it often have very little. On the one hand, there is a limited number of policy experts who truly understand the full cycle of AI technology. On the other hand, the technology providers lack clarity, and at times interest, in shaping AI policy with integrity by implementing ethics in their technological designs (with, for example, ethically aligned design ).





Nobody cared.

https://kjzz.org/content/1660988/whistleblowers-software-bug-keeping-hundreds-inmates-arizona-prisons-beyond-release

Whistleblowers: Software Bug Keeping Hundreds Of Inmates In Arizona Prisons Beyond Release Dates

According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release are being held in prison because the inmate management software cannot interpret current sentencing laws.

KJZZ is not naming the whistleblowers because they fear retaliation. The employees said they have been raising the issue internally for more than a year, but prison administrators have not acted to fix the software bug. The sources said Chief Information Officer Holly Greene and Deputy Director Joe Profiri have been aware of the problem since 2019.

The Arizona Department of Corrections confirmed there is a problem with the software.





Sarcastic or not, an interesting article.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/five-trump-amendments-constitution/618097/

The 5 Trump Amendments to the Constitution

When I step back to look at the legacy of President Donald Trump, a surprising conclusion emerges: He has substantially altered the Constitution. His changes aren’t formal, of course. But his informal amendments are important. If left to stand, they threaten to make Congress an advisory body and give carte blanche to rogue presidents.





What do you bet they’ve been doing it all wrong?

https://www.bespacific.com/a-complete-guide-for-lawyers-texting-clients/

A Complete Guide for Lawyers Texting Clients

Sharon Miki – “Undoubtedly, communicating via text is part of daily life. So if you’re a lawyer who isn’t texting your clients yet, you could be missing out on a powerful way to reach clients and streamline your client communication process. Lawyer texting could make all the difference in a client-lawyer relationship, as it helps you communicate quickly, clearly, and often. When used correctly and under the right circumstances, business texting for lawyers means faster, more effective communication—while also giving clients a better client-centered experience. In the following guide, we’ll cover the pros and cons of lawyer texting. We’ll also outline important ethical, security, and compliance best practices for attorneys to consider before you start texting with clients. Finally, we’ll highlight some of the top tools that can simplify and enhance security for lawyers texting clients…”