Papers, Citizen! (and by ‘papers’ I mean proof of vaccination)

https://www.pogowasright.org/americas-largest-teachers-unions-push-vaccine-mandates-that-will-usher-in-technocratic-digital-id/

America’s Largest Teachers’ Unions Push Vaccine Mandates That Will Usher in Technocratic Digital ID

This one could be filed in the “Be Careful What You Wish For” files. John Klyczek reports:

Back in February 2021, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) lobbied the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to extend COVID restrictions that perpetuate public education’s reliance on privatization, specifically from Big Tech companies, which have been raking in record profits by selling schools ed-tech products to deliver online instruction during lockdowns. While the AFT and the NEA appealed to public health and safety rationales, their CDC lobbying efforts were couched in their conflicts of interest with Big Tech companies, such as IBM; corporate philanthropies, including the Rockefeller Foundation; globalist non-governmental organizations, like the Trilateral Commission; and world governance institutions, such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Lobbying the CDC to add COVID restrictions for in-person learning that perpetuate Big Tech privatization was just a pit-stop on the way toward these same teachers’ unions pushing mandatory coronavirus jabs for students and educators who will be required to verify their vaccination status with compulsory digital immunizations passports platformed on blockchain and other “distributed ledger technologies” (DLTs). Now that President Joe Biden has called on state governors to mandate COVID vaccination for all school employees and students, the AFT and the NEA are fully on board with the state and federal proclamations forcing their dues-paying teachers to get jabbed along with students. By backing government-mandated vaccinations for school employees and students, the AFT and the NEA are rolling out the red carpet for digital vaccine passports through blockchain DLTs that will be used to aggregate students’ electronic health records (EHRs), “learning analytics,” workforce competency algorithms, and criminal histories into “Social Credit” scores which will determine access to the public square and private markets – a technocratic system planned out in detail long before COVID-19 emerged.

Read more on Unlimited Hangout.

Did I miss this one in August?

https://www.insideprivacy.com/surveillance-law-enforcement-access/illinois-enacts-protecting-household-privacy-act/

Illinois Enacts Protecting Household Privacy Act

On August 27, 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law the Protecting Household Privacy Act (“PHPA”). The law governs how, and under what conditions, Illinois law enforcement agencies may acquire and use data from household electronic devices, commonly referred to as “smart devices” or the “internet of things.” The PHPA will go into effect on January 1, 2022.

The PHPA applies to “household electronic data,” which the statute defines as any information or input provided by a person to any device “primarily intended for use within a household that is capable of facilitating any electronic communication,” excluding personal computing devices (such as personal computers, cell phones, smartphones, or tablets) and digital gateway devices (such as modems, routers, wireless access points, or cable set-top boxes serviced by a cable provider). Section 5. The law imposes several limits on Illinois law enforcement’s acquisition and use of household electronic data:

Assume they have a plan… What would it be? (Was this the target of the GDPR all along?)

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/iab-europe-tcf-gdpr-breach-belgium/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHdYsozPRR0e-VHzwPrO78Ps_3UiU8wmHfKzG6KNnFCnm6xHMzJXiWYeKPjwkwJRl5TWe8LjbuIjhlRMeEXPWvBIhKEzo52W_HrDqNwyrRMbUrmbaOpUl27szl1_r9dk-SrO671rDHqvGuA-wQPJRupGjtymLdm4QewcPt2Qh9QF

IAB Europe says it’s expecting to be found in breach of GDPR

Is this the beginning of the end for the hated tracking cookie consent pop-up? A flagship framework used by Google and scores of other advertisers for gathering claimed consent from web users for creepy ad targeting looks set to be found in breach of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

A year ago the IAB Europe’s self-styled Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) was found to fail to comply with GDPR principles of transparency, fairness and accountability, and the lawfulness of processing in a preliminary report by the investigatory division of the Belgian data protection authority.

The complaint then moved to the litigation chamber of the DPA — and a whole year passed without a decision being issued, in keeping with the glacial pace of privacy enforcement against adtech in the region.

But the authority is now in the process of finalizing a draft ruling, according to a press statement put out by the IAB Europe today. And the verdict it’s expecting is that the TCF breaches the GDPR.

It will also find that the IAB Europe is itself in breach. Oopsy.

National Security trumps everything?

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/05/fisc_secrecy_ruling/

No day in court: US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rulings will stay a secret

The US Supreme Court this week refused [PDF] to hear a case that would have forced the country's hush-hush Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to explain its justifications for giving the Feds the right to help themselves to bulk amounts of the public's data.

The FISC decides who the Feds can follow according to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

In a blistering dissent filed on Monday [PDF], Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor asked why the court would decline to review a case with "profound implications for Americans' privacy and their rights to speak and associate freely."

(Related) Tax collection trumps everything?

https://theintercept.com/2021/11/04/treasury-surveillance-location-data-babel-street/

THE U.S. TREASURY IS BUYING PRIVATE APP DATA TO TARGET AND INVESTIGATE PEOPLE

THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT has in recent months expanded its digital surveillance powers, contracts provided to The Intercept reveal, turning to the controversial firm Babel Street, whose critics say it helps federal investigators buy their way around the Fourth Amendment.

Two contracts obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request and shared with The Intercept by Tech Inquiry, a research and advocacy group, show that over the past four months, the Treasury acquired two powerful new data feeds from Babel Street: one for its sanctions enforcement branch, and one for the Internal Revenue Service. Both feeds enable government use of sensitive data collected by private corporations not subject to due process restrictions. Critics were particularly alarmed that the Treasury acquired access to location and other data harvested from smartphone apps; users are often unaware of how widely apps share such information.

The non-lawyer asks: Aren’t all mergers, by definition, anti-competitive?

https://www.axios.com/klobuchar-cotton-big-tech-antitrust-bill-535d9df6-5b39-4e75-b6d8-13f30c21f3cf.html

New Klobuchar, Cotton bill could block Big Tech mergers

Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tom Cotton (R-AK) introduced a bill Friday that would make it more difficult for Big Tech to acquire rival companies and would force them to prove proposed mergers aren't anticompetitive

Why would you want to?

https://www.salon.com/2021/11/05/limits-to-growth-can-ais-voracious-appetite-for-data-be-tamed_partner/

Limits to growth: Can AI’s voracious appetite for data be tamed?

Bigger datasets are said to be better for training machine learning algorithms. Critics seek limits — and change

… To learn, algorithms need massive datasets. But as the applications grow more varied and complex, the rising demand for data is exacting growing social costs. Some of those problems are well known, such as the demographic skew in many facial recognition datasets toward White, male subjects — a bias passed on to the algorithms.

But there is a broader data crisis in machine learning. As machine learning datasets expand, they increasingly infringe on privacy by using images, text, or other material scraped without user consent; recycle toxic content; and are the source of other, more unpredictable biases and misjudgments.

The Privacy Foundation encourages you to save November 12^th for the 2021 Fall Seminar: Privacy-HIPAA/Foundational Principles—Current and Future Trends. The panel experts will examine the foundational roots of HIPAA, including the current extent of HIPAA coverage protecting medical data. Please register by clicking the link below. CLE pending.

Privacy HIPAA Developments

An inexpensive, deniable attack to keep an adversary off balance and perhaps provide information to help target attacks by other means.

https://www.databreaches.net/security-service-of-ukraine-identified-fsb-hackers-who-carried-out-more-than-5000-cyberattacks-on-state-bodies-of-ukraine/

Security Service of Ukraine identified FSB hackers who carried out more than 5,000 cyberattacks on state bodies of Ukraine

From an SSU press release:

SSU cyber specialists have identified hackers from the notorious ARMAGEDON group, which carried out more than 5,000 cyber attacks on state bodies and objects of critical infrastructure of Ukraine. They were officers of the “Crimean” FSB, as well as traitors who sided with the enemy during the occupation of the peninsula in 2014.

The Ukrainian special service revealed the identities of the intruders, obtained incontrovertible evidence of their illegal activity, including interception of their phone calls. SSU has done it despite of the fact that the criminals used the FSB’s own malware, as well as means of anonymization and “covers” in the Internet.

Currently, 5 members of the hackers group received the suspicion notices of high treason according to art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

According to available information, the hacker group “ARMAGEDON” is a special FSB project, the primary goal of which was Ukraine. This “direction of work” was coordinated by the 18th Center of FSB of the Russian Federation (Information Security Center), based in Moscow.

Read more of the release here and you can watch the videos they released.

Catalin Cimpanu has a helpful write-up on it all on The Record.

How costly are hackers?

https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/us-offers-10-million-reward-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Cyber+Security+Blog%29

U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Information on DarkSide Ransomware Group

The U.S. government on Thursday announced a $10 million reward for information that may lead to the identification or location of key individuals who hold leadership positions in the DarkSide ransomware group or any of its rebrands.

On top of that, the State Department is offering bounties of up to $5 million for intel and tip-offs that could result in the arrest and/or conviction in any country of individuals who are conspiring or attempting to participate in intrusions affiliated with the transnational organized crime syndicate.

Confusing. I need a couple of lawyers to explain my rights, and they probably won’t agree with each other.

https://www.pogowasright.org/the-impact-of-carpenter-v-united-states-in-the-lower-courts-and-the-emerging-carpenter-test/

The Impact of Carpenter v. United States in the Lower Courts and the Emerging Carpenter Test

John Wesley Hall points us to two recent articles of note:

Lawfare: The Impact of Carpenter v. United States in the Lower Courts and the Emerging Carpenter Test by Matthew Tokson:

The Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Carpenter v. United States was widely considered to be a sea change in Fourth Amendment law. Carpenter held that individuals can retain Fourth Amendment rights in information they disclose to a third party, at least in some situations. Specifically, cell phone users retained Fourth Amendment rights in their cell phone location data, even though that data was disclosed to their cell phone companies.

This is a potentially revolutionary holding in the internet era, when virtually every form of sensitive digital information is exposed to a third-party service provider at some point.

[…]

And then Hall points to another piece by Tokson:

Matthew J. Tokson, The Aftermath of Carpenter: An Empirical Study of Fourth Amendment Law, 2018-2021 (September 28, 2021). Harvard Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 470, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3932015 Abstract:

Fourth Amendment law is in flux. The Supreme Court recently established, in the landmark case Carpenter v. United States, that individuals can retain Fourth Amendment rights in information they disclose to a third party. In the internet era, this ruling has the potential to extend privacy protections to a huge variety of sensitive digital information. But Carpenter is also notoriously vague. Scholars and lower courts have tried to guess at what the law of Fourth Amendment searches will be going forward—and have reached different, contradictory conclusions.

Read more on FourthAmendment.com.

An AI of human (or greater) intelligence is inevitable. Why do we insist that we must control it? Won’t that be like my cat insisting on controlling me?

https://www.sciencealert.com/calculations-suggest-it-ll-be-impossible-to-control-a-super-intelligent-ai

Calculations Suggest It'll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI

The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for many decades, and in January 2021, scientists delivered their verdict on whether we'd be able to control a high-level computer super-intelligence. The answer? Almost definitely not.

The catch is that controlling a super-intelligence far beyond human comprehension would require a simulation of that super-intelligence which we can analyze. But if we're unable to comprehend it, it's impossible to create such a simulation.

AI as inventor. Now AI as speaker.

https://www.bespacific.com/the-first-amendment-does-not-protect-replicants-2/

The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants

Lessig, Lawrence, The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants (September 10, 2021). Social Media and Democracy (Lee Bollinger & Geoffrey Stone, eds., Oxford 2022), Forthcoming, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 21-34, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3922565 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3922565

“As the semantic capability of computer systems increases, the law should resolve clearly whether the First Amendment protects machine speech. This essay argues it should not be read to reach sufficiently sophisticated — “replicant” — speech.”

Perspective. Lawyers might find the “Data Trust” interesting.

https://www.bespacific.com/10-breakthrough-technologies-2021-2/

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021

MIT Technology Review: “This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies. Some, such as mRNA vaccines, are already changing our lives, while others are still a few years off. Below, you’ll find a brief description along with a link to a feature article that probes each technology in detail. We hope you’ll enjoy and explore—taken together, we believe this list represents a glimpse into our collective future …”

I was afraid this was the case. However it does make a great ‘bad example’ of undue reliance.

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/ibuying-algorithms-failed-zillow-says-business-worlds-love-affair-ai/

Why the iBuying algorithms failed Zillow, and what it says about the business world’s love affair with AI

Just because a business process can be automated, doesn’t necessarily mean it should be automated. And maybe — just maybe — there are components of business that are not better served with AI algorithms doing the job.

That’s a key takeaway after Zillow Group made the unexpected decision on Tuesday to shutter its home buying business — a painful move that will result in 2,000 employees losing their jobs, a $304 million third quarter write-down, a spiraling stock price (shares are down more than 18% today), and egg on the face of co-founder and CEO Rich Barton.

Zillow’s move also represents a big loss for the algorithms that powered its nascent iBuying business, and it is a warning sign to other businesses — both in real estate and other industries — that rely heavily on the almighty algorithm.

What information is still useful a decade after the fact? Names of agents for example. How could you counter this except by perfect security.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/03/1039171/hackers-quantum-computers-us-homeland-security-cryptography/

Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade

The US government is starting a generation-long battle against the threat next-generation computers pose to encryption.

For some, this is like a shopping guide.

https://therecord.media/us-sanctions-four-companies-selling-hacking-tools-including-nso-group-candiru/

US sanctions four companies selling hacking tools, including NSO Group & Candiru

The US government has sanctioned today four companies that develop and sell spyware and other hacking tools, the US Department of Commerce announced today.

The four companies include Israel’s NSO Group and Candiru, Russian security firm Positive Technologies, and Singapore-based Computer Security Initiative Consultancy.

US officials said the four companies engaged in “activities that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.”

Commerce officials said NSO Group and Candiru “developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments that used these tools to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers.”

The US said these tools were abused by foreign governments to conduct trans-national repression of dissidents, journalists, and activists outside of those governments’ sovereign borders.

All this happened before we learned to spell privacy. (I’m so old, my class had cave paintings.)

https://www.courthousenews.com/how-californians-are-fighting-for-the-privacy-of-their-decades-old-yearbook-photos/

Judge advances claims over privacy of decades-old yearbook photos

Is there an expectation of privacy attached to old yearbook photos? Turns out even federal judges are divided on the issue.

… But imagine that long after your schooling days are done, you find that your old yearbook pictures have made the rounds on the internet without your knowledge, and a company is making money from them.

… According to the lawsuit, PeopleConnect operates this business without ever getting — let alone requesting — permission from the people in the pictures, a move the plaintiffs say has violated their expectation of privacy.

Callahan and Abraham's lawsuit is one in slew of legal battles that has left the judicial system scrambling for answers. This past June, Ancestry.com convinced a federal judge to toss similar accusations leveled against the genealogy giant, with the judge finding that yearbook pictures are not entitled to special protections.

Eric Goldman, a professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, says that while yearbooks are largely viewed as published material and people do not own copyrights to their yearbook pictures, the realities of the internet in today’s world has presented new questions that our court system struggles to resolve.

There will be massive competition to be the most collaborative…

https://venturebeat.com/2021/11/03/microsoft-says-all-business-will-be-collaborative-and-infused-with-data-and-ai/

Microsoft says all business will be collaborative, and infused with data and AI

How will the world of work change in the near future? “Every business process will be collaborative, powered by data and AI, and will bridge the digital and physical worlds,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during the opening keynote of his company’s Ignite conference this week.

Nadella and other Microsoft executives speaking at the event gave numerous examples of this. One implication of this view is that collaboration can’t just happen within Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, or Outlook; it should flow between them and operational applications. Data and intelligence derived from the interactions between people — what Microsoft calls the Microsoft Graph — should allow the organization to refine and perfect business processes and make employees more productive.

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?”

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761001/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-australia-breach-data-delete

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?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761041/google-news-relaunch-spain-payments-publishers-eu-copyright-directive?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

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.

https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/ai-decoded/data-protection-watchdog-on-ai-parliaments-ai-roadmap-small-data-2/

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…”

Mondays are often slow, but yesterday I only found one article. It wasn’t worth publishing my Blog. Depressing.

I could be wrong, but this hints at an algorithm that didn’t work as planned…

https://therealdeal.com/2021/11/01/zillow-eyeing-2-8b-for-7000-homes-report/

Zillow eyeing $2.8B for 7,000 homes: report

Company paused iBuying program 2 weeks ago

… The company is aiming to sell 7,000 homes for $2.8 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The outlet reports Zillow is likely looking to move the homes in many transactions, rather than trying to package and offload them in one single swoop.

The Bloomberg report comes just days after an analysis published by Insider last week showed 64 percent of the homes were listed for less than the Zillow paid for them, with a median difference of $16,000.

… Two weeks ago, Zillow hit pause on its iBuying business pointing to a backlog of properties as the reason the company was “beyond operational capacity.”

Interesting forensics.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/11/on-cell-phone-metadata.html

On Cell Phone Metadata

Interesting Twitter thread on how cell phone metadata can be used to identify and track people who don’t want to be identified and tracked.

Similar to the case in Canada.

https://www.pogowasright.org/run-a-credit-check-without-consent-in-norway-and-it-may-cost-you/

Run a credit check without consent in Norway and it may cost you

Suppose a company ran a credit check on you despite the fact that you had no relationship to that company and had not requested nor consented to any credit check.

What do you think the government would do to the company, if anything?

Well, if you are in Norwary, the Norwegian DPA might fine that company 12,500 euros (about $14,500.00) and require them to prepare written routines to comply with Article 24 of the GDPR.

You can read more about the Ultra-Technology AS complaint and decision here.

We may never have a robotic Pope.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/7-lessons-learned-vaticans-artificial-intelligence-symposium

7 lessons learned from the Vatican's artificial intelligence symposium

Sometime before December 2019, Bishop Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council of Culture, and Michael Koch, then the German ambassador to the Holy See, had a series of discussions on the long-term societal and philosophical ramifications of artificial intelligence that led them to jointly sponsor a symposium, "The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence for Human Society and the Idea of the Human Person.”

… The topic was not a new interest of Tighe's. In September 2019, his office, along with Cardinal Peter Turkson's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, hosted a three-day seminar on "The Common Good in the Digital Age” with leaders from the digital industry and from concerned nongovernmental organizations, as well as members of the academy and the Curia. Tighe is a natural at bringing together a wide variety of disparate stakeholders as necessary interlocutors.

Perspective. Hardware marches on…

https://www.engadget.com/5-d-storage-could-fit-500-tb-on-cd-sized-disc-095039455.html

'5D' storage could fit 500TB on a CD-sized glass disc

That would be 10,000 times more data than Blu-ray discs.