It was always a risk. Now you can be notified when the risk becomes real.
https://www.makeuseof.com/screenshot-notification-messenger/
How to Get Notified When Someone Screenshots Disappearing Messages on Messenger
Meta has announced updates for end-to-end encrypted chats on Facebook Messenger. Default end-to-end encryption won't arrive on Messenger until sometime in 2023, but now you can opt-in and take advantage of the added features.
The most noteworthy development is the addition of a control to its disappearing messages that notifies you if your chat partner takes a screenshot of your conversation. Here's what you need to know.
If I copy a “selfie” taken by my friend the Colonel, could I use that to establish his/my identity? (The selfie as ‘something we have’ rather than ‘something we are’)
https://www.bespacific.com/its-not-just-the-irs-the-us-government-wants-your-selfies/
It’s Not Just the IRS—the US Government Wants Your Selfies
Wired: “…More than 20 federal agencies, including the Social Security Administration, use a digital identity system called Login.gov run by the General Services Administration. It’s built on services from LexisNexis and can use selfies for account verification. The GSA’s director of technology transformation services Dave Zvenyach says facial recognition is being tested for fairness and accessibility and not yet used when people access government services through Login.gov. The GSA’s administrator said last year that 30 million citizens have Login.gov accounts and that it expects the number to grow significantly as more agencies adopt the system. “ID.me is supplying something many governments ask for and require companies to do,” says Elizabeth Goodman, who previously worked on Login.gov and is now senior director of design at federal contractor A1M Solutions. Countries including the UK, New Zealand, and Denmark use similar processes to ID.me’s to establish digital identities used to access government services. Many international security standards are broadly in line with those of the US, written by the National Institute of Standards and Technology…”
Privacy by geography.
Crazy quilt of state privacy laws could cost businesses $1 trillion
Allowing the states to regulate data privacy could cost businesses more than $1 trillion in the next 10 years, according to a new study by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.
So far, the report noted, only a handful of states have enacted privacy laws, including California, Colorado, and Virginia, but more states are likely to pass laws in the coming years. Since 2018, 34 states have passed or introduced 72 privacy bills regulating the commercial collection and use of personal data. However, as more laws are passed, they will create significant compliance costs for both in- and out-of-state businesses and confusion for consumers.
The ITIF estimates that, without a federal law governing data privacy, a patchwork of laws in 50 states could impose out-of-state costs of between $98 billion and $112 billion annually, with small businesses picking up from $20 billion to $23 billion of that tab annually.
Imagine that. My AI is governed by the GDPR.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/gdpr-compliance-artificial/
#DataPrivacyDay: Key GDPR Compliance Issues to Watch in the Artificial Intelligence Space
Organizations increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) driven solutions in their day-to-day business operations. For example, many organizations rely on AI to continuously train algorithms and improve their products and services, using so-called machine learning (ML) models. Generally, these AI-driven solutions require the processing of significant amounts of personal data for the model’s own training, which is often not the purpose for which the personal data was originally collected. There is a clear tension between such further use of vast amounts of personal data and some of the key data protection principles outlined in privacy regulation.
Laws like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aim to minimize the processing of individuals’ personal data to what is strictly necessary to achieve a specific, well-defined purpose. While the GDPR does not rule out the further use of personal data in connection with AI-driven solutions, businesses should consider a number of key GDPR compliance considerations when relying on AI-driven solutions.
Will ‘belief systems’ (religions) impact the algorithms used in AI? (How could they not?)
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/469628/Iran-plans-to-become-a-leading-country-in-AI
Iran plans to become a leading country in AI
… Iran is in 13th place among the top countries in artificial intelligence by the total number of publications in 2021, according to the Nature Index database.
The SCImago ranking database at the University of Granada, Spain, ranks countries and universities based on the number of scholarly articles from higher education institutions in the Scopus database. This ranking uses three indicators of research, innovation, and society in combination.
Resources. The website launches in February 2022
https://www.bespacific.com/massive-open-index-of-scholarly-papers-launches/
Massive open index of scholarly papers launches
Nature: “An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index, called OpenAlex after the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt, also aims to chart connections between these data points to create a comprehensive, interlinked database of the global research system, say its founders. The database, which launched on 3 January, is a replacement for Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), a free alternative to subscription-based platforms such as Scopus, Dimensions and Web of Science that was discontinued at the end of 2021. “It’s just pulling lots of databases together in a clever way,” says Euan Adie, founder of Overton, a London-based firm that tracks the research cited in policy documents. Overton had been getting its data from various sources, including MAG, ORCID, Crossref and directly from publishers, but has now switched to using only OpenAlex, in the hope of making the process easier…”
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