The WSJ gets it!
Russians Have Already Started Hybrid War With Bomb Threats, Cyberattacks, Ukraine Says
Moscow is using cyberattacks, economic pressure and, most recently, false bomb threats, to undermine its neighbor, Kyiv says
Incentive for new laws? If the NFL comes under attack, WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING! (Perhaps a few signed jerseys were part of their ransom demand.)
https://www.databreaches.net/san-francisco-49ers-confirm-ransomware-attack/
San Francisco 49ers confirm ransomware attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports:
The San Francisco 49ers NFL team has fallen victim to a ransomware attack that encrypted files on its corporate IT network, a spokesperson for the team has told The Record.
The team confirmed the attack earlier today after the operators of the BlackByte ransomware listed the team as one of their victims on Saturday on a dark web “leak site” the group typically uses to shame victims and force them into paying their extortion demands.
Read more at The Record.
DataBreaches.net had reached out to the team yesterday to obtain a statement but has not heard back. In looking at the proof of claim data, however, DataBreaches.net had noticed that the data were all invoices to the team from 2020. BlackByte did not provide any proof of the full scope of any data exfiltration. The team’s statement to The Record indicates that they believe the attack was limited to their corporate network.
Real world impact of virtual technology.
Kids smashing figurines and fighting zombies on the TV - VR headset insurance claims rocket
Aviva has said home contents claims involving the gaming headsets rose by 31% last year and have increased by 68% in five years.
… The average value of a VR-related claim sits at about £650, with TVs being the most damaged item.
If Apple can honestly say, “We never thought of that” then they need to hire more paranoids!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/apple-airtags-tracking_n_61f425ade4b067cbfa1cb2b8
AirTags Are A Growing Headache For Apple Amid Disturbing Reports Of Tracking
Women around the country say they've gotten notifications that the relatively cheap location-tracking devices are following them.
… Across the country, women are reporting similar incidents to police and local news media in an attempt to raise public awareness that Apple’s AirTags can be hidden on cars and in personal belongings to track people without their knowledge. The stories proliferate on TikTok, and some have been posted to Reddit and Twitter.
Sometimes people find the devices, and sometimes they don’t.
… Location tracking devices are not new. Tile also makes pocket-size trackers for keys and wallets, marketing itself as “the world’s largest lost and found.”
Apple’s network, however, is particularly powerful. AirTags are able to use the Find My network, which uses Bluetooth technology and other people’s iPhones, MacBooks and iPads ― hundreds of millions of devices, according to Apple ― to ping location signals back to the person who owns it. The process is so efficient it barely touches a device’s battery power. And because the world is already blanketed in Apple products, the location data is generally very precise.
A tracking device from LandAirSea relies on satellite GPS tracking with a monthly paid subscription. Tile also uses Bluetooth, like AirTags. But one New York Times tech reporter who tried those three different products to track her husband found that the Apple device yielded the most specific results, particularly in a metropolitan environment. (Yes, she had his permission.)
… An iPhone running iOS 14.5 or later will send a notification if it detects an AirTag traveling with someone who does not own it. The notification will pop up either at the end of the day or when the iPhone detects you’ve arrived home
… The company instructs those who find an unwanted AirTag to disable it using their phone or by taking it apart; detailed instructions can be found on its website.
If different rules apply to different races/religions/etc is it automatically a hate crime?
https://www.pogowasright.org/article-race-and-online-privacy/
Article: Race and Online Privacy
Over on Public Citizen, Jeff Sovern points us to an article by Anita L. Allen of Penn, Dismantling the Black Opticon: Race Equity and Online Privacy and Data Protection Reform, forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal.
Abstract
In the opening decades of the 21st century popular online platforms rapidly transformed the world. These platforms have come with benefits, but a heavy price to information privacy and data protection. I propose a new framework for describing African Americans’ multifaceted situation of risk and harm relating to wrongful data collection, use, analysis and sharing online: the Black Opticon. African Americans online face three distinguishable but related categories of vulnerability to bias and discrimination that I dub the “Black Opticon”: discriminatory oversurveillance (panoptic vulnerabilities to, for example AI empowered facial recognition and geolocation technologies); discriminatory exclusion (ban-optic vulnerabilities to, for example, unequal access to goods, services and public accommodations advertised or offered online); and discriminatory predation (con-optic vulnerabilities to, for example, con-jobs, scams and exploitation relating to credit, employment, business and educational opportunities). Escaping the Black Opticon is unlikely without acknowledgement of privacy’s unequal distribution and privacy law’s outmoded and unduly race-neutral façade. African Americans could benefit from race-conscious efforts to shape a more equitable digital public sphere through improved laws and legal institutions. This essay critically elaborates the Black Opticon triad and considers whether the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (2021), the federal Data Protection Act (2021), and new resources for the Federal Trade Commission proposed in 2021 possibly meet imperatives of a race-conscious African American Online Equity Agenda, specifically designed to help dismantle the Black Opticon. The 2021 enacted Virginia law and the bill proposing a new federal data protection agency include civil rights and non-discrimination provisions; and the Federal Trade Commission has an impressive stated commitment to marginalized peoples within the bounds of its authority. Nonetheless the limited scope and pro-business orientation of the Virginia law, and barriers to follow-through on federal measures, are substantial hurdles in the road to true platform equity. The path forward requires jumping those hurdles, regulating platforms, and indeed all of the digital economy, in the interests of nondiscrimination, anti-racism and anti-subordination. Toward escaping the Black Opticon’s pernicious gaze, African Americans and their allies will continue the pursuit of viable strategies for justice and equity in the digital economy.
The first(?) of many technologies to be controlled.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02734
The Self-Driving Car: Crossroads at the Bleeding Edge of Artificial Intelligence and Law
Artificial intelligence (AI) features are increasingly being embedded in cars and are central to the operation of self-driving cars (SDC). There is little or no effort expended towards understanding and assessing the broad legal and regulatory impact of the decisions made by AI in cars. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to determine the perceived barriers, benefits and facilitating factors of SDC in order to help us understand the suitability and limitations of existing and proposed law and regulation. (1) existing and proposed laws are largely based on claimed benefits of SDV that are still mostly speculative and untested; (2) while publicly presented as issues of assigning blame and identifying who pays where the SDC is involved in an accident, the barriers broadly intersect with almost every area of society, laws and regulations; and (3) new law and regulation are most frequently identified as the primary factor for enabling SDC. Research on assessing the impact of AI in SDC needs to be broadened beyond negligence and liability to encompass barriers, benefits and facilitating factors identified in this paper. Results of this paper are significant in that they point to the need for deeper comprehension of the broad impact of all existing law and regulations on the introduction of SDC technology, with a focus on identifying only those areas truly requiring ongoing legislative attention.
Tools of war, and how to use them.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9781474483599/html?lang=en
Ethics of Drone Strikes
The violent use of armed, unmanned aircraft (‘drones’) is increasing worldwide, but uncertainty persists about the moral status of remote-control killing and why it should be restrained. Practitioners, observers and potential victims of such violence often struggle to reconcile it with traditional expectations about the nature of war and the risk to combatants. Addressing the ongoing policy concern that state use of drone violence is sometimes poorly understood and inadequately governed, the book’s ethical assessments are not restricted to the application of traditional Just War principles, but also consider the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), virtue ethics, and guiding principles for forceful law-enforcement.
This edited collection brings together nine original contributions by established and emerging scholars, incorporating expertise in military ethics, critical military studies, gender, history, international law and international relations, in order to better assess the multi-faceted relationship between drone violence and justice.
Manage your organization.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-94873-3_27
Corporate Governance Innovations
The development of modern digital technologies provides tremendous opportunities for their use in corporate governance, which poses unprecedented challenges to corporate law to be tackled as soon as possible. Technologies are developing much faster than law. Possible barriers or ambiguity can hinder this development and require, therefore any public order claiming to be competitive should duly assessment them from the legislative point of view. The purpose of the research prompted the author to go beyond national jurisdictions and assess the impact of digital technology on corporate governance across the world. In the research, authors attempted to identify and give a general description of technologies that can affect corporate governance, such as distributed ledger technology, blockchain, smart contracts, artificial intelligence, etc. The paper estimates the advantages of holding a general meeting of corporate shareholders using DLT, as well as the tokenization of corporate assets. Particular attention is paid to the trends towards decentralization of corporate governance in platform-type companies and decentralized autonomous companies. In conclusion, applications of artificial intelligence in corporate governance are considered.
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