Problem with the cops or just a target of opportunity? Like pushing them back in time?
https://www.wgem.com/2022/05/09/troup-quincy-facing-one-worst-cyber-attacks-ever-hit-community/
Troup: Quincy facing one of the ‘worst cyber attacks’ to ever hit the community
… “This probably is going to go down as one of the worst cyber attacks for any organization in this community,” Troup said.
It took the Quincy Police Department’s non-emergency phone lines down for a full day.
Police still can’t access their emails. They also said they can’t process any Freedom of Information Act requests, their car computers are not working and they have to write paper copies for tickets and accident reports.
“Now instead of digital we are using paper copies. It’s like policing in the mid-to-late nineties [Oh, the horror! Bob] when I started. So we don’t have the car computers anymore,” Deputy Chief of Operations Shannon Pilkington said.
Pilkington said officers are still on patrol, and the 911 phone number still works.
… City of Quincy employees can’t send or receive emails and the Quincy Fire Department and Quincy Public Library were also impacted.
Troup said they are limiting employee usage of the internet until they know where the problem came from.
He said they are still unsure about how it happened, but he stressed the severity of the situation.
Troup said residents are able to pay their utility bills, but the city cannot accept credit card payments right now.
Imagine a world where weapons of war have no privacy. Pearl Harbors may become impossible but Ukraines will still get invaded. Tracking objects smaller than tanks should be possible.
Chinese smart satellite tracks US aircraft carrier in real time, researchers say
When USS Harry S. Truman was heading to a strait transit drill off the coast of Long Island in New York on June 17 last year, a Chinese remote sensing satellite powered by the latest artificial intelligence technology automatically detected the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and alerted Beijing with the precise coordinates, according to a new study by Chinese space scientists.
There has got to be a better way. Six or seven years of effort to squeeze out $3 per victim? (Less attorney’s fees)
https://www.databreaches.net/lawyers-are-nearing-a-settlement-deal-for-the-infamous-2015-opm-hack/
Lawyers are nearing a settlement deal for the infamous 2015 OPM hack
Attorneys are closing in on a settlement deal that could deliver up to $63 million to some victims of one of the most cataclysmic data breaches in history
The settlement, if approved by a judge, would end a seven-year legal effort to win compensation for more than 21 million current and former federal employees who were victims of the hack of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 2015, which intelligence officials say was almost certainly perpetrated by the Chinese government.
Read more at The Washington Post, but don’t expect to see compensation for most people.
A little more detail on a clear case of ‘undue reliance.’ After all, if AI is doing everything perfectly, why would I need to double check?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence-in-government
The Dutch Tax Authority Was Felled by AI—What Comes Next?
Until recently, it wasn’t possible to say that AI had a hand in forcing a government to resign. But that’s precisely what happened in the Netherlands in January 2021, when the incumbent cabinet resigned over the so-called kinderopvangtoeslagaffaire: the childcare benefits affair.
When a family in the Netherlands sought to claim their government childcare allowance, they needed to file a claim with the Dutch tax authority. Those claims passed through the gauntlet of a self-learning algorithm, initially deployed in 2013. In the tax authority’s workflow, the algorithm would first vet claims for signs of fraud, and humans would scrutinize those claims it flagged as high risk.
In reality, the algorithm developed a pattern of falsely labeling claims as fraudulent, and harried civil servants rubber-stamped the fraud labels. So, for years, the tax authority baselessly ordered thousands of families to pay back their claims, pushing many into onerous debt and destroying lives in the process.
… “The performance of the model, of the algorithm, needs to be transparent or published by different groups,” says Lee. That includes things like what the model’s accuracy rate is like, he adds.
The tax authority’s algorithm evaded such scrutiny; it was an opaque black box, with no transparency into its inner workings. For those affected, it could be nigh impossible to tell exactly why they had been flagged. And they lacked any sort of due process or recourse to fall back upon.
“The government had more faith in its flawed algorithm than in its own citizens, and the civil servants working on the files simply divested themselves of moral and legal responsibility by pointing to the algorithm,” says Nathalie Smuha, a technology legal scholar at KU Leuven, in Belgium.
This is one way to say it.
Clearview AI agrees to permanent ban on selling facial recognition to private companies
Facial recognition surveillance company Clearview AI has agreed to permanently ban most private companies from using its service under a court settlement. The agreement, filed in Illinois court today, would settle a 2020 American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit that alleged the company had built its business on facial recognition data taken without user consent. The agreement formalizes measures Clearview had already taken and shields the company from further ACLU suits under Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
As part of the settlement, Clearview agrees to a permanent nationwide injunction restricting its sale (or free distribution) of access to a vast database of face photographs — many of which were originally scraped from social networks like Facebook.
(Related) A more accurate headline?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/tech/clearview-ai-aclu-settlement/index.html
Clearview AI agrees to restrict US sales of facial recognition mostly to law enforcement
Clearview AI, a controversial facial-recognition software company, agreed on Monday that it will not sell its software to most companies in the United States — a decision that will largely restrict its use to law-enforcement agencies in the country.
… "Clearview AI's posture regarding sales to private entities remains unchanged," Hoan Ton-That, CEO Clearview AI, said in a statement. "We would only sell to private entities in a manner that complies with BIPA. Our database is only provided to government agencies for the purpose of solving crimes."
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.bespacific.com/onelook-search-engine/
OneLook search engine
Total Anarchy – Ann Handley – “OneLook is a search engine that aggregates word definitions from over 1,061 indexed dictionaries. Visually, it’s a bit overwhelming—so it took me a minute to get used to its sorting + searching. Stick with it: it’s useful for not just defining words… but also finding them when you’re like what’s a word that means….?
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