Your face is out there! Apparently as easy to find as your street address. How is this better or worse than Clearview?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/this-facial-recognition-site-is-creeping-everyone-out
This Facial Recognition Site Is Creeping Everyone Out
A facial recognition tool called PimEyes has recently gone from unknown to infamous.
PimEyes makes it easy to find pictures of people that are strewn across the internet. That isn't necessarily surprising—reverse image searches have been a thing for years—but it turns out PimEyes is astoundingly good at identifying people with naught but a single photograph.
The New York Times reports that it found years-old pictures even if the sample image featured people wearing sunglasses or face masks. Other factors such as different facial hair, new hair styles, or the passage of time didn't seem to make all that much of a difference either.
… PimEyes has responded to the resulting scrutiny with a blog post in which it says:
PimEyes just provides a tool, and the user is obliged to use the tool with responsibility. Everyone can buy a hammer, and everyone can either craft with this tool, or kill. It is impossible to check if certain individuals use every tool in their possession in accordance with the law and it is unwise to oblige toolmakers to ensure that their product will be used as they are intended to be used. If PimEyes starts to verify every user and compare it to the data searched by the user, this might turn the company into a monster that stores not only the personal, biometric data of each subscriber, but the materials that in the most of cases they would like to leave confidential. Therefore, it is crucially important for company to have opened communication policy, cooperate with media and various information platforms to encourage ethical usage of service and internet.
Students are just statistics…
Schools urge end to forced disclosure of private student information; state using data to track vaccinations
Sherrie Peif reports:
More than 20 charter schools across the state recently presented a petition to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) requesting that it stop collecting and using private information of school children to publicize youth vaccination rates on its website.
Diana Herrero, deputy director of the division of disease control and public health response — a division of CDPHE — confirmed in an email obtained by Complete Colorado that it has been collecting identifying information about Colorado school children without their parents’ knowledge to combine with its COVID-19 vaccination records and create a public database that showcases the vaccination rates at every school in Colorado.
Read more at Complete Colorado.
Also good information if hacking is your side hustle…
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-start-career-in-ethical-hacking/
How to Make a Career Out of Ethical Hacking
To catch a criminal, you must think like one by understanding the tactics and patterns of the criminal.
Ethical hackers are the opposite of cybercriminals. As an ethical hacker, you'll be working around the clock to nullify the efforts of the bad buys trying to breach computer networks.
So, what skills do you need to become an ethical hacker? Where can you learn ethical hacking? And what are the entry-level jobs for ethical hacking? You are about to find out.
My AI suggests Ireland should have found an AI for that post.
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ireland-gets-its-first-ai-ambassador-will-other-countries-follow-suit/
Ireland gets its first AI ambassador. Will other countries follow suit?
Ireland has appointed Dr Patricia Scanlon as its first AI Ambassador to facilitate the Government’s AI adoption strategy launched last year.
… She will work on demystifying AI and promoting the positive impacts it can have in areas such as transport, agriculture, health and education.
Perspective.
A Whole Age of Warfare Sank With the Moskva
… On April 14, 2022, the Ukrainians sank the Russian cruiser Moskva with a pair of Neptune anti-ship missiles. And that success posed an urgent question to the world’s major militaries: Has another age of warfare just begun? After 20 years spent fighting the post-9/11 wars, the United States military’s attention is again focused on a peer-level adversary. The Pentagon hasn’t been thinking this way since the Cold War, and it is attempting a profound transformation. Today, fierce debate attends this transformation, and nowhere more acutely than in the Marine Corps.
In March 2020, the Marine commandant, General David Berger, published “Force Design 2030.” This controversial paper announced a significant restructuring based on the belief that “the Marine Corps is not organized, trained, equipped or postured to meet the demands of the rapidly evolving future operating environment.” That “future operating environment” is an imagined war with China in the South Pacific—but in many ways, that hypothetical conflict resembles the real war in Ukraine.
The military we have—an army built around tanks, a navy built around ships, and an air force built around planes, all of which are technologically advanced and astronomically expensive—is platform-centric. So far, in Ukraine, the signature land weapon hasn’t been a tank but an anti-tank missile: the Javelin. The signature air weapon hasn’t been an aircraft, but an anti-air missile: the Stinger. And as the sinking of the Moskva showed, the signature maritime weapon hasn’t been a ship but an anti-ship missile: the Neptune.
Berger believes a new age of war is upon us. In “Force Design 2030,” he puts the following sentence in bold: “We must acknowledge the impacts of proliferated precision long-range fires, mines, and other smart weapons, and seek innovative ways to overcome these threat capabilities.”
Perspective.
Halsey’s record label won’t release a new song until it goes viral on TikTok. Is this the future of the music industry?
On Sunday, popular American singer songwriter Halsey shared a video on TikTok with tinny music in the background, the on-screen text reading:
Basically I have a song that I love that I wanna release ASAP but my record label won’t let me. I’ve been in this industry for 8 years and I’ve sold over 165 million records. And my record company is saying that I can’t release it unless they can fake a viral moment on TikTok. Everything is marketing. And they are doing this to basically every artist these days. I just wanna release music, man. And I deserve better tbh. I’m tired.
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