An important question for my Ethical Hackers…
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/06/what-counts-as-good-faith-security-research/
What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?”
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. The new guidelines state that prosecutors should avoid charging security researchers who operate in “good faith” when finding and reporting vulnerabilities . But legal experts continue to advise researchers to proceed with caution, noting the new guidelines can’t be used as a defense in court, nor are they any kind of shield against civil prosecution.
If it could potentially be a solution, do we have an obligation to try? (We can, therefore we must)
https://www.protocol.com/policy/axon-taser-drone-ethics
How Axon's plans for Taser drones blindsided its AI ethics board
Late Tuesday night, NYU law professor Barry Friedman called an emergency Zoom meeting with members of the AI ethics board for Taser-maker Axon.
Just a few weeks before, the board — which includes academics, civil liberties advocates and two former chiefs of police — had voted against a proposal by Axon to develop Taser-equipped drones and run a limited pilot program with law enforcement. The board had been mulling the possibility of such a pilot for about a year, according to Friedman; ultimately, a majority of the board decided the risks outweighed the benefits.
But on Tuesday, an email landed in Friedman’s inbox from an Axon employee, alerting him that the company was forging ahead with the plan anyway. Not only was Axon going to develop Taser drones, it planned to pitch them as an answer to school shootings, in the wake of the Uvalde tragedy.
Will the police also publish a database of “normal environment” images, so parents can learn not to publish ‘exploitative’ pictures like a child taking a bath?
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/police_australia_ai/
Police want your happy childhood pictures to train AI to detect child abuse
Australia's federal police and Monash University are asking netizens to send in snaps of their younger selves to train a machine-learning algorithm to spot child abuse in photographs.
Researchers are looking to collect images of people aged 17 and under in safe scenarios; they don't want any nudity, even if it's a relatively innocuous picture like a child taking a bath. The crowdsourcing campaign, dubbed My Pictures Matter, is open to those aged 18 and above, who can consent to having their photographs be used for research purposes.
All the images will be amassed into a dataset in an attempt to train an AI model to tell the difference between a minor in a normal environment and an exploitative, unsafe situation. The software could, in theory, help law enforcement better automatically and rapidly pinpoint child sex abuse material (aka CSAM) in among thousands upon thousands of photographs under investigation, avoiding having human analysts inspect every single snap.
Probably important. What could possibly go wrong?
New York state passes first-ever ‘right to repair’ law for electronics
The New York state legislature has passed the United States’ first “right to repair” bill covering electronics. Called the Fair Repair Act, the measure would require all manufacturers who sell “digital electronic products” within state borders to make tools, parts, and instructions for repair available to both consumers and independent shops.
My AI is following this closely. It thinks Thaler is the next Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/artificial-intelligence-can-be-copyright-author-lawsuit-alleges
Artificial Intelligence Can Be Copyright Author, Suit Says (1)
An artificial intelligence could be the proud author of copyrighted material if its creator emerges victorious in a lawsuit against the US Copyright Office.
Stephen Thaler, the president and CEO of Imagination Engines, sued the Copyright Office on Thursday, following the agency’s denial of Thaler’s copyright registration application on the basis that the work created by the inventor’s AI “lacks the human authorship necessary to support a copyright claim.”
It’s the latest lawsuit filed by Thaler, who has sought to secure AI intellectual property rights around the world, so far with limited success. On Monday, he will argue before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that inventors on patents do not need to be human.
“My interest is the definition of what a person is,” Thaler said in an interview with Bloomberg Law. “What I’m building, what many will argue, is sentient machine intelligence. So maybe expansion to the term sentient organism would be in order.”
We’re no longer ‘shut in” but perhaps for a rainy day?
https://www.makeuseof.com/discover-free-documentaries-to-stream-online/
5 More Websites to Discover Free Documentaries to Stream Online
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