Sunday, July 24, 2022

It sounds morally correct. There are a few obvious concerns.

https://www.databreaches.net/florida-follows-north-carolina-in-prohibiting-state-agencies-from-paying-ransoms/

Florida Follows North Carolina in Prohibiting State Agencies from Paying Ransoms

Elise Elam and Benjamin Wanger of BakerHostetler write:

We recently wrote about North Carolina’s new law prohibiting state agencies – including public schools and universities – from paying a ransom or even communicating with a threat actor following a ransomware incident. On June 24, Florida followed suit when its governor signed HB 7055 into law, amending portions of the State Cybersecurity Act (the Act), which became effective on July 1.
Among other things, the Act now requires that if a Florida state agency, county or municipality experiences a ransomware incident, it must provide notice to Florida’s Cybersecurity Operations Center [1] and the Cybercrime Office of the Department of Law Enforcement [2] (and in the case of a local government, to the sheriff with jurisdiction over that local government) within 12 hours of discovery.

Read more at Data Counsel.





Now Meta will be opening an even larger can of worms.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-06596-5?noAccess=true

Facebook and the (EU) Law

Focuses entirely on Facebook’s ambiguous relationship with the law

Provides a complete reference to all legal issues arising from the emergence of Facebook

Presents a new approach of EU Internet law with emphasis on specific cases and problematics





Perspective.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-022-00196-y

Ethically contentious aspects of artificial intelligence surveillance: a social science perspective”

Artificial intelligence and its societal and ethical implications are complicated and conflictingly interpreted. Surveillance is one of the most ethically challenging concepts in AI. Within the domain of artificial intelligence, this study conducts a topic modeling analysis of scientific research on the concept of surveillance. Seven significant scholarly topics that receive significant attention from the scientific community were discovered throughout our research. These topics demonstrate how ambiguous the lines between dichotomous forms of surveillance are: public health surveillance versus state surveillance; transportation surveillance versus national security surveillance; peace surveillance versus military surveillance; disease surveillance versus surveillance capitalism; urban surveillance versus citizen ubiquitous surveillance; computational surveillance versus fakeness surveillance; and data surveillance versus invasive surveillance. This study adds to the body of knowledge on AI ethics by focusing on controversial aspects of AI surveillance. In practice, it will serve as a guideline for policymakers and technology companies to focus more on the intended and unintended consequences of various forms of AI surveillance in society.





Could be worth reading.

https://insidebigdata.com/white-paper/the-future-of-unstructured-data-processing/

The Future of Unstructured Data Processing

In this 2022 industry report sponsored by Veritone, we take a look at the future of unstructured data processing (UDP). With the emergence of AI-enabled UDP technology organizations of all types and sizes can now transform this “dark” data into powerful strategic assets.

Using a wide variety of machine learning techniques such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), video analytics, computer vision, speech and voice recognition technology, UDP solutions acquire, analyze, and act on unstructured data much like a human would. This not only allows organizations to automate content ingestion, but also access a treasure trove of decision intelligence.



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