An
early heads-up.
Privacy
Foundation Seminar – Friday April 22 – Privacy
Issues in Negotiating AI Contracts
Professor
John Soma
(jsoma@law.du.edu)
is looking for local lawyers and business folks who are actually
negotiating AI contracts.
Business
as unusual.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3651680/how-the-ukraine-russia-information-war-forces-companies-to-choose-a-side.html#tk.rss_all
The
Ukraine/Russia information war is forcing companies to choose a side
Both
Russia and Ukraine are making demands and requests of companies to
help control information around their conflict. However they respond
has consequences.
… “Whether
tech companies want to be or not, many now have to decide what role
they play in a geopolitical conflict—in some cases for the first
time. Geopolitics and technology have always been linked so
decisions must be based on corporate culture and values. It is not
enough to stay neutral, by the way, as neutrality is still a choice
and still has implications, and the world is watching,” observes
John Stewart, president, Talons Ventures, and cybersecurity career
executive.
The
information war
CISOs
across the globe are opening their emergency action plans and
ensuring they are prepared
for a cyberattack, supply chain disruption, and the continuity of
their business.
As the geopolitical landscape has adjusted, company products are
assisting or preventing the combatants from achieving their goals.
Ukraine,
for example, on February 28 requested Cloudflare to
remove its services from their Russian customers and to block
Russians and their entities from using their services. Similarly,
Ukraine is asking for global assistance to engage in offensive cyber
operations. One may deduce the removal of Cloudflare’s services
would make their customers vulnerable to cyber threats that
Cloudflare mitigates.
The
European
Union decided on February 28 to
make all information available via the satellite facility in Madrid
to Ukraine, to include information specifically in reference to
Russian troop disposition. The EU commented how its relationship and
decisions concerning Russia would no longer be based solely on trade.
Useful
overview.
https://theconversation.com/intelligence-information-warfare-cyber-warfare-electronic-warfare-what-they-are-and-how-russia-is-using-them-in-ukraine-177899
Intelligence,
information warfare, cyber warfare, electronic warfare – what they
are and how Russia is using them in Ukraine
In case you were ever in doubt.
https://fortune.com/2022/03/01/russia-ukraine-invasion-war-a-i-artificial-intelligence/
A.I. is on
the front lines of the war in Ukraine
…
Already,
Ukraine has been using
the Turkish-made TB2 drone,
which can take off, land, and cruise autonomously, although it still
relies on a human operator to decide when to drop the laser-guided
bombs it carries. (The drone can also use lasers to guide artillery
strikes.) Russia meanwhile has a “kamikaze” drone with some
autonomous capabilities called the Lantset,
which it reportedly used in Syria and could use in Ukraine. The
Lantset is technically a “loitering munition” designed to attack
tanks, vehicle columns, or troop concentrations. Once launched, it
circles a predesignated geographic area until detecting a preselected
target type. It then crashes itself into the target, detonating the
warhead it carries.
Privacy
is getting personal.
https://www.pogowasright.org/german-court-rules-ceo-to-be-held-personally-liable-for-data-privacy-violations/
German
court rules: CEO to be held personally liable for data privacy
violations
Christoph
Werkmeister reports:
In a recent German case, a court decided
that a CEO was personally liable for a data privacy breach after they
hired a detective to investigate possible criminal acts by the
plaintiff. Given the potential risks, this case raises a number of
issues for companies and their boards to consider.
This is one of a number of recent cases
in Europe where the courts have dealt with the question about what is
necessary for damages to be awarded under article 82 of the EU
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Read
more at Freshfields.com
Surveillance
by any other name… (Think wireless lie detector.)
https://www.bespacific.com/googles-new-tech-can-read-your-body-language-without-cameras/
Google’s
New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras
Wired:
“What
if your computer
decided not to blare out a notification jingle because it noticed you
weren’t sitting at your desk? What if your TV saw you leave the
couch to answer the front door and paused Netflix automatically, then
resumed playback when you sat back down? What if our computers took
more social cues from our movements and learned to be more
considerate companions? It sounds futuristic and perhaps more than a
little invasive—a computer watching your every move? But it feels
less creepy once you learn that these technologies don’t have to
rely on a camera to see where you are and what you’re doing.
Instead, they use radar. Google’s Advanced Technology and Products
division—better known as ATAP, the department behind oddball
projects such as a touch-sensitive
denim jacket —has
spent the past year exploring how computers can use
radar to
understand our needs or intentions and then react to us
appropriately…”
Inevitable.
How do they limit what this tool extracts? What determines what is
related to an event and what is not?
https://www.newswise.com/articles/uah-helping-create-ai-cell-phone-forensics-tool-to-help-police-solve-mass-crimes
UAH
helping create AI cell phone forensics tool to help police solve mass
crimes
There
can be lots of forensic evidence on many people’s cell phones when
a mass incident like a shooting or bombing is happens, but winnowing
out the relevant material and putting it in context can be a
time-consuming and tedious affair for law enforcement.
That’s
why The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Florida State
University (FSU) and Purdue University have teamed to develop an
artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help law enforcement target,
extract and collate cell phone evidence related to an incident.
… The
targeted forensics tool under development will not be used in any way
for tracking people, Dr. Mukherjee emphasizes. Rather, it will be a
tool for collecting evidence to be used in court obtained from phones
voluntarily provided to law enforcement by witnesses.
AI
no, animals yes?
https://www.bespacific.com/the-elephant-in-the-courtroom/
The
Elephant in the Courtroom
New
Yorker (paywall]:
“A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising
profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human
kingdoms. According to the civil-law code of the state of New York,
a
writ of habeas corpus may be obtained by any “person” who has
been illegally detained.
In Bronx County, most such claims arrive on behalf of prisoners on
Rikers Island. Habeas petitions are not often heard in court, which
was only one reason that the case before New York Supreme Court
Justice Alison Y. Tuitt—Nonhuman Rights Project v. James Breheny,
et al.—was extraordinary. The subject of the petition was Happy,
an Asian elephant in the Bronx Zoo. American law treats all animals
as “things”—the same category as rocks or roller skates.
However, if
the Justice granted the habeas petition to move Happy from the zoo to
a sanctuary, in the eyes of the law she would be a person.
She would have rights. Humanity seems to be edging toward a radical
new accommodation with the animal kingdom. In 2013, the government
of India banned the capture and confinement of dolphins and orcas,
because cetaceans have been proved to be sensitive and highly
intelligent, and “should be seen as ‘non-human persons’” with
“their own specific rights.” The governments of Hungary, Costa
Rica, and Chile, among others, have issued similar restrictions, and
Finland went so far as to draft a Declaration of Rights for
cetaceans. In Argentina, a judge ruled that an orangutan at the
Buenos Aires Eco-Park, named Sandra, was a “nonhuman person” and
entitled to freedom—which, in practical terms, meant being sent to
a sanctuary in Florida. The chief justice of the Islamabad High
Court, in Pakistan, asserted that nonhuman animals have rights when
he ordered the release of an elephant named Kaavan, along with other
zoo animals, to sanctuaries; he even recommended the teaching of
animal welfare in schools, as part of Islamic studies. In October, a
U.S. court recognized a herd of hippopotamuses originally brought to
Colombia by the drug lord Pablo Escobar as “interested persons”
in a lawsuit that would prevent their extermination. The Parliament
of the United Kingdom is currently weighing a bill, backed by Prime
Minister Boris
Johnson,
that would consider the effect of government action on any sentient
animal…”
