Nearby.

https://www.databreaches.net/287652-south-denver-cardiology-associates-patients-notified-of-breach/

287,652 South Denver Cardiology Associates patients notified of breach

South Denver Cardiology Associates (SDCA) recently disclosed that it began the new year with a data security breach that they first detected on January 4.

Initiating their incident response plan, their investigation determined that an unauthorized person accessed their network between January 2, 2022 and January 5, 2022. During that time, certain files stored on the system were accessed. Those files contained protected health information of patients such as names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and/or drivers’ license numbers, patient account numbers, health insurance information, and clinical information, such as physician names, dates, and types of service, and diagnoses.

In a notice on their website, the practice notes that there was no impact to the contents of patient medical records and no unauthorized access to the patient portal.

According to the notice, there was no indication at this time of any misuse of the information, but patients were notified of the incident and offered monitoring and identity restoration services through IDX. A total of 287,652 patients were notified.

The notice did not explain whether the files were from current patients or current and former patients.

Nothing in the notice or the companion IDX FAQ mentions whether there was any encryption of files and/or any ransom demand. An inquiry sent to IDX seeking clarification on those questions did not receive any reply by publication time.

I anticipated a much larger increase. After all, cyber attacks are much cheaper than a tank.

https://www.databreaches.net/report-recent-10x-increase-in-cyberattacks-on-ukraine/

Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Brian Krebs reports:

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians.

Read more at KrebsOnSecurity.com

(Related)

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/russia-invasion-cyber-war-rages/

Dunno about you, but we're seeing an 800% increase in cyberattacks, says one MSP

Revenge and inflation are key drivers behind an 800 percent increase in cyberattacks seen by a managed services provider since the days before the onset of Russia's invasion of Ukraine last month, according to the company's top executive.

The attacks are coming not only from groups inside of Russia but also from within the region as well from Russia allies like North Korea and Iran, historically sources of global cyber-threats, Emil Sayegh, president and CEO of Ntirety, an MSP that focuses on security, told The Register.

Disclosure.

https://www.databreaches.net/u-s-congress-passes-cyber-incident-and-ransom-payment-reporting-requirement/

U.S. Congress Passes Cyber Incident and Ransom Payment Reporting Requirement

Energy, financial services, food and agriculture, healthcare, information technology, defense industrial base, and other critical infrastructure entities in the United States will face new cyber incident reporting requirements as a result of the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (the Act), enacted by the U.S. Congress on March 10, 2022.

Read more about the Act and its requirements at Morrison & Foerster.

Perspective. Looking at the photo, imagine how much easier it is to find man-made objects like tanks…

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2311911-drones-and-ai-help-find-pebble-sized-meteorite-that-landed-in-2021/

Drones and AI help find pebble-sized meteorite that landed in 2021

Locating meteorites on Earth’s surface is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but using AI to analyse images captured by drones pinpointed a tiny space rock in just four days

Concern: Will there be a “Something is Wrong!” button I can push? Otherwise I’m being kidnapped by an AI.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/11/us-clears-way-for-driverless-vehicles-without-steering-wheels.html

U.S. clears way for truly driverless vehicles without steering wheels

Federal vehicle safety regulators have cleared the way for the production and deployment of driverless vehicles that do not include manual controls such as steering wheels or pedals.

… The 155-page, “first-of-its-kind” ruling allows companies to build and deploy autonomous vehicles without manual controls as long as they meet other safety regulations. Current self-driving cars, operating in small numbers in the U.S. today, typically include manual controls for backup safety drivers and to meet federal safety standards.

Worth thinking about.

https://ecfr.eu/article/the-fight-for-europes-digital-future/

The fight for Europe’s digital future

… History teaches that the race to replace key technologies – swords with guns, cannons with machine guns, horses with tanks – can be decisive. If the Axis powers had developed nuclear weapons before the Allies, the second world war would have ended very differently.

Because I think this could matter…

https://www.bespacific.com/over-300-companies-have-withdrawn-from-russia-but-some-remain/

Over 300 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia – But Some Remain

“Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, at Yale University. Professor Sonnenfeld has compiled and is updating a listing of 40 companies that remain operating in Russia, with significant business risk exposure. Here is a link to his work on this matter and an updated list of companies via Yale School of Management.

Tools my students should have.

https://www.bespacific.com/russians-are-finding-ways-around-putins-internet-blockade/

Russians Are Finding Ways Around Putin’s Internet Blockade

Bloomberg – “Providers of virtual private networks, or VPNs, are recording a surge in usage from Russia after the Kremlin cracked down on Facebook and other services as part of a broader effort to silence dissent and limit information about its invasion of Ukraine. “In the past week, we saw traffic to our website from Russia increase by around 330% week over week,” Harold Li, vice president of ExpressVPN, said in an email to Bloomberg on Wednesday. As of Tuesday, Russian interest in VPNs was more than eight times pre-invasion levels, according to data gathered by Top10VPN. Usage peaked at more than 10 times on March 5, the day after Facebook and Twitter were blocked by Russian authorities…”

See also The New York Times: 4 Falsehoods Russians Are Told About the War – Russia’s disinformation machine is working in overdrive inside its own borders.

Poor data monitoring? Would they do the same thing if the potential breach was an order of magnitude (or two) larger?

https://www.databreaches.net/unable-to-determine-what-files-were-accessed-norwood-clinic-notifies-all-228103-patients/

Unable to determine what files were accessed, Norwood Clinic notifies all 228,103 patients

Norwood Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama is notifying 228,103 patients of a hacking incident that left them unable to determine what, if anything, had been accessed.

In a notification to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, the clinic’s external counsel reported that the breach began on September 20 and was discovered on October 22. The types of patient information that may have been accessed included name, contact information, date of birth, Social Security number, Driver’s License number, limited health information, and/or health insurance policy number.

In their notice to patients, a copy of which was posted on their website, they write that despite efforts by cybersecurity experts hired to help investigate the incident

the investigation was unable to confirm the specific information that may have been accessed. Therefore, out of an abundance of caution, Norwood is providing notice to all of its patients, regardless of whether their information was in fact subject to unauthorized access or acquisition. Norwood has no reason to believe [nor any reason to doubt? Bob] that any individual’s information has been misused as a result of this event.

Patients are being offered credit monitoring services.

You go where you can learn.

https://www.ft.com/content/1fb2f592-4806-42fd-a6d5-735578651471?segmentid=acee4131-99c2-09d3-a635-873e61754ec6

The secret US mission to bolster Ukraine’s cyber defences ahead of Russia’s invasion

Months before the Russian invasion, a team of Americans fanned out across Ukraine looking for a very specific kind of threat. Some were soldiers, with the US Army’s Cyber Command. Others were civilian contractors and some employees of American companies that help defend critical infrastructure from the kind of cyber attacks that Russian agencies had inflicted upon Ukraine for years.

The US had been helping Ukraine bolster its cyber defences for years, ever since an infamous 2015 attack on its power grid left part of Kyiv without electricity for hours.

But this surge of US personnel in October and November was different: it was in preparation of impending war. People familiar with the operation described an urgency in the hunt for hidden malware, the kind which Russia could have planted, then left dormant in preparation to launch a devastating cyber attack alongside a more conventional ground invasion.

Experts warn that Russia may yet unleash a devastating online attack on Ukrainian infrastructure of the sort that has long been expected by western officials. But years of work, paired with the past two months of targeted bolstering, may explain why Ukrainian networks have held up so far.

(Related)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-considers-rule-requiring-firms-to-report-cyber-attacks-within-four-days-11646838001?mod=djemalertNEWS

SEC Proposes Requiring Firms to Report Cyberattacks Within Four Days

Federal regulators are considering a requirement that publicly traded companies disclose data breaches and other significant cybersecurity incidents within four days, as they seek to strengthen financial markets’ resilience to online attacks.

It’s all about perception. But put your lawyers on the big queston.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3652337/should-cisos-stop-using-russian-security-and-tech-products.html#tk.rss_all

Should CISOs stop using Russian security and tech products?

“From a moral standpoint, CISOs should absolutely stop using Russian-made security and technology products. However, from a security-related standpoint, it’s much murkier,” says Shawn Smith, researcher and director of infrastructure at nVisium. “There is always conflict in the world, and while you should always evaluate backups in situations like this, the products created by Russians aren’t any less secure now than they were a month ago.”

Dominic Grunden, CISO of UnionDigital Bank, strongly supports stopping use of Russian-made products and services. “From a moral and humanity perspective, imagine this: Your company would pay the Russian company providing the security and tech product who in return pays taxes in Russia, which directly supports the government and military that is invading the Ukraine and resulting in loss of lives,” he tells CSO. Grunden also cites the global economic sanctions being imposed against Russia as another issue, as CISOs need to be sure they are not breaking laws in the countries the company is operating in.

Invade my country and I’ll identify you and call your mother!

https://www.wired.com/story/facial-recognition-identify-russian-soldiers/

Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian Soldiers

It takes five minutes to put a name to a soldier's face using little more than a screenshot, but there's a catch.

ON MARCH 1, Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted a short video on Telegram, in which a cheery bearded soldier stood before a line of tanks clanking down a road under an overcast sky. In an accompanying post, Kadyrov assured Ukrainians that the Russian army doesn’t hurt civilians and that Vladimir Putin wants their country to determine its own fate.

In France, the CEO of a law enforcement and military training company called Tactical Systems took a screenshot of the soldier’s face and got to work. Within about an hour, using face recognition services available to anyone online, he identified that the soldier was likely Hussein Mezhidov, a Chechen commander close to Kadyrov involved in Russia’s assault on Ukraine, and found his Instagram account.

“Just having access to a computer and internet you can basically be like an intelligence agency from a film,” says the CEO

Devices that rat you out?

https://www.oswego.edu/news/story/digital-assistants-artificial-intelligence-and-blurred-lines-intervention

Digital assistants, artificial intelligence and the blurred lines of intervention

How are Alexa, Siri and artificial intelligence (AI) impacting and intervening in dangerous situations in daily life? That’s an evolving issue that SUNY Oswego communication studies faculty member Jason Zenor continues to explore, including in an award-winning publication.

In “If You See Something, Say Something: Can Artificial Intelligence Have a Duty to Report Dangerous Behavior in the Home,” published in the Denver Law Review, Zenor recounted a 2017 incident where police reported a jealous man threatening his girlfriend at gunpoint unknowingly caused their Amazon Echo’s Alexa to call the police, leading to his arrest.

While the incident made national news -– in part because of its relative rarity –- Zenor noted it represents the tip of an iceberg for how AI evolves to interact with daily online activity.

… Liability issues could complicate the picture even further, and could lead to unexpected lawsuits for companies using AI.

“Once you do act, then you do have a duty of due care,” Zenor said. “If you do not use due care and it leads to an injury, then there could be liability. So, companies may open themselves up to liability if they program AI to be able to respond and it goes wrong. Conversely, if the companies could program AI to do this and choose not to, then there will certainly be at a minimum PR issues, but I could see it turning into class action negligence cases when deaths do occur.”

Why are we afraid of creative AI?

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/update-artificial-intelligence-uspto-urges-federal-circuit-to-affirm-decision-ai

Update on Artificial Intelligence: USPTO Urges Federal Circuit to Affirm Decision That AI Cannot Qualify as an “Inventor”

In three previous blog posts, we have discussed recent inventorship issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and its implications for life sciences innovations – focusing specifically on scientist Stephen Thaler’s attempt to obtain a patent for an invention created by his AI system called DABUS (“Device for Autonomus Bootstrapping of Unified Sentence). Most recently, we considered Thaler’s appeal of the September 3, 2021 decision out of the Eastern District of Virginia, which ruled that under the Patent Act, an AI machine cannot qualify as an “inventor.” Continuing this series, we now consider the USPTO’s recently filed opposition to Thaler’s appeal.

In its opposition brief, the USPTO argued that under the “plain language Congress chose to incorporate in the Patent Act,” only a human being can be considered an “inventor.”

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.bespacific.com/search-the-internet-with-marginalia/

Search the internet with Marginalia

“This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren’t aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. The software for this search engine is all custom-built, and all crawling and indexing is done in-house. This search engine isn’t particularly well equipped to answering queries posed like questions, instead try to imagine some text that might appear in the website you are looking for, and search for that…So it’s a search engine. It’s perhaps not the greatest at finding what you already knew was there, instead it is designed to help you find some things you didn’t even know you were looking for…”

Tools & Techniques. (Math students, check number 6)

https://www.makeuseof.com/best-apps-to-study-stay-organized/

The 7 Best Apps to Help You Study and Stay Organized

Anything you say could be a lie…

https://www.makeuseof.com/tiktok-stopping-new-video-uploads-russia/

Why TikTok Stopping New Video Uploads in Russia Is Significant

Many tech companies have left or reduced their footprint in Russia because of its ongoing conflict with Ukraine. Most of them were forced to do so after the respective governments of their corporate headquarters imposed sanctions.

However, TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, isn't greatly affected by these sanctions as China has so far remained neutral in the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Nevertheless, the insanely popular social media platform has suspended uploads and livestreaming in Russia.

So why did the company make the decision?

As with any war, both sides want to control information from the front lines. Because of this, the Russian parliament amended its criminal code last March 4, 2022, to include imprisonment for spreading "fake news".

As social media spaces are increasingly becoming an information battleground between opposing sides, Russian TikTok creators who oppose Putin's administration may soon become targets of the new law. For this reason, the company decided to suspend all livestreaming and uploading inside Russia.

Keeping up...

https://www.pogowasright.org/more-news-and-an-important-new-book-on-breaches/

More news and an important new book on breaches!!

It’s so hard to keep up with news these days, so in case you missed these developments:

• Public Health Agency of Canada didn’t act transparently when it proposed to access, then eventually viewed, Canadians’ mobility data, the House of Commons’ Ethics committee heard in February. Read more at iPolitics.

• Yahoo shutters email service in China. Read more at The Register.

You can find these and more on Joe Cadillic’s MassPrivateI post for March 7.

And…. NEW!!!!!!! (Yes, I’m Excited!)

Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve it is available now. It’s by privacy law scholars Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog. Solove and Hartzog have studied and written about privacy laws and breaches for years now, and their book provides a unique perspective on why our system is broken and how to fix it. From the Abstract of their book, as posted on SSRN:

Abstract

Digital connections permeate our lives—and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for basic communication, finance, healthcare, and more, it is remarkable how difficult it is to secure our personal information. Despite the passage of many data security laws, data breaches are increasing at a record pace. In their book, BREACHED! WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press 2022), Professors Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog argue that the law fails because, ironically, it focuses too much on the breach itself.

Drawing insights from many fascinating stories about data breaches, Solove and Hartzog show how major breaches could have been prevented or mitigated through better rules and often inexpensive, non-cumbersome means. They also reveal why the current law is counterproductive. It pummels organizations that have suffered a breach but doesn’t recognize how others contribute to the breach. These outside actors include software companies that create vulnerable software, device companies that make insecure devices, government policymakers who write regulations that increase security risks, organizations that train people to engage in risky behaviors, and more.

Although humans are the weakest link for data security, the law remains oblivious to the fact that policies and technologies are often designed with a poor understanding of human behavior. BREACHED! sets forth a holistic vision for data security law—one that holds all actors accountable, understands security broadly and in relationship to privacy, looks to prevention and mitigation rather than reaction, and is designed with people in mind. The book closes with a roadmap for how we can reboot law and policy surrounding data security.

Want to test-drive the book? The authors have made the first chapter freely available via SSRN. Download it here.

Want to order the book? It’s published by Oxford University Press. It is also available on Amazon.com.

Banning Clearview, one country at a time?

https://www.pogowasright.org/facial-recognition-italian-sa-fines-clearview-ai-e20-million-bans-use-of-biometric-data-and-monitoring-of-italian-data-subjects/

Facial recognition: Italian SA fines Clearview AI €20 million; Bans use of biometric data and monitoring of Italian data subjects

From Italy’s data protection agency, this press release today:

The Italian SA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) fined the US-based company Clearview AI EUR 20 million after finding it applied what amounted to biometric monitoring techniques also to individuals in the Italian territory.

The company reportedly owns a database including over 10 billion facial images from all over the world, which are extracted from public web sources (media outlets, social media, online videos) via web scraping. It offers a sophisticated search service which allows, through AI systems, creating profiles on the basis of the biometric data extracted from the images. The profiles can be enriched by information linked to those images such as image tags and geolocation or the source web pages.

The Italian SA’s inquiries were started also following complaints and alerts and found that Clearview AI – contrary to what was alleged – allows tracking Italian nationals and persons located in Italy. The findings showed that the personal data held by the company, including biometric and geolocation information, were processed unlawfully without an appropriate legal basis – since the legitimate interest of the US-based company does not qualify as such. Additionally, the company infringed several fundamental principles of the GDPR including transparency – as it failed to adequately inform users -, purpose limitation – as it processed users’ data for purposes other than those for which they had been made available online -, and storage limitation – as it did not set out any data storage period. Thus, Clearview AI is violating data subjects’ freedoms including the protection of privacy and non-discrimination.

Based on the infringements found, the Italian SA fined Clearview AI EUR 20 million and ordered the company to erase the data relating to individuals in Italy; it banned any further collection and processing of the data through the company’s facial recognition system.

Clearview AI was finally ordered by the Italian SA to designate a representative in the EU to be addressed in addition to or instead of the US-based controller in order to facilitate exercise of data subject rights.

Rome, 9 March 2022

Got power? Expect a visit from a “faceless company.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahemerson/denton-texas-crypto-miner-core-scientific?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

This Texas Town Was Deep In Debt From A Devastating Winter Storm. Then A Crypto Miner Came Knocking.

Last February, a disastrous winter storm pummeled Texas with ice and snow, threatening to topple the Texan energy grid. In the city of Denton, neighborhoods blinked off and on as the local power provider tried to conserve electricity. Places like assisted living facilities were momentarily excluded from the blackouts, but those eventually went dark too. Then the gas pipelines froze, and the power plant stopped working. Over the next four days, the city bled more than $200 million purchasing energy on the open market. It would later sue the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the grid operator also known as ERCOT, for saddling Denton with inflated energy prices that caused it to accrue $140 million in debt.

“While we were in an emergency, ERCOT allowed prices to go off the scale,” Denton City Council Member Paul Meltzer told BuzzFeed News. “We were forced to pay. We were approached Tony Soprano–like to empty our reserves.”

So when a faceless company appeared three months later, auspiciously proposing to solve Denton’s money problems, the city listened. A deal was offered. In exchange for millions of dollars in annual city revenue, enough to balance its ledgers and then some, Denton would host a cryptocurrency mine at its natural gas power plant. And not just any mine — a massive data center that would double Denton’s energy footprint so that rows upon rows of sophisticated computers could mint stockpiles of bitcoin, ether, and other virtual currencies. To officials who had simply tried to keep the lights on when conditions became deadly, the unexpected infusion seemed a relief.

But the thought of becoming a crypto town was a bitter pill for some to swallow.

“It was super shady just the way it all came about because none of the elected officials around here have ever talked about crypto, and suddenly we’re renting out space near the power plant that’s gonna use as much energy as the whole city consumes,” said Denton resident Kendall Tschacher, who told BuzzFeed News that by the time he learned about the crypto project, it was all but a done deal.

Something we’ve done many times and never earned ‘extra’ income from… Might be fun to have students create courses.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2022/03/creating-and-marketing-online-courses.html

Creating and Marketing Online Courses With TinyTap

In last week’s post about using TinyTap to create your own online courses I mentioned that there is an option to sell your courses for use beyond your classroom. That’s what today’s post is all about. In this post I’ll outline why you would want to create courses for sale, how to do it, and the differences between the TinyTap app and the Tiny Courses app.

How to Create TinyTap Courses for Sale

The basics of creating a TinyTap course to sell are largely the same as they are for creating a free course. Those basics are covered in last week’s blog post and in this video that shows you how to create an online course in five minutes or less.

Can you improve on “To be or not to be”

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2022/03/wordtune-helps-you-quickly-revise-your.html

WordTune Helps You Quickly Revise Your Writing

WordTune is a tool that I wrote about last year when it launched as a Chrome extension. It is still available as a Chrome extension and is now also available as a Microsoft Word add-in.

Both the Chrome extension and the Microsoft Word add-in version of WordTune do the same thing. That is they both allow you to highlight sentences in your document and instantly get suggestions for alternative ways to write the same sentence. In this video I demonstrate how the Word version of WordTune works and in this video I demonstrate how the Chrome version works.

A war, by any other name would smell…

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/03/vladimir-putin-economy-sanctions-swift-fallout/623330/

Russia’s Looming Economic Collapse

This is terra incognita for economic policy. No country has ever faced this kind of global freeze-out.

… While Russia holds the military advantage over Ukraine on Battlefield One, it is getting destroyed by a Western alliance on Battlefield Two. In the past few days, the United States and several major European countries have declared a series of financial penalties and sanctions against Russia that are without modern precedent for a major economy. These policies are triggering a financial catastrophe in Russia.

Getting a proper grip on the second battlefield requires breaking down the news of the past several days into three categories: the global boycott of Russia, the economic crisis within Russia, and the worldwide ripple effects that we’re already starting to see.

My AI says, “Yes.”

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2022/03/07/techtank-podcast-episode-39-civil-rights-and-artificial-intelligence-can-the-two-concepts-coexist/

TechTank Podcast Episode 39: Civil rights and artificial intelligence: Can the two concepts coexist?

Artificial intelligence is now used in virtually all aspects of our lives. Yet unchecked biases within existing algorithmic systems, especially those used in sensitive use cases like financial services, hiring, policing, and housing, have worsened existing societal biases, resulting in the continued systemic discrimination of historically marginalized groups. As banks increase AI usage in loan and appraisal decisions, these populations are subjected to an even greater precision in denials, eroding protections provided by civil rights laws in housing. Meanwhile, the use of facial recognition technologies among law enforcement has resulted in the wrongful arrests of innocent men and women of color through poor data quality and misidentification. These online biases are intrinsically connected to the historical legacies that predate existing and emerging technologies and stand to challenge the policies created to protect historically disadvantaged populations. Can civil rights and algorithmic systems coexist? And, if so, what roles do government agencies and industries play in ensuring fairness, diversity, and inclusion?

On TechTank, Nicol Turner Lee is joined by Renee Cummings, data activist in residence and criminologist at the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science, and Lisa Rice, president and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance. Together, they conduct a deep dive into these difficult questions and offer insight on remedies to this pressing question of equitable AI.

You can listen to the episode and subscribe to the TechTank podcast on Apple, Spotify, or Acast.

Management is management. Where and how it is applied is all that changes.

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/ai-can-change-how-you-measure-and-how-you-manage/

AI Can Change How You Measure — and How You Manage

Data-driven leaders are using AI to surface new key performance indicators and increase alignment.

With apologies to Peter Drucker, it is no longer simply what you measure that determines what you manage. It’s how you discover what to measure that determines how you manage. In industry after industry, we see innovative measurement systems leading to innovative metrics and new organizational behaviors that drive superior outcomes. More organizations are recognizing that benchmarking and executive expertise don’t always determine the best key performance indicators (KPIs). These data-driven companies employ predictive analytics such as machine learning, along with leadership acumen, to identify and refine key strategic measures. More finely tuned measures lead to better alignment of behaviors with strategic objectives.

Even when Covid is “over” it won’t be done…

https://www.bespacific.com/even-mild-covid-is-linked-to-brain-damage-scans-show/

Even mild Covid is linked to brain damage, scans show

Inside Daily Brief: “Even mild COVID-19 infections are associated with loss of brain volume. cognitive impairment, and subtle tissue damage, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Oxford analyzed brain scans of 401 individuals between the ages of 51 and 81, the majority of whom had only had mild COVID-19 cases months earlier; however, they still found excess brain volume loss equivalent to about a full year of additional aging…”