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https://www.databreaches.net/bakerhostetlers-9th-annual-data-security-incident-response-report/
BakerHostetler’s 9th annual Data Security Incident Response Report
BakerHostetler’s annual report is out, and as always, it is a great read because it provides statistics and analysis of the more than 1,100 data breach incidents the law firm handled in 2022. Ted Kobus provides a bit of the history of the firm’s Digital Assets and Management Group.
Go request access to the report.
Did OpenAI make substantial changes or merely promise to think about considering changes?
https://www.pogowasright.org/italy-restores-chatgpt-after-openai-responds-to-regulator/
Italy restores ChatGPT after OpenAI responds to regulator
Reuters reports:
The ChatGPT chatbot was reactivated in Italy after its maker OpenAI addressed issues raised by Italy’s data protection authority, the agency and the company confirmed on Friday.
Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI took ChatGPT offline in Italy last month after the country’s data protection authority, also known as Garante, temporarily banned the chatbot and launched a probe over the artificial intelligence application’s suspected breach of privacy rules.
Garante had given a deadline till Sunday to OpenAI to address its concerns for allowing the chatbot to start operating again in the country.
Last month, Garante said ChatGPT has an “absence of any legal basis that justifies the massive collection and storage of personal data” to “train” the chatbot.
Read more at The Express Tribune.
For the chronology and more details, see the Garante’s website. (EN )
(Related) Meanwhile, in the UK…
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/28/online_safety_bill_age_checks/
Online Safety Bill age checks? We won't do 'em, says Wikipedia
Wikipedia won't be age-gating its services no matter what final form the UK's Online Safety Bill takes, two senior folks from nonprofit steward the Wikimedia Foundation said this morning.
The bill, for those who need a reminder, styles itself as world-leading legislation which aims to make the UK "the safest place in the world to be online" and has come under fire not only for its calls for age verification but also for wording that implies breaking encryption, asking providers to make content available for perusal by law enforcement, either before encryption or somehow, magically, during.
… In a statement to national UK broadcaster the BBC this morning, Rebecca MacKinnon, vice president of Global Advocacy at Wikimedia, said that to perform such verification would "violate our commitment to collect minimal data about readers and contributors."
The privacy violations seem to have done nothing to slow the lawsuits.
https://www.pogowasright.org/the-first-wrongful-death-case-for-helping-a-friend-get-an-abortion/
The first “wrongful death” case for helping a friend get an abortion
Mary Tuma reports
“Your help means the world to me,” a grateful Brittni Silva texted her best friends, Jackie Noyola and Amy Carpenter, last July. “I’m so lucky to have y’all. Really.”
A month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Houston mother of two experienced an unplanned pregnancy with her now ex-husband and allegedly sought abortion care with the help of her friends.
[…]
Not only did Marcus Silva access the private conversations his ex-wife had with her friends, he also filed an unprecedented lawsuit in March accusing Carpenter, Loyola, and Texas abortion rights activist Aracely Garcia of wrongful death, alleging the trio “conspired” to help his ex-wife obtain medication to terminate her pregnancy with a self-managed abortion. Attorneys for Silva also hope to sue “into oblivion” the manufacturer of the abortion pills procured. The complaint, filed in state court in Galveston County, Texas, seeks a stunning $1 million in damages from each woman.
Read more at The Intercept,
Too good to be true?
Fluent answers from AI search engines are more likely to be wrong
If you think search engines powered by artificial intelligence, such as Microsoft’s Bing Chat, are providing you with useful-sounding answers, it is more likely that they are wrong, researchers have found.
“In these current systems, accuracy is inversely correlated with perceived utility,” says Nelson Liu at Stanford University. “The things that look better end up being worse.”
Are we ready to toss out an anchor? An agency that governs ‘things Congress doesn’t understand?’
Artificial intelligence is another reason for a new digital agency
The torrid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) developments contrasts with the torpid processes for protecting the public interest impacted by the technology. Private and government oversight systems that were developed to deal with the industrial revolution are no match for the AI revolution.
AI oversight requires a methodology that is as revolutionary as the technology itself.
When confronted with the challenges of industrial technology, the American people responded with new concepts such as antitrust enforcement and regulatory oversight. Thus far, policymakers have failed to address the new realities of the digital revolution. Those realities only become more daunting with AI. The response to intelligent technology cannot repeat the regulatory cruise control we have experienced to date regarding digital platforms. Consumer facing digital services, whether platforms such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon, or AI services (being led by many of the same companies) require a specialized and focused federal agency staffed by appropriately compensated experts.
Too silly to share?
https://www.makeuseof.com/cow-encryptor-turn-secret-documents-into-series-of-moos/
Cow-encryptor Turns Your Secret Documents Into a Series of Moos
… The app accepts any file with valid UTF-8 contents, and transforms the text into a series of "moos". A new file is created with the ".cow" extension.
The encryption appears to be a simple cipher with capitalization variations in each "mooooo" corresponding with a different plaintext character. "moooooo" corresponds to "a", for example, and "moooooO" is "b".
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