Perhaps what we need is a really good bad example. (Perhaps something that exposes the personal data of members of Congress?)
FIVE BIG QUESTIONS (AND ZERO PREDICTIONS) FOR THE U.S. STATE PRIVACY LANDSCAPE IN 2024
Entering 2024, the United States now stands alone as the sole G20 nation without a comprehensive, national framework governing the collection and use of personal data. With bipartisan efforts to enact federal privacy legislation once again languishing in Congress, state-level activity on privacy dramatically accelerated in 2023. As the dust from this year settles, we find that the number of states with ‘comprehensive’ commercial privacy laws swelled from five to twelve (or, arguably, thirteen ), a new family of health-specific privacy laws emerged in Democratic-led states while Republican-led states increasingly adopted controversial age verification and parental consent laws, and state lawmakers took the first steps towards comprehensively regulating the development and use of Artificial Intelligence technologies.
While stakeholders are eager to know whether and how these 2023 trends will carry over into next year’s state legislative cycle, it is too early to make predictions with any confidence. So instead, this post explores five big questions about the state privacy landscape that will shape how 2024 legislative developments will impact the protection of personal information in the United States.
This used to be a “simple” way to take a Ferris Bueller day off.
Multiple Ohio schools receive threats, believed to be Russian hackers, saying bombs are in schools
John Lynch reports:
Schools in Ohio have received threats of multiple explosives inside American schools.
7News received emails from parents that said area schools received threats that there were explosives inside the school.
In Ohio, the Ohio School Safety Center, the Department of Education and Workforce and the FBI have been notified.
The threats are similar to those that occurred in Texas school districts last week, which were investigated and found to not be credible.
A release from the FBI stated the following, “While we have no information to indicate a specific and credible threat, we will continue to work with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to gather, share, and act upon threat information as it comes to our attention. We urge the public to remain vigilant, and report any and all suspicious activity and/or individuals to law enforcement immediately.”
Read more at WTRF
So what’s the purpose of these threats? Is it to distract attention to physical security while something is going on in the network? DataBreaches will continue to monitor these types of reports.
Coming soon to a court near you?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-guidance-judges-in-england-wales-warns-risks
AI guidance for judges in England and Wales warns against risks
A group of four senior judges in the United Kingdom have issued judicial guidance for artificial intelligence (AI), which deals with the “responsible use” of AI in courts and tribunals.
The guidance, published on Dec. 12, is directed toward magistrates, tribunal panel members and judges in England and Wales, and it is intended to inform and warn court officials.
On the right track?
NIST Offers Draft Guidance on Evaluating a Privacy Protection Technique for the AI Era
… While NIST’s new guidance, formally titled Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-226, Guidelines for Evaluating Differential Privacy Guarantees, is designed primarily for other federal agencies, it can be used by anyone. It aims to help everyone from software developers to business owners to policy makers understand and think more consistently about claims made about differential privacy.
“You can use differential privacy to publish analyses of data and trends without being able to identify any individuals within the dataset,” said Naomi Lefkovitz, manager of NIST’s Privacy Engineering Program and one of the publication’s editors. “But differential privacy technology is still maturing, and there are risks you should be aware of. We want this publication to help organizations evaluate differential privacy products and get a better sense of whether their creators’ claims are accurate.”
(Related)
MIT publishes white papers to guide AI governance
A committee of MIT leaders and scholars has published a series of white papers aiming to shape the future of AI governance in the US. The comprehensive framework outlined in these papers seeks to extend existing regulatory and liability approaches to effectively oversee AI while fostering its benefits and mitigating potential harm.
Titled “A Framework for U.S. AI Governance: Creating a Safe and Thriving AI Sector,” the main policy paper proposes leveraging current US government entities to regulate AI tools within their respective domains.
Perspective.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/12/11/teens-social-media-and-technology-2023/
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023
YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram remain the most widely used online platforms among U.S. teens
Despite negative headlines and growing concerns about social media’s impact on youth, teens continue to use these platforms at high rates – with some describing their social media use as “almost constant,” according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens.
Tools & Techniques.
https://fortune.com/2023/12/11/khan-academy-ai-bots-coach-cheating-guardrails-essays-brainstorm-ai/
Khan Academy’s founder says AI ‘coaches’ will soon submit essays to teachers instead of students
… “That first weekend we had access, we were like ‘This could be used to cheat’,” Khan said Monday in an onstage interview at Fortune’s Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco. By the time Khan Academy released its GPT-powered tutor Khanmigo, in March 2023, Khan had installed multiple safeguards to prevent students from using it as a cheat tool.
“There’s a lot of guardrails there,” Khan said, describing features for teachers to control what information students can ask the bot, as well as automated monitoring features to flag inappropriate uses of the tool.
… The student essay, for example, is likely to change significantly as a result of AI, with bots serving as a writing “coach” for students and teachers. “Khanmigo will then tell the students, ‘Hey, let’s work on this paper together. I’m not going to do it for you, but I’m gonna be your coach. I’m going to give you feedback.'”
Instead of a student simply submitting an essay, Khan said that an AI bot could deliver the essay to the teacher, along with information about the process the student and the bot went through to craft a thesis statement, how long it took, and even how many other students in the class struggled with similar parts of the writing process.
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