Keeping up…

https://pogowasright.org/what-is-happening-in-privacy-law/

What Is Happening in Privacy Law?

Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes:

Here are eight recent developments in privacy law you should consider as you get ready for the holidays.

Don’t Lie on Your AI

• The U.S. Federal Trade Commission recently issued a new enforcement action on AI “Greenwashing.”

• Make sure any AI-related marketing claims you make are accurate.

Data Brokers and Sensitive Information

• The FTC recently issued new enforcement actions on sensitive location, demonstrating the FTC’s strong stance on this topic. It also could hint at what the Trump Administration’s FTC will care about.

• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau initiated NPRM for rules on situations that put data brokers inside scope for Fair Credit Reporting Act.

• CCPA amended its definition of “broker,” putting more companies in its scope than before

Privacy Notices

• The Texas Attorney General recently issued new notices of potential violation of the new Texas privacy law. If cured, these will not lead to enforcement.

• Interesting focus on clarity in privacy disclosures. It’s not enough to check boxes regarding what you need to disclose. It’s important that people be able to readily understand what you do with their data, and with whom you share that information.

Read about the other recent developments at Privacy Compliance & Data Security.

A look ahead?

https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/tech-trends.html

Tech Trends 2025

In Deloitte’s 16th annual Tech Trends report, AI is the common thread of nearly every trend. Moving forward, it will be part of the substructure of everything we do.

Tech Trends 2025 reveals the extent to which AI is being woven into the fabric of our lives. We’ll eventually think of AI in the same way that we think of HTTP or electricity. We won’t proactively use it; we’ll simply experience a world in which it makes everything work smarter, faster, and more intuitively—like magic, but grounded in algorithms.

I should look for more like this in various industries.

https://www.bespacific.com/ebook-legal-knowledge-and-information-systems/

Ebook: Legal Knowledge and Information Systems

JURIX 2024: The Thirty-seventh Annual Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, 11-13 December 2024 – Series Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Volume 395. Published 2024. Editors Jaromir Savelka, Jakub Harasta, Tereza Novotna, Jakub Misek. ISBN 978-1-64368-562-5 (online) Open Access. “Description – In the research community and the legal industry, interest continues to grow in technological advances related to legal information, knowledge representation, engineering, and processing in areas such as computational and formal models of legal reasoning, legal data analytics and information retrieval, as well as in the application of machine learning techniques to legal tasks, and the evaluation of these systems. This book presents the proceedings of JURIX 2024, the 37th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, held from 11 to 13 December in Brno, Czech Republic. The annual JURIX conference has become an international forum for academics and professionals to exchange knowledge and experiences at the intersection of law and artificial intelligence, and a total of 90 submissions were received for the conference. Following a rigorous review process, 21 long-paper submissions were selected for presentation and publication together with 17 short papers, representing an acceptance rate of 23% for long papers and 42% overall. An additional 16 submissions were accepted as posters. Topics covered included formal approaches applied to various aspects of legal reasoning; machine learning; natural language processing and information retrieval methods as applied to various legal tasks; hybrid approaches to working on the frontier between symbolic and sub-symbolic methods; experimental inquiries on the interface between computational systems and legal systems; and network analysis in law. Covering a wide range of topics and providing an overview of recent advances, the book will be of interest to all those working at the intersection between artificial intelligence and law.”

Perspective.

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/stephanopoulos-buckland-discuss-the-impact-of-ai-on-justice-systems-and-democracy/

‘Justice is not justice if it is a desiccated calculating machine’

… “Even when instructed to be a merciful, kind judge focused on practical consequences for the community, still the AI didn’t want to deviate away from the plain text of the statute and the precedent. [It] shows us that it’s not easy at all to get an AI to behave the way that a human judge does. Maybe that’s bad, maybe that’s good, but you can’t just clearly emulate human judging, at least at present, with AI.”

The Future as seen in 1978.

https://www.openculture.com/2024/12/arthur-c-clarke-predicts-the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-questions-what-will-happen-to-humanity-1978.html

Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Questions What Will Happen to Humanity (1978)

… Yet even deep into one such fallow season, AI could still inspire enough fascination to become the subject of the 1978 NOVA documentary “Mind Machines.”

The program includes interviews with figures now recognized as luminaries in the history of AI: John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Terry Winograd, ELIZA creator Joseph Weizenbaum. It also brings on no less a technological prophet than Arthur C. Clarke, who notes that the dubious attitudes toward the prospect of thinking machines expressed in the late seventies had much in common with those about the prospect of space travel during his youth in the thirties. In his view, we were already “creating our successors. We have seen the first, crude beginnings of artificial intelligence,” and we would “one day be able to design systems that can go on improving themselves.”

Could be amusing to listen in. I wonder if they will make them available?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-alleges-china-hacked-calls-very-senior-political-figures-official-says-2024-12-07/

US alleges China hacked calls of 'very senior' political figures, official says

The U.S. believes that an alleged sweeping Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon targeted and recorded telephone calls of "very senior" American political figures, a White House official said on Saturday.

… She did not elaborate, including revealing the identities of those who were targeted.

… The New York Times in October reported that members of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's family and Biden administration officials were among those targeted by China-linked hackers who broke into telecommunications companies.

A leading indicator?

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sheeba-Afridi/publication/386341455_The_Role_of_Artificial_Intelligence_in_Modern_Warfare_and_International_Security/links/674e0d36a7fbc259f1a62676/The-Role-of-Artificial-Intelligence-in-Modern-Warfare-and-International-Security.pdf

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Warfare and International Security

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming the landscape of modern warfare and international security, introducing new capabilities, challenges, and ethical dilemmas. AI technologies, ranging from autonomous weapons systems to advanced data analysis tools, are being integrated into military strategies and defense systems, altering the way conflicts are fought and security is maintained. AI's potential to enhance decision-making, improve operational efficiency, and enable real-time responses to threats has led to its rapid adoption by military forces around the world. These advancements promise significant improvements in precision, speed, and effectiveness in both offensive and defensive operations. However, the integration of AI in warfare also raises serious concerns about accountability, control, and the potential for unintended consequences. Autonomous weapons, capable of operating without human intervention, present risks in terms of ethical decision-making, potential escalation of conflicts, and the loss of human oversight. The possibility of AI systems being hacked or malfunctioning also presents vulnerabilities in military operations, potentially leading to catastrophic outcomes. Moreover, AIdriven warfare could exacerbate global security tensions, as states race to develop and deploy these technologies, potentially triggering a new arms race in autonomous weaponry and cybersecurity. In the realm of international security, AI also plays a significant role in intelligence gathering, surveillance, and cyber defense. AI-powered algorithms can analyze vast amounts of data quickly, identifying patterns and threats that would otherwise go unnoticed, thus strengthening national security frameworks. However, the use of AI for surveillance and cybersecurity raises privacy concerns and the risk of state overreach