Employees age and get hung over too. Perhaps your boss should insist you wear a health monitor (for your own good of course)
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/professional-athletes-and-wearables.html
Professional Athletes and Wearables
I haven’t thought about the privacy issues surrounding professional athletes and wearables.
Wearables present serious privacy issues for “Average Joe” consumers, who are entrusting tech companies to safely store and protect their biometric data. Imagine the stakes for a professional athlete, whose entire livelihood could be affected by a single biometric data point. To give one of many realistic hypotheticals: a basketball player has a terrible game, and the coach wonders if they showed up to the gym hungover. The coach has access to the player’s wearable data, and checks to see when they went to sleep, as well as what their heart rate looked like during the night. Should the player have been out partying before a game? No. Should the coach be able to surveil them? Definitely not.
It will not surprise you to learn that there’s an emergent gambling angle here: sports leagues would love to commercialize players’ biometric data, and sharp bettors would love access to data about, say, a hungover player. “We’re going to get to a spot where people are betting not just on the velocity of the puck that was shot by a player in the NHL playoffs, but on what the heart rate of a certain player is going to be running down the field,” said Helen “Nellie” Drew, the director of the University of Buffalo’s Center for the Advancement of Sport, and a professor of practice in sports law.
There are other practical considerations, too. What if wearable data reveals that a player isn’t as speedy as they were before, and a team uses that data against the player during contract negotiations? What if a wearable reveals a player is favoring their leg, or is at greater risk of injury? This information is potentially beneficial to a training staff and an athlete, so long as it’s disclosed and used in a responsible manner—a critical, mostly unresolved caveat. “Aging and injured players are the most at-risk” of wearable data being used against them, said Michael LeRoy, who researches sports labor laws and AI, and is a professor at the University of Illinois’s School of Labor and Employment Relations.
The bit about gamblers is particularly scary.
I have often said that surveillance tech is generally deployed first against people with diminished rights: children, prisoners, military personnel, the mentally impaired. This is another early use case with different dynamics. The surveilled are wealthy and powerful, and—in many cases—unionized.
About time they noticed this risk…
AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
Powerful AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, cyber intelligence agencies for the Five Eyes have warned in a rare joint statement, urging leaders to “act now”.
The surprising public intervention by signals agencies for Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada comes after the Trump administration earlier this month decided to block “foreign nationals” from using a much-hyped AI model built by tech company Anthropic, called Fable.
The statement, issued late Monday night Sydney time, said while AI “would help us improve cyber defence over time, it also accelerates the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber threats”.
Lawyers are doomed!
https://www.ft.com/content/b4f8f589-6771-4df5-ac4d-cb15d94991fb?syn-25a6b1a6=1
AI law firm wins UK court case for first time
An AI law firm that uses technology instead of lawyers to prepare legal claims has won a case in the English courts for the first time, in a sign of artificial intelligence’s potential to disrupt the industry.
Garfield AI, which became the first AI law firm in the UK to receive regulatory approval last year, won the claim over unpaid fees for a freelancer following a three-hour trial at Wandsworth County Court last month.
The case is believed to be the first time a trial has been won using an AI lawyer not only in the UK but globally, according to founder Philip Young, a former London litigator.
The AI firm provided all of the documents for the trial, including drafting witness statements, demonstrating the potential for the technology to help clients in run-of-the-mill legal disputes.
Protecting you by hacking your devices…
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/canadas-spy-agency-used-first-of-its.html
Canada’s Spy Agency Used First-of-Its-Kind Warrant to Clean Botnet-Infected Devices
Canada's spy service got a judge's permission to reach into infected servers, home routers, and IoT gear sitting on Canadian soil and neutralize two foreign-run botnets.
The Federal Court released a public version of the ruling on June 15. It is the first time the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has used its threat reduction warrant powers this way.
The warrant let CSIS alter, degrade, and destroy botnet data on the infected machines and cut the devices loose from the networks.
The targets were Canada-based servers, small office and home office (SOHO) routers, and Internet of Things devices: Ring doorbells, security cameras, TVs, and other Wi-Fi-enabled appliances.
… CSIS needed the order because the cleanup would likely have been a crime without it. Reaching into someone else's device and wiping data is computer mischief under the Criminal Code, so the Service needed a judge's sign-off before touching the machines.
Might be worth reading.
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
… Doctorow speeds through this entertaining primer with his usual vivid analogies, righteous ire and snarky asides – OpenAI, currently valued at $852bn, is parenthetically dismissed as “a grossly overhyped and terrible firm”. But as the central metaphor illustrates, this is not an anti-AI polemic and Doctorow is no purist. A centaur, in automation theory, is someone assisted by a machine, whether using a hearing aid or driving a car. A reverse centaur is someone whose freedom is diminished by the demands of a machine, like an Amazon warehouse worker. The technology of AI theoretically allows every worker to be a centaur, but the business model demands the reverse. Take radiology. In the centaur scenario, a human radiologist works with an AI radiologist to produce more accurate analysis, but that costs the hospital money. In the reverse centaur version, the AI radiologist demotes the surviving humans to the level of results-checking drones who are more likely to make mistakes. Much cheaper, but you see the problem.
Doctorow, who has written several science fiction novels, cites one of the genre’s defining messages: “The most important thing about the gadget isn’t what it does, it’s who it does it for and who it does it to.”
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