Know where ALL your data resides. You should have an ‘update’ procedure to follow when you go to backups.

https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/11/19/gdpr-right-to-be-forgotten-verification-tool/

Oops! The backup restored GDPR right to be forgotten details

The GDPR directive gives individuals the right to be forgotten and requires EU and UK companies in certain instances to erase all personal data per a customer’s request.

But this is problematic when details are contained inside a non-searchable database backup file. At first sight the individual has been forgotten, but if a backup file is restored the business again has that person’s details in plain view, and so breaks the GDPR rules.

Unconscious consent?

https://www.axios.com/ethics-brain-machine-interfaces-d50b6618-b2b3-4bc1-960a-c27f73be3e63.html

The tricky ethics of neurotechnologies

As the science of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and other neurotechnologies progresses, researchers are calling for ethical guidelines to be established now — before the technology fully matures.

Why it matters: We’re still far away from technologies that fully access and even read the human brain, but the sheer power of such tools — and the highly personal data they could gather — means society needs to determine what they should do before they actually can do it.

… Many of the ethical issues created by BCI — questions of transparency and fairness — resemble those raised by AI or even social media, only intensified.

• It’s one thing for tech companies to track what we click on and what we watch, but data generated by the nervous system can be unconscious, which could fatally undermine principles of consent and the privacy.

• And neurotechnology could go beyond reading the brain to effectively coding it, feeding it data that could influence thoughts and behaviors, which brings into question core concepts around free will.

Artificial teaching?

https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2020/november/artificial-intelligence-classroom-qa.html

Artificial intelligence and the classroom of the future

… This is part of a larger vision of future classrooms where human instruction and AI technology interact to improve educational environments and the learning experience.

James Pustejovsky, the TJX Feldberg Professor of Computer Science, is working towards that vision with a team led by the University of Colorado Boulder, as part of the new $20 million National Science Foundation-funded AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming.

Perspective.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/19/1012165/the-promise-of-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/

The promise of the fourth industrial revolution

New technologies can optimize the way people work. When implemented thoughtfully, such innovations can improve overall business processes. Those changes are accepted as part of progress.

But when a technology changes how and where people live and their relationships to one another and upends economies, it merits the term “revolution.” Because it changes everything.

… To determine how this is taking shape, MIT Technology Review Insights canvassed dozens of organizations that are using the internet of things to do things that weren’t possible before. What follows is a series of the best, most innovative examples. Some of these applications may inspire organization to rethink how they collect, analyze, and act on data—all of them contribute to a better or at least more efficient planet.

… Download the full report.

(Related)

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-5g-and-iot-will-be-the-most-important-technologies-in-2021-according-to-new-ieee-study-301177050.html

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 5G and IoT will be the Most Important Technologies in 2021, According to new IEEE Study

IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today released the results of a survey of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) in the U.S., U.K., China, India and Brazil regarding the most important technologies for 2021 overall, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the speed of their technology adoption and the industries expected to be most impacted by technology in the year ahead.

2021 Most Important Technologies and Challenges

Which will be the most important technologies in 2021? Among total respondents, nearly one-third (32%) say AI and machine learning, followed by 5G (20%) and IoT (14%).

Manufacturing (19%), healthcare (18%), financial services (15%) and education (13%) are the industries that most believe will be impacted by technology in 2021, according to CIOs and CTOS surveyed.

For my researchers…

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/11/20/tldr-this-ai-summarizes-research-papers-so-you-dont-have-to/

TL;DR: This AI summarizes research papers so you don’t have to

… researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a new model to summarize text from scientific papers, and present it in a few sentences in the form of TL;DR (Too Long Didn’t Read).

The team has rolled this model out to the Allen Institute’s Semantic Scholar search engine for papers. Currently, you’ll only see these TL;DR summaries on papers related to computer science on search results or the author’s page.

… You can try out the AI on the Semantic Scholar search engine. Plus, you can read more about summarizing AI in this paper.

Concerts for shut-ins. The first one tonight!

https://www.bespacific.com/re-hearing-beethoven-festival-at-the-library-of-congress/

Re-Hearing Beethoven Festival at the Library of Congress

“The Library of Congress planned to mark Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a series of concerts that offered a fresh look at Beethoven’s nine remarkable symphonies, performed by string quartets, piano duos and the U.S. Marine Band. While the pandemic has moved the concerts online, they can now be enjoyed from the comfort of your couch, with the benefit of extra programming. The series begins with the acclaimed Takács Quartet — featured at a sold-out in-person Kennedy Center concert in December — performing pieces by Beethoven, Schubert and Bartok. Visit the Library’s website for bonus content, including commentary from the musicians, curators and guests, and get a look at Beethoven-related items from the Library’s collection. 8 p.m. Free registration.”

Be a dipper?

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/ongoing-data-breach-dispute-underscores-emerging-legal-issues-data-privacy

Ongoing Data Breach Dispute Underscores Emerging Legal Issues in Data Privacy Litigation

… According to the lawsuits, Wawa’s practice of accepting “swiped” payment cards, as opposed to “dipped” cards with chips, enabled the data breach. Whereas a swipe-only payment processing system enables easier theft, a chipped card uses “industry developed EMV chip technology” that makes fraud “significantly more difficult”. Whenever a chipped card is insert into a payment system, it generates a unique code for each transaction. This unique code makes theft more cumbersome.

… At the heart of the credit unions’ claim is an allegation that the PCI DSS should be the standards upon which a merchant’s liability for damages from a data breach should be determined. Under this theory of tort liability, the PCI DSS could displace any other best practices and standards to become the de facto practices for merchants to follow. A link between the PCI DSS and common law tort duties could result in a seismic shift in liability. According to the Verizon 2020 Payment Security Report, only 27.9% of organizations fully comply with the PCI DSS. This is down from a historic high of 55% in 2016.

Wawa allegedly failed to comply with all or some of the requirements. The credit unions alleged that Wawa’s failure to comply resulted in negligence under at least two different theories.

To help my Computer Security students understand…

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/evolution-personal-data-us-law

Evolution of Personal Data in U.S. Law

… Early digital age protections of data in the U.S. tending to apply very specific definitions. First, the government began protecting the particular types of data that concerned legislators, regulators, and the general public – financial/banking information, descriptions of health care, and information relating to children. This was the data that people felt was most private and most likely to be abused. It was the data that many people would have been concerned about sharing with strangers.

The definitions around these laws reflected the specificity of their intent.

...The terms defined in this first wave of data breach notice laws were based on lists. Each law listed a set of information categories likely to facilitate the theft of a citizen’s identity.

… The CCPA shattered this concept. As the first omnibus privacy act in the U.S., the California Consumer Privacy Act brought European thinking to privacy protection law. Rather than a limited vertical market like finance or health care, or a narrow legal goal like stopping identity theft, the CCPA sought to create new rights that individuals would have to protect data collected about them, and the CCPA sought to impose those rights down on businesses who previously felt that they were owners of the data. The CCPA never defined anything as fundamental or nebulous as “ownership” of the data, but it did offer a new, breathtakingly broad definition of the personal information at the heart of the statute.

Because AI might be the only “I” we get.

https://www.bespacific.com/white-house-issues-guidance-for-federal-agencies-on-ai-applications/

White House issues guidance for federal agencies on AI applications

ZDNet – “US federal agencies have now been issued a guidance by the White House on how to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) applications that are produced in the US. “This memorandum sets out policy considerations that should guide, to the extent permitted by law, regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to AI applications developed and deployed outside of the federal government,” stated Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the memo [PDF] for all the heads of executive departments and agencies, including independent regulatory agencies. The OMB guidance comes 21 months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to fast-track the development and regulation of AI in the US. President Trump at the time touted the executive order would see the launch of the American AI initiative, which would place US resources towards ensuring that AI technology is made locally. According to the guidance, the idea is to ensure that agencies do not introduce regulations and rules that “hamper AI innovation and growth”…”

Maybe, maybe not.

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/11/18/neurals-guide-to-the-glorious-future-of-ai-heres-how-machines-become-sentient/

Neural’s guide to the glorious future of AI: Here’s how machines become sentient

The future realization of robot lifeforms is referred to by a plethora of terms – sentience, artificial general intelligence (AGI), living machines, self-aware robots, and so forth – but the one that seems most fitting is “The Singularity.”

Rather than debate semantics, we’re going to sweep all those little ways of saying “human-level intelligence or better” together and conflate them to mean: A machine capable of at least human-level reasoning, thought, memory, learning, and self-awareness.

Modern AI researchers and developers tend to gravitate towards the term AGI. Normally, we’d agree because general intelligence is grounded in metrics we can understand – to qualify, an AI would have to be able to do most stuff a human can.

But there’s a razor-thin margin between “as smart as” and “smarter than” when it comes to hypothetical general intelligence and it seems likely a mind powered by super computers, quantum computers, or a vast network of cloud servers would have far greater sentient potential than our mushy organic ones. Thus, we’ll err on the side of superintelligence for the purposes of this article.

… Let’s get super scientific here and crank out a listicle with five separate ways AI could gain human-level intelligence and awareness:

1. Machine consciousness is back-doored via quantum computing

2. A new calculus creates the Master Algorithm

3. Scientists develop 1:1 replication of organic neural networks

4. Cloud consciousness emerges through scattered node optimization

5. Alien technology

… Here’s hoping that, no matter how The Singularity comes about, it ushers in a new age of prosperity for all intelligent beings. But just in case it doesn’t work out so well, we’ve got something that’ll help you prepare for the worst. Check out these articles in Neural’s Beginner’s Guide to the AI Apocalypse series:

• Misaligned Objectives

• Artificial Stupidity

• Wall-E Syndrome

• Humanity Joins the Hivemind

• Killer Robots

Also for researchers?

https://www.bespacific.com/wonder-tools-googles-new-journalist-studio/

Wonder Tools – Google’s New Journalist Studio

Jeremy Kaplan: “Google recently launched Journalist Studio, a toolkit with free reporting and data visualization resources. The tools are easy to use, well-designed and immediately applicable to big reporting projects and small research inquiries. Some of these tools have been around for a while, so part of this launch is just glossy repackaging. Pinpoint is the most valuable part of the toolkit. It provides you with a free digital hub for storing and analyzing massive datasets of documents, emails, audio files, handwritten notes and more. You can store up to 200,000 documents in each collection, and up to 100gb overall. Request more space if you need it…”

Security fines like GDPR fines? Fine by me!

https://www.databreaches.net/trudeau-privacy-law-to-level-stiff-fines-for-digital-breaches/

Trudeau Privacy Law to Level Stiff Fines for Digital Breaches

Kait Bolongaro reports:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government unveiled a remake of Canadian privacy laws to strengthen user rights in the digital world.

Under legislation introduced Tuesday in Ottawa, companies that commit the most serious offenses would be hit with fines worth as much as 5% of revenue or C$25 million ($19 million), whichever is higher. The government said these penalties would be the strongest among the Group of Seven.

Read more on Bloomberg.

How important are good backups? Consider...

https://www.databreaches.net/nc-alamance-skin-center-breach-left-patient-data-totally-unrecoverable/

NC: Alamance Skin Center breach left patient data totally unrecoverable

Alamance Skin Center recently reported a HIPAA breach to HHS as being a “Loss” incident with data in EMR. But previous media coverage provided an even more dire understanding of the incident.

On November 4, Triad Business Journal reported that the medical practice, part of Cone Health, had been the victim of a ransomware attack. The attackers reportedly gained a foothold via a phishing attack. The type of ransomware was not reported.

According to Cone Health, “a thorough forensic investigation concluded that no patient information was taken in the attack. However, patient data at the practice is unrecoverable.”

Alamance notified HHS that 100,000 patients were impacted by the incident.

Alamance’s notification  on their web site follows, in part. It explains that the ransomware attack was in late July, but it was on October 21 that they discovered that data were unrecoverable. They do not mention whether they had any backup or if so, how recent it might be.

Read more on their web site.

Can I scrape the Internet for articles I point to from my blog?

https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/clearview-ai-first-amendment-illinois-lawsuit.html

Clearview AI’s First Amendment Theory Threatens Privacy—and Free Speech, Too

What could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases of the digital age is pending before a court in Illinois and will likely be argued before the end of the year. The case concerns Clearview AI, the technology company that surreptitiously scraped 3 billion images from the internet to feed a facial recognition app it sold to law enforcement agencies. Now confronting multiple lawsuits based on an Illinois privacy law, the company has retained Floyd Abrams, the prominent First Amendment litigator, to argue that its business activities are constitutionally protected. Landing Abrams was a coup for Clearview, but whether anyone else should be celebrating is less clear. A First Amendment that shielded Clearview and other technology companies from reasonable privacy regulation would be bad for privacy, obviously, but it would be bad for free speech, too.

… The people who’ve sued Clearview contend that the company is violating an Illinois privacy law that regulates the collection, use, and dissemination of biometric information. The company argues in defense that its business practices involve the kinds of activities that the First Amendment has been held to protect in the past—collecting publicly available information, analyzing it, and sharing the conclusions of that analysis. In a brief filed in October, it likened its app to a search engine and contended that its judgment about “what information will be most useful to users” is an “editorial” judgment akin to those made by newspapers.

(Related)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/lapd-banned-commercial-facial-recognition-clearview?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

Los Angeles Police Just Banned The Use Of Commercial Facial Recognition

The LAPD, the third-largest police department in the United States, issued a moratorium on the use of third-party facial recognition software on Nov. 13, after it was told that documents seen by BuzzFeed News showed more than 25 LAPD employees had performed nearly 475 searches using Clearview AI as of earlier this year. Department officials have made conflicting statements in the past about their use of facial recognition technology, including claims that they deploy it sparingly.

Perspective.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-brain-and-value/202011/how-should-we-think-about-the-ethics-artificial-intelligence

How Should We Think about the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence?

Fiona McEvoy on the role of regulation, ethics, and consumer vigilance.

… New and emerging tech products are now embedded in almost every industry, so the ethical challenges of technologies like AI aren’t limited to the sector that develops them. They should concern “user industries” too. Fundamentally, it’s this incredible penetration of tech that has given rise to concerns about ethics and societal consequences.

More ‘virtual tours’ for the self-isolating.

https://www.makeuseof.com/visit-cultural-sites-search-google/

Google Now Lets You Virtually Visit 100 Cultural Sites in Search

The company announced on The Keyword that it is adding a new feature coming to search that makes it so you can virtually explore over 100 important cultural sites worldwide without hopping on a plane.

… To get access to this feature, you must search in English for information about one of the supported locations. While browsing the wealth of information offered by Google, you can click on the "About" section to see a link to the virtual tour.

… Google announced that it has more than 100 cultural locations you can visit through Search. Unfortunately, the company didn't release a full list of places, so you'll have to do some experimenting to see if the places you're curious about are supported.

The company's blog post did announce and link to some locations you can visit, though. For example, you can get tours of the Palace of Versailles in France, the Palace Museum in China, Sicily's Valley of the Temples, Mount Haguro in Japan, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in the US, and Brazil's Museu Nacional de Belas Artes.

(Related) If you need a reason to stay home...

https://thenextweb.com/plugged/2020/11/18/google-maps-will-now-display-number-of-covid-19-cases-in-an-area/

Google Maps will now display number of COVID-19 cases in an area

… Google Maps is rolling out new information related to COVID-19 in a particular area. The app will now display the total number of cases and deaths till now and a 7-day trend indicating if the numbers are going up or down. Plus, you’ll also get to access local guidelines, restrictions, and information related to testing centers.

… rolling out to Android and iOS Maps users globally in the coming weeks.

“Legal” and “Ethical” are not the same thing. I wonder what was going on when they did this?

How the NYPD obtains people’s personal data with no oversight

Craig McCarthy reports:

The NYPD has used tens of thousands of questionable subpoenas over the last decade to intimidate private companies into handing over the personal information of cops and civilians alike — all with no oversight from the city or the courts, The Post has found.

While the vast majority of subpoenas in New York State — and across the country — require the signature of a judge or the blessing of a grand jury, the New York City Council empowered the department nearly a century ago to issue such commands to force unwilling cops to produce internal records or appear at disciplinary hearings.

Read more on NY Post.

“How” may be less interesting than “Why.”

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

Joseph Cox reports:

The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed connected to this sort of data sale is a Muslim prayer and Quran app that has more than 98 million downloads worldwide. Others include a Muslim dating app, a popular Craigslist app, an app for following storms, and a “level” app that can be used to help, for example, install shelves in a bedroom.

Read more on Vice.

Looks like I missed this in September.

https://www.insideprivacy.com/data-privacy/the-spanish-supervisory-authority-approves-a-gdpr-code-of-conduct-on-advertising/

The Spanish Supervisory Authority Approves a GDPR Code of Conduct on Advertising

On September 16, 2020, the Spanish Supervisory Authority (“AEPD”) approved a “Code of Conduct for Data Processing in Advertising” (“Code”) (see the decision approving the code here ). This is the first GDPR approved Code of Conduct with an accredited monitoring body in the European Union. The Code enters into effect on November 17, 2020, two months after its approval.

Difficult question to answer: What don’t you know?

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-extremely-aggressive-internet-censorship-world.html

'Extremely aggressive' internet censorship spreads in the world's democracies

A University of Michigan team used Censored Planet, an automated censorship tracking system launched in 2018 by assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science Roya Ensafi, to collect more than 21 billion measurements over 20 months in 221 countries. They will present the findings Nov. 10 at the 2020 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

… Ensafi's team found that censorship is increasing in 103 of the countries studied, including unexpected places like Norway, Japan, Italy, India, Israel and Poland—countries which the paper notes are rated as some of the freest in the world by advocacy group Freedom House. They were among nine countries where Censored Planet found significant, previously undetected censorship events between August of 2018 and April of 2020. Previously undetected events were also identified in Cameroon, Ecuador and Sudan.

Teaching about AI.

https://www.edsurge.com/research/guides/ai-is-for-everyone-everywhere

AI is for Everyone, Everywhere

… this guide serves as a toolkit for K-12 teachers who are preparing the next generation of AI users and developers. Featuring in-depth interviews with practitioners, infographics and project guidelines for classroom teachers, as well as a webinar on the importance of AI in education, it aims to provide schools with straightforward and practical ways to integrate computational thinking across their curricula. Moreover, it is an invitation for teachers of all subjects and students of any age, ability or background to take part in AI explorations.

A tool for learning or for evidence gathering?

https://www.bespacific.com/free-software-to-create-full-copies-of-sites-to-archive/

Free software to create full copies of sites to archive

“HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site’s relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the “mirrored” website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system. WinHTTrack is the Windows (from Windows 2000 to Windows 10 and above) release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release. See the download page.…” [Presidential transitions are a time when government sites go offline, data and information is removed and lost. It may be helpful to make copies of sites that you need to archive.]

For my favorite English teachers…

https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-11-17

Big Brother will keep you safe, forever.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/16/australia_contact_tracing_review_payment_recommendation/

Australia to track Coronavirus encounters with payment card records

Australia will develop the capability to use payment records in the service of coronavirus contact tracing.

A National Contact Tracing Review released last Friday called for a raft of information technology responses to the pandemic, on grounds that containment of the novel coronavirus will be needed even after a vaccine emerges. The report notes that Australia has generally done very well managing the pandemic, but that some contact tracing efforts still rely on handwritten records and contact details are inconsistently recorded in public venues such as restaurants.

Contrast with the Russian standard (You disagree? You need help!) Is this why Trump moved to Florida?

S.D.N.Y.: Mental health detentions don’t require actual showing of dangerous behavior; probability enough

From FourthAmendment.com:

A mental health detention requires “requires only a ‘probability or substantial chance’ of dangerous behavior, not an actual showing of such behavior.’” … Probable cause for involuntary hospitalization may be established from ‘information gleaned from informants[,] … normally the putative victim or eyewitness, unless the circumstances raise doubt as to the person’s veracity.’ … “However, the ‘harm to self or others’ standard is not met by evidence suggesting merely that the person is emotionally disturbed. See Myers, 819 F.3d at 634 (‘A person may be annoyed, uncooperative, and irrational without presenting a danger to herself or of violence to others.’).” “Insofar as plaintiff contends that the undisputed evidence assembled by defendants does not warrant summary judgment under the ‘harm to self or others’ standard, she is correct. Defendants do not identify, nor has the Court found, any cases holding that probable cause existed for a mental health seizure on facts similar to the ones in this case. To the contrary: courts in the Second Circuit generally find probable cause for a mental health seizure only where there were threats of harm to others, suicidal threats, clear evidence of self-harm, the possession of a firearm or other dangerous weapon by a mentally disturbed person, or some combination of those factors. ….” Guan v. City of New York, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 212611 (S.D. N.Y. Sept. 18, 2020).

For my researchers.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/info#

Google Books Ngram Viewer

When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years.

[Try searching for “facial recognition” here: https://books.google.com/ngrams Bob]

A ‘culture break’ for shut ins.

https://www.bespacific.com/virtual-art-museums-and-online-exhibits-you-can-visit-during-pandemic/

Virtual art museums and online exhibits you can visit during pandemic

Rappler – “In the months we’ve been in lockdown due to the pandemic, a means of escape has been through art. Whether it be books, songs, films, or a newfound passion for painting, art has been our solace. To celebrate Go To An Art Museum Day on November 9, we’ve curated a list of museums you can visit in the comfort of your homes and at your own pace.…”

Where does this sit on the scale of pandemic response? A police enforced prescription? I suppose it could be worse: Army hunting anyone outside their homes with flame throwers.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-lockdown-greece-text-authorization-sms-message-authorities-reason-leave-home

Coronavirus lockdown in Greece requires people to text authorities before leaving home

The lockdown will start at daybreak Saturday and last until the end of the month. With infections surging across the country, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he acted before patients overwhelm hospitals.

… As part of the lockdown, all retail stores except those selling essential items such as food, medication, and fuel will be closed.

… People will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, physical exercise or medical reasons, and only after sending a text message to authorities.

Perspective.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2020/11/15/its-managers-not-workers-who-are-losing-jobs-to-ai-and-robots-study-shows/?sh=7517092a20d5

It’s Managers, Not Workers, Who Are Losing Jobs To AI And Robots, Study Shows

Managers, not lower-level employees, are seeing their ranks diminished with the onset of artificial intelligence and robots, a new study out of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School finds. That’s because as AI and robotics expands within a business, managers can oversee a wider breadth of operations.

In a recent podcast discussion, Lynn Wu, professor at The Wharton School and AIB Affiliated Faculty, points out that “contrary to the popular notion that robots will replace human labor, we find robot-adopting firms employed more people over time. Any displacement of labor came from firms that did not adopt robots. These non-adopting firms actually lost their competitiveness — and they had to lay off workers.” Details of Wu’s study, based on looking at the performance of firms that purchased AI and robots over a 20-year period in Canada, will be published in the INFORMS journal Management Science.

Semantics?

http://www.dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/3203

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE COMPLEXITY OF ETHICS

While reflecting upon artificial intelligence, one of its characteristics is often highlighted: its complexity. Sometimes the complexity of artificial intelligence is even used as an argument against holding humans responsible for it. At the same time, surprisingly the complexity of ethics is usually perceived with a reductionist understanding of ethics. In this article, the concept “artificial intelligence” itself is critically reviewed resulting in the introduction of a more adequate term: “databased systems.” Beyond that, I argue against the possibility of “ethical” databased systems and in favour of databased systems with ethics. Finally, the complexity of ethics and its consequences for the ethical dimension of technology-based innovation will be in the focus.

Another view…

https://jurnal.unej.ac.id/index.php/eJLH/article/view/18380

Legal Aspect of Artificial Intelligence on Automated Decision Making: Indonesia, the European Union, the United States and China

This paper analyzes the urgency of a comprehensive legal framework of automated decision-making as part of Artificial Intelligence in Indonesia by comparing it in the European Union, the United States, and China. More importantly, this paper inquires about the status quo of the legal protection of automated decision-making In Indonesia. Besides, this paper will also highlight the involvement of profiling in an automated decision-making system and discuss personal data protection implementation. Members of the European Union set out a law in the General Data Protection Regulation that prohibits Automated Decision-Making to a certain extent. Whereas in the United States, the practice of automated decision-making is rather usual. Lastly, China takes rather an exceptional measure and develops a social credit system. The analysis asserts how Indonesia has weak legal protection towards personal data and profiling that could essentially facilitate automated decision-making. The provision of automated decision-making and Profiling is the absolute bare minimum on the newest Personal Data Protection Regulation Draft. It does not give enough legal certainty towards the matter of automated decision-making and profiling. Thus, it is paramount for the lawmaker to comprise a comprehensive regulation on automated decision-making, including profiling, by adopting the legal framework of the General Data Protection Regulation.

A mere nibble (as fines go) but multiply this by the number of countries in the world…

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1763111/business-economy

Turkish competition board hits Google with $25m fine

Google has been hit with a 196.7 million Turkish lira ($25.6 million) fine by the Turkish Competition Board as part of an investigation against the company.

The decision comes amid growing government control of Internet in the country.

… Google is accused of breaching the law by complicating search results in the content services market by placing text ads at the top of organic search results. Therefore, some companies do not show up in searches if they do not generate advertisement revenue for Google.