Bruce Schneier writes: If you don’t have enough to worry about already, consider a world where AIs are hackers. Hacking is as old as humanity. We are creative problem solvers. We exploit loopholes, manipulate systems, and strive for more influence, power, and wealth. To date, hacking has exclusively been a [Read More…]
Keypoint: This week Florida’s two bills continued to progress, the Washington Privacy Act failed to pass out of the House at the deadline (but the bill sponsor says it is still alive), new bills were introduced in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and Maryland’s bill died. David Strauss of Husch Blackwell [Read More…]
The Tribune reports: Country’s cyber security agency CERT-In has advised Facebook users to strengthen their account privacy settings after a recent global ‘data scraping’ incident in the social media platform was detected that affected about 61 lakh Indians. “As the Facebook platform evolves and grows, parts of your account could [Read More…]
Europe risks another tech tangle with ‘vaccine passports’ https://www.politico.eu/article/vaccine-passports-echo-coronavirus-app-failures/ MEPs call for European AI rules to ban facial recognition surveillance in public: https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/15/meps-call-for-european-ai-rules-to-ban-biometric-surveillance-in-public/ The Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-loophole-state-backed-manipulation Privacy Warning: Facebook AI Has Monitored 45,000 Videos Of People Chatting https://ai.facebook.com/blog/shedding-light-on-fairness-in-ai-with-a-new-data-set Germany- Data Protection [Read More…]