To say some of us have been distracted since January 6 would be an understatement. Thanks to Joe Cadillic, maybe we can get caught up a bit. Here are some news items of note recently: How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone’s Encryption https://www.wired.com/story/smartphone-encryption-law-enforcement-tools/ The European Data Protection Supervisor Website [Read More…]
Some research may put you — or others — at risk. At risk of violations of law, but also at risk of violations of people’s privacy or causing harm to them (regardless of whether you are right or wrong in any attributions). Tanya Basu writes: As rioters stormed Capitol Hill [Read More…]
Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen, Sam Jungyun Choi, and Marianna Drake of Covington and Burling write: On 17 December 2020, the Council of Europe’s* Ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI) published a Feasibility Study (the “Study”) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) legal standards. The Study examines the feasibility and potential elements of a [Read More…]
Peter Hess writes: A technique for masking portions of a person’s raw genomic data increases shareability without sacrificing privacy, a new study shows. To conduct functional genomics research, scientists must share genetic data about large numbers of participants, which can inadvertently expose a person’s stigmatizing or otherwise private details to unscrupulous [Read More…]