It makes sense, even if it does prove to be a royal pain every once in awhile. I’ve seen this policy in place on occasion, including when we wanted to do training using USB keys for the software licenses. Had to work around that! “Big Blue’s doing this because “the possible financial and reputational damage…
Ultimately, this is the problem with wide-scaled facial recognition use. It’s going to “find” a lot of similar looking people. For an extreme example of what can go wrong, take data recently released by an EU Freedom of Information request and then posted by the South Wales police. It shows that at the Champions League…
Oh this is not going to sit well with all of the people who simply don’t trust the basic idea of self-driving cars. “The fatal crash that killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, in March occurred because of a software bug in Uber’s self-driving car technology, The Information’s Amir Efrati reported on Monday. According…
No worries, I’m sure no one would ever misuse this much data, right? Although they have huge potential to make life better, the possibility of increasingly smarter cities also raises serious privacy concerns. Through sensors embedded into our cities, and the smartphones in our pockets, smart cities will have the power to constantly identify where…
It’s not just data breaches and ransomware these days. It might be theft of computing cycles, or just plain “borrowing” physical servers. Darktrace’s CEO gave an instance of a particular case where a junior staff at an Italian Bank [name withheld] stole servers that he ordered for on behalf of the bank. According to Eagan,…
This is going to be very real, very soon. And there’s no reason to think people are going to somehow learn to be more discerning that they are already. “Let’s put this all together. False memories fester when they make sense to our political worldview, when it’s familiar and repeated ad nauseam, when we trust…