This is one of many concerns we should have about security searches that allow agents to review the information on electronic devices. “Just as border security is fundamental to national security, so too is the principle of client confidentiality fundamental to the American legal system,” Klein added. She said the association is troubled about directives…
It’s easy to claim text messages and other mobile communications are part of the official record, but again we see that actually preserving and collecting them, isn’t always so simply. “North Carolina law is clear: Text messages exchanged by government workers are public records. But Mecklenburg County doesn’t retain texts from county cellphones and officials’…
This seems like the kind of information you’d want to be super careful with, yet apparently, it’s exactly the sort of information that was sent in email, to a bunch of subscribers who weren’t supposed to have it. “The story goes back to 2015, when Sweden’s transport agency awarded IBM a contract to manage its…
The technology is getting better. Just this week I downloaded Facebook’s Moments app to take a look at it and sure enough, it pretty much nailed every match of a person in a photo on my phone with their Facebook profile. I don’t think we are going to stop businesses and government agencies from using…
As with most stories about artificial intelligence, this is the key: “The primary difference between Facebook’s and Instagram’s filtering tools appear to be that Instagram’s AI system was specifically “trained” with the spam and offensive comments that specifically appeared on its own service, the Wired report shows. Instagram had to hire contractors to comb through…
This is some interesting stuff to think about: The students, part of a university honors class this semester called When Machines Decide: The Promise and Peril of Living in a Data-Driven Society, were tasked with creating a mobile app that teaches the public how a machine-learning algorithm could develop certain prejudices. “It was created to…