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Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:21:00 -0700

When Zoom amended its terms of service earlier this month — a bid to make executives comfortable that it wouldn’t use Zoom data to train generative AI models — it quickly stirred up a hornet’s nest. So the company “revised” the terms of service, and left in place ways it can still get full access to user data.

(Computerworld repeatedly reached out to Zoom without success to clarify what the changes really mean.)

Before I delve into the legalese — and Zoom’s weasel words to falsely suggest it was not doing what it obviously was doing — let me raise a more critical question: Is there anyone in the video-call business not doing this? Microsoft? Google? Those are two firms that never met a dataset that they didn’t love.

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QuickHeal Security

Ethical Web Scraping and Crawling: Navigating the Digital World Responsibly

August 2, 2023 0 Comments advisory, cybersecurity, Data privacy, digital responsibility, ethical hacking, Hacking, Hacktivism, quick heal, Tech Terms, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 04:52:30 +0000

The wealth of data available on the internet and the infinite potential that it has to offer requires…

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ComputerWorld Independent

UK intelligence agencies seek to weaken data protection safeguards

August 2, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Data privacy

UK intelligence agencies are campaigning for the government to weaken surveillance laws, arguing that the current safeguards limit their ability to train AI models due to the large amount of personal data required.

GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 have been increasingly using AI technologies to analyze data sets, including bulk personal data sets (BPDs), which can often contain sensitive information about people not of interest to the security services.

Currently, a judge has to approve the examination and retention of BPDs, a process that intelligence agencies have described as “disproportionately burdensome” when applied to “publicly available datasets, specifically those containing data in respect of which the subject has little or no reasonable expectation of privacy.”

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ComputerWorld Independent

EEOC Commissioner: AI system audits might not comply with federal anti-bias laws

July 31, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Data privacy, Emerging Technology, generative ai, Government IT, IT Leadership

Keith Sonderling, commissioner of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), has for years been sounding the alarm about the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to run afoul of federal anti-discrimination laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

It was not until the advent of ChatGPT, Bard, and other popular generative AI tools, however, that local, state and national lawmakers began taking notice — and companies became aware of the pitfalls posed by a technology that can automate efficiencies in the business process.

Instead of speeches he’d typically make to groups of chief human resource officers or labor employment lawyers, Sonderling has found himself in recent months talking more and more about AI. His focus has been on how companies can stay compliant as they hand over more of the responsibility for hiring and other aspects of corporate HR to algorithms that are vastly faster and capable of parsing thousands of resumes in seconds.

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ComputerWorld Independent

EEOC chief: AI system audits might comply with local anti-bias laws, but not federal ones

July 31, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Data privacy, Emerging Technology, generative ai, Government IT, IT Leadership

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ComputerWorld Independent

Apple toughens up app security with API control

July 28, 2023 0 Comments Apple, Data privacy, Privacy, Security, Software Development

Apple is at war with device fingerprinting — the use of fragments of unique device-specific information to track users online. This fall, it will put in place yet another important limitation to prevent unauthorized use of this kind of tech.

Apple at WWDC 2023 announced a new initiative designed to make apps that do track users more obvious while giving users additional transparency into such use. Now it has told developers a little more about how this will work in practice.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Was Steve Jobs right about this?

July 26, 2023 0 Comments Apple, Artificial intelligence, Data privacy, education industry, Mobile, small and medium business

Perhaps Steve Jobs was right to limit the amount of time he let his children use iPhones and iPads — a tradition Apple maintains with its Screen Time tool, which lets parents set limits on device use. Now, an extensive UNESCO report suggests that letting kids spend too much time on these devices can be bad for them.

Baked in inequality and lack of social skills

That’s the headline claim, but there’s a lot more to the report in terms of exploring data privacy, misuse of tech, and failed digital transformation experiments.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Apple: Proposed UK law is a ‘serious, direct threat’ to security, privacy

July 21, 2023 0 Comments Apple, Data privacy, Government, messaging apps, Mobile, Privacy, Security, small and medium business

New UK government surveillance laws are so over-reaching that tech companies can’t possibly meet all of their requirements, according to Apple, which argues the measures will make the online world far less safe.

Apple, WhatsApp, Meta all threaten to quit UK messaging

The UK Home Office is pushing proposals to extend the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) with a range of proposals that effectively require messaging providers such as Apple, WhatsApp, or Meta to install backdoors into their services. All three services are now threatening to withdraw messaging apps from the UK market if the changes move forward.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Medical data sharing: Are we there yet?

July 20, 2023 0 Comments Compliance, Data privacy, electronic health records, healthcare industry, hipaa

Fifteen years ago, if you entered an emergency room a thousand miles from home, the ER doctors would not have had access to potentially lifesaving information in your medical records, such as your allergies or a list of drugs you were taking. Only 10% of US hospitals had electronic health record (EHR) systems, and health record requests were typically sent in paper form by mail or fax machine. Then the federal government stepped in, providing billions of dollars in EHR incentives to help hospitals get online.

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ComputerWorld Independent

This is why personal encryption is vital to the future of business

July 18, 2023 0 Comments Apple, Data privacy, Mobile, Privacy, Security, small and medium business

Data encryption is threatened by government forces who haven’t yet recognized that without personal security, you cannot have enterprise security. Because attackers will exploit any available weakness to undermine protection — and if your people or your customers aren’t secure, neither is your business.

Get with the data

Attackers will always go where the money is. They will spend lots of it to mount attacks. They will delve deeper, and if they’re spending money, they also have the necessary resources to investigate absolutely anyone they can identify as a potential target.

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