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Q&A: Cisco CIO sees AI embedded in every product and process

November 5, 2023 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Data privacy, Emerging Technology, employee experience, generative ai, Internet, Security, videoconferencing

Less than a year after OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released to the public, Cisco Systems is already well into the process of embedding generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into its entire product portfolio and internal backend systems.

The plan is to use it in virtually every corner of the business, from automating network functions and monitoring security to creating new software products.

But Cisco’s CIO, Fletcher Previn, is also dealing with a scarcity of IT talent to create and tweak large language model (LLM) platforms for domain-specific AI applications. As a result, IT workers are learning as they go, while discovering new places and ways the ever-evolving technology can create value.

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Zoom goes for a blatant genAI data grab; enterprises, beware (updated)

August 17, 2023 0 Comments analytics, Data privacy, generative ai, videoconferencing, zoom video communications

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:06:00 -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.

Editor’s note: Shortly after this column was published, Zoom again changed its terms and conditions. We’ve added an update to the end of the story covering the latest changes.

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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Zoom goes for a blatant genAI data grab; enterprises, beware

August 11, 2023 0 Comments analytics, Data privacy, generative ai, videoconferencing, zoom video communications

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

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

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After the remote-work rush, vacant offices and empty downtowns

May 9, 2023 0 Comments diversity and inclusion, office suites, remote work, Security, videoconferencing

Core business centers in large and small cities throughout the US are suffering the effects of hybrid- and remote-work policies, which has led to a 20% to 40% reduction in office space use, according to global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

The switch to primarily remote work at the start of the COVID pandemic in March 2020 left downtowns largely empty. Since then, commercial areas have seen a slow, but steady, return to the office, with average office occupancy hitting 50% of pre-pandemic levels this past March, according to commercial real estate services firm CBRE Group.

But that’s enough to offset sizeable drops in the value of office space, and the need to re-think what an “office” now is. In San Francisco, for example, an office building worth $300 million before the pandemic could now be worth just $60 million, an 80% loss in value. Nearly 30% of downtown office space is vacant, according to CBRE.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Zoom expands end-to-end encryption for Phone and breakout rooms

July 22, 2022 0 Comments communications security, encryption, videoconferencing, zoom video communications

Credit to Author: Charlotte Trueman| Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:44:00 -0700

Zoom has announced it is expanding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) capabilities to Zoom Phone, with breakout rooms to be given the same level of encryption in the near future.

Zoom Phone customers now have the option to upgrade to E2EE during one-on-one Zoom Phone calls between users on the same Zoom account that occur via the Zoom client.

During a call, when users select “More” they will see an option to change the session to an end-to-end encrypted phone call. When enabled, Zoom encrypts the call by using cryptographic keys known only to the devices of the caller and receiver. Users will also have the option to verify E2EE status by providing a unique security code to one another.

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Think the video call mute button keeps you safe? Think again

April 28, 2022 0 Comments Data privacy, Privacy, videoconferencing

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 11:35:00 -0700

Have you recently been on a video confefence call, hit the “mute” button and then offered up some nasty comments about a client or a colleague — or even the boss?

Or maybe while in a conference room with colleagues — muted — and pointed out that some proposed action would violate the terms of a secret acquisition in its final stages?

If you were comfortable that the mute button was actively protecting your secret, you shouldn’t have been.

Thanks to some impressive experimentation and research from a group of academics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Loyola University Chicago, utterances made while the app is in mute are still captured and saved into RAM.

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