April 18, 2022
Mega Database | The Cat Herder, Volume 5, Issue 14
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Bank Holiday edition. And shorter than usual. 😼
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“Students shouldn’t have to police how they look in the classroom,” said Nandita Sampath, a policy analyst with Consumer Reports focused on algorithmic bias and accountability issues, who said she wondered whether students would have the ability to contest inaccurate results if Intel’s system leads to negative consequences. “What cognitive and emotional states do these companies claim they are able to assess or predict, and what is the accountability?” she said.
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Intel calls its AI that detects student emotions a teaching tool. Others call it 'morally reprehensible.'
Virtual school software startup Classroom Technologies will test the controversial “emotion AI” technology.
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If gardaí are to use technology such as voice and facial recognition technology, it needs to be detailed in law and subject to independent monitoring, it said, adding that this oversight should be carried out by an existing independent body, such as the Policing Authority, or a new agency. The Bill is expected to include drones under the definition of recording devices that may be used by gardaí. IHREC said the use of drones for policing purposes “should be substantially evidenced” before being included in the law.
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Privacy fears over possible Garda use of Alexa to collect evidence
Use of emerging technologies must be legislated for, says human rights commission
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Since one of the key functions of a modern state is to count things, all states are inevitably drawn to the idea of putting all the information the state holds and can access into one big database, all the better to count it. In Ireland the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform calls this the Single Customer View.
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This raises serious doubts regarding its compliance with both the Polish constitution and international and European legal standards, continued the statement. “The processing of huge data sets by state organs may be associated with the system of social control that is now the domain of the People’s Republic of China,” it added .
The plan has also been criticised by Panoptykon, an NGO dealing with the protection of privacy rights. It has raised concern that the public will not have any control over what the data will be used for, as the regulation does not provide for public disclosure of which entities will use the data or for what purpose.
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Officials and experts warn against Polish government’s planned “mega database” | Notes From Poland
Poland’s commissioners for human rights and data protection says the plans could violate the law and citizens’ rights.
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“Despite multiple indices indicating this decline, there has been one significant facet that has escaped scrutiny. India, the world’s largest democracy, is also among the biggest surveillance states. While a ‘rights-based’ approach led to the radically liberating Right to Information Act that held all levels of the government accountable, things have taken a turn for the worse in recent times. India has sharply moved towards norms that have ensured opacity of government, but maximalist demands of data from its citizens via CCTVs, Aadhaar, and more intrusive means. In March 2022, The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act was introduced and allows police officers to collect biological samples and other identity markers from an arrested or convicted person.” From ‘Beyond Pegasus: The Story of State Surveillance in India’ by Seema Chisti for The Bastion.
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“Even if you have faith in the big tech firms involved, I know from my own that their engineers can make mistakes and leak information accidentally. My knowledge is also aging, technology keeps improving and running full speech recognition on an always-on chip won’t always be out of reach.” From ‘Is Google Spying on your Conversations?’ by Pete Warden.
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“The Citizen Lab’s researchers concluded that, on July 7, 2020, Pegasus was used to infect a device connected to the network at 10 Downing Street, the office of Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A government official confirmed to me that the network was compromised, without specifying the spyware used. “When we found the No. 10 case, my jaw dropped,” John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab, recalled. “We suspect this included the exfiltration of data,” Bill Marczak, another senior researcher there, added.” From ‘How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens’ by Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker.
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Privacy Kit, Made with 💚 in Dublin, Ireland
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Bank Holiday edition. And shorter than usual.
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Virtual school software startup Classroom Technologies will test the controversial “emotion AI” technology.
Use of emerging technologies must be legislated for, says human rights commission
Since one of the key functions of a modern state is to count things, all states are inevitably drawn to the idea of putting all the information the state holds and can access into one big database, all the better to count it. In Ireland the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform calls this the Single Customer View.
Poland’s commissioners for human rights and data protection says the plans could violate the law and citizens’ rights.
The Dutch Supervisory Authority fined the Ministry of Finance €3.7 million for a range of violations of the GDPR.
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The Danish Supervisory Authority proposed a fine of DKK 10 million, approximately €1.3 million, for Danske Bank for widespread infringement of Article 5.2 GDPR.
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“Despite multiple indices indicating this decline, there has been one significant facet that has escaped scrutiny. India, the world’s largest democracy, is also among the biggest surveillance states. While a ‘rights-based’ approach led to the radically liberating Right to Information Act that held all levels of the government accountable, things have taken a turn for the worse in recent times. India has sharply moved towards norms that have ensured opacity of government, but maximalist demands of data from its citizens via CCTVs, Aadhaar, and more intrusive means. In March 2022, The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act was introduced and allows police officers to collect biological samples and other identity markers from an arrested or convicted person.” From ‘Beyond Pegasus: The Story of State Surveillance in India’ by Seema Chisti for The Bastion.
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“Even if you have faith in the big tech firms involved, I know from my own that their engineers can make mistakes and leak information accidentally. My knowledge is also aging, technology keeps improving and running full speech recognition on an always-on chip won’t always be out of reach.” From ‘Is Google Spying on your Conversations?’ by Pete Warden.
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“The Citizen Lab’s researchers concluded that, on July 7, 2020, Pegasus was used to infect a device connected to the network at 10 Downing Street, the office of Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A government official confirmed to me that the network was compromised, without specifying the spyware used. “When we found the No. 10 case, my jaw dropped,” John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab, recalled. “We suspect this included the exfiltration of data,” Bill Marczak, another senior researcher there, added.” From ‘How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens’ by Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker.
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