Lewis Maddison reports: A remarkably small number of cybercriminals are reportedly responsible for all the world’s email extortion attempts, new research has claimed. Security firm Barracuda Networks, in partnership with Columbia University, looked at over 300,000 emails in a one-year period that the company’s AI detectors had flagged as extortion attacks, and found that the…
Category: Misc
No, Save the Children Foundation: you CANNOT just help yourself to money from my account.
I donate to a number of charities each month via auto-deductions from accounts. I’ve never had a problem with any of the non-profits I’ve donated to until Save the Children Federation did something that I found so unacceptable that I totally canceled my donations to them. This post is about what they did and how…
Can Google really just use all your posts and tweets to train AI models? Seems like they can.
Seen recently on my favorite newsletter, Risky Biz News: Google changes privacy policy: Google has changed its privacy policy to let its users know that any publicly-available information may be scanned and used to train its AI models. It’s funny that Google’s legal team thinks its privacy policy is stronger than copyright law. Hilarious! That gave…
UK and G7 Privacy Authorities Warn of Privacy Risks Raised by Generative AI
Marianna Drake, Lisa Peets, Marty Hansen, and Mark Young of Covington and Burling write: On 21 June 2023, at the close of a roundtable meeting of the G7 Data Protection and Privacy Authorities, regulators from the United States, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada and Japan published a joint “Statement on Generative AI” (“Statement”) (available here). In the…