This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast options half 1 of our two-part interview with Paul Stephan, writer of The World Disaster and Worldwide Legislation – a are deeper and extra entertaining learn than the title suggests. Paul lays out the lengthy historic arc that hyperlinks the Nineteen Eighties to the current day. It is not a reasonably image, and it will get worse as he ties these adjustments to the calls for of the Data Financial system. How will these profound political and financial clashes resolve themselves? We’ll cowl that partially 2.
In the meantime, within the information roundup, I tweak Sam Altman for his relentless embrace of regulation for his {industry} throughout testimony final week within the Senate. I examine him to a different Sam with an identical regulation-embracing strategy to Washington, however Chinny Sharma thinks it is extra correct to say he was merely doing the alternative of every little thing Mark Zuckerberg did in previous testimony. Chinny and Sultan Meghji unpack a few of Altman’s proposals, from a brand new authorities company to license massive AI fashions, to security requirements and audit.
I mock Sen. Blumenthal for his criticism that “Europe is forward of us” in industry-killing regulation. That earns him immortality within the type of a brand new Cybertoon, under (as earlier than, a hat tip to Bing Picture Creator for the graphic assist).
Talking of Cybertoonz, I word that an earlier Cybertoon scooped a outstanding Wall Road Journal article protecting bias in AI fashions – by two weeks.
Paul explains the Supreme Court docket’s ruling on social media legal responsibility for helping ISIS, and why it did not inform us something of significance about part 230.
Chinny and I analyze reviews that the FBI misused its entry to a piece 702 database. The entire entry errors got here earlier than the newest spherical of procedural reforms, and, on reflection, I believe the fault lies much less with the FBI and extra with DOJ and the DNI, who got here up with entry guidelines that every one however assured errors and did not make sure that the database could possibly be searched when safety requires it.
Chinny critiques a bunch of privateness scandal wannabe tales
- The UK flap over efforts to create a contemporary model of pen/lure data. I clarify that this initiative is basically a response to unhealthy knowledge safety legislation.
- Two surveillance digital camera tales,
- one story that paperwork using surveillance cameras and facial recognition to observe public housing residents. In a uncommon second of “test your privilege” one-upsmanship, I chide Chinny for not honoring the wants of public housing residents who worth safety from crime larger than privateness within the laundry room, and
- one other story on the roughly inevitable networking of low cost surveillance cameras within the suburbs
- And at last, a authorities privateness scandal ripped from the headlines of the Nineteen Twenties: It seems that the US Put up Workplace can maintain monitor of what is written on the surface of the envelopes it delivers. A number of Congressmen are shocked.
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