2024-03-29
New rules for AI use by federal agencies include important safeguards but “give agencies too much leeway to opt out,” says Faiza Patel. “The stakes are too high for the government to merely pay lip service to protecting civil liberties and rights.” https://www.brennancenter.org/ ...
The Verge
The US OMB releases new AI guidance, requiring that all federal agencies submit an annual AI report and have a senior leader overseeing all AI systems they use
Given the widespread usage of machine learning in software this sounds so broad as to be useless. … X: Vice President Kamala Harris / @vp : At the first-ever Global AI Summit last ...
2021-09-09
“The theory was, police officers around the country would run across little bits of information that would potentially reveal terrorist plots in the making,” said @FaizaPatelBCJ. “In order to do that, they lowered the threshold for information collection.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
NYC police officers and critics describe the NYPD's growing use of post-9/11 digital surveillance tools, initially used for counterterrorism, in minor cases
because of 9/11, because of other terrorist attacks and things that have happened — unquestionable, unchecked power."https://www.nytimes.com/ ... Arthur Holland Michel / @writearth...
The documents we released today on the LAPD's social media surveillance have serious implications for people's privacy and First Amendment rights — especially for communities of color and activists. https://www.brennancenter.org/ ...
The Guardian
Documents: LAPD directs its officers to collect social media information of every civilian they interview, including those not arrested or accused of a crime
“There are real dangers about police having all of this social media identifying information at their fingertips,” said @RachelBLevinson. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
The Guardian
Documents: LAPD directs its officers to collect social media information of every civilian they interview, including those not arrested or accused of a crime
2020-07-09
“The best way to confirm that voting machines have not been tampered with is to audit them afterward. If you haven't done that, you are telling voters, ‘Trust us,’ without offering proof that the machine is giving you accurate totals.” https://www.newyorker.com/...
New Yorker
An in-depth look at Microsoft's ElectionGuard voting software, led by cryptographer Josh Benaloh, which aims to check whether election results are accurate
A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy. — Near the end of last year, I met Josh Benaloh … Tweets: @bradsmi , @tonitwhitley , @tomburt45 , @brennancen...
2018-01-03
Congress will have to move quickly if it wants new recommendations to be ready before the 2018 election—or new voting systems to be in place by November 2020. http://arstechnica.com/...
Ars Technica
A look at Secure Elections Act bill, proposed by a bipartisan group of US senators, which aims to eliminate paperless voting machines and promote routine audits
or new voting systems to be in place by November 2020. http://arstechnica.com/...