💬 "In March 2020 the information system for dealing with Covid was; I would wheel in a whiteboard and grab a marker and Simon Stephens would read out from scraps of paper, faxes that he'd got from the NHS…" - Dominic Cummings interviewed on Helen Lewis has Left the Chat, on BBC Sounds.
"A federal judge on Thursday held veteran journalist Catherine Herridge in contempt of court, fining her $800 a day for refusing to divulge her sources for a series of stories published in 2017 while she was a correspondent at Fox News."
AI tools such as large-language models (LLMs), including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the open-source BLOOM, Bing Chat, or Google Bard, should not be used by peer reviewers or editors because this often breaches confidentiality. Some platforms, e.g., Duet AI in Google Workspace, retain content and will allow people to read it.
#DianneFeinstein, centrist stalwart of the Senate, dies at 90
A trailblazer for women in politics, she led the Intelligence Committee and helped mold the federal bench. Amid health setbacks, she faced calls to resign.
That summer #Feinstein had been forwarded a letter from Christine Blasey Ford, a California psychology professor, w/the allegation that #Kavanaugh had #SexuallyAssaulted her when they both were in high school. Feinstein, who argued that she was obligated to respect Ford’s request for #confidentiality, did not refer the matter to the #FBI until the existence of the letter was leaked to the news media, shortly before Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote was to take place.
It's designed for people at risk of violence, so there's lots of gatekeeping around it, but at least now if you are willing to work the process you can register to #vote without revealing your physical address to anyone who can get eyes on the voter file, vehicle #registration, utility bills, etc.
I just presented tips on which data to protect and how. The first time was to data directors and DPOs. This second time the audience was network engineers.
“As the BBC's QI revealed, ticking the little box is actually letting the site check things like your internet browsing history to determine whether you're a real person or not.
"Ticking the box is not the point. It's how you behaved before you ticked the box that is analysed," Sandi Toksvig explained to the panel.”
"For the moment, we recommend that if #LLMs are used to write scholarly reviews, reviewers should disclose their use and accept full responsibility for their reports’ accuracy, tone, reasoning and originality."
PS: "For the moment" these tools can help reviewers string words together, not judge quality. We have good reasons to seek evaluative comments from human experts.
Apart from #quality, one concern is #confidentiality. If grant proposals become part of a tool's training data, there's no telling (in the NIH's words) “where data are being sent, saved, viewed, or used in the future.”
In 2020, the EU-level judiciary decreed #SchremsII whereby customers of US cloud service providers must themselves verify the data protection laws of the recipient country, document its risk assessment and confer with its customers.
In 2021, various French-state-level authorities stated that #MSOffice365 did not conform (to doctrine and #GDPR) or that secondary education schools should avoid it. 👇
Storing data in "the Cloud" legally constitutes data processing.
#MicrosoftOutlook: "Synchronisation with the Microsoft server" transfers your data to Microsoft.
The German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Ulrich Kelber, described the data collection as "alarming" and announced his intention to pursue at European level: https://social.bund.de/@bfdi/111381793883035665