"I think we’re seeing glimpses of interest because some members in the GOP are tired of the way a few big money donors play politics. But that doesn’t mean they actually have the courage to take the issue on."
If the purpose of a substitute notice under #HIPAA is to reach people the covered entity may not have sufficient or current contact information for, then burying the notice on the very bottom of the homepage and calling it a “privacy update” as if it is an update to the privacy policy is misleading at best.
Yesterday, I reported on a data breach disclosure by HMG Healthcare. You can read more here:
📢 Happy New Year, happy my birthday, and happy time for another #TekSavvyquarterly transparency report.
TekSavvy is the only ISP in #Canada (AFAIK) to publish a quarterly Transparency Report documenting the requests we got from law enforcement agencies, how we handled them, and what we disclosed to them.
Today, we’re reporting on Q2 of 2023, and I’m summarizing that report here. 🧵👇🏼
Modi 3D Selfie Booths: Central Railway Officer who Gave Cost Info in RTI Reply Transferred
CPRO Shivraj Manspure was recently presented an award by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for his “special efforts” in increasing Railway earnings during his earlier stint in Bhusawal.
Wildeboer’s third theorem: Every commercial centralised service that offers “free” services and relies on ads and/or a percentage of subscription/donation fees ends up being supportive of misinformation, hate speech and far-right to nazi content. Either through ignorance or acceptance.
Electoral Bonds Worth Nearly Rs 16,000 Crore Since 2018, Taxpayer Paid Rs 13.5 Crore as ‘Commission, Other Expenses’: RTI
Transparency activist Commodore Lokesh Batra said it was odd that donors don’t pay this service charge, but government and ultimately the taxpayer has to pay up for these opaque sources of election funding.
"While the societal impact of [#AI / #LLM] models is rising, #transparency is on the decline. If this trend continues, [these] models could become just as opaque as #SocialMedia platforms and other previous technologies, replicating their failure modes…We design the Index around 100 transparency indicators…The top-scoring model scores only 54 out of 100. No major…developer is close to providing adequate transparency." https://crfm.stanford.edu/fmti/
IMHO: #Mozilla is repeating the #OpenAI process. A growing conflict between community driven/focused products and greedy managers thinking more VC (Venture Capital) style as they become more and more decoupled from the humble origins. This conflict will explode (I mean — asking for donations while the managers take home millions has a weird smell to it) soon and money will win (again). It's really a shame in this case.
«My worry is that everyone benefits from favorable mis- or disinformation to varying degrees: our citizens are amused by such content, our political leaders may campaign with it, and the media garners traffic by covering sensationalist examples. The existing incentive structures will make misinformation hard to eliminate.» https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/15/1085441/eric-schmidt-plan-for-fighting-election-misinformation/
The other day, a list of the "most broken" local authorities in #Scotland was released, and garnered much media coverage (eg the #Herald report below). It's reported that it was compiled by "the New Britain Project as part of their Broken Britain study, and released today to coincide with the Scottish Goverment's budget". Those of you who followed my on #Twitter might recall that I have a bee in my bonnet about the #transparency of think tanks/... https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23998545.north-lanarkshire-broken-council-area-scotland/
Every year, the #SupremeCourt justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Using our new database, you can now search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
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Spoiler: You'll inevitably create executive, legislative and judical power structures, no matter if you have public offices or anonymous plebs fill the ranks and positions...