6. #cloudsec
US, UK and EU regulates
Facial Recognition
§ US: San Francisco - banning the use of facial recognition
software by the police and other agencies (May)
§ Somerville, MA. And Oakland, CA. followed suit (Jun-Jul)
§ UK: Facial recognition technology 'violates human rights
and must end', court case hearing, Cardiff UK (May)
§ EU: plans sweeping regulation of facial recognition - give
citizens explicit rights over the use of their facial
recognition data (Financial Times, Aug)
11. #cloudsec
Twitter actions
§ Suspended 936 accounts originating from PRC that
deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political
discord in Hong Kong
§ Banned state media outlets from advertising on its
platform: "Going forward, we will not accept advertising
from state-controlled news media entities. Any affected
accounts will be free to continue to use Twitter to engage
in public conversation, just not our advertising products."
12. #cloudsec
§ Removed –
§ 5 Facebook accounts,
7 Pages and 3 Groups.
§ Followers: About
15,500 accounts
followed one or more
of these Pages and
about 2,200 accounts
joined at least one of
these Groups.
13. . The channels were
"coordinated
influence operations"
related to the ongoing
pro-democracy
protests in Hong Kong
14. #cloudsec
Nature of Misinformation
Campaigns
• Coordinated operations
• Content Nature
Hate speech
Dehumanization
Misinformation
• State-sponsored
• Targeted audience / purpose for each campaign
15. #cloudsec
Tech-powered fake news
§ From traditional ways e.g. edited images and texts
§ Deepfake videos using AI
§ (NLG) Natural language generation-powered fake
news articles
State-backed groups could target private companies
with fake news
18. #cloudsec
Fake News about brands can
have real costs
§ When fake news hits, business reputation and
customer loyalty is threatened
§ “Fake news about your brand is a lie about your
business that’s being spread widely and is causing
damage.”
§ Fake news targets brands big and small: Walmart,
Amazon, Wendy’s
25. #cloudsec
How IT industry should adopt?
§ People First
§ Responsible AI -- Ethical, transparent and accountable
§ Regulate use of Facial Recognition technology
§ GDPR Recital 71: Enterprises must be able to explain algorithms
used to make decisions
§ No to technology for technology's sake
§ Yes to technology building trust
§ Develop new privacy enabled technologies approach
§ Openness and public awareness first