July 13, 2024 MDG

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.195

A change log for significant digital events and their drivers. 

-ATT Breach :Nearly all  ATT customers’ text & call records breached this has to be top 3 in US hexor history,  2022 hack was not revealed until now and after they copped an DOJ exception.  Criminals and nation states now have NSA-level view into Americans’ lives.  || American Hacker in Turkey Linked to Massive AT&T Breach. – Toll of Snowflake Hack Widens related to Ticketmaster and other exploited and exposed business.  /Noteworthy here: AT&T received a National Security Exception from DOJ under the SEC Reporting Requirements. First such exception I’m aware of.  (CKrebs)

-The full and final text of the EU AI Act, the European Union’s landmark risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence, has been published in the bloc’s Official Journal.

-The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act), Ec. 4. Facilitation of development of standards for content provenance information and detection of synthetic content and synthetically-modified content. (a) In general.—The Under Secretary shall establish a public-private partnership to facilitate the development of standards regarding content provenance information technologies and the detection of synthetic content and synthetically-modified content, including with respect to the following: (1) Facilitating the development of guidelines and voluntary, consensus-based standards and best practices for: – Watermarking, Content provenance information, Synthetic content and synthetically-modified content detection, including for: • Images  • Audio • Video  • Text  • Multimodal content – The use of data to train artificial intelligence systems Such other matters relating to transparency of synthetic media as the Under Secretary considers appropriate.  (standards not law -ed)

RIP : Bill Viola, pioneer video artist who explored nature of human consciousness, dies at 73 (LAT) Bill Viola.com

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