California's Deepfake Regulation: Navigating the Minefield of AI, Free Speech, and Election Integrity - Security Boulevard

Federal Cybersecurity Agency Launches Program to Boost Support for State, Local Election Offices - The nation's cybersecurity agency has launched a program aimed at boosting election security in the states, shoring up support for local offices and hoping to provide reassurance to voters that this year's presidential elections will be safe and ...
9 months ago Securityweek.com

Only 4% of US States Fully Prepared for Cyber-Attacks Targeting Electi - Under 4% of US states are fully prepared to detect and recover from election-targeted cybersecurity incidents, according to research by Arctic Wolf. The survey of state and local government leaders across the US found that 14.3% of states were 'not ...
10 months ago Infosecurity-magazine.com

Arctic Wolf Survey Surfaces Election Security Fears - A survey of 136 state and local government leaders in the U.S. published today finds nearly half expect to see an increase in the number of cybersecurity incidents involving elections in 2024. Conducted by the Center for Digital Government on behalf ...
10 months ago Securityboulevard.com

Indian Government Warns Social Media Platforms Over Deepfake Misinformation - In a strong statement directed at social media platforms, the government of India has emphasized the critical need for swift identification and removal of misinformation, including deepfakes, or risk facing legal consequences. This warning follows a ...
9 months ago Cysecurity.news

Shared Responsibility: How We Can All Ensure Election Security - In 2024, voters in more than 60 countries-representing 4 billion people-will cast ballots. Some of the elections are far-reaching-such as the upcoming European Parliamentary elections, which will span 27 countries from June 6 to 9. In an era where ...
5 months ago Feedpress.me

Protect Yourself from Election Misinformation - Welcome to your U.S. presidential election year, when all kinds of bad actors will flood the internet with election-related disinformation and misinformation aimed at swaying or suppressing your vote in November. As EFF's Corynne McSherry wrote in ...
8 months ago Eff.org

The Future of AI Safety: What California's Vetoed Bill Means - Although the veto was a setback for the bill, it highlights key debates in the emerging field of AI governance and the potential for California to shape the future of AI regulation. With the rapid advancement of AI technology, California's ...
1 month ago Darkreading.com

Deepfake Democracy: AI Technology Complicates Election Security - Recent events, including an artificial intelligence-generated deepfake robocall impersonating President Biden urging New Hampshire voters to abstain from the primary, serve as a stark reminder that malicious actors increasingly view modern generative ...
9 months ago Darkreading.com

Three Years After January 6th: The Insurrection's Impact on U.S. Democracy - Three years ago, on January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a mob intent on overturning the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. This event - the January 6th insurrection - was a direct attack on the democratic process and the peaceful ...
10 months ago Securityboulevard.com

Survey: Election Workers Feel Unprepared for Upcoming Cyberthreats - The issues of outside interference in U.S. elections and the security of the systems behind them have been talked and debate for at least a decade and promise to be at the forefront again as the country gears up for what promises to be a pivotal ...
10 months ago Securityboulevard.com

In Landmark Battle Over Free Speech, EFF Urges Supreme Court to Strike Down Texas and Florida Laws that Let States Dictate What Speech Social Media Sites Must Publish - WASHINGTON D.C.-The Electronic Frontier Foundation and five organizations defending free speech urged the Supreme Court to strike down laws in Florida and Texas that let the states dictate certain speech social media sites must carry, violating the ...
11 months ago Eff.org

Speaking Freely: Alison Macrina - In the US, I think about power that comes from, not just the government, but also rich individuals and how they use their money to influence things like free speech, as well as corporations. I think the best way that we can use our speech is using it ...
11 months ago Eff.org

Deepfake-Generating Apps Explode, Allowing Multimillion-Dollar Corporate Heists - Deepfake creation software is proliferating on the Dark Web, enabling scammers to carry out artificial intelligence-assisted financial fraud with previously unheard of creativity and scope. Consider what happened a few weeks back, when a Hong ...
9 months ago Darkreading.com

California's Deepfake Regulation: Navigating the Minefield of AI, Free Speech, and Election Integrity - Security Boulevard - *** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Meet the Tech Entrepreneur, Cybersecurity Author, and Researcher authored by Deepak Gupta - Tech Entrepreneur, Cybersecurity Author. ...
1 month ago Securityboulevard.com

Election security threats in 2024 range from AI to anthrax The Register - In time for the long Presidents' Day weekend in the US there have been multiple warnings about what will undoubtedly be a challenging and potentially dangerous year for voting processes and government workers. State and county officials have been ...
9 months ago Go.theregister.com

Lawmakers: Ban TikTok to Stop Election Misinformation! Same Lawmakers: Restrict How Government Addresses Election Misinformation! - In a case being heard Monday at the Supreme Court, 45 Washington lawmakers have argued that government communications with social media sites about possible election interference misinformation are illegal. Just this week the vast majority of those ...
8 months ago Eff.org

It's Time For Lawmakers to Listen to Courts: Your Law Regulating Online Speech Will Harm Internet Users' Free Speech Rights - Despite a long history of courts ruling that government efforts to regulate speech online harm all internet users and interfere with their First Amendment rights, state and federal lawmakers continue to pass laws that do just that. Three separate ...
4 months ago Eff.org

The Intersection of AI and Cybersecurity: Unveiling Threats to Elections - As we witness the growing reliance on AI, particularly in the realm of elections, a new concern emerges-how AI usage can potentially open the door to cybersecurity threats that jeopardize the integrity of democratic processes. 1.) AI-Powered ...
11 months ago Cybersecurity-insiders.com

Delta Dental of California data breach exposed info of 7 million people - Delta Dental of California and its affiliates are warning almost seven million patients that they suffered a data breach after personal data was exposed in a MOVEit Transfer software breach. Delta Dental of California is a dental insurance provider ...
11 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com

2023 Year in Review: The U.S. Supreme Court's Busy Year of Free Speech and Tech Cases - The U.S. Supreme Court has taken an unusually active interest in internet free speech issues. EFF participated as amicus in a whopping nine cases before the court this year. The court decided four of those cases, and decisions in the remaining five ...
10 months ago Eff.org

Microsoft Warns of Election Threats in 2024 - A new threat intelligence assessment released by Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center has warned of potential unprecedented challenges to the security of elections over the next year. In its latest report, Microsoft suggested that authoritarian nation ...
11 months ago Infosecurity-magazine.com

Twitter/X Content Moderation Law In California - Elon Musk's X loses bid to block California law that requires social media to publicly disclose their content moderation practices. The legal attempt by Elon Musk's X to undo a California state law on content moderation, has failed. Reuters reported ...
10 months ago Silicon.co.uk

Meta says it will begin labeling political ads that use AI-generated imagery - WASHINGTON - Facebook and Instagram will require political ads running on their platforms to disclose if they were created using artificial intelligence, their parent company announced on Wednesday. Under the new policy by Meta, labels acknowledging ...
11 months ago Apnews.com

Dozens of Rogue California Police Agencies Still Sharing Driver Locations with Anti-Abortion States - SAN FRANCISCO-California Attorney General Rob Bonta should crack down on police agencies that still violate Californians' privacy by sharing automated license plate reader information with out-of-state government agencies, putting abortion seekers ...
9 months ago Eff.org

Deepfake attacks will cost $40 billion by 2027 - Now one of the fastest-growing forms of adversarial AI, deepfake-related losses are expected to soar from $12.3 billion in 2023 to $40 billion by 2027, growing at an astounding 32% compound annual growth rate. Deloitte sees deep fakes proliferating ...
4 months ago Venturebeat.com