by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | Government
Having amply demonstrated its usefulness, the NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) is no longer a temporary agency. MODA was signed into the city charter last December and it is now starting to shed its “start-up” mentality. Here is an excerpt from a report...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security, Government
Citizens of Utah can rest easy that their personal data stored in third-party servers like those of Google or Facebook can no longer obtained by US government agencies except through a search warrant. Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed HB 57 into law March 28, making...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | Government
Researchers have claimed that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been using photos of dead people, abused children, and visa applicants to test facial recognition software. The NIST has denied possessing pictures of the victims of child...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | Government
The NYPD confirmed in March that it has been using an algorithmic machine learning software since December 2016 to sift through police records to find patterns and stitch together similar crimes. Called the Patternizr, the software algorithm performs the thankless job...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | AI, Government
Estonia wants to clear its backlog of small claims court cases. Might an AI judge do the trick? The Eastern European country has asked its Chief Data Officer, Ott Velsberg, to bring AI into the justice system. Eric Niiler tells us more but Estonia’s AI-related legal...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | AI, Government
When it comes to important life-or-death stuff, people just don’t want to trust a purely AI approach. Saying that the AI was developed by the government only makes the trust problem worse. John Breeden II filed this report in Nextgov: These days, the old “Trust us,...
