The Offline Report

(* Denotes one bliki appendage, below .)   The Honest Ads Act has not passed into law, but if it did it would bring parity between online and offline media platforms. (Broadcasters and newspapers are already held to the standards that the Honest Ads Act would hold online platforms to - a disclosure of who paid for each political ad.) Driverless cars are not subject to the driver tests that human drivers are. Even though 50 different companies create their own driverless car technology, their own firmware and software that stitches together the radar, lidar and ultrasound that together comprise the "Autonomous Vehicle" AV's vision. Sales tax is applied to any purchase a consumer makes in a real store which rents space. But it's not applied to an online purchase in most states. Update 1 : A new law has limited the number of taxi drivers from picking up passengers at San Francisco airport SFO. This law does not apply to Uber and Lyft drivers. KQED: In Latest Blow to S...

Schneier on Security says  security is : Prevention  Detection  Response  1 - Prevent mistakes. 2 - Detect mistakes that poke through system #1. 3 - Respond to mistakes detected in system #2. (Prevention detection response, Schneier on Security:  https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2013/01/bruce_schneier_it_is.html .) An Honest Ads Act for digital platforms would have to: PREVENT dishonest ad uploads (without "I'm 'Keith Kandidate' and I approve this message" or "Paid for by 'Robotic Rights Foundation'".) Minimum technology: a policy statement on the ad uploading screen. Provide users who DETECT dishonest ads means to flag them for review. Minimum technology: the upper right corner menu "this ad appears to violate Honest Ads Act" item. Require users flagging ad to jump through hoops (series of screens with questions, form fields to fill,) to cut false positive reports queue from growing too long.  RESPOND. A law must ...