One of the books I bought at #cpdp2024 is Gaia and Philosophy, by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan. The foreword resonates with some of the things I've been thinking about lately*: "the robust and complex relationship between life and thermodynamic systems de-anthropomorphises the question of intelligence without granting it to machine systems, which have no innerness or sensation apart from their human connections"

* see for instance
https://ideophone.org/language-between-animals-and-computers/

Ich habe das mit dem Live-Stream per #Meta-Glasses auf #Instagram von der #privacy-Konferenz übrigens ernst gemeint.
Habe auch schon jemanden identifiziert, den ich gleich versuchen will, spontan zu interviewen: Erik Neuenschwander, Apples Director of User Privacy spricht gerade auf einem von Apple organisierten Panel über Privacy im Metaverse. Das passt doch perfekt.
#cpdp2024 #cpdp

There's always a US law about intruding into houses by looking for heat for growing pot. Requires a search warrant even if done from a public position. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States

Weather forecasts were worse during the pandemic because fewer planes!

OK, going to go to my own panel now!

Masa Galic: specialist in surveillance (lawyer) There's different kinds, not all big brother and panopticon. We have a lot of smart sensors at home. She has a smart camera and baby monitors and smart phones. She thinks we might be less likely to survey individuals than populations. "Digital twin of whole world" “always on data collection”

Ha ha she ends saying it's a good thing that quantum hardly ever actually works.

China might go after the single quantum clock a nation has (Taiwan?) They need some other way to ensure computers don't drift so China can't just knock that out. Then we need also think about signals intelligence. #MASINT will become more important. It will be hard for nations to hide things, especially from space, so won't bother decoding signals. Are there countermeasures to sensing gravity? #privacy #cpdp2024 #quantum #quantumSensing

Hoofnagle wants #privacy people to be thinking about totally new capabilities, like that you can do a lot of quantum sensing from space. You can tell whether a truck has its normal load or maybe a bomb. Quantum radar is stealth sensing -- could maybe detect stealth airplanes, and the quantum array would not be detectable by the advesary. Huge change if no one knows where radar is. Also, cannot be blocked “denied" like GPS is being by Russia right now.

[to be fair, I think he meant the same scale] #privacy #cpdp2024 #quantum #quantumSensing Someone Chris Hoofnagel? wrote a book with the awesome Simpson Garfinkle which is OA on CUP. and aimed at regulators / governance to be clear. Quantum sensing and quantum simulation are both short of quantum computing and will be real sooner. The cryptoanalysis threat is overhyped, and Simpson has ell described how those will actually manifest in Lawfare, but we should focus on sensing…

Some of the problems are that you just can't get this super precise sensitive sensor anywhere near what you actually want to measure.

McKinsey is on this panel & now talking about money. Sizeable investment comparable to #genAI. So VC has confidence. Like blockchain, they are saying "look, you can see it works” trying to dispel doubt, but will it actually be useful? "quantum will have the same impact as genAI” [ha no unless both are 0!]