Safeguarding against disinformation.

Barbara McQuade sits down to discuss her book "Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America," showing us how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our society and how we can fight against it. Ben discusses a fascinating case dealing with middleware and adversarial interoperability. Dave's got the story of a leak of Australian companies biometric data. While this show covers legal topics, and Ben is a lawyer, the views expressed do not constitute legal advice. For official legal advice on any of the topics we cover, please contact your attorney. Please take a moment to fill out an audience survey! Let us know how we are doing! Links to the stories:

Was There A Trojan Horse Hidden In Section 230 All Along That Could Enable Adversarial Interoperability?

The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics

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Release date

Lydbog: 9. maj 2024