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Fake News, AI, PrivacyThe Next Frontiers in SecurityCharles Mok | Legislative Councillor (IT)@charlesmok

Mistrust

VS

Misinformation

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US, UK and EU regulatesFacial Recognition▪ US: San Francisco - banning the use of facial recognition

software by the police and other agencies (May)

▪ Somerville, MA. And Oakland, CA. followed suit (Jun-Jul)

▪ UK: Facial recognition technology 'violates human rights and must end', court case hearing, Cardiff UK (May)

▪ EU: plans sweeping regulation of facial recognition - give citizens explicit rights over the use of their facial recognition data (Financial Times, Aug)

Misinformation

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Twitter actions

▪ Suspended 936 accounts originating from PRC that deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong

▪ Banned state media outlets from advertising on its platform: "Going forward, we will not accept advertising from state-controlled news media entities. Any affected accounts will be free to continue to use Twitter to engage in public conversation, just not our advertising products."

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▪ Removed –

▪ 5 Facebook accounts, 7 Pages and 3 Groups.

▪ Followers: About 15,500 accounts followed one or more of these Pages and about 2,200 accounts joined at least one of these Groups.

. The channels were

"coordinated influence

operations" related to

the ongoing pro-

democracy protests in

Hong Kong

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Nature of Misinformation Campaigns

• Coordinated operations

• Content Nature

Hate speech

Dehumanization

Misinformation

• State-sponsored

• Targeted audience / purpose for each campaign

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Tech-powered fake news

▪ From traditional ways e.g. edited images and texts

▪ Deepfake videos using AI

▪ (NLG) Natural language generation-powered fake news articles

State-backed groups could target private companies with fake news

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Deepfakevideos using AI

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AI can make anyone say anything using deepfake

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Fake News about brands can have real costs

▪ When fake news hits, business reputation and customer loyalty is threatened

▪ “Fake news about your brand is a lie about your business that’s being spread widely and is causing damage.”

▪ Fake news targets brands big and small: Walmart, Amazon, Wendy’s

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Trolls and profiteers use disinformation to affect the market

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Combating Fake News

With Fact Checking

Combating fake news

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Hong Kong

Citizens’ effort to check facts and rumours

on facebook pages/Telegram channels

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Taiwan

CofactsCrowdsourcing program thru LINE chatbot to bust hoaxes and fake news

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International Fact Checking Network (IFCN)

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How IT industry should adopt?

▪ People First

▪ Responsible AI -- Ethical, transparent and accountable

▪ Regulate use of Facial Recognition technology

▪ GDPR Recital 71: Enterprises must be able to explain algorithms used to make decisions

▪ No to technology for technology's sake

▪ Yes to technology building trust

▪ Develop new privacy enabled technologies approach

▪ Openness and public awareness first

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THANK YOU

Charles Mok

Legislative Councillor (IT)

@charlesmok