Meet The New AI Sheriff Protecting Privacy

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When it comes to privacy protection, take a lesson from that crafty California Governor Gavin Newsom and what he just did to keep his posse’s privacy safely corralled out of harm’s way.

And oh yes, he’s been busy a checkin’ for AI outlaws digitally ridin’ into town. The ?sure-footed, quick on the draw, yet sensitive sheriff has signed into law a new consumer privacy protection act to protect his herds’ brains from being infected by strange and unbridled AI strains.

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A Bit a Background

Sheriff Newsom’s serendipitous state already had a consumer privacy protection law on the books, shielding consumers’ sensitive information from outlaws wanting their claws on your facial images, DNA and fingerprints.

But what the biometric information didn’t cover was how our brains work.

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Meta Irony Saloon

Entering the saloon is a cowboy called meta irony.? It’s in form of startups creating digital solutions on digital devices allegedly to help us town folk deal with stress and anxiety, likely stemming ironically from where it starts, the digital devices themselves in our holsters.

These unregulated apps are meant to help us to meditate, focus, and treat mental health conditions from depressions to obsessive-compulsive disorders.

But what happens to all that neural data?

Troves of it are stored with Big Tech gunslingers like Apple and Meta.? Sheriff Newsom’s legal amendment gives users the right to be on the safe side.? They can now request, delete, correct and limit their neuro data collection and storage in the interest of safeguarding what we all hold dear—our privacy.

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Character Lookalikes

Somehow the Gov strikes me as a mixture of a moody, sensitive young Montgomery Clift type who can appear a bit James Deanish at times, idealistically restless.? Only Gavin’s a rebel WITH a cause exerting reasonable influence in Judy-Katharine-Liz land.? He’s a leading figure now, perhaps a sleeping GIANT who’ll be staring later on in that forever film, American politics.

I see California as the left ventricle of America’s beating heart continuing to play a leading role, pouring out inspiration in celluloid throughout the world and now releasing a postscript for privacy at home.

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An AI Roundup

There’s breaking news up in them there AI hills. ?Meta, Open AI and ElevenLabs have added celebrity voice features to their products.

So, if Awkwafina, Kristen Bell, Judy Garland or John Cena sound familiar, it sure as hell might be no damn-blasted accident or coincidence.

So, better be careful what you share with a work chatbot since earnings and customer data and design plans could be at security risk in these fancy new AI stagecoaches streamlined for spreading what should stay in a drawer, not spread out over many floors.

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More AIbits

There’s a new AI product from Googletruly that revolutionizes organizing vast amounts of information.

You can upload pdfs and notes, creating for yourself a summary, while answering questions and scratching your brain wherever it’s itchy for surface key insights.

Hold on.? You can even have it create your own personal AI-voiced, just what we need, another podcast.

Imagine how lucky are today’s AI-armed college students.? They upload a professor’s overhead and handouts, digital books, plus their own notes -- then create a podcast to listen to while they’re playing frisbee or running laps.

We’re truly entering a new AI town where there’d better be a sheriff or two keeping an eye out for protecting our data, keeping it where it belongs: PRIVATE!? ?

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Tom Madden’s all for privacy except when it comes to clients of his quick-on-the-draw publicity-gun-slinging PR firm TransMedia Group that’s ever shootin’ out bullets of news about them and their fantastic, wonderful products from AltTech machines that make pure water out of the air likes it’s doing right now in the aftermath of Helene to libraries such as Stonewall Museum fighting for justice and inclusiveness for LGBTQ+ community. And when he’s not doing that, he’s writing books like his latest, Planetary Lifeguard, Blowing the Whistle on Climate Change.