http://law.du.edu/documents/privacy-foundation/seminar-agenda.pdf
Privacy & Legal Ethics: Ethical Concerns for Lawyers Counseling Privacy Data Breaches
FRIDAY, October 24, 2008
Panel I: The Technical/Business Environment Surrounding The Legal Ethics of Privacy Data Breaches
Panel II: Applicable Ethical Rules Governing Lawyers Advice for Privacy Breaches
Round Table Discussion: Navigating The Ethical Minefield of Privacy Breaches
Registration: Diane Bales, Law Coordinator
Reservations required by October 21, 2008 to: dbales@law.du.edu or 303.871.6580
Registration Fee: Seminar $20 (lunch is included) CLE Credit $20 (Seminar & CLE is $40) CLE: Ethics – Granted
It's not the Privacy Foundation, but finding parking is easier...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081015055939424
Can't attend the Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners? Listen to it here....
Wednesday, October 15 2008 @ 05:59 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
The 30th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners begins today in Strasbourg, and one of our readers alerts us that if you go to www.privacyconference2008.org, there's a live stream of the conference sessions.
Bruce Schneier, Simon Davies and others are on one of the panels, which begins at 8:15 EST today.
Crime right out of the box!
Chip and pin scam 'has netted millions from British shoppers'
A sophisticated "chip and pin" scam run by criminal gangs in China and Pakistan is netting millions of pounds from the bank accounts of British shoppers, America's top cyber security official has revealed.
By Henry Samuel in Paris Last Updated: 9:25AM BST 15 Oct 2008
Dr Joel Brenner, the US National Counterintelligence Executive, warned that hundreds of chip and pin machines in stores and supermarkets across Europe have been tampered with to allow details of shoppers' credit card accounts to be relayed to overseas fraudsters.
These details are then used to make cash withdrawals or siphon off money from card holders' accounts in what is one of the largest scams of its kind.
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph, America's counterintelligence chief said: "Previously only a nation state's intelligence service would have been capable of pulling off this type of operation. [Any indication that wasn't the case here? Bob] It's scary."
An organised crime syndicate is suspected of having tampered with the chip and pin machines, either during the manufacturing process at a factory in China, or shortly after they came off the production line.
In what is known as a "supply chain attack", criminals managed to bypass security measures and doctor the devices before they were dispatched from the factories where they were made.
The machines were opened, tampered with and perfectly resealed, said Dr Brenner, "so that it was impossible to tell even for someone working at the factory that they had been tampered with." They were then exported to Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium.
Something for your Security Manager?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/14/1656251&from=rss
Flash Cookies, a Little-Known Privacy Threat
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, @02:43PM from the flashblock-considered-mandatory dept.
Wiini recommends a blog posting exploring Flash cookies, a little-known threat to privacy, and how you can get control of them. 98% of browsers have Macromedia Flash Player installed, and the cookies it enables have some interesting properties. They have no expiration date; they store 100 KB of data by default, with an unlimited maximum; they can't be deleted by your browser; and they send previous visit information and history, by default, without your permission. I was amazed at some of the sites, not visited in a year or more, that still had Flash cookies on my machine. Here's the user-unfriendly GUI for deleting them, one at a time, each one requiring confirmation
Don't they know laws only apply to second class citizens?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/15/0211236&from=rss
McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 15, @08:11AM from the sauce-for-geese dept. Republicans Politics
Colz Grigor writes
"It appears that CBS and Fox have submitted DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for videos from the McCain campaign. The campaign is now complaining about YouTube's DMCA policy making it too easy for copyright holders to remove fair-use videos. I hope they pursue this by addressing flaws in the DMCA."
I think it's not so much the “Google-ization” of Youtube, but the trend away from scheduled tv to video on demand.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/14/1645227&from=rss
YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine
Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 14, @01:27PM from the your-safe-search-is-showing dept. Google The Almighty Buck The Internet The Media Entertainment
Dekortage writes
"According to the latest ComScore rankings, YouTube's search traffic for August surpassed Yahoo's. The latter dropped roughly 5% in traffic from July. Among other things, this means that Google now owns both of the top two search engines. AdAge further speculates on Google's experimental 'promoted videos' cost-per-click advertising on YouTube, suggesting the obvious: more money."
The worlde, she is a-changin'.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/14/2125233&from=rss
Australian State May Give Students Linux Laptops
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, @07:02PM from the keep-it-cheap dept. Education Linux
Whiteox writes
"The Australian Prime Minister's plan to equip high schools with 'one laptop per child' may go open source. Kevin Rudd's $56 million digital revolution will include 'laptops [that will] run on an open source operating system with a suite of open source applications like those packaged under Edubuntu. This would include Open Office for productivity software, Gimp for picture editing and the Firefox internet browser.' So far this has been considered for New South Wales and I think other states may follow."
Gary Alexander sent me this one. I can't wait to say “I told you so!”
http://www.convergemag.com/story.php?catid=421&storyid=107953
Rice Students Challenge Electronic Voting Machines
Electronic voting machines expert discusses November elections
By News Report October 13, 2008
... "What we've found is that it's very easy to insert subtle changes to the voting machine," Wallach said. "If someone has access and wants to do damage, it's very straightforward to do it."
The good news, according to Wallach, is "when looking for these changes, our students will often, but not always, find the hacks."
e-Discovery I love it when a Judge gets it.
e-Discovery Teams Can Meet the Challenges of the “Zubulake Duty” and Control Excessive Costs
United States District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, one of the leading jurists in the field of electronic discovery, is credited with first establishing what has become known as the Zubulake duty. Judge Scheindlin (shown right) contends that all attorneys who litigate have an affirmative duty to understand their clients’ computer systems sufficiently to know where all of the potential electronic evidence is stored.
Related
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20081014152311670
Fulbright & Jaworski 2008 Litigation Trends Survey Shows U.S. Companies Preparing for Rise in Litigation Following Two Years of Declines
Tuesday, October 14 2008 @ 03:23 PM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
Following two straight years of reporting declines in the number of new lawsuits and regulatory proceedings - including a drop in large-dollar cases - U.S. companies now anticipate an uptick in new actions and government probes, as well as the need to hire more in-house litigation staff to help manage the expected rise in disputes. Such is the outlook from the 2008 Litigation Trends Survey just published by international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
... Companies also detect a spike in specific types of actions - nearly a third (32%) of Fulbright respondents reported a jump in multi-plaintiff suits stemming from wage-and-hour claims by employees in the past year, with 29% notching an increase in discrimination cases, including age claims. Companies also cited a noticeable rise in privacy lawsuits, whether class or collective actions.
Source - PR-Inside.com
Perspective
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10066650-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Facebook hosts 10 billion photos
Posted by Caroline McCarthy October 15, 2008 5:21 AM PDT
Facebook might not be a photo-sharing site, per se, but there are a heck of a lot of pictures uploaded to it.
Dumb. The phone can't tell if you are driving or riding a bus. No one will opt for this feature (except parents of teenage drivers) so they'll lobby for laws (California seems a good place to start)
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/15/0142254&from=rss
Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, @11:07PM from the hang-up-and-drive dept. Cellphones Transportation
An anonymous reader writes
"Canadian company Aegis Mobility has developed software that detects if a cell phone is moving at 'car' speeds. If so, the software, DriveAssistT, will alert the cellular network, telling it to hold calls and text messages until the drive is over. Calls are not blocked entirely; callers will be notified that the person appears to be driving, but they can still leave an emergency voice mail, which will be sent through immediately."
Ain't technology wonderful?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/15/0225254&from=rss
Computer Error Caused Qantas Jet Mishap
Posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 15, @02:33AM from the gimme-back-my-stick dept
highways sends word that preliminary investigations into a Qantas Airbus A330 mishap where 51 passengers were injured has concluded that it was due to the Air Data Inertial Reference System feeding incorrect information into the flight control system — not interference from passenger electronics, as Qantas had initially claimed. Quoting from the ABC report:
"Authorities have blamed a faulty onboard computer system for last week's mid-flight incident on a Qantas flight to Perth. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said incorrect information from the faulty computer triggered a series of alarms and then prompted the Airbus A330's flight control computers to put the jet into a 197-meter nosedive... The plane was cruising at 37,000 feet when a fault in the air data inertial reference system caused the autopilot to disconnect. But even with the autopilot off, the plane's flight control computers still command key controls in order to protect the jet from dangerous conditions, such as stalling, the ATSB said."
Because getting it right is useful!
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/019551.html
October 14, 2008
New on LLRX.com - Review of CiteGenie
Review of CiteGenie - Automatic Bluebook citations when using Westlaw: Attorney Marc Hershovitz reviews CiteGenie, a new extension for the Firefox web browser that, as its website promises, "automagically" creates Bluebook formatted pinpoint citations when copying from Westlaw.
Worth a look. I see several lessons I'll point to (Okay, steal) for my classes.
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/clivir-com-free-online-learning-community
Clivir.com - Free Online Learning Community
Clivir is an online community that lets you be student and teacher at the very same time. You can browse the existing classrooms and learn from a wide number of lessons, or create your very own lessons and classrooms for the benefit of other internauts.
As it could be expected, the main page is made up of categories such as “Lessons” and “Classrooms” where items of note are featured and can be browsed at will along with the most recent classrooms and lessons that have been added. In addition to that, a “Questions” section is included and both popular and recent questions are showcased. These deal with issues such as “How do you make lessons on Clivir?” and so forth.
Registration must be dealt with in order to take part of online classes or create a classroom. This process comes at no cost, and once it is completed you become a “Clivir”. New Clivirs are displayed on the main page, along with featured Clivirs.
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