An interesting strategy. Will users of HP hardware have the option to Opt-Out? Will users even know when they have been switched into the Cloud?
Apotheker sets HP's course: Heading for the cloud
Posted by Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer
March 15, 2011 11:36 AM
It's been just over eight months since Mark Hurd left HP (HPQ) beneath an avalanche of tabloid covers. In that time, HP's stock has slid just over 10%, leaving investors wondering when and how the world's largest tech company can get back on course.
Hurd's replacement, Leo Apotheker, in his first major public speech since being named to the top HP spot in September, gave his answer to a gathering of press and analysts in San Francisco Monday afternoon. During a presentation that lasted a bit over 30 minutes, Apotheker outlined three major areas of focus for HP in the coming months and years: Cloud computing, a wide variety of Internet-connected hardware for consumers and businesses alike, and software, including pushing HP's (formerly Palm) webOS to hundreds of millions of PCs, tablets, printers and smartphones.
… The vision Apotheker has is one where HP devices interact with an HP cloud. You get things done locally if that makes the most sense for the device and the task at hand, or via some cloud-based service if that is the smarter approach. The software that ties all the devices together, and hands off between your gadgets - tablet to PC, smartphone to printer – and between your work and home life will be webOS. HP sells two PCs and two printers every second. Starting in 2012, webOS will be shipping on all of them (in addition to smartphones and tablets). It's clear HP is serious about pushing webOS into the market, and talks about it like it's the Windows of the future, or more accurately the Windows, iOS and Android of the future. Think of it as the connective tissue for HP's cloud.
I didn't catch an earlier announcement, sorry. Looks like you could follow this using http://www.monitter.com/ but you better read fast...
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=21676
Twitter Event Mar. 16: #TAPtalk
March 15, 2011 by Dissent
TAP will be hosting a chat on Twitter under the hashtag #TAPtalk on March 16 from 2 pm to 3 pm, EST.
Their lineup of participants, who will ask and answer questions during the hour-long TAPtalk, includes:
Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow at Mercatus Center: @AdamThierer
Chris Hoofnagle, Director, Information Privacy Programs at UC Berkeley: @ hoofnagle
Ashkan Soltani, Independent Researcher and Consultant: @ashk4n
Jules Polonetsky, Co-Chair and Director at The Future of Privacy Forum: @JulesPolonetsky
Randy Picker, Professor at University of Chicago Law School: @randypicker
Justin Brookman, Center for Democracy & Technology: @JustinBrookman
Anurag Pandit, Product Manager, Internet Explorer
Shaun Dakin, Privacy Camp: @ShaunDakin
Just follow the conversation and tweet using the hashtag #TAPtalk.
(Related) Never saw this coming either... If you miss the stream, it looks like the transcripts at least are online.
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=21696
In Congress this morning: “TSA Oversight Part I: Whole Body Imaging”
March 16, 2011 by Dissent
House Committee on Government Oversight & Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
Today, 9:30 am – 11:30 am, EST:
“TSA Oversight Part I: Whole Body Imaging“
… The hearing will be streamed live at http://oversight.house.gov.
Attention Founding Fathers! Watch how we turn this concept into a call for a bigger bureaucracy...
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=21682
White House to Push Privacy Bill
March 15, 2011 by Dissent
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries And Emily Steel report:
The Obama administration plans to ask Congress Wednesday to pass a “privacy bill of rights” to protect Americans from intrusive data gathering, amid growing concern about the tracking and targeting of Internet users.
Lawrence E. Strickling, an assistant secretary of commerce, is expected to call for the legislation at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee, said a person familiar with the matter.
This person said the administration will back a law that follows the outlines of a report issued by the Commerce Department in December. The administration wants any new rules to be enforceable and will look to expand the Federal Trade Commission’s authority, this person said.
Read more on MarketWatch.
[The report: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2010/12/101201privacyreport.pdf
Companies should
promote consumer privacy throughout their organizations and at every stage of the development of their products and services
simplify consumer choice
increase the transparency of their data practices
(Related)
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=21686
Browser Beware: Washington Weighs Online Consumer Privacy
March 15, 2011 by Dissent
Steven Gray reports:
For nearly a year starting in April 2007, Sears ran “My SHC Community,” an online feature that invited consumers to download software onto their computers that, according to the Federal Trade Commission, asked them to “journal your shopping and purchasing behavior.” The tracking software ran constantly, even when users left Sears’ website, and it collected an astonishing trove of information: details about bank accounts, medical prescriptions and library loans, as well as portions of e–mails and instant messages. Sears paid users $10 to join the community. But the only way you’d know about the scope of the data-mining was if you bothered to read deep into the fine print, all the way to the 75th line. Last June, the FTC declared Sears’ practice “deceptive” and ordered the data destroyed.
The Sears case may be indicative of a larger trend.
Read more in Time.
“It's for the children!” How else can we develop a database that accurately identifies all of our citizens whenever and wherever they they are?
Iris-Scan ID Cards For Children In Mexico
"Today the first ID cards that include iris and fingerprint biometric information were registered and issued in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. (Original article in Spanish.) The juicier part of the story is that for now, only children will be enrolled in this national biometric database. It is intended that by December 2012 all children in the country will be registered. The alleged purpose of the new ID card is to hinder the abduction of children and prevent child exploitation. [“Hey, don't kidnap that kid, he's been scanned!” Sure. Bob] The first ID cards are being issued in the same city that last year started implementing a mandatory iris scan for convicted felons and voluntary members of the public in a Minority Reportesque plan to combat delinquency that features iris readers in public transport and ATMs. This comes from the country that last year attempted and failed to create a national database of mobile phone users, again with the purported intention to tackle extortion and kidnappings."
(Related) It's for your own good! (and we think you're lying.) Of course, you can pay us to not test you...
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=21693
AZ: County employees unhappy about saliva test
March 16, 2011 by Dissent
UPI reports:
An Arizona county is trying to get reliable data on whether its employees are smokers by testing saliva, a move some workers are resisting.
“They gotta do what they gotta do, but it is kind of an invasion of our privacy,” Dee Webber, a Maricopa County accounting employee and admitted smoker, told The Arizona Republic.
Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and its suburbs, is not compelling employees to have their saliva tested — but those who do not, along with those who test positive for tobacco — will pay higher insurance premiums. [No pressure! Bob]
Read more on UPI.
Another Privacy “Oops” or a deliberate decision to ignore user preferences?
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=21664
Google deceiving Android users on location sharing
March 15, 2011 by Dissent
Alexander Hanff writes:
Last summer I raised an issue with Google regarding location sharing on Android devices. Google give consumers the option of disabling location sharing on their new Android device during initial device setup (the first time you turn the device on) and the wording Google uses leads consumers to believe that is an end to it, but it isn’t.
When setting up my own HTC Desire, I of course chose to disable location sharing and it seemed to work. However, a couple of days later I was checking settings in the Android browser and discovered that despite opting out of location sharing, the Android browser still had location sharing enabled.
This infuriated me as I felt deceived, I raised the issue on Twitter and discovered many others had the same problem, many of them sharing location data through their browser settings for months, completely unaware that it was happening, they assumed that all location sharing was disabled when they selected the option during setup.
Read more on Alex’s Blog on Privacy International.
When the network turns anti-social...
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=21689
Social Media Misbehavior by Jurors Afflicts Trial Process
March 16, 2011 by Dissent
Ken Strutin, director of legal information services at the New York State Defenders Association. writes:
Most people called to serve on grand or petit juries regularly use the internet to transact business, conduct research and carry out daily activities. And social media have become lifelines to networking with friends, families and co-workers. Unfortunately, a growing number of potential jurors have fallen prey to the lure of Tweeting or doing a Google search about the cases before them. This wrinkle in due process has challenged the courts and counsel to find new ways of uncovering online misconduct and preventing it in the future.
Read more from his New York Law Journal article on Law Technology News. Strutin really provides a nice description of the complexity of some of the issues involved in ensuring a fair trial while not infringing on juror’s rights. He also includes references to a number of specific cases in the courts, including the “Facebook Juror” case in California that has made headlines after a judge ordered Arturo Ramirez, now known as “Juror Number One” in court filings (or the “Facebook Juror” in the blogosphere) to consent to Facebook releasing his non-public messages to the court.
It's that time of year again. The IRS will encourage electronic filing and Computer Security geeks will have a good laugh... (Just a few tid-bits from the report)
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=17090
GAO Report: “Information Security: IRS Needs to Enhance Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Taxpayer Data”
… Specifically, IRS did not consistently implement controls that were intended to prevent, limit, and detect unauthorized access to its financial systems and information. For example, the agency did not sufficiently (1) restrict users’ access to databases to only the access needed to perform their jobs; (2) secure the system it uses to support and manage its computer access request, approval, and review processes; (3) update database software residing on servers that support its general ledger system; and (4) enable certain auditing features on databases supporting several key systems. In addition, 65 of 88–about 74 percent–of previously reported weaknesses remain unresolved or unmitigated. An underlying reason for these weaknesses is that IRS has not yet fully implemented key components of its comprehensive information security program.
I wonder what they would need to block if we were at war?
US Military Blocks Websites To Free Up Bandwidth
"The US military has blocked access to a range of popular commercial websites in order to free up bandwidth for use in Japan recovery efforts, according to an e-mail obtained by CNN and confirmed by a spokesman for US Strategic Command. The sites — including YouTube, ESPN, Amazon, eBay and MTV — were chosen not because of the content but because their popularity among users of military computers account for significant bandwidth, according to Strategic Command spokesman Rodney Ellison. The block, instituted Monday, is intended 'to make sure bandwidth was available in Japan for military operations' as the United States helps in the aftermath of last week's deadly earthquake and tsunami, Ellison explained."
As far as I can see, this website reports how well (or poorly) they government handles FOIA requests, but none of the actual data is available.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/026763.html
March 15, 2011
DOJ Launches FOIA.gov
"As the flagship initiative of the Department’s Open Government Plan, OIP [Office of Information Policy] is proud to announce the launch of FOIA.Gov, a comprehensive public resource for government-wide FOIA information and data. FOIA.Gov displays graphically a wealth of data on agency FOIA compliance, contains educational material about how the FOIA works, and contact information for all government agencies. OIP’s own website will always provide a link to FOIA.Gov on the right hand side of our site."
Haven't I been saying this for years? (Why yes Bob, you have.)
Cutting Prices Is the Only Way To Stop Piracy
"The only way to stop piracy is to cut prices. That's the verdict of a major new academic study that reckons copyright theft won't be halted by 'three strikes' broadband disconnections, increasing censorship or draconian new laws brought in under the anti-counterfeiting treaty ACTA. The Media Piracy Project, published last week by the Social Science Research Council, reports that illegal copying of movies, music, video games and software is 'better described as a global pricing problem' — and the only way to tackle it is for copyright holders to charge consumers less money for their wares."
Infographics are a quick way to communicate complex data.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/eye-10-blogs-stunning-infographic-collections/
10 Blogs For Stunning Infographic Collections
It's not that our students can't read, it's that they never seem to re-read what they write. Perhaps they will listen?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/convert-text-speech-free-balabolka-windows/
Convert Text To Speech For Free With Balabolka [Windows]
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