U.S. tells Russia that
Snowden won't face death penalty
… In a letter sent
to Russia and obtained
by CBS News, Holder wrote that Snowden, who faces charges of espionage by the
U.S. government, would not be put up for the death penalty or be tortured if he
were extradited to the U.S.
For my Computer Security students.
From Verizon:
… Verizon is addressing
this need by launching a new initiative to collect, organize and publish all publicly disclosed
data breaches. The data is
coded into VERIS format and available in an interactive dashboard via Tableau
Public as well as in individual files in JSON format in a GitHub
repository. Both can be reached from
the VERIS
Community site as well.
The VERIS Community Database goes live this
week with more than 1,200 reported incidents from the last few
years. This initial batch of data comes
from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) incidents, the sites of
the various Attorneys General that provide breach notification source documents,
media reports and press releases. The
goal is to continue to augment this dataset to capture as many incidents as
possible so that others can benefit.
This data is provided as a
resource to benefit the industry at large, as the ability to access and query
data breach information improves everyone’s ability to protect their
organizations and data.
Read more on Verizon.
New Jersey again. The
“Lower Merion” incident was a while ago
(2010), but at least New Jersey noticed.
John Mooney reports:
The provocatively named Anti-Big
Brother Act arose out of a situation in Pennsylvania in which a
school district was accused of spying on students through their school-issued
laptops, including taking literally thousands of pictures.
New Jersey legislators seeking
to prevent such incidents here passed the new law this past spring. It requires
districts to notify students and their families that computers issued to them
may be equipped to record their locations and use. It also says that such information will not be
used “in a manner that would violate the privacy rights of the student or any
individual residing with the student.”
But that’s where things can get
murky, so the state Department of Education this week released additional
guidelines about what the law covers and what other policies should also be in
place to cover extenuating circumstances.
Read more on NJ Spotlight.
One of those interesting “thought experiments.”
Could the Government Get a
Search Warrant for Your Thoughts?
Privacy is subjective.
Is that a new thought?
What We Talk About When We
Talk About Privacy
The past, present, and
future of a public anxiety
In the video above, three prominent thinkers discuss the
past and future of privacy in the United States. Privacy, they point out, has always been
contingent on the culture and the technology of the people who aim to preserve
it -- and to violate it. "Government
intrusion was not a factor, I would say, until the turn of the 20th
century," the law professor Robert Ellis Smith notes.
I would not have predicted this outcome.
Derek Scally reports:
Ireland’s Data Protection
Commissioner (DPC) has dismissed a complaint that the Irish subsidiaries of Facebook
and Apple breached EU law by sharing data with US intelligence service via the
Prism programme.
The DPC ruled there was “nothing
to investigate” in a complaint filed by Austrian privacy campaigner Max
Schrems, as Apple and Facebook had, in their view, acted within the terms of
the EU-US data-sharing agreement, dubbed the “Safe Harbour” .
Read more on Irish Times. TechCrunch
has additional details.
Didn’t this used to be the other way round?
Jacob Sullum of Reason writes:
The lead
story in today’sNew York Times suggests that Chief Justice
John Roberts has been stacking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
(FISC) with government-friendly
conservatives. [Didn’t that used to be an oxymoron? Bob] Charlie Savage reports that “86 percent of his
choices have been Republican appointees, and 50 percent have been former
executive branch officials.” The
corresponding figures for Roberts’ two predecessors, William Rehnquist and
Warren Burger, are 66 percent and 39 percent, respectively. “While the positions taken by individual
judges on the court are classified,” Savage writes,
“academic studies have shown that judges appointed by Republicans since
Reagan have been more likely than their colleagues to rule in favor of the
government in non-FISA cases over people claiming civil liberties violations.” He notes that critics troubled by the chief
justice’s FISCal power have proposed changing the way the judges are appointed.
Although it is plausible that
the shift Savage identifies has produced a court somewhat more deferential to
the Justice Department’s requests, the effect may not be apparent in the
day-to-day work of the court, where the
government’s nearly
perfect record probably is due to the weak standards created by
Congress.
Read more of his opinion piece on Reason.
This sounds useful.
Casetext – freely available,
annotated database of legal resources
“Casetext is a freely available, annotated database
of legal resources. Researchers find relevant documents and immediately see analysis by
other attorneys and paths for further research. Contributors mark up documents in a simple,
digital format and make their expertise widely known, all while helping to
build a comprehensive public research tool.
Who are we? Co-founders
Jake Heller and Joanna Huey met in 2009, when Jake was president of the
Stanford Law Review and Joanna was president of the Harvard Law Review. After clerking together for the Honorable
Michael Boudin, we both worked as associates at law firms before we joined
forces to build Casetext.
Research - What is in your database?
Our database currently includes the following cases:
- all U.S. Supreme Court cases,
- federal circuit court cases from Volume 1 of F.2d,
- federal district court cases published in F.Supp. and F.Supp.2d from 1980, and
- Delaware cases published in A., A.2d, and A.3d from Volume 30 of A.
The database was last updated on June 14, 2013.”
Sometimes it’s good to have an “edu” email address…
The Best Educator Discounts
Of The Summer
Most companies will offer some form of educational discount.
Just ask and they will likely come up with at least some sort of offer to try
and entice a sale. Less common however
is when products are offered for no cost at all.
Free
Server Space:
Amazon currently offers grants for educational use
of its extensive server network (one of the worlds largest). Teachers may apply
to receive credits good towards server space rentals. As of this writing, the
offer is for up to $100 credit for each student.
Free
Project Management Software:
Teachers of more advanced classes (particularly those with a
business or career focus) may be interested in LiquidPlanner’s
offer for free educational use of their project management software
for up to 15 ‘seats’. Beyond being used
by teachers to manage class workloads, students can also get this offer
themselves to use in their own collaborative efforts (such as a senior
project).
Free
Mapping Software:
Direct from Google, the king of online mapping (and the rest
of the Internet too…), comes this offer
for free access to Google Earth Pro, as well as the Google Maps
Engine. Ideal for social studies, Google
Earth can be a great interactive tool for lessons and projects, while fiddling
around with the Google Maps Engine can
provide good insights into the world of software development.
Free
Engineering Software:
This offer is a great value for aspiring architecture and
engineering students and is ideal for schools that are looking to improve their
access to STEM education. AutoDesk has
made their leading
engineering software available for free to secondary and post-secondary
classrooms. A standard in the
engineering industry, early access to this software can be a great head start
for students.
Miscellaneous
Discounts:
While not pretty, or always relevant, the Freaky Freddy
website is a good repository of random discounts for
teachers and is updated quite regularly.
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