“Dude, don't mess with my revenue
stream!” Being unable to accept reservations (airline, hotel,
rental cars) costs a lot of money. The last time I remember one of
these systems failing, they fired three levels of management.
Airline
Reservation System Back Up After Failure
A global computer reservation system
crashed on Monday night, impacting hundreds of airlines and airports
around the world and causing flight cancellations for hundreds of
thousands of travelers.
“Sabre customers were unable to
connect to our system for a period of time this evening,” company
spokesperson Nancy St. Pierre said in a statement issued early
Tuesday morning. “We apologize and regret the inconvenience
caused.”
The outage began around 10:45 p.m.
Monday night, according to American Airlines. St. Pierre said that
systems were coming back online around 1:15 a.m. Tuesday morning.
How would you confirm that the “stolen
records” are in fact real records and not something created just
for you? Compare them with records that the “clinic” can't
release? Buy another set of stolen records?
Several months ago, I was contacted by
a reader who asked me about the Alex Rodriguez case and whether there
was a HIPAA breach. I responded, via e-mail, that I didn’t know as
the clinic was no longer in operation and I didn’t have any
information on them. Over the weekend, a story appeared on The
Bent Corner in that says, in part:
The evidence
against A-Rod is based on stolen medical records
obtained from Porter Fischer, an ex-employee of Biogenesis of
America, an anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables, Florida. The clinic
has since closed. Reportedly, MLB
paid Fischer for the records. Fischer stole the medical records
from Biogenesis of America because he believed the clinic owed him
some money, $4,000 to be exact.
What’s worse,
using PEDs or stealing someone’s medical records?
Biogenesis of
America was owned and operated by Tony Bosch, a man who at least
pretended
to be a medical doctor. It would stand to reason that anyone
partaking of the ant-aging services of Biogenesis of America, whether
they be a retired postal worker or a guy playing third base for the
New York Yankees, had the expectation that what they were doing was
confidential and protected by doctor-patient privilege.
As I noted in my discussion of a case
involving blood donors, not all entities are HIPAA-covered entities,
even if they employ doctors or have a medical component. Was
Biogenesis of America ever a HIPAA-covered entity? I don’t know.
They listed a medical doctor as their medical director in their
Florida business incorporation papers, but again, that doesn’t make
them a HIPAA-covered entity. So that’s one question: was there a
reportable privacy breach under HIPAA or not?
As a second question:
can Major League Baseball purchase records stolen from a clinic and
use them against a player? I don’t think they should be
able to do so, but I don’t know if that’s really what they did,
and besides, I am not a lawyer and do not know what the law says
about such conduct.
But the public perception is what I
want to address. The fact that the public may have an expectation of
privacy when there may be no HIPAA protection or state law protection
is problematic and needs to be addressed. Whether it’s an
anti-aging clinic, a weight loss clinic, or anything other than a
medical practice that hands you a copy of their HIPAA policies and/or
privacy practices, ask whether they are HIPAA-covered and ask for a
copy of their privacy policies.
This reads like Kroes believes using
cloud services means he doesn't need to secure his data. How many
times have I posted articles about companies who apparently thought
the same thing?
EC
– consequences of living in an age of total information
“If businesses or governments think
they might be spied on, they will have less reason to trust the
cloud, and it will be cloud providers who ultimately miss out.
Why would you pay someone else to hold
your commercial or other secrets, if you suspect or know they are
being shared against your wishes? Front or back door – it doesn’t
matter – any smart person doesn’t want the information shared at
all. Customers will act rationally, and providers will miss out on a
great opportunity. In this case it is often American providers that
will miss out, because they are often the leaders in cloud services.
Which brings me to another interesting consequence of recent
allegations. Particularly allegations about US government
surveillance concerning European partners and allies. If
European cloud customers cannot trust the United States government or
their assurances, then maybe they won’t trust US cloud providers
either. [Should they ever? Bob] That is my guess. And
if I am right then there are multi-billion euro consequences for
American companies. If I were an American cloud provider, I would be
quite frustrated with my government right now. I do not have an
agenda here: I am committed to open markets, to liberal values, and
the opportunities of new digital innovations. [Let's
agree that that is an agenda. Bob] Yet even I am
thinking twice about whether there is such a thing as a level playing
field when it comes to the cloud.
So I am saying two things: Concerns
about cloud security can easily push European policy makers into
putting security guarantees ahead of open markets; with consequences
for American companies. Privacy is not only a fundamental right, it
can also be a competitive advantage. Companies focused on privacy
need to start coming forward into the light and help them do that.
That would be a smart company indeed. And 2013 is the year. That
includes European companies who should take advantage of interest to
provide services with better privacy protection.”
- See also via UK Guardian – Edward Snowden’s not the story. The fate of the internet is – “The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms’ cloud services cannot be trusted.”
We knew this would happen, didn't we?
I'm still not sure why it happened.
South
Korea frets over U.S. veto on Apple sales ban
The South Korean government has voiced
its concerns over a decision by the U.S. government to overturn a ban
of some Apple models in the United States.
The Obama administration on Saturday
vetoed
a court ruling that would have stopped the iPhone maker from
selling older versions of its smartphone and iPad
in the U.S. market.
… It called for the Obama
administration to make "fair and reasonable decisions," as
Samsung faces a possible import ban on its own products in the U.S.
following Apple's claims the Korean manufacturer had infringed on its
patents. A decision on this case is expected Friday.
Perspective: Once again I call for the
creation of an Anti-Social network, so I can “DisLike” things and
brand people “No Friend of Mine!”
72%
of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users
“The Pew Research Center’s Internet
& American Life Project has been studying online adults’ social
networking site use since 2005, and has seen substantial growth since
then. Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites.
Although younger adults continue to be the most likely social media
users, one of the more striking stories about the social networking
population has been the growth among older internet users in recent
years. Those ages 65 and older have roughly tripled their presence
on social networking sites in the last four years—from 13% in the
spring of 2009 to 43% now. In this report we also studied online
adults’ use of Twitter. The percentage of internet users who are
on Twitter has more than doubled since November 2010, currently
standing at 18%. Internet users ages 18-29 are the most likely to use
Twitter—30% of them now do so.”
This is not new. Control Data tried
this in the 1960s and found much the same thing...
Gallup
– Remote Workers Log More Hours and Are Slightly More Engaged
Gallup blog: A popular workplace trend
— working remotely — made the headlines after Yahoo’s CEO
required the company’s remote workers to return to the office. The
company made the point that employees working from home have fewer
chances to collaborate with coworkers. While not all companies allow
employees to work off-site, new data from Gallup’s State
of the American Workplace report shows that that nearly four in
10 (39%) of the employees surveyed spend some amount of time working
remotely or in locations apart from their coworkers. And, Gallup
finds that companies that offer the opportunity to work remotely
might have some advantages when it comes to hours worked and employee
engagement.”
Haaarvard asks:
Do
You Need a Résumé in the LinkedIn Era?
Now that LinkedIn has become the
standard place to present your professional history and credentials —
not to mention the fastest way to check somebody else's — the
humble résumé has lost its once-hallowed position as the canonical
version of your professional identity. Your LinkedIn profile should
be the most-viewed and most current version of your professional
life. That has many people asking: Do
I even need an old-fashioned résumé anymore?
The answer is a highly qualified "yes".
(Related) For my students (anything to
get rid of the pests)
LinkedIn has been the goto social
network for finding a job as of late, and honestly, why shouldn’t
it be? It has a great deal of wonderful resources and tools aimed at
job-seekers and employers alike to help them both on their journeys,
and is a great tool for job-finding, especially if you can make
your profile irresistible. However, LinkedIn isn’t the only
way you can find a job.
There are other social networks out
there perfect for helping you finding the perfect job. Some of them
are well-hidden, and some are the usual suspects. The point is that
you don’t have to limit yourself, and yes, there are plenty of
places out there willing to accept your resumé, especially if you
style
it right.
Pinterest
... ideally works for freelancers and prospective job-seekers who are
in some sort of visual
field.
Facebook
... We recently published an entire article on the benefits of
using Facebook when it comes to finding a job. I will highlight the
important parts from that article, but do check it out for more
information on how
you can use Facebook to find a job.
There are the
obvious things: clean up your profile, post a status asking your
friends about jobs, participate in discussions on workplace Facebook
Pages; you know them, already. However, the two key Facebook
features I would like to point out are the Facebook
Marketplace and
the Social
Jobs Partnership
app.
Plaxo
... solves the problem that most other social media sites
haven’t been able to: people are always changing their
contact info. How can this help you find a job? Well, it mainly has
to do with networking,
Twitter …
Like Facebook, we’ve covered
Twitter in detail when it comes to your job search.
Jobster …
Admittedly, Jobster seems to be
relatively unheard of, but it packs a few serious tools that can help
you rise above the competition. Right off the bat, you should
understand that Jobster is indeed a social network, and you can
actually import your data from LinkedIn to set up a profile. … you
can actually upload a video resumé to the site itself
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