I suspect more lawsuits
based on failure to follow regulations and/or Best Practices.
Clearly organizations are not learning from the failures of others.
Mitch Smith reports:
Advocate
Medical Group, already under federal and state investigation after
the theft of computers containing personal information on millions of
people, is now facing a class-action lawsuit from patients who say
the Downers Grove-based physician group didn’t do enough to protect
their private data.
The
suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, says the health care
nonprofit violated privacy regulations by failing to
use encryption and other security measures on the four
computers that were stolen from its Park Ridge offices in July. The
computers contained information on more than 4 million patients.
Read more on Chicago
Tribune.
This should be
interesting.
In
a major victory in one
of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, the
Justice Department conceded yesterday that it will release hundreds
of documents, including FISA court opinions, related to the
government’s secret interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot
Act, the law the NSA has relied upon for years to mass collect the
phone records of millions of innocent Americans.
In
a court
filing, the Justice Department, responding to a judge’s order,
said that they would make public a host of material that will “total
hundreds of pages” by next week, including:
[O]rders
and opinions of the FISC issued from January 1, 2004, to June 6,
2011, that contain a significant legal interpretation of the
government’s authority or use of its authority under Section 215;
and responsive “significant documents, procedures, or legal
analyses incorporated into FISC opinions or orders and treated as
binding by the Department of Justice or the National Security
Agency.”
Read more on EFF.
(Related) Dilbert
explains the upside of NSA spying.
This shouldn't be so
shocking.
This
Russian Software Is Taking Over the Internet
… At a time when
the world’s best-known web servers are losing marketshare, Nginx —
pronounced “Engine X” — is growing, fueled by a no-frills
philosophy and its knack for handling myriad web connections at the
same time. Apache is still the king of all web servers, but use
of Nginx has nearly doubled over the past two years, according to
internet research outfit Netcraft.
It now runs about 15
percent of all websites, including everyone from startups such as
CloudFlare and Parse (bought by Facebook earlier this year) to web
giants such as Automattic and Netflix. “We use it for everything,”
says Automattic’s Abrahamson. “We run as much of our software
stack as possible on top of Nginx.”
A tool for stalkers.
– A geosocial
footprint is the combined bits of location information that a user
divulges through social media, which ultimately forms the users
location “footprint”. For Twitter.com users, this footprint
is created from GPS enabled tweets, social check-ins, natural
language location searching, and profile harvesting. This website
provides twitter users with an opportunity to view their geosocial
footprint.
(Related) Another
stalking tool.
– This app shows how
people could use your social-media posts to find you in the
physical world. It uses GPS data attached to Twitter and
Instagram posts to create a map of where someone’s been posting
from recently. Try to find yourself, your friends, or your favorite
celebrity! Where are you most likely to be at 2:00 on a Tuesday?
Then follow the links and find out.
Nothing ever dies on
the Internet. This might become a valuable research tool.
Search
For Tweets Since The Beginning Of Twitter With Topsy
… Topsy, the social
analytics company gives you the ability to use it to search all
tweets since the beginning of Twitter time. The ability to sift and
search through an index of 540 billion tweets is an exceptional tool
because Twitter’s real time conversation has become a huge
storehouse of knowledge.
If you buy the
book-book, (book2?) we'll give you (or heavily discount)
the eBook too.
Amazon
Soon To Offer Free & Discounted Ebooks Of Hard Copies Purchased
Through Its Site
Something
for that eGarage sale.
How
To Be An Online Entrepreneur With Thrift Store Shopping On eBay
… With eBay, you
can turn yourself into an online entrepreneur by flipping items you
can find nearly anywhere — online or offline. Best of
all, it’s pretty darn easy to do, and this means you can turn your
weekend thrift store outings into a profitable hobby.
For
my Math students: Targeted to K-12, but still potentially useful.
–
presents math instruction and practice in a clear, manageable format
that is complete with helpful hints, video lessons, and
interventions. When a student doesn’t do well on a topic,
TenMarks provides immediate and targeted intervention. The program
analyzes precisely the areas in which the student is struggling, and
assigns an “Amplifier” which diagnoses the root cause of the
issue.
I
try to use Wikis in my Security classes because students need to keep
track of so much information. This might help my fellow teachers do
the same.
Wikispaces
Offers a Helpful Back to School Kit
Wikispaces,
the popular and free wiki platform, has just released a new back
to school kit for teachers. The kit includes a series of Google
Slides presentations that offer step-by-step directions for every
aspect of creating a classroom wiki through Wikispaces. The
Wikispaces back to school kit also includes printable directions to
distribute to students.
Keep learning. (NOTE:
Not all of these are free)
9
Places To Find High-Quality Online Professional Development
Intel
Teach Elements offers online continuing education courses for
teachers that focus specifically on technology in 21st century
classroom topics.
Modern
Lessons is a free online learning platform designed for teachers
and students looking to bolster their existing technology skills
PBS
Teacherline offers a wide variety of online courses for teachers,
many of which can earn you credit depending on how you choose to
enroll in the class.
Annenberg
Learner offers a wide variety of online courses and workshops
that can count for continuing education credit, or in some cases,
graduate credit
ScholasticU
is the online PD for teachers arm of education giant Scholastic.
The Library
of Congress offers its ‘Teacher Modules’ for free online.
The courses are geared towards helping teachers learn how to use the
huge collection of resources available from the Library.
ASCD
offers over a hundred online courses in professional development
for educators
Teachers
First offers free courses in two formats – live sessions and
pre-recorded sessions – on a variety of educational topics.
Classes I should learn
to teach?
Six
Classes Your Employer Wishes You Could Take
School is back amid
growing controversy and cynicism. The quality, validity and economic
value of college degrees and MBAs have rarely been under such
sustained assault. Employability of graduates has never been so
dismal. Machines
are clearly getting smarter at many of the things people
traditionally do on the job. That means people need to become
non-traditionally smarter at things machines are not quite yet ready
to think about or do. And that means educators worldwide must revisit
how they want to make their most important product — their students
— more valuable.
Multimedia
Editing. Increasingly, knowledge workers won't simply be
creating or generating information but assembling, reorganizing and
prioritizing information from others. In other words, they'll be
editing.
Scenarios.
In addition to knowing how to create a compelling narrative out of
reams of data, there will be a premium paid to those who can paint
vivid pictures of possible tomorrows.
Fantasy
Sports Competition. Understanding probabilities, statistics
and analytics is increasingly vital to identifying and effectively
managing high performing talent.
Reverse
Engineering. This class looks at what makes experiments,
inventions and artifacts tick and then takes them apart and rebuilds
them. In other words, this is a hands-on class where students
gain knowledge and skill by seeking to replicate and recreate things
that work.
Comparative
Coding. Another blog on this site asks, "Should
MBAs Learn to Code?" Alas, that's exactly the wrong
question. The better question is: What aspects of coding should MBAs
(and university students) learn?
Cooking
Science & Technology. Another hands-on course
integrating fundamental scientific principles with real-world
knowledge challenges students to transform their understanding of
food.
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