Mark your calendars.
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The Privacy Foundation
at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law presents:
Big
Data Privacy: Business & Government
Friday, October 25,
2013 10:00 AM—1:00
PM
Contact Privacy
Foundation Administrator Cindy Goldberg at cgoldberg@law.du.edu
or Anne Beblavi at
abeblavi@law.du.edu,
or call 303-871-6303
Generating and using
Big Data...
Paper
– The Massive Metadata Machine
The
Massive Metadata Machine: Liberty, Power, and Secret Mass
Surveillance in the U.S. and Europe, Bryce
Clayton Newell, University of Washington – The Information School,
October 11, 2013. I/S: A Journal
of Law and Policy for the Information Society (ISJLP), 10, 2014
“This paper explores
the relationship between liberty and security implicated by secret
government mass surveillance programs. It includes both doctrinal
and theoretical analysis. Methodologically, the paper examines
judicial reasoning in cases where parties have challenged secret
government surveillance programs on Constitutional or human rights
grounds in both United States’ Courts and at the European Court of
Human Rights (EctHR). Theoretically, this paper will draw on
theories in the fields of law, surveillance studies, and political
theory to question how greater recognition of citizen rights to
conduct reciprocal surveillance of government activity (for example,
through expanded rights to freedom of information) might properly
balance power relations between governments and their people.
Specifically, the paper will question how liberal and neo-republican
conceptions of liberty, defined as the absence of actual interference
and the possibility of arbitrary domination, respectively, and the
jurisprudence of the ECtHR can inform the way we think about the
proper relationship between security and liberty in the post-9/11,
post-Snowden United States of America.”
Now that's an
interesting idea. Is this like saying banks are too big to fail,
only backwards? (Plaintiffs are too big for Google to survive?)
Scott Graham writes:
Plaintiffs
appear to be in the driver’s seat in two big privacy class actions
against Google. The suits over Gmail and Street View have survived
motions to dismiss, and the Ninth Circuit has emphatically rejected
Google’s appeal in the Street View case.
This
is a point where settlement discussions would typically intensify.
But is it possible plaintiffs now have too much leverage?
With
potential classes of many millions of people and statutory damages
ranging as high as $10,000 per violation under the Wiretap Act, the
parties could confront a scenario where the case is simply too
expensive to strike a deal.
Read more on Law.com
(sub. req.).
Always an amusing area.
How about laws based on what the average cop could observe in the
course of a normal day? If he sees me speeding, I get a ticket. If
he uses a 'red light' camera to catch me running the light, I get a
ticket. If he uses infrared detectors on a drone to determine I keep
one room of my house at 95 degrees, the judge should refuse to issue
a warrant to check for a marijuana greenhouse and destroy any record
of that “observation.”
D. Parvaz interviewed
Woodrow Hartzog during the recent Drones and Aerial Robotics
conference. Here’s a snippet from the interview:
Woodrow
Hartzog: There’s a fair amount of hand-wringing over drones and
privacy, but I think in many instances it’s often dismissed because
drones fly in public and they fly in public spaces and the law, as
it’s traditionally been conceived, does not protect privacy when
you’re walking out in the middle of the street. But I don’t
think that’s entirely true.
I
don’t think that when push comes to shove that we’re going to
concede, as a society, that any time we’re in public we’re fair
game to be surveyed or photographed, particularly over long
distances. Say you’re being targeted in public….what if I have a
drone and it’s dedicated to you, and I only monitor you, in public,
for over the period of a year. Have I violated any expectation of
privacy?… Well, at that point, it’s harassment. Right now, the
law, as configured, does not really protect against that.
So
the drones are going to force us to answer some difficult questions
about [what] “public” means and when we should be protected, even
when in public.
Read more on Aljazeera.
Government designed and
built. There is no reason for these to constantly fail except poor
management.
Web
Site Problems May Imperil Finances of Insurance Market
From
the start, signs of trouble at health portal: Many deadlines missed
– NYT, by Robert Pear, Sharon LaFraniere and Ian Austen:
“For the past 12
days, a system costing more than $400 million and billed as a
one-stop click-and-go hub for citizens seeking health insurance has
thwarted the efforts of millions to simply log in. The
growing national outcry has deeply embarrassed the White House, which
has refused to say how many people have enrolled through the federal
exchange. Even some supporters … worry that the flaws in the
system, if not quickly fixed, could threaten the fiscal health of the
insurance initiative, which depends on throngs of customers to spread
the risk and keep prices low… Interviews with two dozen
contractors , current and former government officials, insurance
executives and consumer advocates, as well as an examination of
confidential administration documents, point to a series of missteps
– financial, technical and managerial – that led to the troubles.
Politics made things worse. [Duh!
Bob] To avoid giving ammunition to Republicans opposed
to the project, the administration put off issuing several major
rules until after last November’s elections. The
Republican-controlled House blocked funds. More than 30 states
refused to set up their own exchanges, requiring the federal
government to vastly expand its project in unexpected ways…”
Just like NASCAR:
“Treasuries, start your printers!” We've already given up
backing currencies with gold or other tangible assets, why not
disconnect them from taxation (and reality) while we're at it? Just
because Alaska can do it (on a smaller basis) does not mean everyone
can afford it.
Switzerland
to vote on plan giving every adult in the country a $2,800 check
every month
Rather
than savage cuts, Switzerland considers “Star Trek” economics,
by Josh
Eidelson. ”By gathering over 100,000 signatures – which they
delivered last Friday along with 8 million 5-cent coins representing
the country’s population – activists have secured
a vote by Switzerland’s parliament on an audacious proposal:
providing a basic monthly income of about $2,800 U.S. dollars to each
adult in the country. (A date for the vote hasn’t yet been set.)
Such basic income proposals, which have drawn increased attention
since the 2008 financial crash, offer a night-and-day contrast to the
current U.S. debate over what to cut and by how much. Salon called
up John
Schmitt, a senior economist at the progressive Center
for Economic and Policy Research, to discuss the economics and
politics of having the government send everyone in the country a
monthly check.”
It's like shopping
everywhere with a King Soopers credit card....
– When you log in and
pay with Amazon, you can use the information stored
in your Amazon account to login and pay conveniently on thousands of
sites other than Amazon.com. It’s the fast, easy, safe
way to buy whether online or on your phone. When you pay with
Amazon, you take the protection of Amazon with you. However, this
service is currently only for the US.
One possible future for
education? So far, only on your iProducts?
– What if you were
able to learn something before you got bored and gave up? With our
unique format of online micro-courses you can complete a micro-course
in just one hour or less. Learn just what you need or are interested
in right now. Expand any lesson as a separate micro-course. Request
a new micro-course and get it in a few days.
Useful when you
remember the Math has it's own language, that bears no relationship
to everyday English. I add stuff like this to my class handouts.
Five
Mathematics Glossaries for Kids
A glossary of
mathematics terms can be a helpful aid to students who struggle with
the vocabulary of mathematics. When I was a middle school and high
school student the vocabulary of math often tripped me up and having
a glossary of terms often helped me be able to complete my homework
assignments. Here are five mathematics glossaries that students can
access online.
Ditto
Animated
Math Lessons for Kids
Math
Live is a neat mathematics website hosted by Learn
Alberta. Math Live presents students with animated stories that
teach mathematics lessons. In all there are twenty-three lessons for
elementary school and middle school students. The lessons are
divided into four categories; Number, Patterns and Relations, Shape
and Space, Statistics and Probability. Each animated lesson is
accompanied by a mathematics worksheet that students complete either
while watching the lesson or after viewing the lesson. Each lesson
is divided into sections and students can advance or rewind as
needed.
Math
Live does a nice good job of providing students with some real
world examples of the uses of mathematics.
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