Yet another company,
dependent on their computers, that has no idea what programs are
added or what data is copied? Perhaps they should hire a real
manager.
Datapak
Services Corporation, an order fulfillment and payment
processor based in Swanee, Georgia, recently learned that malware
placed on their system on March 5 may have compromised the credit
card information of customers of “several” e-commerce web sites.
In a letter dated
October 3, they note that customers’ names, addresses, and card
numbers with expiration dates and security codes may have been
exposed. The firm does not indicate how they first became aware of
the breach. Nor does it name the web sites affected.
Those affected by the
incident were offered one year of free services through AllClear
SECURE and AllClear PRO.
A copy of their
notification letter was posted on the Vermont Attorney General’s
web site, here.
Perhaps the records
were held by the FBO (Federal Boondoggle of Obfuscation) and you
can't prove that agency even exists, so we win and you lose. “The
FBI, making stuff up since 1929!”
Josh Crank reports:
The
Florida socialite whose FBI complaint led to the resignation of Gen.
David Petraeus is suing the government for allegedly leaking her
private emails to the press and tarnishing her reputation. But the
Department of Justice is demanding that the suit be tossed on a
technicality.
[...]
Kelley’s
lawsuit is based in part on the Privacy Act, which establishes rules
for federal agencies that handle the personal information of U.S.
citizens. In its motion
to dismiss, the Justice Department called the Privacy Act a
“highly technical” statute from which many of the FBI’s records
systems are exempt. The motion doesn’t
specifically state that the FBI stored Kelley’s private emails in
one of these exempted databases, but rather argues the lawsuit should
be dismissed because Kelley can’t prove that it wasn’t.
“Disclosure
claims under the Privacy Act are governed by a rule of retrieval –
to be actionable, disclosed information about an individual must have
been retrieved from a protected system of records,” according to
the dismissal motion. “But plaintiffs fail to make allegations to
satisfy the retrieval rule, and that omission prevents plaintiffs
from stating a claim for a wrongful disclosure.”
Read more on
Lawyers.com
Isn’t this what
discovery is for??
Is anyone old enough to
remember Joe Namath in those pantyhose ads? Every similar
odd/funny/shocking combination will no doubt go viral. Fortunately,
I was wise enough to use a portrait with one of those little ©
thingies...
Google
Is Going to Include Your Face in Its New Ads
… On Friday the
company said it would begin including
recommendations that Google+ users make in advertisements.
The new policy kicks in on Nov. 11.
Here’s how it works:
You use Google+ to rate some product or service. It turns out the
company behind that product wants to advertise on Google. When the
company purchases an ad, your friends will see a version that
includes your photo along with what you said about the product.
Attention frogs! The
water temperature is rising again. Just a little bit. Don't worry.
Trust us.
Facebook
Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name, Highlighting Lack Of
Universal Privacy Controls
“Who can look up your
Timeline by name?” Anyone you haven’t blocked. Facebook is
removing
this privacy setting, notifying those who had
hidden themselves that they’ll be searchable. It deleted the
option from those who hadn’t used it in
December, and is starting to push everyone to
use privacy controls on each type of content they share. But there’s
no one-click opt out of Facebook search.
It makes sense doesn't
it? After all, that's why the NSA thinks they can predict terrorist
attacks by listening to phone calls and reading email. My concern is
that mentioning suicide (oops I just did) would result in a visit
from a “psychiatrist drone” or at least mandatory suicide
counseling. It could be worse, what European country imposed the
death penalty for attempted suicide?
Suicide
chatter on Twitter hints at state suicide rates -- study
In the aftermath of a
suicide, family and friends of the deceased sometimes turn to social
media sites for clues as to why it may have happened.
But on a more hopeful
note, the trails left on these sites may also serve
as something of an early warning system that could help prevent
some of these tragedies, according to researchers at Brigham Young
University.
Reporting in
the journal Crisis, the researchers say they sifted through
millions of tweets gathered from all 50 states over three months, on
the hunt for both direct discussions of suicide and keywords that are
associated with a range of suicide risk factors.
Out of the millions of
tweets on hand, they found 37,717 worrying tweets from 28,088 unique
users with some location info available. They then determined each
state's ratio of such tweets, and found that these correlated
strongly with each state's actual suicide rate.
Does searching for
value send you to Walmart & Associates?
Have you ever heard the
saying: “You never get fired for buying IBM”? Every industry
loves to co-opt it; for example, in consulting, you’ll hear: “You
never get fired for hiring McKinsey.” In law, it’s often: “You
never get fired for hiring Cravath”. But one general counsel we
spoke with put a twist on the old saying, in a way that reflects the
turmoil and change that the legal industry is undergoing. Here’s
what he said: “I would absolutely fire anyone on my team who hired
Cravath.” While tongue in cheek, and surely subject to exceptions,
it reflects the reality that there is a growing body of legal work
that simply won’t be sent to the most pedigreed law firms, most
typically because general counsel are laser focused
on value, namely quality and efficiency.
It seems to me that
Aereo has carefully designed a legal service. Will the Supremes
agree?
Broadcasters
petition Supreme Court in Aereo fight
Television broadcasters
Friday petitioned the US Supreme Court to get involved in their fight
against Aereo, the online service that streams their over-the-air
programming to its paying members.
Aereo, which is backed
by IAC Chairman Barry Diller, uses tiny individual antennas to let
consumers watch live, local broadcasts on some Internet-connected
devices and store shows in a cloud-based DVR. Television giants
including Disney's ABC, CBS (the parent of CNET), Fox, and Comcast's
NBCUniversal sued Aereo, alleging that the service violates their
copyrights and that Aereo must pay them.
Dilbert explains “Prior
Art” for us non-lawyers....
Might be useful for
handouts at seminars for example...
– easily create and
share single-use, live web folders. Get yourself a free,
disposable box. Put your files inside the folder and share it
with other people, who can download those files. You can cancel
the folder at any time.
Kids not learning
Cursive in school? There's an App (and a robot) for that! (I'll
write your notes for $4.99)
Outsource
Your Thank You Notes to a Robot
… Unlike a printer,
the robot manually moves a pen back and forth and scribbles a
255-character message in cursive.
… Keep in mind that
even though the first note is free, each note afterward will cost $5.
[Video
of the robot in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k49ncf60zN8
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