Well, that's something
I suppose.
Target
CEO offers credit monitoring, discount and four-part video apology
After last week's
massive data breach, Target
is offering customers free credit monitoring and a 10
percent discount. CEO Gregg
Steinhafel also issued a four-part video apology to customers.
… He reassured
shoppers that they will not be held financially responsible for any
credit card or debt card fraud. Target will contact customers who
are eligible for the credit monitoring "soon," he said.
Read more here.
Watch the video
apology here.
Section 8, subsection
4, page 81, paragraph 41, line 16, micro-line 58, and I quote:
“Whereas and who-as and when-as the party of the twenty-second part
did authorize, condone and allow by use of the data of party two, we
herewith, hereby and hereto declare, 'You ain''t got no privacy!'
Welcome to California.”
Hogan Lovells’ Bret
Cohen writes:
On
January 1, 2014, California
Assembly Bill 370 will go into effect,
requiring operators of websites and other online services, including
mobile applications, to provide
new disclosures in their website privacy policies about online
tracking. Operators will be required to
disclose whether third parties collect certain information about
California residents over time and across different websites when
those residents use the operators’ sites and services. The law
also requires that operators disclose how they respond to
do-not-track signals or other mechanisms designed to provide
consumers with choices relating to such activities. Although the
law is limited to online services directed to California,
it provides a de facto national standard for websites that do not
provide separate privacy disclosures based on location.
Read more on Chronicle
of Data Protection.
Interesting idea.
Let's hope it works better that the credit card industry's
certification.
Lynn Sessions and Cory
J. Fox of Baker Hostetler write:
The
Texas Health Services Authority (THSA) recently announced its
selection of the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) Common
Security Framework (CSF), the most widely adopted information privacy
and security framework in the U.S. healthcare industry, to form the
basis of the Texas Covered Entity Privacy and Security Certification
Program, setting the stage for Texas to become the first state in the
nation to implement a formal certification program that incorporates
state and federal privacy and security regulations, including HIPAA
and the Texas Medical Records Privacy Act (TMRPA).
Read more on Lexology.
[From
the article:
HB 300 also amended
the TMRPA to include a list of mitigating factors Texas courts
must consider in determining the appropriate penalty for a covered
entity that violates the TMRPA, including its compliance history and
whether it was certified at the time of the violation.
Big Data. I find these
amusing. After carefully reading all 8 pages, I'd like to buy a
vowel.
Quantitative
Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on December 21, 2013
Quantitative
Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books,
Jean-Baptiste Michel, et al. Science 331, 176 (2011); DOI:
10.1126/science.1199644
“We constructed a
corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever
printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate
cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of
‘culturomics,’ focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that
were reflected in the English language between 1800 and 2000. We show
how this approach can provide insights about fields as diverse as
lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the
adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and
historical epidemiology. Culturomics extends the boundaries of
rigorous quantitative inquiry to a wide array of new phenomena
spanning the social sciences and the humanities.”
When your eyes get
tired from staring at your monitor, try these. They really scare my
students!
– When your eyes get
tired and you start feeling the eye strain, but still have some work
to do, use the Exercises For Eyes. Regular eye exercises can help
you to improve eyesight and prevent eye diseases such as
nearsightedness and farsightedness. Follow the instruction step by
step making twenty-second breaks between exercises.
Okay, it's a bit geeky,
but my Cryptography students might enjoy it.
Professor Edward
Frenkel discusses the mathematics behind the NSA Surveillance
controversy.
[Or
watch the video on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulg_AHBOIQU#t=323
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