From the Privacy
Foundation at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver.
HIPAA
Privacy: Current Developments
Lunch Seminar –
Friday, April 4, 2014
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
(followed by lunch)
Well, that's just
silly. (or is it intended to legalize NSA's database of “old”
emails?)
Jason C. Gavejian
writes:
The
United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
recently held
in Bruce v. McDonald that the “mere access” of an
e-mail account and subsequent printing/possession of e-mails from the
same account did not constitute an “interception” in violation of
the federal
Wiretap Act.
Under
the Wiretap Act, as amended
by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, criminal and civil
liability is imposed on any person who intentionally intercepts any
electronic communication. The Wiretap Act also imposes liability on
any person who intentionally discloses,” or “intentionally uses,
the contents of an electronic communication “knowing or having
reason to know” the communication was intercepted in violation the
Wiretap Act. Thus, “interception” is a necessary element for
each type of violation.
Read more on Workplace
Privacy Data Management & Security Report.
[From
the article:
… the Eleventh
Circuit Court of Appeals has adopted a “narrow reading” of
“interception” in the context of electronic communications. In
United
States v. Steiger (318 F.3d 1039 (11th Cir. 2003), the court
concluded that to constitute an interception, the electronic
communications must have been acquired “contemporaneously with
their transmission.”
I always thought
Phillips was one of the smart ones.
Graham Cluley writes:
A
researcher has discovered that so-called Smart TVs from Philips
suffer from a number of serious security flaws that could allow
hackers to not only steal information from attached USB sticks, and
play pornographic movies as a prank, but also pilfer authentication
cookies which could give them access to viewers’ online accounts.
Read more on
GrahamCluley.com.
[From
the article:
According to Auriemma,
a recent firmware update for Philips Smart TVs enabled a feature
called “Miracast” which turns the TV into a Wi-Fi access point
for the purpose of showing video content on nearby computers and
smartphones.
Unfortunately, the
authentication password for the devices beaming over their video
content is hardcoded on the Philips Smart TV and no PIN is
required to authorise a new Wi-Fi connection.
What is the password,
you wonder? Well, here it is… Miracast
The world is “change
averse.” Part of that is the belief that no change could be an
improvement.
What
Does Hashtag Mean to Twitter: Twitter Users May See Hashtags and @
Replies Removed From Page
In case you haven't
heard, Twitter might eliminate #-hashtags and @-replies. At this
point this is just a rumor, but a pretty scary one.
Vivian Schiller, head
of News at Twitter, called the #-hashtags and @-replies "arcane,"
at a recent presentation at the Newspaper Association of America's
MediaXChange Conference in Denver.
Schiller also stated that "We are working on moving the
scaffolding of Twitter into the background."
Well, that set off a
firestorm of surprise and shock.
Leading is more than
“being first” (I do like the idea of a log of access requests.)
Noting that “FERPA is
not getting the job done,” Daniel Solove and Paul Schwartz
describe how legislation in California could set a new higher bar for
student privacy:
What
of educational privacy law in California? The core interest in this
area of the state’s law is transparency. California law permits
parents to access the school records of their children (see Cal.
Ed. Code § 49069). It also requires schools to
maintain a log of all individuals and organizations that request
information from school records. Finally, California
limits access to these logs and records to parents, school officials
and certain kinds of governmental officials.
The
next step in this privacy saga took place in February 2014 when
California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg proposed the
Student
Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA).
Read more on
SafeGov.org
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