“The
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
cellphones, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated...”
Perhaps I'll have my Criminal Justice students build a “Get a
Warrant!” App.
'Get
a warrant' to search cellphones, Justices say
In
an emphatic defense of privacy in the digital age, a unanimous
Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police generally may not search
the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search
warrants.
Cellphones
are unlike anything else police may find on someone they arrest,
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court. They are "not
just another technological convenience," he said, but
ubiquitous, increasingly powerful computers that contain vast
quantities of personal, sensitive information.
"With
all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many
Americans the privacies of life," Roberts declared.
(On
the other hand) If he refuses, is he automatically guilty of
whatever crime he is charged with? Do they lock him up until he
complies? What is proper?
Elizabeth
Barber reports:
Police can order an accused criminal to decrypt his computer without
violating his constitutional right against self-incrimination,
Massachusetts’ top court said on Wednesday.
In the latest U.S. ruling on the contentious issue, the 5-2 ruling by
the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reverses a lower court’s
finding that police could not force Leon Gelfgatt, charged with
mortgage fraud, to decrypt four computers seized in an investigation,
since doing so would violate his Fifth Amendment right.
The court found that since
Gelfgatt had told investigators that the computer belonged to him and
that he had the encryption key, police could compel him to decrypt
his files.
Read
more on Reuters.
Sometimes
you win, sometimes the justices make a HUGE error. I don't see how
Aereo is like a cable system other than the very early “community
antenna” services. But here's a potential business opportunity.
What if I buy the antennas from Aereo and put them in stand-alone
boxes. Then I sell the boxes to individuals who can grab over the
air signals and send them to their computer.
Supreme
Court Rules Against Aereo, a TV Streaming Service
…
The 6 to 3 decision handed a major victory to the broadcast
networks, which argued that Aereo’s business model was no more than
a high-tech approach for stealing their content.
…
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, writing for the majority, said the
service was “not simply an equipment provider,” but acted
like a cable system in that it transmitted copyrighted
content. “Insofar as there are differences,” he wrote, “those
differences concern not the nature of the service that Aereo provides
so much as the technological manner in which it provides the
service.”
…
In a dissent that expressed distaste for Aereo’s business model,
Justice Antonin Scalia said that the
service had nevertheless identified a loophole in the law.
“It is not the role of this court to identify and plug loopholes,”
he wrote. “It is the
role of good lawyers to identify and exploit them, and the
role of Congress to eliminate them if it wishes.”
…
Chet Kanojia, Aereo’s founder and chief executive, said that Aereo
had worked to create a technology that complied with the law.
“Today’s decision
clearly states that how the technology works does not matter,”
he said.
…
Subscribers to Aereo paid $8 to $12 a month to rent one of the
start-up’s dime-size antennas that captured over-the-air television
signals. Users then could watch near-live TV and record programs on
major broadcast networks such as ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox.
In
combination with other Internet services like Netflix and Hulu, it
could provide much of a viewer’s television diet at a fraction of
the cost of a cable or satellite television bill.
…
The case, ABC Inc. v. Aereo, No. 13-461, turned on a part of the
copyright law that requires the permission of copyright owners for
“public performances” of their work. The law defines such
performances to include retransmission to the public.
Aereo
had argued that its transmissions were private performances because
it assigned an individual antenna to every viewer, but Justice Breyer
rejected that argument as well.
(Related)
Aereo
and the Strange Case of Broadcasters Who Don’t Want to Be Broadcast
Right
now, my Ethical hackers have to go state by state. Imagine how much
easier this will be when the Feds have all the data in one place!
Montana
Health Department Hacked
Hackers
breached
a server in the State of Montana's Department
of Public Health and Human Services, prompting officials to
notify 1.3 million people
of the incident.
There
is no evidence this information was used inappropriately -- or even
accessed -- but the state is offering free credit monitoring and
identity protection insurance to potentially affected individuals,
said Richard Opper, DPHHS director. Montana also is alerting family
members of deceased patients.
Officials
discovered the breach after an independent forensic investigation
determined a DPHHS server had been hacked. The department ordered
the May 22 investigation from Kroll
after DPHHS officials first noticed "suspicious activity"
on May 15, Jon Ebelt, DPHHS public information officer, told
InformationWeek.
Perhaps
I could get access to the requests and publish them (and archived web
pages). I'll call my site, “Hey! Look what this guy's trying to
hide!”
Google
removes first search results after EU ruling
…
Google received over 41,000 requests over four days after it put up
an online form allowing Europeans to request that search results be
removed.
We
may be teaching classes on how to do this. It's really quite simple.
How
Police Are Scanning All Of Twitter To Detect Terrorist Threats
When
Boston officials decided to monitor Twitter during this year's
marathon, they didn't scan the site's 500 million daily posts for
signs of trouble.
Dataminr
did that for them.
The
company's software sorts through millions of tweets for clues about
major events or emerging threats, flagging mentions of everything
from fires to suspicious packages and sending real-time alerts to
customers.
…
Dataminr is one of several companies marketing such products to
police departments. A company called BrightPlanet is selling
a tool called Blue Jay that allows law enforcement officers to
listen to what gang members say on Twitter and track their movements.
The FBI is also building its own application to monitor social media
posts for words like "bomb,"
"suspicious package" and "white powder."
…
"The problem is if you don't have a specific law enforcement
purpose for using the monitoring tools," said Keenan. "Why
are you monitoring tweets? What type of information are you going to
be collecting? How long are you going to retain it? That has to be
addressed before you employ the technology."
…
Bailey said Dataminr customers can only use the software to track
major events on Twitter and can't use it to single out individuals or
anti-government tweets. He added that Dataminr customers can't store
tweets permanently. [We
can fix those problems. Bob]
(Related)
Hey, it's for your own good! (As determined by us)
So
no sooner do I post Dr.
Deborah Peel’s talk about commercial entities data-mining and
selling our information, then Joe Cadillic sends me a link to an
article by Shannon Pettypiece and Jordan
Robertson of Bloomberg:
You may soon get a call from your doctor if you’ve let your gym
membership lapse, made a habit of picking up candy bars at the
check-out counter or begin shopping at plus-sized stores.
That’s because some hospitals are starting to use detailed consumer
data to create profiles on current
and potential patients to identify those most likely to
get sick, so the hospitals can intervene before they do.
Information compiled by data brokers from public records and credit
card transactions can reveal where a person shops, the food they buy,
and whether they smoke. The largest hospital chain in the Carolinas
is plugging data for 2 million people into algorithms designed to
identify high-risk patients, while Pennsylvania’s biggest system
uses household and demographic data. Patients and their advocates,
meanwhile, say they’re concerned that big data’s expansion into
medical care will hurt the doctor-patient relationship and threaten
privacy.
Read
more on Bloomberg.
And then maybe watch
Dr. Peel’s talk if you didn’t watch it before.
The
kind of quote you want to use in your advertising. I wonder if that
was part of the contract? (Or if they want more targets to use an
easily accessible service?)
SHOCKER:
CIA CIO CAN confirm that AWS cloud safe for big government
In
an eyebrow raising presentation the chief information officer for the
US's foreign spying wing, the CIA, has praised the cloud computing
capabilities of Amazon Web Services and said the agency wants to
expand its use of the company's tech.
CIA
CIO Doug Wolfe spoke at an event in Washington on Tuesday where he
said he was confident the spy group would "end up in a very good
quality product, and a very
secure product," after awarding a procurement
contract to the company worth as much as $600m.
…
"You're going to start seeing exactly what your consumption
cost, and start understanding exactly how server storage processing,
et cetera, was applied to the problem. So we see this as a
tremendous opportunity to sharpen our focus and be very efficient."
[Information you get from
analyzing your logs. Anyone could
do it. Bob]
See?
Anyone can do it!
16
Year Old Coder Launches Browser Extension That Reveals Congressional
Campaign Financing
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Jun 25, 2014
“A
free
browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari that exposes
the role money plays in Congress. Displays on any web page detailed
campaign contribution data for every Senator and Representative,
including total amount received and breakdown by industry and by size
of donation. Puts vital data where it’s most relevant so you can
discover the real impact of money on our political system. A free
browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari that exposes the
role money plays in Congress. Displays
on any web page detailed campaign contribution data for every Senator
and Representative, including total amount received and breakdown by
industry and by size of donation.
Puts vital data where it’s most relevant so you can discover the
real impact of money on our political system.”
For
my Statistics students. (I just love reading about standard
deviation...)
For
PGA Players, Driving Now Beats Putting as the Most Lucrative Skill
As
golf courses used by the Professional Golfers’ Association have
changed in recent years—with the fairways getting longer, the grass
height in the rough being cut shorter, and the cups being shifted to
locations that are harder to reach—driving has replaced putting as
the professional golfer’s top money-making skill, according to a
study by Carson D. Baugher and Jonathan P. Day of Western Illinois
University and Elvin W. Burford Jr. of Junior’s Shaft Shack in
Forest, Virginia. Previous studies showed that putting was a
player’s most lucrative capability, but drawing on recent PGA Tour
data, the researchers found that a 1-standard-deviation
increase in driving distance would have boosted a player’s
earnings by an average of $671,779.15 in 2013,
whereas the same relative increase in putting skills would have
raised his earnings by just $510,195.91. Iron,
chipping, and sand skills remain significantly less important than
driving and putting.
For
my students.
5
Easy Tools To Listen To Online Radio Stations On Windows
No comments:
Post a Comment