Encryption
is not a big deal. It certainly never rises to the level of an
excuse!
Anthem
Data Not Encrypted When Stolen (ANTM)
…
The company suspects that a stolen employee password was used by the
hackers to gain access to the database holding the customers’
records.
…
The data that was stolen was reportedly not encrypted when the
hackers launched their attack.
A
person familiar with the matter said that there is a difficult
balance with health insurers on making the information accessible to
those that need it and protecting the information from those without
access.
Copyright
your coffee maker?
Keurig
Users Unsurprisingly Reject DRM For Their Coffee
…
DRM exists on Keurig 2.0 machines to prevent its users from taking
advantage of alternative K-cup brands. Once a cup is inserted, it's
scanned for legitimacy, and is either rejected or accepted. The DRM
mechanism isn't that effective, though. One of Keurig's competitors,
Rogers Family Company, offers
anyone a free "Freedom Clip" to
bypass the DRM, and get a free "Onecup" sample, as well.
Aren't
all prescription drugs “controlled?” In other words,
“prescription” is only a bit down the slippery slope from
“controlled.”
John
Wesley Hall reports on two court rulings out of Texas concerning the
same case: United States v. Zadeh. From the court’s
opinion in one of the cases:
In this case, it is clear that the information sought by the DEA is
relevant to its investigation, but the question is whether the use of
an administrative subpoena to obtain the information sought is
reasonable. After thoroughly reviewing the case law set forth above,
the Court finds the reasoning set forth in Colorado Board of
Pharmacy—holding that properly authorized DEA subpoenas of
confidential state pharmacy records in a federal investigation of
possible CSA violations by three physicians were per se reasonable,
and thus, passed Fourth Amendment muster—more persuasive than the
analysis in Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. To begin
with, as noted by the Court in Acklen, 690 F.2d at 75, the
pharmaceutical industry is a “pervasively regulated industry” and
“virtually every phase of the drug industry is heavily regulated,
from packaging, labeling, and certification of expiration dates.”
Jamieson-McKames Pharm., Inc., 651 F.2d at 537. While the cases
discussed above mainly dealt with pharmacies and pharmacists, the
Court concludes that such analysis can easily be applied to
physicians, and in turn, their patients. Both have a reduced
expectation of privacy in the medical records regarding controlled
substances as such records are relevant to the issue of whether there
has been compliance with the CSA, a federal law that regulates
controlled substances.
Read
more on FourthAmendment.com.
It continues to disturb me that as patients, we
have (and are we supposed to know we have?) a reduced expectation of
privacy in our medical records if they involve controlled
substances.
Is
it as rare as I think that anyone copies US law?
Monika
Kuschewsky writes:
Pursuant to a press
release of the German Federal Ministry for
Justice and Consumer Protection, the German Government approved a
draft
law to strengthen the private enforcement of
certain data protection law provisions that aim to protect consumers.
In particular, the draft law empowers consumers and other qualified
associations to send cease-and-desist letters and to initiate legal
action for injunctive relief against companies violating the law’s
provisions.
Read
more on Covington & Burling Inside
Privacy.
Russia
is willing to “bail them out.” Is anyone else?
Ukraine’s
currency just collapsed 50 percent in two days
Ukraine,
to use a technical term, is broke. That's what you call a country
whose currency has lost half its value in just two days.
The
problem is simple: Ukraine has no money and barely any economy. It's
already talking
to the IMF about a $15 billion bailout and what's euphemistically
being called a debt "restructuring"—i.e., default—as
its reserves have dwindled down to $6.42
billion, only enough to cover five
weeks of imports. (Three months worth is considered the absolute
least you can get by with).
Tell
me Humor isn't a major.
Hack
Education Weekly News
…
Via
Vox: “A
program that provides contraceptives to low-income women contributed
to a 40-percent drop in Colorado’s
teen birth rate between 2009 and 2013, according to state officials.”
…
The latest Babson Survey Research Group report
on online learning
is out. Here’s
Phil Hill’s write-up.
Here’s
Inside Higher Ed’s.
The tl;dr from The Chronicle of Higher Education: “3
Things Academic Leaders Believe About Online Education.”
…
Virtual
Preschool. Yes,
really.
…
Fourth-grader Aiden Stewart has been suspended
from school for allegedly possessing Sauron’s One
Ring and
threatening to use its magical powers to make a classmate disappear.
[Huh! Bob]
Pure
coincidence: This week's lesson is Data Governance.
The
Senate on Thursday afternoon voted to dedicate next week to the
awareness of Internet governance.
Tools
for “gathering” data, not for plagerizing.
5
Ways to Strip the Formatting When You Copy & Paste Text
Dilbert
explains why Marketing is legal.
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