Be careful when using all that cheap gas.
I’m seeing a rash of reports involving card
skimmers at gas stations, most of which I’m not posting to this
blog. Here are two such reports as examples, though:
Michigan State Police and the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office are investigating reports of fraudulent credit card activity.
There have been at least 12 credit card skimmers found at Michigan gas stations within the past month. Most of them in West Michigan. Read more on WZZM.
And 127 skimmers have already been detected at
Florida gas pumps this year:
Skimming devices used to steal credit and debit card data are still being found on pumps at Florida gas stations, including a Chevron station in Riviera Beach where two skimmers were found recently, the Florida Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.
The station at 4128 Blue Heron Blvd. had skimmers at two pumps. Seven other skimmers were found and removed at stations in Brevard, Broward, Lake, Miami-Dade, Seminole, and Washington counties in the last two weeks. Read more on Palm Beach Post.
But will they?
Dan Solove and Woody Hartzog have 5 suggestions
for how FTC could use its authority to improve data security:
Here’s how we think the FTC should use its
authority to drive important change:
1. Do more proactive enforcement
2. Take on more data security cases
3. Push companies toward improved authentication – moving beyond mere passwords
4. Restrict the use of Social Security numbers for authentication purposes
5. Develop a theory of data stewardship for third parties
2. Take on more data security cases
3. Push companies toward improved authentication – moving beyond mere passwords
4. Restrict the use of Social Security numbers for authentication purposes
5. Develop a theory of data stewardship for third parties
Read their article on FierceITSecurity
for their explanation and comments.
I agree with Open State. Political speech is
largely advertising, “See how smart I am?” We should hold them
accountable for “false advertising” and all example of stupid.
Human
Rights Watch, Transparency Groups Condemn Twitter's Politwoops Ban
Last month, Twitter revoked access to its API from
Politwoops, a network of sites that automatically archived the
deleted tweets of politicians.
Twitter's rationale was that deleting tweets is an
"expression of the user's voice" and that "no one user
is more deserving of that ability than another," the company
wrote in a note to Open State Foundation, creator of Politwoops.
Open State Foundation, however, argues that the
social media posts of politicians should be part of the public
record, whether or not they are later deleted.
Twitter's protest that everyone has the right to
expunge a tweet is somewhat disingenuous; because tweets can easily
be copied, quoted, and captured by screenshot, nothing
posted to Twitter is truly retractable.
Politicians don't recognize parody.
Man
arrested for parodying mayor on Twitter gets $125K in civil lawsuit
An Illinois man arrested when his residence was
raided for parodying his town's mayor on Twitter is settling a civil
rights lawsuit with the city of Peoria for $125,000. The
accord spells out that the local authorities are not to prosecute
people for parodies or satire.
Plaintiff Jon Daniel, the operator of the
@peoriamayor handle, was initially accused last year of impersonating
a public official in violation of Illinois law. However, the
30-year-old was never charged. His arrest was kicked off after the
local mayor, Jim Ardis, was concerned that the tweets in that account
falsely portrayed him as a drug abuser who associates with
prostitutes. One tweet Ardis was concerned about said, "Who
stole my crackpipe?"
As part of the agreement,
(PDF) which includes legal fees, his attorneys from the American
Civil Liberties Union said Peoria will publish a "directive"
to the police department making it clear that Illinois law
criminalizing impersonation of a public official does not include
parody and satire.
"The directive makes clear that parody should
never be the predicate for a criminal investigation and that the
action against Mr. Daniel should never be repeated again," Karen
Sheley, an ACLU attorney, said in a statement.
No doubt there will be speculation that Amazon (or
Alibaba?) will buy Uber.
Uber is
just what retailers need to take on Amazon
Uber may have started as a ride-sharing app but
it’s trying to morph into a full-blown transportation company,
applying its knowhow of moving millions of people around to
delivering groceries, clothes, and other packages.
This fall, Uber is planning to announce a
partnership with dozens of popular retailers and fashion brands to
speedily deliver their goods, reports Recode’s Jason Del Ray.
This is not going away.
Clintons
personally paid State Department staffer to maintain server
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally
paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private e-mail server
she used while heading the agency, according to an official from
Clinton’s presidential campaign.
… according to the campaign official, it also
ensured that taxpayer dollars were not spent on a private server that
was shared by Clinton, her husband and their daughter as well as
aides to the former president.
That State Department staffer, Bryan Pagliano,
told a congressional committee this week that he would invoke his
Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination instead of
testifying about the setup.
The private employment of Pagliano provides a new
example of the ways that Clinton — who occupied a unique role as a
Cabinet secretary who was also a former and potentially future
presidential candidate — hired staff to work simultaneously for her
in public and private capacities.
(Related)
Hillary
Clinton's Favorable Rating One of Her Worst
… Currently, 41% of U.S. adults say they have
a favorable opinion of the Democratic front-runner, while 51% hold an
unfavorable view.
(Related) I just find the quote amusing.
Clinton:
Email system not 'best choice' but she didn't 'stop and think' about
it
These are the ones my Business Intelligence
students should be tracking.
Here Are
the Fastest Growing Social Networks You Need to Join
My geeks will love this. I'll need to look into
how I can use it with my non-geek students.
LinkedIn
Open-Sources FeatureFu, A Toolkit For Building Machine Learning
Models
My industry constantly amuses me.
Hack
Education Weekly News
… A law protecting student data has been
signed in Delaware – privacy legislation is a “trend,”
says Education Week.
… The Department of Education announced
it was awarding $25 million in grants to Twin Cities Public
Television and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for kids’
TV. [Perhaps
they have not heard that kids don't watch TV any longer. Bob]
… The Washington State Supreme Court has just
ruled that charter schools are unconstitutional.
… Public school parents do not have a
constitutional right to decide where to send their children to school
(unless they choose to enroll their child in a private school), the
Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.
… “The family of a student at the Fay School
in Southboro has filed a lawsuit claiming the school’s strong Wi-Fi
signal caused the boy to become ill,” the
Worcester Telegram reports.
… “New report finds ongoing iPad and
technology problems at L.A. Unified,” reports
The LA Times’ Howard Blume. (And according
to the LA School Report, there are hints there may be more
problems arising from the FBI’s investigation into the
Pearson/Apple/LAUSD deal.)
… According to a survey conducted by the
University of Phoenix, “K–12
Teachers Use Social Media at Home, But Not in Class.”
… Via
the School Library Journal: “The State of the School Ebook
Market.”
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