This does not instill confidence.
Danielle Nerman reports:
The president of the Privacy and Access Council of Canada says it’s not just individuals and small businesses who are shelling out to hackers who infect their computers with viruses.
“Police departments and law firms are very, very attractive targets and they pay quite often,” said Sharon Polsky, a Calgary data protection and privacy expert.
“If it’s worth it to them to regain control of their information, absolutely they’re going to pay it,” she said
Read more on CBC.ca
Life will be so much simpler when we have
eliminated the need for employees.
More than half of in-house legal counsel report that their companies are increasing spending on cybersecurity, while one-third state that their companies have experienced a data breach, according to a new report from the Washington, DC-based Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Foundation.
Read more on CanadianUnderwriter.ca.
The report will cost you $475 (yeah, right, I’ll
pass), but you can download the key findings from ACC, here.
(Related) Might be fun for my Grad students to
try answering...
Case Study:
Should He Be Fired for That Facebook Post?
This fictionalized case study will appear in a
forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary
from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be
considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name,
company or university affiliation, and email address.
How to get out of jury duty?
Rafael Olmeda reports:
Jurors who raised concerns about the availability of their personal information prompted a mistrial in a Broward murder case earlier this week.
Jeffrey Chidsey, 30, was about to go on trial Wednesday for second-degree murder in the 2009 shooting death of Cameron Fritzson outside a Davie pool hall. But one of the jurors had a question that would prove to derail the proceedings.
Read more on The
Sun Sentinel.
[From
the article:
The first juror's concern was rare, according to
the State Attorney's Office, the defense, and experts on identity
theft. While an enterprising identity thief could conceivably mine
all kinds of public records for information, national expert Rob
Douglas said he had never heard of juror information being exploited
in such a way.
"A very determined person could do it, but
does it happen on a regular basis? No, not at all," said
Douglas, who runs the Colorado-based
website IdentityTheft.info.
You can't cave in every time. Where would you
draw the line?
Turkey
fines Twitter for refusing to take down content
Turkey has fined Twitter for failing to take down
a piece of content, Reuters
reported on Friday.
A Turkish official told the wire service that the
country's communications regulator had fined the social media
platform the equivalent of $51,000 for failing to remove content it
claims is associated with "terrorist propaganda."
A person briefed on the matter said that the
dispute between Turkey and Twitter was over an account of a political
protest critical of the Turkish government.
Perhaps there is no sense of urgency. After all,
there are 18,762 airports in the US. (See:
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_03.html)
Study cites
327 'close encounters' between drones and planes
There were 327 "close encounters"
between drones and airplanes between December 2013 and September
2015, according to a new study released on Friday.
The study, conducted by The Center for the Study
of the Drone at Bard College, found that 327 of 921 incidents
involving drones and commercial flights were close enough to be
considered near-collisions, while 594 were better classified as just
sightings.
… The FAA has been in the process of
developing
rules for commercial drones for the better part of three years.
(Related) I suppose there will be all manner of
“solutions” to the drone problem.
Tokyo's
Answer To Rogue Drones? Its Own Net-Wielding Police Drone
… The issue of drones penetrating government
security garnered attention in Japan last April–a small amount of
radioactive soil from the Fukushima Prefecture was flown by a drone
onto the roof of the prime minister’s office. Needless to say, the
Japanese government was not pleased.
The new drone will have six propellers and a
3-by-2-meter net, according to the
Asahi Shimbun, and will be used by the unit in the Tokyo
Metropolitan Police in charge of patrolling the Imperial Palace, the
prime minister’s building, and the Diet building, among other
critical locations.
The next big thing?
Elon Musk
and Other Tech Titans Create Company to Develop Artificial
Intelligence
… In recent years the field of artificial
intelligence has shifted from being an obscure, dead-end backwater of
computer science to one of the defining technologies of the time.
Faster computers, the availability of large data sets, and corporate
sponsorship have developed the technology to a point where it powers
Google’s web search systems, helps Facebook Inc. understand
pictures, lets Tesla’s cars drive themselves autonomously on
highways, and allowed IBM to beat expert humans at the game show
“Jeopardy!”
I have students who read. One or two. This could
become useful as they add a bit more.
CommonLit -
Search for Thematic Discussion Questions Paired With Interesting
Texts
Almost one year ago I wrote about a new
organization called CommonLit that was developing a database of short
fiction and nonfiction texts paired with discussion questions. At
the time you could only find texts by browsing through the database.
Now you can actually search
through CommonLit on their search page. Enter a word or term on
the search page to find texts with paired questions related to your
term. You can then filter your results by grade level, theme, and
genre.
The discussion questions on CommonLit aren't your
typical "how does the author use foreshadowing?" kind of
questions. Rather the discussion questions deal with larger themes
like "how do we define the roles of men and women?" and
"why do people follow the crowd?"
Applications for Education
Commonlit's
thematic questions could be quite helpful in getting students
interested in reading. I've always found that if I can get students
engrossed in a conversation around a big question, I then have a much
easier time getting them to read materials related to the
conversation. My students tend to want to read so that they can find
more ideas to bring into their arguments in the classroom
conversation.
For my student Twits
How To Use
Twitter Without Screwing Up
… Whether you’re just looking to better
understand the social network, or hoping to avoid
embarrassing yourself on social media, keeping these five things
in mind can go a long way.
This is the kind of question we should be asking
our students every few months.
Which
Search Engine Should You Be Using Today?
Though Google
is still considered top dog in the search engine world, plenty
of alternative search providers vie for your traffic and usage.
Everyone jokes about how Bing
is just a Google impostor and that Yahoo! is abandoned, but it’s
time to move past the stereotypes and see what these search engines
can really do. Let’s compare the features of the biggest ones and
see which ones are best for what and for whom.
An incentive to upgrade to Windows 10?
Microsoft
gives Windows 10 users 10 free, full music albums for the holidays
Microsoft has a Groove-y gift for music fans
rocking Windows
10 in the United States. The company has chosen ten albums from
2015 to offer free of charge via the Windows Store.
… Each album is offered separately, which
means if you want all 10 you’ll have to redeem the free offers
one-by-one. Any albums you redeem in the Windows Store are
immediately downloaded to your PC via the Windows
10 Groove app.
It must be Saturday. Look what came in my RSS
reader!
Hack
Education Weekly News
… The Senate approved the renewal of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act – the Every Student Succeeds
Act, which will replace
No Child Left Behind. President Obama signed
the bill on Thursday.
Computer science is now
considered part of a “well-rounded
education,” according to the new law.
… “More than 100 students involved in a
sexting scandal at a southern Colorado
high school will not face criminal charges,” says
the Fremont County DA.
… According to Phil Hill, the University of
Phoenix is ditching
its “homegrown” LMS platform and adopting Blackboard Learn Ultra.
[We just installed a new
one we created. Does nothing the cheap ones don't do. Bob]
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