The downside of being connected to the whole
world? Another area where ignorance is rampant?
Broadly
Shared Files a High Risk for Enterprise Data: Report
Broadly
shared files represent a high security risk for organizations, as 1
in 10 contain sensitive corporate data, Blue Coat’s Shadow Data
Report for the second half of 2015 reveals.
According
to the report (PDF),
many
organizations are not aware of the fact that 26 percent of documents
shared in cloud services are broadly shared.
Employees are increasingly using cloud apps to share information
within the organization and with partners and customers, which
creates a threat otherwise known as “Shadow Data”.
Shadow
data includes sensitive information uploaded and shared via cloud
apps without prior consent from the IT security team.
… According
to Blue Coat, the concept of Shadow Data is different from that of
Shadow IT, which involves the use of IT systems and applications,
including SaaS apps, without the knowledge or consent of a company’s
IT department. According to a recent
study from Cisco, large enterprises use on average 1,220
individual public cloud services, 25 times more than IT professionals
estimate.
“Our
strategy is to do pretty much anything we want to do, whenever we
want to do it, no matter how it relates to secure transportation.
Our security theater is better (more dramatic, not more secure) if we
can force people to enter a box where we can zap them with x-rays.”
Derrick Broze reports:
On January 13, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) issued a letter to the Transportation Security Administration and lawmakers regarding the TSA’s recent decision to make airport body scans a mandatory procedure.
The coalition, which includes the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and anti-biometrics group the Constitutional Alliance, said they were writing to Congress “regarding the TSA’s recent claim that it can mandate whole body scanning for airline passengers.”
Read more on Truth
in Media.
[From the
article:
As was widely reported,
new TSA security procedures were instituted without notice in
December 2015, just prior to the 2015 holiday travel crush. The new
procedures made mandatory a full body scan for some passengers.
… Details regarding the legal background on
the new procedures and on the TSA’s failure to issue a final rule
can be found in the coalition
letter. Additional background on the TSA’s new no opt-out
scans policy implemented in December can be found here.
(Related) It's not secret, we just won't tell you
what it is.
… In an ongoing Freedom of Information Act
suit, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has sought the guidelines
used by the Justice Department in deciding when federal agents can
use National Security Letters to pursue information about reporters.
DOJ recently produced
documents in response to the suit. They confirm that the
rules governing the use of NSLs in media leak cases remain
classified. That undue secrecy cripples any real
opportunity for public oversight of a process already encased in
layers of secrecy.
I
think it still needs some tweeking.
Michael Power writes:
Manitoba’s Intimate Image Protection Act came into force on 15 January 2016. The statute does something that I think is especially noteworthy – it creates a new privacy tort concerning the “non-consensual distribution of intimate images”. In short, Manitoba becomes the first Canadian province to provide victims of revenge porn with a common law remedy and the ability to sue the perpetrators for damages.
Read more on MichaelPower.ca.
It's not a funny now.
Evan Brown writes:
A federal court has held that a plaintiff has successfully pled a claim of “appropriation” (essentially, right of publicity claim) against former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal, for Shaq’s use of plaintiff’s photo on Twitter and Instagram. The case is useful inasmuch as it shows how courts will consider social media as providing a benefit to its user.
Shaq acquired a photo of plaintiff, who suffers from a condition that affects his hair, skin and teeth, then placed a photo of himself making a contorted face next to the photo, apparently to imitate the way plaintiff appeared. Given that Shaq has millions of followers, this garnered many, many likes and comments. (I of course won’t republish the image here, but if you really want to see it, just do a Google Image search using the parties’ last names.)
Plaintiff sued under several theories, including intentional infliction of emotional distress, appropriation, and unjust enrichment.
Read more on InternetCases.
Amusing.
Emma Reynolds reports on how fraudster Daniel
Rigmaiden became suspicious of how the government had tracked his
movements and began to investigate. From jail, he filed freedom of
information requests and reached out to then-graduate student Chris
Soghoian. For the past three years, the two have continued trying to
uncover the use of “stingray” devices by law enforcement around
the country.
Read more on news.com.au.
Reynolds really has the makings of a made-for-tv movie with this
story!
[From
the article:
… Rigmaiden was released on a plea deal after
five years in jail. He was taking up too much time and resources, he
believes, with three prosecutors assigned to his case, along with the
FBI and Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Should schools block this?
Yik Yak
Launches On The Web
Yik
Yak, the anonymous, location-based social network that has taken
college campuses by storm, has today launched a web client.
… To get going on the web, users simply add
the same phone number they use with the mobile app, and verify their
anonymous web profile to sync up with the profile they use in the
mobile app. This way, things like Yik Yak Karma and comments, etc.
are all the same from mobile to web.
After that, pretty much everything on the web
version looks and feels the same as the mobile version, except now
users can type out their yaks on a real keyboard.
The world is changing. My students love Uber and
are willing to pay more than bus fare to get a door-to-door ride.
GM Enters
Car-Sharing With Limited Rollout
The nation’s largest auto maker is placing a bet
on a future where more people don’t own their own vehicles.
General Motors
Co. launched a car-sharing
service on Wednesday that competes with Zipcar, Car2Go and similar
companies that target students, city-dwellers and others who don’t
own vehicles but would rent one on occasion.
(Related) There will soon be an App for that.
Urban
Transport App Citymapper Snags $40M From Index, Benchmark, Yuri
Milner, Others
People who don’t take Uber frequently
take the bus. And those Europeans folks now
include some rather high profile investors in London-based urban
transport startup Citymapper
— who have just poured $40 million into a new Series B round for
its app which algorithmically
knits together different transit options to help city dwellers
quickly figure out how to get from A to B.
If there is pressure to allow longer tweets, why
do my students groan and moan when I ask them to write a short paper?
Weibo,
Beating Twitter to the Punch, Lengthens its 140-Character Limit
… Weibo
Corp., China’s homegrown version of Twitter
Inc. that is part of Chinese Internet company Sina
Corp., said it is planning to ditch its 140-character limit so users
can write longer posts, according
to China’s Xinhua News.
“The hills are alive
With a kind of droning...”
After
scolding from FAA, Dallas Cowboys get permission to fly drones at
practice
Back in April of 2015, Cowboys head coach Jason
Garrett held
a press conference, during which he casually mentioned that the
team had started to use drones during practice
… A very cool use of technology, but
unfortunately one that is currently
illegal without special permission from the Federal Aviation
Administration. After the FAA brought the issue to the team, the
Cowboys applied for a 333 exemption, which the FAA granted
to the team last week.
… The National Football League, a larger
entity that sits atop of the individual teams, has also
been granted permission to fly drones. Don't be surprised to see
the NFL try out some interesting new camera angles in the years to
come, or perhaps even at the league's upcoming milestone, Superbowl
50.
(Related) It's probably safer than all those
selfie sticks...
FAA
approves ski-video drones
… The drone startup Cape Productions follows
skiers down the slopes with remote-controlled aircraft to record
video of their runs. The San Francisco company announced Wednesday
that the Federal Aviation Administration gave it approval to fly
hundreds of feet closer to people than previously allowed.
… The FAA approval will allow Cape Productions
to bring home the knowledge accumulated recording skiers since
December 2014 at the Fernie Alpine Resort in British Columbia, where
regulations made it easier to fly drones. Cape also recorded the
U.S. Ski Team in New Zealand to supplement training.
… The company plans to expand later this
season to Winter Park, Colo.;
Powder Mountain Resort in Utah; Timberline Lodge and Ski Area and
Mount Hood Meadows Resort in Oregon; Mountain Creek Resort in New
Jersey and Schweitzer Mountain Resort in Idaho.
“...and your point is?”
Apple says
it has helped create over a million European jobs
Apple’s
relationship with Europe intensified this morning, as the company
announced its new App Development Center in Italy and revealed
previously unseen data exploring the impact of the App economy on
European employment.
iOpportunity
It is interesting to note the claims on job
creation come as European tax authorities continue
to consider how much tax the company owes in the region. Apple
claims to have helped create well over a million jobs across Europe.
A question for my students. Will this catch on or
die?
Brave
Software's New Browser Nukes Ads That Track You
… Eich’s new startup Brave
Software aims to chlorinate online advertising with a new
ad-blocking Web browser it released
today for software developers and early adopters (that means not
mere mortals like us yet), along with a connected cloud service that
will enable placement of select new ads that don’t track your
online activities
“We know you guys are extremely gullible, so you
will probably believe that we are sorry that we have to do this and
that it has nothing to do with our bank accounts in Switzerland.”
ISIS cuts
its fighters' salaries by 50%
… ISIS soldiers earn between $400 and $1,200 a
month, plus a $50 stipend for their wives and $25 for each child,
according to the Congressional Research Service.
For my Data Management students. Feeding our
ongoing debate about Facebook taking over the world.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-facebook-loving-farmers-of-myanmar/424812/
The
Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar
… Many of the farmers we spoke with had never
owned a smartphone before. The villages were often without running
water or electricity, but they buzzed with newly minted cell towers
and strong 3G signals. For them, everything networked was new.
Almost all of the farmers we spoke with were
Facebook users. None had heard of Twitter. How they used Facebook
was not dissimilar to how many of us in the west see and think of
Twitter: as a source of news, a place where you can follow your
interests. The majority, however, didn’t see the social platform
as a place to be particularly social or to connect with and stay up
to date on comings and goings within their villages.
My students were discussing how Google made money.
Google’s
new Real-Time Ads sound a lot like Twitter
Aiming to sell more ads during live events, Google
officially unveiled
a new ad product today called Real-Time Ads.
The product, Google says, enables brands to push
out ads in real time to YouTube, as well as to “hundreds of
thousands of apps, and the 2 million plus sites in the Google Display
Network.” Still in beta, the product’s first major test will be
the upcoming Super Bowl — and site-builder Wix has committed to
using it during the event, Google said.
Perhaps the greatest self-promoter since
P.T.Barnum?
The
MegaNet: How an Internet Without IP Addresses Would Work
The Internet is without a doubt one of the most
important inventions in modern history. Never before have we had
unfettered access to the wealth of the world’s knowledge with just
a few keystrokes.
It’s also a flawed vehicle that’s ripe for
corruption, and Kim Dotcom
hopes to change all that.
According to him, MegaNet will be a newer, better
version of the same Internet we all know and love. It’ll feature
heavy end-to-end encryption, no IP addresses, and a decentralized
structure that makes operation a “for the people, by the people”
proposition rather than relying on gatekeepers and government
regulation.
For my nerdy geeks who read.
The Best
Star Wars Books All Fans Need to Read
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