Just a reminder:
The
Privacy Foundation at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Privacy
Foundation Event: Workplace Privacy and
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Friday,
April 20, 2018 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Register
online HERE:
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“Warrants,
there’s an App for that!” A response to savvy repeat offenders,
could this make obtaining warrants for other searches easier?
Robert McCoppin reports:
Police in McHenry County will be out for blood with drivers who refuse to take breath tests for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
And the practice of officers immediately seeking blood draws from those who won’t submit to a breath screen appears to be spreading, with Lake County also planning to adopt a similar policy.
The strategy in many departments takes advantage of technology that allows police to generate an “e-warrant” that can be sent electronically to a judge for review right from a curbside traffic stop.
Read more on Chicago
Tribune.
via Joe Cadillic
So… does this e-warrant approach also apply to
applications to search a driver’s or passenger’s cell phone or
devices? What would the police have to provide to a judge to get a
judge to sign the warrant? And should searching the device be
treated any differently than requiring a blood draw?
As you may have guessed, I’m still working on my
first cup of coffee this morning and finding the news puzzling….
This is an old hack, but I have a new batch of
Computer Security students who must start thinking of the threat from
Things on the Internet of Things.
Hackers
stole a casino's high-roller database through a thermometer in the
lobby fish tank
Is the world headed this way? How long can the US
resist?
Michael Bahar, Mary Jane Wilson-Bilik, Alexander
F.L. Sand, and Trevor J. Satnick of Eversheds Sutherland write:
With enactment of the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Bermuda can now count itself among the ever-expanding list of jurisdictions with enhanced privacy protections. PIPA, passed on July 27, 2016, and entered into force in December 2017, shares many of the more stringent requirements and protections with Europe’s impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which indicates a growing, global trend towards stepped-up privacy regimes. That said, as much as there are similarities between the regulations, there are important differences, especially for those companies which also must comply with US privacy laws.
Read more on Eversheds
Sutherland.
[From
the article:
Like the GDPR, PIPA defines personal information
(PI) more broadly than the US typically does. For Bermuda, PI is
“any information about an identified or identifiable
individual.” Under GDPR, personal data is “any
information relating to an identified or identifiable natural
person.”
This is useful for all my students.
NIST –
Cyber Resiliency Considerations for the Engineering of Trustworthy
Secure Systems
“This publication is intended to be used in
conjunction with NIST
Special Publication 800-160 Volume 1, Systems Security Engineering –
Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of
Trustworthy Secure Systems. It can be viewed as a handbook for
achieving the identified cyber resiliency outcomes based on a systems
engineering perspective on system life cycle processes, allowing
the experience and expertise of the organization to determine what is
correct for its purpose. Organizations can select, adapt,
and use some or all of the cyber resiliency constructs (i.e., goals,
objectives, techniques, approaches, and design principles) described
in this publication and apply them to the technical, operational, and
threat environments for which systems need to be engineered.
I have to agree with the author, this raises a
number of questions. Is the Pentagon learning to speak Trump Talk?
Do they have a much faster method of identifying trolls than Facebook
claims?
… So far, Russia hasn’t given any signs it
intends to truly escalate
the situation, possibly in part because the White House has
actually not
yet settled on a comprehensive strategy. But Pentagon
spokesperson Dana White did trot out a bizarre statistic on “Russian
trolls” on Saturday, telling reporters, “The Russian
disinformation campaign has already begun. There has been a 2,000
percent increase in Russian trolls in the last 24 hours.”
… It’s entirely plausible that Russia’s
“Troll Army” did mobilize and pull some weekend shifts in
response to the events in Syria. It’s much less clear where White
pulled the 2,000 percent statistic from, or whether that number is
particularly significant—while trolls have gathered to talk shit or
simply try
to hijack the discussion around the events in Syria, the same
could be said of most noteworthy events.
Perspective. Remember that scene in “2001 A
space odyssey” where the astronauts lock themselves in a
shuttle and HAL reads their lips?
Google
works out a fascinating, slightly scary way for AI to isolate voices
in a crowd
The company says this tech works on videos with a
single audio track and can isolate voices in a video algorithmically,
depending on who's talking, or by having a user manually select the
face of the person whose voice they want to hear.
Google says the visual component here is key, as
the tech watches for when a person's mouth is moving to better
identify which voices to focus on at a given point and to create more
accurate individual speech tracks for the length of a video.
Perspective. I also see this as a method of
ensuring that money/food reaches the intended recipients.
Inside the
Jordan refugee camp that runs on blockchain
… And if the man behind the project, WFP
executive Houman Haddad, has his way, the blockchain-based program
will do far more than save money. It will tackle a central problem
in any humanitarian crisis: how do you get people without government
identity documents or a bank account into a financial and legal
system where those things are prerequisites to getting a job and
living a secure life?
Perspective. Do this result from targeting the
symptom rather than the cause?
Amid FOSTA
crackdown, sex workers find refuge on Mastodon
… With the news that
President
Trump has signed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex
Trafficking Act (FOSTA), their options will continue to dwindle —
and with it, the ability for many sex workers to pay their bills, let
alone do
so safely.
Over the past few weeks, sex
workers have been turning to an unexpected platform to remain online:
the social network Mastodon,
under a new instance
called “Switter.” Melbourne-based company Assembly Four created
Switter after its founders learned that social media platforms were
either removing sex workers’ content or banning their accounts.
Without the time or resources to build a whole new network from
scratch, the group turned to Mastodon.
… Switter, which uses a
domain hosted in Austria, offers a workaround to this US legislation.
As an open-source platform, Mastodon mimics the look and function of
Twitter. Rather than rely on a single flagship site, however, it
functions
through a series of networks called instances. These instances
can be connected to others, or they can exist as standalone networks.
Since its launch last month, Switter has grown to become the sixth
largest instance, according to Mastodon
Network Monitoring. “The ability to communicate and share
information with your peers is absolutely critical in the modern
age,” says J, an Assembly Four employee who goes by a single-letter
handle. “With FOSTA already having wide-reaching effects, we
realised that we needed to come up with a safe place for sex workers
to communicate, and fast.”
The ultimate suggestion
box?
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