It’s time once again for the
Privacy Foundation at University of Denver Sturm College of Law to
have its fall seminar! It will be taking place October
26th,
from 10:00am-1:00pm (with lunch to follow) at the Ricketson Law
Building. The topic is: The EU GDPR (General Directive on Privacy
Regulation): Impact on the U.S.
Three CLE
credits are pending. The seminar will be free to DU
Faculty/Staff/Students/Mentors, and $30 for the general public;
additional contributions to the Privacy Foundation, a 501 (c) (3)
non-profit, are always welcome. You can find all this information
and register online at: http://dughost.imodules.com/gdpr.
Sound familiar? All that security stuff is so
tedious.
Zack Whittaker reports:
FitMetrix, a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by gym booking giant Mindbody, has exposed millions of user records because it left several of its servers without a password.
The company builds fitness tracking software for gyms and group classes that displays heart rate and other fitness metric information for interactive workouts. FitMetrix was acquired by gym and wellness scheduling service Mindbody earlier this year for $15.3 million, according to a government filing.
Last week, a security researcher found three FitMetrix unprotected servers leaking customer data.
Read more on TechCrunch.
Expect many, many more.
Twitter
Under Formal Investigation for How It Tracks Users in the GDPR Era
… When Twitter (twtr,
+3.67%) users put links into tweets, the service applies its own
link-shortening service, t.co, to them. Twitter says
this allows the platform to measure how many times a link has been
clicked, and helps it to fight the spread of malware through dodgy
links.
However, privacy researcher Michael Veale, who
works at University College London, suspects that Twitter gets more
information when people click on t.co links, and that it might use
them to track those people as they surf the web, by leaving cookies
in their browsers.
As is his right under the new General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)—the sweeping set of privacy
rules that came into effect across the EU in May—Veale asked
Twitter to give him all the personal data it holds on him.
The company refused to hand over the data it
recorded when Veale clicked on links in other people’s tweets,
claiming that providing
this information would take a disproportionate effort.
So, in August, Veale complained to the Irish Data Protection
Commission (DPC), which on Thursday told him it was opening an
investigation. As is common with big tech firms, Twitter’s
European operations are headquartered in Dublin, which is why Veale
complained in Ireland.
Perspective. Artificial people don’t look
cartoonish any more.
Magic
Leap’s Mica AI Is Like A 21st Century Rorschach Test
Magic Leap introduced a concept called Mica and
called it “her” during a section of its 3-hour keynote this week
about how an artificial intelligence could operate as an assistant to
humans.
I feel like I met in person what Magic Leap showed
in its video.
Perspective. Sometimes it’s hard to picture how
big the Indian market is.
5 days, $1
billion: Flipkart and Amazon spur Indian smartphone bonanza
The battle for India's online shoppers has
triggered a smartphone gold rush.
Flipkart and Amazon are leading an online sales
bonanza that will see Indians buy smartphones worth over $1 billion
in just five days, according to tech consultancy Counterpoint
Research.
Bangalore-based Flipkart said it sold
1 million devices during the first hour of an online phone
sale on Thursday that was part of its "Big Billion Days"
shopping festival. By the end of the day, it had sold more than 3
million phones.
… More than 300 million Indians now have
smartphones, a number that is growing
rapidly as tech companies and the Indian government attempt to
bring the rest of the country's 1.3 billion people online.
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