...and
it only took them 9 years?
Google
Finds Cheap Way Out of Multibillion-Dollar ‘Wi-Spy’ Suit
Google
is
poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit that
was once called the biggest
U.S. wiretap case ever and
threatened the internet giant with billions of dollars in damages.
The
settlement would close the books on a scandal that was touched off by
vehicles used by Google for its Street View mapping project. Cars
and trucks scooped up emails, passwords and other personal
information from unencrypted household Wi-Fi networks belonging to
tens of millions of people all over the world.
Stay
current!
New
Cyber Attack Trends Report Reveals That Digital Criminals Made Off
With $45 Billion in 2018
… The
current Cyber
Incident & Breach Trends Report reveals
that although overall incidents of cyber crime are actually down
across the board, the financial impact is way up. The $45 billion
stolen in 2018 alone accounts for over a third of the entire cyber
crime take since 2013.
… Ransomware
losses rose by 60% in spite of the downturn in overall incidents,
business email compromise losses rose by a staggering 200%, and there
were three times as many cryptojacking incidents.
… Perhaps
the most eye-catching number in the entire report is that 95%
of these attacks were determined to be preventable.
Call
it an e-arms race.
What's
keeping generals up at night? Cyber threats
… At
the Aspen Security Forum, Pentagon leaders and industry chiefs said
the biggest arms race that America faces might be in cyberspace,
where even smaller nations
such as North Korea and Iran could bring havoc to U.S. soil.
The annual forum draws security experts from around America and the
globe to address threats and policy conundrums during a three-day
confab.
The
big topic Friday was how America could be losing its lead in computer
warfare.
… America,
the world's most computer-dependent nation, is especially vulnerable
to cyber attack. From power grids to new refrigerators, America
relies on internet-connected devices that could become the first
targets in a new war.
… Edward
Screven, chief architect for tech giant Oracle, said the military is
facing what many businesses have struggled with: battling
21st-century problems with 20th-century technology infrastructure.
"They
have built lots of different stovepipes with lots of different
technologies," he said.
With
so many systems scattered around the military's vast holdings, the
Pentagon is left with too many things to defend from cyber attack, he
said.
Because
these are rare.
China
Releases Updated Draft Encryption Law for Public Comment
On
July 5, 2019, China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s
Congress (NPC) published a new draft Encryption
Law (“the
draft Law”) for public comment. The draft Law, if enacted as
drafted, would bring significant new changes to China’s commercial
encryption regime.
Just
to tease my lawyer friends.
The Legal
Future is Here… And It’s Distributed
Law
Practice Today –
“It’s
easy to get caught up in the hype of our technological era. Much of
the modern experience, brought to us courtesy of the internet, feels
miraculous: one-click same-day delivery, distributed
cryptographically-enabled currency, on-demand video and audio
content, and much more. Beyond that, innovators and entrepreneurs
pitch their visions of a future that seems even more fantastic every
day. Those attempting to follow the legal-industrial-hype complex
will find no less noise: AI and robot lawyers, blockchain, etc. But
there’s good news too. First,
as usual, legal is about five to 10 years behind society at large.
Second, and this is true inside and outside of the legal profession,
the power of the internet is in its simplicity—specifically, the
ability to connect disparate people and resources. This can be hard
to wrap your brain around, so below are three examples of forces that
have remade the broader cultural landscape, and how they’re poised
to remake the legal realm, all with the central theme of connecting
disparate people and resources….”
Even if it is not legal, it is inevitable. I
could see Russia and China doing this without worrying about
copyright.
The plan to
mine the world’s research papers
Nature
– A giant data store quietly being built in India could free vast
swathes of science for computer analysis — but is it legal? –
“Carl Malamud is on a crusade to liberate information locked up
behind paywalls — and his campaigns have scored many victories. He
has spent decades publishing copyrighted legal documents, from
building codes to court records, and then arguing that such texts
represent public-domain law that ought to be available to any citizen
online. Sometimes, he has won those arguments in court. Now, the
60-year-old American technologist is turning his sights on a new
objective: freeing paywalled scientific literature. nd he thinks he
has a legal way to do it. Over the past year, Malamud has —
without asking publishers — teamed up with Indian researchers to
build a gigantic store of text and images extracted from 73 million
journal articles dating from 1847 up to the present day. The cache,
which is still being created, will be kept on a 576-terabyte storage
facility at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. “This
is not every journal article ever written, but it’s a lot,”
Malamud says. It’s comparable to the size of the core collection
in the Web of Science database, for instance. Malamud and his JNU
collaborator, bioinformatician Andrew Lynn, call their facility the
JNU data depot.
No one will be allowed to read or download work from the repository, because that would breach publishers’ copyright. Instead, Malamud envisages, researchers could crawl over its text and data with computer software, scanning through the world’s scientific literature to pull out insights without actually reading the text…”
No comments:
Post a Comment