Really
reads like a cover up.
New
Bedford: public release of info on cyber attack could put city at
further risk
Cyber
professionals have “strongly advised” the city against providing
any details about the impacts of a computer virus that has shut down
municipal computers for more than a week.
Jonathan
Carvalho, the city’s public information officer, released a
statement late Friday that said New Bedford continues to implement
restoration plans on its municipal computer network. For most of a
week the city has provided little information about what is going on
with a virus that has at least shut down some of the computers at
both City Hall and in the Fire Department. It is not known what
other departments may be affected although officials have said the
police are not involved and neither is the 911 emergency network.
The
city has refused to say exactly how many computers are down, where
they are located, the name
of the cyber security consultant it is working with or how
much money the shutdown may be costing New Bedford. The
city has said it has insurance against meltdown that could take out
the network. [That’s
pretty vague. Has the network been impacted? Bob]
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Whose idea was
this? Was there any documentation suggesting this approach had
official sanction or was it just the result of agent boredom?
From
Papers, Please!:
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division of DHS has agreed to a settlement with passengers who were ordered to show ID documents before they were allowed to leave a Delta Air Lines plane after it arrived in New York after a flight from San Francisco.
Nine of the passengers on the February 2017 flight, represented by the ACLU and cooperating lawyers from Covington & Burling, sued the CBP and CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. They complained that the warrantless, suspicionless dragnet search of the ID documents of everyone on the plane violated the 4th Amendment, and that the CBP policy for such searches was invalid.
Read
more on Papers,
Please!
A change in
method?
Zack
Whittaker reports:
T-Mobile has reported a small decline in the number of government data requests it receives, according to its latest transparency report, quietly published this week.
The third-largest cell giant in the U.S. reported 459,989 requests during 2018, down by a little over 1% on the year earlier. That includes an overall drop in subpoenas, court orders and pen registers and trap and trace devices used to record the incoming and outgoing callers; however, the number of search warrants issued went up by 27% and wiretaps increased by almost 3%.
Read
more on TechCrunch.
Speech
is not text – why not?
The
GDPR & Speech Data: Reflections of Legal and Technology
Communities, First Steps towards a Common Understanding
Privacy
preservation and the protection of speech data is in high demand, not
least as a result of recent regulation, e.g. the General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU. While there has been a
period with which to prepare for its implementation, its implications
for speech data is poorly understood. This assertion applies to both
the legal and technology communities, and is hardly surprising since
there is no universal definition of 'privacy', let alone a clear
understanding of when or how the GDPR applies to the capture, storage
and processing of speech data.
Employees
are people? What a concept!
Jason
C. Gavejian and Joseph J. Lazzarotti of Jackson Lewis write:
Employers, you are not out of the CCPA woods yet.
If you have been tracking the proposed amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), you know that businesses and stakeholders have been clamoring to shape the new sweeping law in a number of ways. We reported earlier this year on some of the potential changes approved by the California Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee, which moved on for further consideration. Upon arrival at the Senate Judiciary Committee, several of these business-friendly changes met some resistance, including AB 25 which generally would have excluded employee personal information from being covered under the CCPA.
While employers had hoped AB 25 would amend the CCPA to exclude information gathered in the employment context outright, on July 9, 2019, the California Senate Judiciary Committee clarified that will not be the case.
Read
more on Workplace
Privacy, Data Management & Security Report.
Why
AI is so appealing?
Workers
waste half their time as they struggle with data
As
data grows in complexity, data workers waste time searching for and
preparing data instead of gaining insights according to a new report.
… The
State
of Data Science and Analytics report shows
that data workers spend 90% of their working week (around 36 hours)
on data-related activities such as searching, preparation and
analytics.
Every
generation invents the world anew. The Internet is merely the
medium.
How
the internet has changed the way we talk
People of a
certain age were trained to use exclamation points to indicate
excitement or even anger. And they never imagined that a simple
period at the end of a sentence could get them into hot water.
But
the social-media age has twisted the meanings of some of our most
basic words and punctuation marks, reveals Wired magazine’s
resident linguist Gretchen McCulloch in her new book, “Because
Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language”
(Riverhead), out July 23.
In our current
world, periods are now seen as aggressive, and a
cartoon of a smelly poo is considered perfectly acceptable
communication. [I’ll
believe that when I see it in a legal brief. Bob]
… Definition:
The “haphazard mashing of fingers against the keyboard to signal a
feeling so intense you can’t possibly type real words.”
So, if someone
types “asdfkf;jas” in a tweet, they’re likely trying to say
they’re overwhelmed.
… Using a period for short messages has come
to be seen as outright aggressive by Gen Z.
The first widespread indicator, McCulloch writes,
came in 2009, when an Urban Dictionary user defined a period as “the
new cool way to emphasize (usually moody-ass) sarcasm.”
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