So collectively there was damage, but no individual damage?
Facebook
must face data breach class action on security, but not damages:
judge
A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc
users whose personal information was stolen in a September 2018 data
breach cannot sue as a group for damages, but can seek better
security at the social media company after a series of privacy
lapses.
In a decision late Tuesday night, U.S. District
Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said neither credit monitoring
costs nor the reduced value of stolen personal information was a
“cognizable injury” that supported a class action for damages.
Alsup also said damages for time users spent to
mitigate harm required individualized determinations rather than a
single classwide assessment.
Users were allowed to sue as a group to require
Facebook to employ automated security monitoring, improve employee
training, and educate people better about hacking threats.
Alsup rejected Facebook’s claim that these were
unnecessary because it had fixed the bug that caused the breach.
“Facebook’s repetitive losses of users’
privacy supplies a long-term need for supervision,” at least at
this stage of the litigation, Alsup wrote.
… The case is Adkins v Facebook Inc, U.S.
District Court, Northern District of California, No. 18-05982.
Perspective.
Online
scammers stealing billions in credit card fraud
… A survey suggested that 21 per cent of
people — about 11 million adults nationwide — had to replace or
cancel their credit card as a result of attempted fraud over the past
year. Victims lost an average of £846 each, meaning that nationally
£4.7 billion is thought to have been stolen.
Will the Internet become a web of exceptions?
“Yes, there is a country called Crimea, but not in Russia.”
Apple
changes Crimea map to meet Russian demands
Apple has complied with Russian demands to show
the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory on its
apps.
“I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!”
Study Shows
Only 12% of Companies Are Ready For New CCPA Data Privacy Regulation
With
just six weeks to go before the new California Consumer Privacy Act
(CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020, a surprisingly large
percentage of companies are still not ready to handle the compliance
demands of the new data privacy regulation. According to a study
of 85 companies by
New York-based data privacy technology company Ethyca, only 12% of
companies have reach an “adequate state of compliance” ahead of
the new data privacy regulation becoming law. Moreover, nearly four
in ten companies (38%) need at least 12 months to become compliant.
With the state attorney general’s office in California suggesting
that enforcement actions will begin immediately, that could present a
number of problems for compliance laggards.
Some
‘rights’ are exerciseable at the individuals whim.
German
Court Backs Murderer's 'Right to be Forgotten'
A
man convicted of murder 37 years ago has the right to be forgotten
and have his name removed from online search results, Germany's
highest court ruled on Wednesday.
The
constitutional court in Karlsruhe found in favour of a man who was
given a life sentence for killing two people on a yacht in
1982.
The
man, who was released from prison in 2002, is now fighting to
distance his family name from reports about the case.
The
decision could mean publications are forced to restrict search engine
access to their online archives in such cases.
His
full name still appears in online searches as part of an archived
article in German weekly Der Spiegel.
His
case was initially rejected by a federal court in 2012 on the basis
that his right to privacy did not outweigh public interest and press
freedom.
But
Germany's highest court has now thrown out that initial ruling,
meaning his case will now return to the federal courts.
Yet
the court also insisted that individuals could not unilaterally claim
a right to be forgotten and that its decision had been
influenced by the amount of time that had passed since the crime.
Not
sure I agree.
Legal
Industry—While Lagging With AI—Sees Benefits of Its Use
According
to the new “What Jobs Are Affected by AI?” report
from
the Brookings Institution, the
legal industry is the least exposed to AI.
Still,
AI-backed advanced analytics, legal research and document creation
are removing some human-powered tasks while also allowing lawyers to
improve their counseling and work more creatively.
… However,
the growing adoption of AI in the profession could lead to fewer
paralegals, administrative assistants and associates. Indeed, the
Brookings report noted, “While lawyers may still make the ultimate
decisions, lower-level researchers and paralegals may see their ranks
dwindle as AI saves firms time and improves accuracy.”
Another browser for my students to plat with.
Meet Kilos,
a New Search Engine for the Dark Web
Etay
Maor, CSO at deep web threat intelligence firm IntSights,
has taken a close look at Kilos. It is not the first nor the only
facility for searching across dark web sites, with other services
like Torch and TorLinks – but it offers extensive filtering
capabilities for locating specific products from within numerous dark
markets.
Confirmed: I am getting wiser!
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