Just a reminder…
California
begins enforcing digital privacy law, despite calls for delay
Measure
took effect in January, with a six-month grace period
No big fines
YET.
Nick
Valentine, Laura Scampion, and Rachel Taylor of DLA Piper write:
After a lengthy process (dating as far back as 1998, depending on how you measure it) the Privacy Bill, which amends the Privacy Act 1993, has finally made its way through Parliament, receiving Royal Assent on 30 June 2020.
The amendments, which come into effect on 1 December 2020, introduce some of the most significant changes to New Zealand’s privacy law since the enactment of the Privacy Act, including:
mandatory data breach reporting;
restrictions on offshore transfers of personal information; and
clarifications on the extraterritorial scope of the Privacy Act.
However, Parliament has deliberately chosen not to align the Privacy Act with international precedent in terms of broader data subject rights or large fines for non-compliance. This means the Privacy Act remains a bit of a ‘toothless tiger’ relative to other global data protection laws.
Read
more on Privacy
Matters.
There
is an easy way to avoid the suspicion that you “have something to
hide.”
California
Police Are Using Copyright to Hide Surveillance Documents
California
police are refusing to release documents about the surveillance
technology it uses, despite a new law that requires their release.
On
January 1, SB 978 went into effect, which requires the Commission on
Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to "conspicuously"
publish all law enforcement agency training materials. The agency
has said that it will not comply on copyright grounds.
Any
attempt to download training materials concerning facial recognition
technology or automated license plate readers (ALPRs), as well as
materials relating to courses on the use of force, lead to a Word
document that reads "The course presented has claimed copyright
for the expanded course online."
… On
Thursday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation sent a letter to the
POST outlining why this copyright claim was unlawful and
unacceptable, pointing out that the California Public Records Act
(CPRA) allows copyrighted material to be made available to the
public.
So
what should we trademark? Generic.com? Privacy.org?
Not-A-Trademark.com?
Booking.com
wins at Supreme Court with law written decades before the internet
The
U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a company can get a federal
trademark by tacking on the dot-com domain name to a common word if
enough enough people think of the result as a distinctive brand name,
in a decision applying the 74-year-old law governing trademarks to
the Internet age.
The
ruling was a victory for the hotel reservation site Booking.com,
which had been denied a federal trademark.
The
U.S. Patent and Trademark office said term was generic, the very
opposite of a trademark. The government rejected similar requests to
grant protection to Hotels.com and Lawyers.com. But lower federal
courts said that was wrong. They found that nearly 75 percent of
respondents in a survey considered Booking.com to be a distinctive
brand name.
By
an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court said it was distinctive enough.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's majority opinion said a term is generic
only if consumers think of it as representing a broad class of
services. But it they think it refers to something specific, it can
be trademarked.
A
great collection of articles.
12
Essential Strategy Insights
For
decades, researchers have published findings in MIT Sloan Management
Review about developing and executing strategy. This collection
offers a dozen of our most popular strategy articles of all time.
Perspective.
An
Infrastructure Arms Race Is Fueling the Future of Gaming
As
videogame companies increasingly shift to the cloud, data centers
have taken on outsized importance.
Jobs my
students might want…
What
is a Chief Technology Officer? Everything you need to know about the
CTO
The chief
technology officer (CTO) is the executive responsible for managing
technology within an organisation; that can include everything from
creating a technology strategy though to cybersecurity and onto
product development. They need to understand broad technology trends
and be able to align innovation with business goals.
Salary
research specialist PayScale says popular skills for CTOs include
expertise in software architecture, leadership, IT management,
product development, and project management. However, CTOs are
increasingly prized for their knowledge of pioneering areas of
technology, such as digital products, technical vision and research
and development (R&D).
Tips for my
students.
Good
dashboard design: 8 tips and best practices for BI teams
Dashboards
display KPIs and other data for business executives, managers and
workers in a visual interface. Good dashboard design starts by
thinking about UX, as well as the data needs of users and the overall
goals of the business. It's not just about presenting numbers, but
also figuring out what to draw attention to and how to do so
effectively.
"Analytics
is only powerful if it drives action," said Penny Wand, director
in the technology practice at IT and business consultancy West Monroe
Partners.
… Here are
eight tips for designing effective dashboards and deploying them as
part of business intelligence initiatives to provide views of
revenue, product sales, orders and other business metrics.
Why
Kim blew up that liaison office…
Kim
Jong Un reportedly blew up office over ‘dirty depictions’ of his
wife
North
Korean President Kim Jong Un was so furious about the “dirty,
insulting” depictions of his wife in an anti-Pyongyang leaflet
campaign initiated by defectors in South Korea that he blew
up a liaison office with
Seoul and threatened to take military action, according to a report
Monday.
The
leaflets, carried over the highly militarized border by balloons, are
a propaganda tactic that the two countries have used since the Korean
War.
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