Don’t understand or don’t care – same result.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/doge-to-fired-cisa-staff-email-us-your-personal-data/
DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data
A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration’s continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then immediately placed on leave, asking employees to send their Social Security number or date of birth in a password-protected email attachment — presumably with the password needed to view the file included in the body of the email.
(Ditto)
Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts
ProPublica: “On Feb. 20, nearly 7,000 probationary employees at the Internal Revenue Service began receiving an unsigned letter telling them that they had been fired for poor performance. Trump administration lawyers insist that the IRS and other federal agencies have acted within their authority when they ordered waves of mass terminations since Trump took office. But according to previously unreported emails obtained by ProPublica, a top lawyer at the IRS warned administration officials that the performance-related language in his agency’s termination letter was “a false statement” that amounted to “fraud” if the agency kept the language in the letter. The emails reveal that in the hours before the IRS sent out its Feb. 20 termination letter, a fierce dispute played out at the agency’s highest levels. Joseph Rillotta, a senior IRS lawyer, wrote that “no one” at the IRS had taken into account the performance of the probationary workers set to be fired. Rillotta urged that the language be struck from the draft termination letter. If the falsehood wasn’t removed, Rillotta said he would file a report with the inspector general for the IRS.”
Not sure I agree (or maybe I just don’t understand) – if I don’t have a duty to protect, can I leave your data unprotected?
The differences between non-disclosure, exfiltration and notice – a court’s view
David Kessler and Sue Ross write:
Although there is scant case law on the question, it is generally accepted that it is not a violation of one’s duty not to disclose information if it is stolen from you. Put another way, disclosure is an affirmative act, and, absent an affirmative duty to protect information from unauthorized access, theft of information is not a violation of a duty not to disclose.
This question, however, was at the heart of the decision in Gerber v. Twitter, Inc., case no. 4:23-cv-00186-KAW (N.D. Cal. Dec. 18, 2024) (2024 WL 5173313). Judge Kandis Westmore ruled that a social media platform’s duty not to disclose personal information is not the same as the duty to protect that information against theft. Further, the duty not to disclose does mean the social media platform has a duty to notify individuals if the social media platform is breached. As a result, the court granted in part and denied in part the defendant’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ complaint. (Id.)
Read more at Data Protection Report.
Perspective. The more tools we provide to make life easier the less anyone wants to keep doing things the “old way.”
Kids Are Spending Too Much Class Time on Laptops
Over the past two decades, school districts have spent billions of taxpayer dollars equipping classrooms with laptops and other devices in hopes of preparing kids for a digital future. The result? Students have fallen further behind on the skills they most need to succeed in careers: the three R’s plus a fourth — relationships.
… Just 28% of eighth graders are proficient in math and 30% in reading. For 12th graders, the numbers are similarly dismal (24% in math and 37% in reading, according to the most recently available scores). And US students have also fallen further behind their peers in other countries.
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