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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

All you need is an Internet connection to reach out to every online banking system in the world. Someone, somewhere has probably used a default or easily guessable password. If only 1 in a million did so, that's still hundreds (if not thousands) of opportunity for theft. (It's just statistics)

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=10772

Organized Crooks Hit NJ Town, Ark. Utility

March 22, 2010 by admin

Brian Krebs reports:

An Arkansas public water utility and a New Jersey town are the latest victims of an organized cyber crime gang that is stealing tens of millions of dollars from small to mid-sized organizations via online bank theft.

On Thursday, officials in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. acknowledged that a sizable amount of money was taken in an “outside intrusion into a municipal banking account,” suggesting in public statements that computer criminals were responsible.

[...]

In a separate incident on March 4, organized crooks stole roughly $130,000 from North Garland County Regional Water District, a public, nonprofit utility in Hot Springs, Ark. Again, thieves somehow broke into the utility’s online bank account and set up unauthorized transfers to more than a dozen individuals around the country that were not affiliated with the district.

Monday, March 22, 2010

For your Security Manager

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/03/21/1341201/Google-Hands-Out-Web-Security-Scanner?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

Google Hands Out Web Security Scanner

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 21, @10:36AM

An anonymous reader writes

"Apparently feeling generous this week, Google has released for free another of their internally developed tools: this time, a nifty web security scanner dubbed skipfish. A vendor-sponsored study cited by InformationWeek discovered that 90% of all web applications are vulnerable to security attacks. Are Google's security people trying to change this?"

For my Network Security students. The video shows what you can learn from network logs.

http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2010/03/12/Machine-Hunt-User-Forensics-at-Salt-Lake-Community-College.aspx?p=1

Machine Hunt: User Forensics at Salt Lake Community College

[The video: http://www.etelemetry.com/resources/demos/demo_locate2.aspx

If I send records out of a HIPAA protected environment, are there penalties?

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/03/21/2149258/Medical-Professionals-Arent-Leaping-For-E-Medicine?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

Medical Professionals Aren't Leaping For E-Medicine

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 21, @06:40PM

theodp writes

"Despite all the stimulus money being directed toward developing electronic medical records, surprisingly few doctors, hospitals and insurers are using Google Health and other sites like it. One reason, Newsweek suggests, may be that Web-based personal-health records like the ones being compiled on Google Health don't appear to be covered under HIPAA, which requires that health care providers and health plans protect patient confidentiality. 'We don't connect that information to other aspects of Google,' explains Dr. Roni Zeiger, product manager for Google Health. Still, the federal government is in the process of drafting privacy recommendations that would apply to Google Health, as well as the makers of consumer apps that perform tasks like monitoring blood pressure."

Another fun one to watch. Not bad enough they can't figure out a viable business model, they can't even develop a consistent strategy for the one they have.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/22/081200/Dueling-Summary-Judgment-Motions-In-Viacom-v-YouTube?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

Dueling Summary Judgment Motions In Viacom v. YouTube

Posted by timothy on Monday March 22, @05:27AM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes

"Eric Goldman, an Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law, has an excellent analysis of the dueling summary judgment motions in Viacom v. YouTube. Basically, both sides have been trotting out the most damning things they can find and asking the judge to rule against the other party. Viacom is mad that Chad Hurley, one of YouTube's co-founders, lost his email archive and couldn't remember some old emails. Worse, YouTube founder Karim once uploaded infringing content. But then Google points out that only a very small percentage of the users are engaged in infringing activity (some 0.016% of all YouTube accounts have been deleted for infringement), one of the clips Viacom is suing over is only one second long (what about fair use?), and most of YouTube's content is non-infringing, including the campaign videos which all major US presidential candidates posted to YouTube."

"But the worst thing they found is that Viacom can't make up their mind. They spent $1M advertising on YouTube and tried to buy it. And even though they demanded that YouTube remove videos containing Viacom property on sight, Viacom had a complex internal policy authorizing some clips, including ones disguised as 'leaks' and put out by their marketers. Viacom was so conflicted internally that their very expensive lawyers couldn't figure out what Viacom had authorized to be uploaded even after doing extensive research as required by court rules, only to discover that some of the clips Viacom was suing over were ones Viacom uploaded themselves. The lawyers then had to go to court and drop those clips from their case — twice. They missed some the first time."

Not something I use much in my Math classes, but it has potential.

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/preceden-make-a-timeline-online

Preceden: Make A Timeline Online & Share

www.preceden.com

Similar tools: TimeToast, Circavi, Timetube and TimeRime.

April First is fast approaching! NOTE: Still feel your password is adequate protection?

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/konboot-computer-prank-passwordbypass-tool/

KON-BOOT – A Computer Prank Password-Bypass Tool

by Mike Fagan on Mar. 21st, 2010

Pranks are fun and rewarding.

… But getting onto someone’s computer when they are not around can be a tall task. Most people have passwords on their machines, thwarting any would-be pranksters.

Well, this problem can be solved with a small tool called KON-BOOT. Rather than cracking a Windows password, KON-BOOT bypasses it and lets you into the computer without typing one in. Then, when you restart, everything is back to normal, that is, everything you didn’t change for the computer prank.

… To get KON-BOOT, go to their website here.

Now this could be useful. I'll have to work up some generalized process... (If you didn't think XKCD's author was a geek, this might come as a shock.)

http://venturebeat.com/2010/03/19/data-mining-google-xkcd/

Now you can data mine with Google queries too

March 19, 2010 | Kim-Mai Cutler

Geek comic artist Randall Munroe, better known as XKCD’s creator, revealed a little-known Google Spreadsheets secret yesterday. You can plot out the estimated volume of Google search results against different queries.

How do you do it? Alex Chitu at Google Operating System says:

If you are familiar with Google Spreadsheets, try to create a sheet that lets you enter a query like “My IQ is X”, a variable name and the values for that variable. The result should be a graph that shows the number of Google search results for each instance of your query. Use importXML and an XPath expression to find the number of Google search results: “//p[@id='resultStats']/b[3]“. Here’s an example.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

If you think disclosure of your tax information is bad, consider what modifying it (increase income, remove deductions) or destruction (“You failed to file a return for the last three years...”) could do to your excellent relationship with the IRS.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/20/1422224/IRS-Security-Faults-Leave-Taxpayer-Data-At-Risk?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

IRS Security Faults Leave Taxpayer Data At Risk

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 20, @11:46AM

coondoggie writes

"In this tax season, when billions of dollars and tons of personal information is relayed to and from the government, it's more than disconcerting to hear that the Internal Revenue Service is still struggling to keep private information secure. A report out Friday from watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office says about 69% of the tax agency's previously noted security flaws remain unfixed and continue to jeopardize the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the IRS's systems (PDF). The problems put the IRS at increased risk of unauthorized disclosure, modification, or destruction of financial and taxpayer information, the GAO concluded."

There's smart and then there's e-smart. If this is how easily (presumably) smart people can be scammed, is there any hope for the half of the world that is below average?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/21/0818202/US-Law-Firms-Targeted-By-Cyberscams?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

US Law Firms Targeted By Cyberscams

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 21, @07:59AM

Hugh Pickens writes

"The San Francisco Chronicle reports that last year a Long Beach law firm received an e-mail from a Hong Kong businessman seeking help collecting debts from American customers. After a month of signing paperwork and exchanging telephone calls, the attorney received word that one debtor had sent a $200,000 cashier's check to pay off his balance. The attorney deposited it in his firm's account, subtracted his $10,000 fee and wired the remaining $190,000 to his Hong Kong client. Then the attorney's bank called and told him the $200,000 check had bounced. 'They send me a nice, big, worthless check,' says the attorney. In this case, the bank was able to prevent the wire transfer from reaching its destination, but attorneys say they are on the receiving end of sophisticated scams with increasing frequency that include attacks to steal client data that can be sold or used to learn the details of future litigation."

There's a moral here: Don't “party” in front of a camera (or cell phone)

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=8475

Anonymous sender of beer pong email gets to remain unknown

March 21, 2010 by Dissent

Evan Brown reports on a case in New Jersey where the standards for unmasking an anonymous party articulated in Dendrite v. Doe were applied to a case involving a teenage girl who tried to unmask the anonymous party who sent pictures of her playing beer pong to the her school administrators.

In A.Z. v. Doe, the trial court granted Doe’s motion to quash the subpoena served on Optimum Online because the court concluded that A.Z. had failed to meet the fourth prong of the Dendrite analysis, which balances First Amendment protection of anonymous speech against both the strength of the prima facie case and the plaintiff’s need for the anonymous speaker’s identity to be disclosed to proceed (see the four prongs as outlined in Dendrite, below the break). A.Z. appealed, and the appellate court upheld the trial court’s decision, but on different grounds. The appellate court held that A.Z. hadn’t met the third prong in the Dendrite analysis, i.e., she hadn’t made a prima facie case.

Read more of the background on this case on Internet Cases.

—- from Dendrite:

We offer the following guidelines to trial courts when faced with an application by a plaintiff for expedited discovery seeking an order compelling an ISP to honor a subpoena and disclose the identity of anonymous Internet posters who are sued for allegedly violating the rights of individuals, corporations or businesses. The trial court must consider and decide those applications by striking a balance between the well-established First Amendment right to speak anonymously, and the right of the plaintiff to protect its proprietary interests and reputation through the assertion of recognizable claims based on the actionable conduct of the anonymous, fictitiously-named defendants.

We hold that when such an application is made, the trial court should first require the plaintiff to undertake efforts to notify the anonymous posters that they are the subject of a subpoena or application for an order of disclosure, and withhold action to afford the fictitiously-named defendants a reasonable opportunity to file and serve opposition to the application. These notification efforts should include posting a message of notification of the identity discovery request to the anonymous user on the ISP’s pertinent message board. [Difficult if the anonymous user used a 'disposable' (one time) account. Bob]

The court shall also require the plaintiff to identify and set forth the exact statements purportedly made by each anonymous poster that plaintiff alleges constitutes actionable speech.

The complaint and all information provided to the court should be carefully reviewed to determine whether plaintiff has set forth a prima facie cause of action against the fictitiously-named anonymous defendants. In addition to establishing that its action can withstand a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted pursuant to R. 4:6-2(f), the plaintiff must produce sufficient evidence supporting each element of its cause of action, on a prima facie basis, prior to a court ordering the disclosure of the identity of the unnamed defendant.

Finally, assuming the court concludes that the plaintiff has presented a prima facie cause of action, the court must balance the defendant’s First Amendment right of anonymous free speech against the strength of the prima facie case presented and the necessity for the disclosure of the anonymous defendant’s identity to allow the plaintiff to properly proceed.

[From the article:

A purported “concerned parent” set up a Gmail account (anonymously) and sent an email to the faculty advisor for the Cool Kids & Heroes program. The email had photos attached showing several of the program’s kids doing things they shouldn’t be doing like drinking and smoking pot. [Welcome to “Your Resume” the Internet version. Bob] In all fairness it should be noted that the picture of plaintiff only showed her playing beer pong — it didn’t actually show her drinking or smoking, though there were cups and beer cans on the table in front of her.

The faculty advisor forwarded the email and images on to school administrators, and the school also notified the police. But law enforcement apparently took no further action.

… The big problem with plaintiff’s defamation claim came from the requirement that the statement alleged to be defamatory (in this case, that plaintiff had broken the law) needed to be “false.” The court found five reasons why this element had not been met:

What a marvelous “Big Brother” idea! If you want to exist in the eyes of the government, you must do so through a webpage that reports your activity and location. (and God only knows what else in the future.) I'm sure congress will want to “Keep American up with the rest of the world!” NOTE: The comments indicate the threat to Privacy was the first thing readers thought of...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/20/220244/Every-British-Citizen-To-Have-a-Personal-Webpage?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 20, @07:00PM

Hugh Pickens writes

"The Telegraph reports that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is about to announce that within a year everyone in Great Britain will be given a personalized webpage for accessing Government services as part of a plan to save billions of pounds by putting all public services online. The move could see the closure of job centers and physical offices dealing with tax, vehicle licensing, passports and housing benefits within 10 years as services are offered through a single digital gateway. [This] 'saves time for people and it saves money for the Government — the processing of a piece of paper and mailing it back costs many times more than it costs to process something electronically,' says Tim Berners-Lee, an advisor to the Prime Minister. However, the proposals are coming under fire from union leaders who complain that thousands of public sector workers would be made jobless and pointed to the Government's poor record of handling personal data. 'Cutting public services is not only bad for the public who use services but also the economy as we are pushing people who provide valuable services on the dole,' says one union leader."

Interesting and technically correct ruling. Is it too technical for a jury? (Consider: We all click to the wrong website on occasion. You might need this defense!)

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/20/1615211/Canadas-Top-Court-Quashes-Child-Porn-Warrant?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29

Canada's Top Court Quashes Child Porn Warrant

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 20, @01:51PM

m.ducharme writes

"The CBC is reporting that the Supreme Court of Canada has handed down a decision quashing a search warrant used to obtain the computer of a man accused of possession of child porn. 'Urbain P. Morelli maintained his charter rights were violated when police searched his computer for child pornography after a technician who had visited his home to work on the machine expressed concerns to police.' What the Slashdot community may find notable about this decision is the distinction drawn between 'accessing' and 'possessing' digital images, most particularly the recognition that a user does not 'possess' cached data. From the decision: '[35] When accessing Web pages, most Internet browsers will store on the computer's own hard drive a temporary copy of all or most of the files that comprise the Web page. This is typically known as a "caching function" and the location of the temporary, automatic copies is known as the "cache." While the configuration of the caching function varies and can be modified by the user, cached files typically include images and are generally discarded automatically after a certain number of days, or after the cache grows to a certain size. [36] On my view of possession, the automatic caching of a file to the hard drive does not, without more, constitute possession. While the cached file might be in a "place" over which the computer user has control, in order to establish possession, it is necessary to satisfy mens rea or fault requirements as well. Thus, it must be shown that the file was knowingly stored and retained through the cache.'"

Even some movies not yet available on DVD?

http://www.killerstartups.com/Video-Music-Photo/johoo-tv-watching-movies-tv-shows-at-no-cost

Johoo.tv - Watching Movies & TV Shows At No Cost

http://www.johoo.tv/

… Named Johoo.tv, it will let you watch all these shows that are currently making waves as well as those past shows that have gone down in history as genre-defining. Besides, the site makes it possible for you to watch movies in an equally simple way – simply input your search and away you go.

Because sometimes you need a backup...

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-simple-steps-rip-entire-dvd-hard-drive/

5 Simple Steps To Rip An Entire DVD To Your Hard Drive

For my website students.

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/colorhex-hsl-values

ColorHex: See RGB, HSV & HSL Values For Any Color

You see a color, you like it, but you want to know more about it. ColorHex is probably the best site to know a color inside out. Just pick any color from the palette or select your desired one by entering the 6 digit hex code. ColorHex will then show you detailed information like the RGB, HSL, HSV and CMYK values.

It will also display a pie chart showing the RGB value composition and an HSL color chart showing Hue, Saturation and Lightness. ColorHex also changes the background of the webpage to your selected color so you can see it clearly and also display information such as opposite color, brightened color and web safe color related to your desired color.

It also displays the use of your selected color in text, background and borders, along with generating a CSS code for using that color on your website.

www.color-hex.com

Saturday, March 20, 2010

You can't make this stuff up. Even I know this is called “Undue Reliance” but if ALL your records are on the computer, what else could you rely on?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_re_us/us_police_wrong_address;_ylt=AqCLxNmGZj9X8RoimuSH9bys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNyNjZ2dWYxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMzE5L3VzX3BvbGljZV93cm9uZ19hZGRyZXNzBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDOARwb3MDNQRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA2NvcHNtaXN0YWtlbg--

NYC police: Computer glitch led to mistaken visits

Fri Mar 19, 12:26 pm ET

NEW YORK – A senior New York City police official apologized Friday for the 50 or so door-pounding visits police made to the home of a bewildered elderly couple.

It seems a glitch in computer records had led them over and over to Walter and Rose Martin's modest home in Brooklyn. [And no procedure to correct errors? That's even more scary. Bob]

… On Thursday, detectives from the NYPD's Identity Theft Squad went to see the Martins again — this time to apologize. "And we wanted to be sure perps weren't using that address for identity theft," NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told The Associated Press on Friday.

The detectives told 82-year-old Rose and 83-year-old Walter that Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly had ordered them to solve the problem, which had gone on for at least four years [That wasn't the motivator... Bob] and was reported this week in the New York Daily News. [...that was! Bob]

Police used the Brooklyn address as part of what Browne called "random material" to test an automated computer system that tracks crime complaints and records other internal police information. [Best Practice: Never ever use real data in a test. Bob]

The couple first complained about the harrowing police visits in 2007, "and we identified the problem then," Browne said. "It was a mistake by the police department."

Police wiped the Martins' address from the system.

Or so they thought, said Browne.

Instead, the visits continued.

Apparently, some computer files bearing the Martins' address stayed in the system. [and, apparently, there was no procedure to identify and remove them. Bob]

… To make sure it will never happen again, Browne said the Martins' address has been flagged with alerts, so if there's any record indicating an officer should visit the address, "they're barred from doing it." [Sounds like an open invitation to crooks of all kinds. Bob]

A skeptical Rose Martin has asked the department to write her an official letter to that effect.

Fifth Third was TJX's bank. This could be related to that breach, but more likely is a new one.

http://www.databreaches.net/?p=10713

New 5/3 debit cards ’safety precaution’

March 19, 2010 by admin

WOOD-TV reports:

A security breach through a third-party payment company prompted Fifth Third Bank to send new debit cards to its customers as a safety precaution.

Bank officials sent a letter to customers and said the debit cards may have been compromised, but other sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, were not accessed.

The news station is trying to get more information from Fifth Third.

So, is they is or is they ain't going to protect my data?

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=8466

Swiss upper house approves five bank data deals

March 19, 2010 by Dissent

The Swiss parliament’s upper house on Wednesday approved deals with the United States and four other countries to share data on potential tax dodgers, bringing the Alpine state closer in line with international standards.

Under the deals Switzerland will have banking data sharing arrangements with France, Britain, the United States, Denmark and Mexico in cases of tax fraud and tax evasion, in accordance with OECD standards, except when those requests are based on stolen data.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Now this is more like it! Just when we're discussing “Cloud Computing” (http://law.du.edu/documents/privacy-foundation/Privacy-Brochure-March-2010.pdf ) as a “new thing,” Tim O'Reilly goes and introduces another new term/concept!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10469399-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Tim O'Reilly: 'Whole Web' is the OS of the future

(Related) Making the virtual real?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/19/cloudcrowd-outsources-labor-to-the-cloud/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

CloudCrowd Takes On CrowdFlower To Outsource Labor To The Cloud

by Leena Rao on Mar 19, 2010

… CrowdFlower is a labor as a service startup that helps businesses outsource mundane or repetitive tasks to the cloud. Now the startup has attracted a competitor, recently launched CloudCrowd, which also promises increase efficiency and lower costs to companies by breaking large projects into smaller tasks, and distributing them to its virtual workforce.

Most data breaches are not noticed by the “victims.” Think of those as far to the left on the bell curve. But, every now and then we have something far to the right – here is an almost “Perfect Storm!” Could it have been worse? Consider the Reporter getting the Lawyer's medical information...

http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=2235

Hospital Makes Changes After Billing Blunder

By Dissent, March 18, 2010 11:15 am

Rafael Sanchez reports on a breach involving him:

An Indianapolis hospital system is using a new registration and billing system after the wrong Rafael Sanchez received a 6News’ reporter’s medical bill.

Rafael Sanchez, an attorney at Bingham McHale, called the station in December after he was mailed a $2,051.45 bill from Methodist Hospital intended for 6News’ reporter Rafael Sanchez, in violation of federal law.

The invoices he received were for real [vs. fictional? Bob] medical care Sanchez the reporter received after he collapsed outside court while covering a mass murder trial on Dec. 10.

Clarian Health investigated the incident, and its facilities are now using a new system intended to minimize billing errors, especially for patients with similar names.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Usually, articles that address the topics we discuss in a Privacy Foundation's seminar are published well after the seminar. This is an exception, since the seminar is tomorrow. http://law.du.edu/documents/privacy-foundation/Privacy-Brochure-March-2010.pdf

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10469214-240.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Is a legal challenge to cloud inevitable?

March 17, 2010 9:30 PM PDT

I've been spending this week at the Cloud Connect conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, Calif., listening closely to the broad range of opinions and concerns raise by both the customers of cloud and it's vendor community.

… The sense I am getting is that adoption of cloud is beginning to outstrip the ability of legal council to evaluate the liabilities that the cloud introduces to enterprise IT. [This seems inevitable. Legislators won't react until a significant portion of the voting public tells them to. Bob]

[Free (but untitled) presentation PDFs from Cloud Connect are here: http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/2010/presentations/free.php

Maybe we shouldn't scoff. Looks like the prosecutor had a viable strategy.

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=8418

Google Italy & Privacy: Not What You Might Think

March 18, 2010 by Dissent

Ryan Calo writes:

Reading through Italian news coverage of the Google Italy case, another picture emerges. User privacy may well be at issue, but not in the way you probably think. I grew up in Italy and now research and teach Internet law in the United States. When I heard about the verdict against three Google executives, one of them an alumnus of the law school where I work, I went first to American sources, then to Italian ones. What I found was that most Americans may be getting the basic facts and ideas of the case wrong.

[...]

The prosecutor brought two sets of charges against Google’s executives. The first sought to hold them criminally liable for the defamatory acts of the kids that uploaded the offending video. This charge was thrown out, likely on the basis of an Italian law—Article 17 of Legislative Decree 70—that mostly resembles our own federal immunity for content uploaded by third-parties. We’ll see when the court publishes its reasoning in a few months.

The second set of charges, of which the Google executives were actually convicted, are supposed to be about privacy—namely, criminal liability for violating provisions of the Italian Personal Data Protection Code. But as Susan Crawford told the New York Times, “[a]ny concern for privacy in this case is a pious cover.” Indeed, it appears that the prosecution sought to use these infractions as a way to defeat the above-mentioned immunity, on the theory that Article 17 protection is not available to criminals. (UPDATE: Chris Parsons pointed me toward a post over at Out-Law explaining that data privacy violations are not entitled to immunity at all under EU law.)

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