It seems they haven't updated their web site yet, but mark this in your calendars now...
http://www.privacyfoundation.org/
Privacy Foundation
Privacy & Legal Ethics: Lessons Learned From the TJ Max 40+ Million Stolen Credit Card Files Case
FRIDAY, February 22, 2008 Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver
Schedule of Events
10:00 – 10:15 Introduction: John Soma, Executive Director, Privacy Foundation
10:15 – 10:40 Panel I: Legal, Industry, & Ethical Lessons Learned From The TJ Max Affair
Jim Keese, Global Privacy Officer, The Western Union Company
Jim Reuter, President, FirstBank Data Corporation
10:45 – 11:45 Panel II: Ethical & Legal Issues Facing Post TJ Max Privacy Breaches
Dave Berson, ESQ, Partner, The Banking & Tax Law Group LLP, Leawood, Kansas
Dan Vigil, Assistant Dean Student Affairs, Sturm College of Law
11:50 – 12:50 Round Table Discussion:
Moderator: John Soma, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law
Panelists: Jim Keese, Jim Reuter, Dave Berson, Dan Vigil
Registration
Diane Bales, Law Coordinator 303.871.6580; Email: dbales@law.du.edu
Reservations required (due to seating and food) ASAP
Registration Fee Seminar and Lunch $20
Seminar, (Room 190), Lunch (Faculty Library, Room 412), and CLE Credit (lunch included $40)
3 Hours Ethics CLE – Applied For
No charge for lunch & seminar for all DU Faculty, Alumni & Students!
'cause we said so, that's why!
Routine fingerprinting at Heathrow provokes outrage
Authorities are being accused of bringing in measures that infringe civil rights without proper consultation.
By Home Affairs Editor John Bynorth
CIVIL LIBERTIES campaigners have accused airport chiefs of sneaking in mandatory fingerprinting of passengers on domestic routes without proper consultation. Heathrow Airport has quietly introduced compulsory fingerprinting and photographic profiling of passengers on domestic routes, including to Glasgow and Edinburgh, ahead of the opening of its fifth terminal late next month.
The move has already caused disquiet among some passengers who were handed leaflets warning they would be barred from their flights unless they co-operated.
Anti-ID card campaigners have demanded to know why no public announcement was made and fear compulsory fingerprinting is smoothing the path for the controversial scheme's introduction UK-wide.
The British Airports Authority (BAA), which operates Heathrow, claims the profiling is needed because the new terminal will have a single departure lounge for domestic and international travellers. [We could have designed it the old fashioned way, but we like all our fish in one barrel. Bob]
... Dr Gus Hosein, of the London School of Economics who has studied the impact of technology on civil liberties, claimed the government is "softening up" people, particularly the young, by making fingerprinting appear acceptable in the run up to ID cards.
... "Britain is the first country in the democratic world to introduce this scheme as mandatory for flights within its borders. There would be a revolution if it happened in the US. [Not if the choice is “comply or don't fly!” Bob]
... "Labour is the only party in the UK which supports the fingerprinting of children in schools through biometrics so they can use the library or buy food. The beauty of what the party has done is these young people don't have the images of 1940s Germany, or that fingerprinting is for people who break the law.
"The aim is to make them grow up thinking fingerprinting is absolutely fine and ID cards are a natural extension of that.
Related. Nothing unusual about seeing combat teams in your neighborhood. “Papers, comrade!”
New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways
By AL BAKER February 2, 2008
In the first counterterrorism strategy of its kind in the nation, roving teams of New York City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the city’s subway system daily, beginning next month, officials said on Friday.
Convergence: They have been talking about this for some time. This can't be the first test... Can it?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/03/0436238&from=rss
Cellphones to Monitor Highway Traffic
Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 03, @04:33AM from the using-the-fillings-in-your-teeth dept. Wireless Networking Transportation Cellphones Technology
Roland Piquepaille writes "On February 8, 2008, about 100 UC Berkeley students will participate in the Mobile Century experiment, using GPS mobile phones as traffic sensors. During the whole day, these students carrying the GPS-equipped Nokia N95 will drive along a 10-mile stretch of I-880 between Hayward and Fremont, California. 'The phones will store the vehicles' speed and position information every 3 seconds. These measurements will be sent wirelessly to a server for real-time processing.' As more and more cellphones are GPS-equipped, the traffic engineering community, which currently monitors traffic using mostly fixed sensors such as cameras and loop detectors, is tempted to use our phones to get real-time information about traffic."
Interesting new resource
http://www.ndic.edu/press/press.htm
National Defense Intelligence College Press
Unless otherwise indicated, all publications from the National Defense Intelligence College Press are in the public domain, and may be used for educational and professional purposes.
The alternative was to use Digital Rights Management, which would have blocked any attempt by the bacteria to reproduce.
'Watermarks' written in first artificial genome
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 7:55pm GMT 01/02/2008
The scientist attempting to create the first man-made organism scribbled his name in the first synthetic genome that he unveiled a few days ago.
... Now a table in the online supplemental materials for the Science paper that announced the feat reveals it contained a secret message embedded in the DNA: the code carries the name of the head of the institute, Dr Craig Venter, that of his research institute and co-workers.
His name appears in the synthetic genome as one of five "watermarks," sequences of genetic code. Although the genetic alphabet only comes in four letters, the team exploited how they are grouped in units of three, called codons, and each codon is equivalent to one of 20 naturally occurring amino acids.
I think it's the same as “I kinda had a feeling...” (Or maybe that old Almond Joy commercial, “Sometimes you feel like a nut...”)
Is There a Difference Between “Reasonable Belief” and “Probable Cause”?
Tuesday, January 22nd by Robert Loblaw
Price v. Sery, 06-35159 (9th Cir., Jan. 21, 2008)
This Ninth Circuit decision focuses on a fascinating semantic issue in Fourth Amendment law: is there a legally significant difference between reasonable belief and probable cause? The question arises in the context of a Portland policy that authorizes deadly force if an officer “reasonably believes” that the suspect presents an immediate threat of death or serious physical injury.
Yet another example of management saying, “We know there are errors in our data, we even know what to look for, but making even a minimal effort could cost us money – so why bother?”
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_4YRS9qvsTcB0sZVt3Az8FqSErwD8UHOQP81
What a Nasty Letter for Only $16.96!
1 day ago
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A collection agency tried to collect a $16.96 debt with an letter that addressed its recipient with a four-letter word for excrement.
"Dear S---," began the letter attempting to collect from an old record club membership. The word was spelled out in the letter, which arrived in an envelope addressed to "S--- Face."
... Under U.S. law, debt collectors are not allowed to use profanity to collect a debt, Hiller said, nor are they supposed to threaten legal action over such a small amount.
Nationwide President Phillip McGarvey said the October 2007 letter was automatically generated after his company bought about 350,000 Columbia House accounts. "S--- Face" is the name under which the account was opened and the way the coupon to start the club was filled out, he said.
Hiller's client has signed an affidavit saying he never signed up for the music club membership under that name.
"It looks bad to the observer who is not familiar with the industry," acknowledged McGarvey, "but anybody who understands the volume would understand how this could happen. [Yes, see my comment above Bob] ...You've also got people filling in famous people's names."
I'd probably include this just because I like lists, but I had never heard of the snail mail application. Now that's an interesting business model – converting old technology to run on the information super highway .
http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_to_work_from_the_beach
February 2, 2008 - 12:55 P.M.
How to work from the beach
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. -- The designer and blogger behind the Outline Design Blog plans to spend the summer "living and working from the sandy beaches of Costa Rica" starting this month. He has put together a very good list of online resources that make his "extreme telecommuting" possible.
Snail Mail: Earth Class Mail
I've just recently signed up for Earth Class Mail. They give you a new address, and all your mail goes to them. They scan both sides of the envelope and put all scans in an online list. You can look at the envelope and, click to tell them to trash it (recycle it, actually), open and scan the insides, archive it and other options. It's a way to make paper mail electronic, and a Godsend for people who travel constantly. Here's more about Earth Class Mail.
From the list above, but specifically for my web site class...
picnik
Photo editing made fun
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
It's fast, easy, and fun.
Structuring your business model: Also for my web site (e-commerce) students, ideas the RIAA should consider too.
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php
Better Than Free
The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere. The digital economy is thus run on a river of copies. Unlike the mass-produced reproductions of the machine age, these copies are not just cheap, they are free.
Eight Generatives Better Than Free
Immediacy
Personalization
Interpretation
Authenticity
Accessibility
Embodiment
Patronage
Findability
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