http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=7073
Data Privacy Day is January 28 – Events start this week!
January 17, 2010 by Dissent Filed under Featured Headlines, Non-U.S., Other, U.S.
Data Privacy Day is January 28, and there are more events this year than in past years, with some events starting on January 20.
The Data Privacy Day Project lists a number of resources and events that you will want to know about. Many of the events have now been entered on this site’s privacy events calendar, located in the sidebar on this page. By hovering over the date, you will be able to see if there are any privacy events in your geographic area. Clicking on the date will take you to a description of the events that day.
Some events not listed on the calendar are particularly oriented to increasing awareness of privacy for youth or students:
Microsoft, European Schoolnet, Coface, and the Vrije Universitat Brussel (VUB), are hosting a Europe-wide poster competition: 15 – 19 year olds are invited to create and submit short ‘multi-media posters’ on the theme “Privacy is a Human Right – treat it with care.” Winners of the competition will be selected by an eminent jury and invited to Brussels on 28 January 2010 to participate in a two-hour event and award ceremony, featuring keynote speeches by prominent policy makers, and a discussion about the various aspects of privacy between the jury members and students. To participate, visit www.dataprotectionday.eu .
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada offers the My privacy. My choice. My life. webpage and is hosting a PSA video contest open to Canadians between the ages of 12 and 18; the ultimate goal of the PSA should be to encourage other young people to critically think about how their personal information is collected and used every day, and how their privacy can be compromised.
And if you want to schmooze with other privacy professionals, on Thursday, January 28, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) will recognize Data Privacy Day with Privacy After Hours events around the world hosted by local privacy professionals. Learn more and find a location near you.
If anyone would like to submit a blog entry about how their event went for publication on PogoWasRight.org, please email it to privacynews[at]pogowasright.org and I may try to post some post-event comments here.
If your organization hasn’t scheduled any event, you still have time to pull something together in-house. Help make this the best Data Privacy Day ever!
It's good to see I'm not the only one teaching students about the Cloud
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19413_3-10436425-240.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Does the Fourth Amendment cover 'the cloud'?
by James Urquhart January 17, 2010 6:00 AM PST
One of the biggest issues facing individuals and corporations choosing to adopt public cloud computing (or any Internet service, for that matter) is the relative lack of clarity with respect to legal rights over data stored online. I've reported on this early legal landscape a couple of times, looking at decisions to relax expectations of privacy for e-mail stored online and the decision to allow the FBI to confiscate servers belonging to dozens of companies from a co-location facility whose owners were suspected of fraud.
… I just had the pleasure of reading an extremely well-written note in the June 2009 edition of the Minnesota Law Review titled "Defogging the Cloud: Applying Fourth Amendment Principles to Evolving Privacy Expectations in Cloud Computing (PDF)." Written by David A. Couillard, a student at the University of Minnesota Law School expected to graduate this year, the paper is a concise but thorough outline of where we stand with respect to the application of Fourth Amendment law to Internet computing. It finishes by introducing a highly logical framework for evaluating the application of the Fourth Amendment to cases involving cloud-based data.
Are we seeing the equivalent of military training or does China believe this is retaliation-proof? Granted there are groups in China who react negatively to things they don't like, but so far they have limited themselves to events in China that aren't dealt with by law (e.g. corruption) This has the smell of a street gang's reaction to anyone who challenges them.
Another Attack, On Law Firm Suing China
Posted by timothy on Sunday January 17, @04:19AM from the in-for-a-penny-in-for-a-pounding dept.
An anonymous reader writes
"In the wake of the attack on Google, another company claims to be the victim of a similar attack. Gipson Hoffman & Pancione is a Los Angeles law firm whose client, CYBERsitter, is suing the government of China and several Chinese companies for using their intellectual property in the infamous Green Dam censorship filter. According to the firm, they have been targeted by a spear phishing attack from China."
Relatedly, smartaleckkill writes with news that the US state department is to formally protest to China over the alleged cyber-attacks on Google, "likely early next week."
(Related) Does this sound like teenagers pretending to be hackers or a government sponsored training event? (Cyber-War-games)
McAfee Calls Operation Aurora A “Watershed Moment In Cybersecurity”, Offers Guidance
by Robin Wauters on January 17, 2010
Computer and software security company McAfee last week identified a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer as a key vector in the cyberattacks that hit Google and over 30 other companies in a high-profile, multi-staged and concentrated effort to hack into specific computer systems in order to obtain intellectual property.
Redmond has since issued a security advisory and later published its own risk assessment of the zero-day threat. This morning, McAfee announced that it is offering consumers and businesses further guidance on what it refers to as ‘Operation Aurora’.
And it’s bringing out the superlatives to describe the attacks.
George Kurtz, McAfee’s worldwide chief technology officer, has been blogging about how the browser vulnerability was exploited for the cyberheist and is now quoted in this morning’s press release as saying that it is the “largest and most sophisticated cyberattack we have seen in years targeted at specific corporations”.
(Related) Panic? Frustration? Huge bribes by FireFox?
http://mashable.com/2010/01/15/german-government-stop-using-internet-explorer/
German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer
… hey may resume using Explorer after a fix is issued by Microsoft for a critical vulnerability that has been implicated in the Chinese cyberattack against Google.
Politics? Bureaucratic nonsense? Big Brother syndrome? I don't think the claim that “the EU made me do it.” will hold water.
Italy Floats Official Permission Requirement for Web Video Uploads
Posted by timothy on Saturday January 16, @05:04PM from the state-v.-man dept.
An anonymous reader writes with some bad news from Italy, noting that new rules proposed there would "require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web." Understandably, some say such controls represent a conflict of interest for Silvio Berlusconi, "who exercises political control over the state broadcaster RAI in his role as prime minister and is also the owner of Italy's largest private broadcaster, Mediaset."
[From the article:
On Thursday opposition lawmakers held a press conference in parliament to denounce the new rules -- which require government authorization for the uploading of videos, give individuals who claim to have been defamed a right of reply and prevent the replay of copyright material -- as a threat to freedom of expression.
The next time someone suggests that you can't get faster speeds in the US... (First question from the Commenters? “Who do I call?”)
Sandy, Utah Tops US Cities For Broadband Speed
Posted by timothy on Saturday January 16, @04:26PM from the short-hop-to-awesome-slc-library dept.
darthcamaro writes
"If you want to live in the city with the fastest average broadband connection speed in the US, you have to move to Utah. According to Akamai's latest State of the Internet Report, Sandy, Utah is at the top of the list for US cities with the fastest average broadband speeds, with an average connection speed of 33,464 Kbps (33.5 Mbps). Overall in the US, the average broadband connection speed in the third quarter of 2009 came in at 3.9 Mbps, down by 2.4 percent on a year-over-year basis, but that's not a major cause for concern in Akamai's view. 'The overall year-over-year decline in the US average connection speed was relatively minor,' report author David Belson, director of market intelligence at Akamai Technologies said. 'The larger year-over-year sample base may have contributed to the decline, especially as mobile usage grows.'"
Good idea. Really, really poor execution. Most “aging” is done with software. Apparently the FBI clips pictures from the Internet and pastes them to terrorist faces? Why doesn't the artist just DRAW the face? Won't this screw up their evidence in court? “That's not my client, your honor. Here's the picture of Mr. Rogers it was copied from.” (I can't see the resemblance, but then I'm “artistically challenged.”)
The FBI's Newest Tool — Google Images
Posted by timothy on Saturday January 16, @06:42PM from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.
lee317 writes
"The FBI recently used a photograph of Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares as an example of what Osama Bin Laden might look like today. According to Reuters, Special Agent Jason Pack said a forensic artist had been unable to find suitable features from the FBI's database of photographs and used a picture from the Internet instead. That photo turned out to be one of Llamazares, who apparently looks strikingly similar to what the FBI thinks Bin Laden would look like with a few extra years on him. 'I am stupefied the FBI has used my photo — but it could have been anyone's — to compose a picture of a terrorist. It affects my honor, my own image and also the security of all us,' Llamazares said."
[From the article:
LLamazares is a former leader of Spain's communist party Izquierda Unida and is currently its parliamentary spokesman. [So perhaps they did have his picture in their database. Bob]
… "The forensic artist was not aware of the identity of the individual depicted in the photograph," Pack said, adding that the image would be taken off the "Rewards for Justice" website, a State Department site.
If anyone tells my wife they have lots of doghouse plans, I'll sic the Rottweiler on you.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/absolutelyfreeplans-free-woodworking-project-plans/
AbsolutelyFreePlans: A Resource For Free Woodworking Project Plans
http://absolutelyfreeplans.com/
Free is good! You must download and install this within 24 hours, starting at midnight Pacific time?
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/odin-screen-capture/
Giveaway of the Day - Odin Screen Capture
Odin Screenshot Expert is a full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. You can save images in jpg, bmp, png all kinds of formats and the hotkey makes more convenient for you to use it. The Hightlight is it can let you to print the images out.
Very cool. I don't have an application yet, but I'll think of something!
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/casper-live-flight-tracker/
Casper: Cool Live Flight Tracker
Casper is a cool live flight tracker based on Google Maps that lets you track flights in real time. You can see actual planes coming in and out of airports color-coded by airlines. Hovering your mouse over any plane provides you with additional details such as departure airport, arrival airport, flight number, current altitude and speed.
… Right now Casper is a demo tool that only shows activity for the Amsterdam airport, but the software can be configured to any other location if the data is available.
For more similar tools see our article “Top 5 Airline Flight Tracking Websites“.
Is Dilbert explaining why I ask my students to rate the contribution of other members of their project team? (Hey, if you don't flunk somebody they think you're soft!)
Don't know if I agree totally, but I like the idea of creating “Functional Content Creators”
http://www.3dwriting.com/mcleod/
Scott McLeod’s presentation at NEA
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