“The Cloud” and Its Privacy Implications: Up In The Air?
10:00-10:10 - Introduction
10:10-10:40 – Panel I: Privacy Concerns in the Cloud
10:45 - 11:45 - Panel II: Future Legal Privacy, Technical Cloud Issues
11:50 - 12:50 - Round Table Discussion: Given The Legal and Privacy Concerns: Will We Learn to Love the Cloud?
For Reservations Contact: Diane Bales at dbales@law.du.edu 303.871.6580
Registration Fee: Seminar and Lunch ($20) Lunch with CLE Credit ($40)
(Related) A nice, timely and very brief prequel for the seminar.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023689.html
March 07, 2010
New on LLRX.com: Cloud Computing for Lawyers
LLRX.com: Cloud Computing for Lawyers - This is Nicole L. Black's primer for the legal profession on an emerging technology which is defined as a "type of computing that is comparable to grid computing, [and] relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. The goal of cloud computing is to apply traditional supercomputing power (normally used by military and research facilities) to perform tens of trillions of computations per second.
You know this, but do you understand it?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023688.html
March 07, 2010
New on LLRX.com: Social media, geolocation and privacy, oh my!
LLRX.com - Social media, geolocation and privacy, oh my! - Nicole L. Black highlights how our net activities are carefully monitored and meticulously tracked by some of the biggest players, including Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. Our individual online footprints, from the Web sites we visit, the items we purchase, the people with whom we communicate, to the locations where we access the Internet, are extremely valuable commodities that are increasingly sought after.
Coming soon to a legal system near you? A great example from a country admonishing their corporations to better handle personal information.
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=8175
AU police get access to tax data for trials
March 7, 2010 by Dissent
Natasha Bita reports:
Police will be given new powers to use people’s secret tax details against them in criminal trials, under legislation that weakens the privacy protection over Australians’ tax returns.
For the first time, prosecutors will be able to use private tax information as evidence in court for “serious offences”, including identity theft, money laundering, drug-smuggling, corporate fraud, sexual slavery and terrorism.
And the Australian Taxation Office will be allowed to hand secret taxpayer information to other government agencies to “prevent or lessen” a serious threat to public health [filthy lucre? ill gotten gains? Bob] or safety.
Read more on The Australian.
You could read this substituting banks or corporations for magazines. Might make an interesting research project...
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023685.html
March 07, 2010
Magazines and Their Web Sites A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report
Magazines and Their Web Sites, A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report by Victor Navasky with Evan Lerner, March 2010
"Virtually every significant magazine in the United States—and increasingly abroad—either already has, or is in the process of establishing, a Web site. These interactive Internet offspring speak to a new generation of magazine readers, and often reach audiences well beyond those of their parent publications. But their rise has also created a vast set of ethical, culture, legal, and business issues. Although those involved with magazines and their Web sites have varying levels of knowledge and sophistication about their métier, it’s fair to say that the proprietors of these sites don’t, for the most part, know what one another is doing, that there are no generally accepted standards or practices, that each Web site is making it up as it goes along, that it is like the wild west out there."
The automation of the legal department continues...
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/generate-terms-service
Terms-of-Service-Generator: Generate Terms Of Service Page for Your Online Business
… Legal River’s Terms of Service Generator is a free web app that provides an easy way to generate terms of service statement for your online business. It creates the document based on the data that you input on the site’s forms, which then are transformed into legal statements.
http://terms-of-service-generator.legalriver.com
Think of it as a “pretty-maker” for text. Website class
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/softhyphenator
Soft Hyphenator: Transform Regular HTML Text Into Soft-Hyphened HTML
A justified alignment is the most ideal text alignment for webpages since it creates a clean, presentable look while allowing for flexible management of other elements in the page. However, paragraphs having an uneven distribution of long and short words could make a justified text alignment look awkward, as they may cause unsightly huge spacing between words throughout the text.
Soft Hyphenator is a web app that transforms a justified HTML text into a soft-hyphenated one, thus preventing the occurrence of huge spacing caused by such alignment, and making it more readable.
For my “Hacking for fun and profit” class. A logical extension of “Convergence”
Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors
Posted by kdawson on Monday March 08, @08:15AM
Pickens writes
"The Telegraph reports that Apple is developing technology, already being nicknamed the 'iKey,' which will allow users to gain access to their office and unlock their car or front door with a single electronic device like an iPhone. Users would simply have to enter a PIN and wave the device over an electronic pad fitted beside a door to open it. 'The device can communicate with an external device to open a lock. By way of example, the electronic device may be a model of an iPhone,' says the newly released patent application. 'The external device may be any suitable electronic device such as a portable media player, personal data assistant or electronic lock that may be used to access a door, car, house, or other physical area.' The technology behind the invention is known as Near Field Communication; it allows electronic devices to transmit information when in proximity. 'If true, it's a very big deal. As well as opening doors and unlocking your car, it could also turn your iPhone into an electronic wallet and ID card,' says Leander Kahney, a consumer technology expert. 'The trouble is that the technology hasn't gone completely mainstream. If Apple were to adopt the technology, they would likely set the standard, and that would drive widespread adoption as everyone scrambles to make their systems iPhone-friendly.'"
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