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.)
Read more on CIS.
I hope this translates to the US. Condemning tools for the work done with them is illogical. (If Spock didn't say that, he should have.)
P2P and P2P Links Ruled Legal In Spain
Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 18, @02:12AM
Nieriko writes
e-Repo-man My hacking 101 students will love this! All we have to do is break a simple password?
Disgruntled Ex-Employee Remotely Disables 100 Cars
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 17, @06:35PM
hansamurai writes
"Over one hundred cars equipped with a Webtech Plus blackbox were remotely disabled when a former employee of dealership Texas Auto Center got hold of his employer's database of users. Webtech Plus is repossession software that allows the dealership to disable a car's ignition or trigger the horn to honk when a payment is due. Owners had to remove the battery to stop the incessant honking. After the dealership began fielding an unusually high number of calls from upset car owners, they changed the passwords to the Webtech Plus software and then traced the IP address used to access the client to its former employee."
Can you say, “Slippery Slope?” “Next week, we're gonna add Republicans!”
Court: State Can Dump Non-Sex Offenders Into Registry
How to tell someone is fishing for a high paying job in the industry they regulate... This is Politics 101, not Political Science.
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=8386
FTC member rips into Google’s privacy efforts
March 17, 2010 by Dissent
Grant Gross reports:
Several major U.S. Internet companies, including Google and Facebook, need to “step up” and better protect consumer privacy or face tougher penalties from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a commissioner said Wednesday.
Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, who is leaving the FTC next month, [Number One clue! Bob] ripped into Google for the launch of its Buzz social-networking tool in February, and she complained that many other Internet firms, including Facebook and Microsoft, aren’t encrypting the consumer data that lives in their clouds.
“I am especially concerned that technology companies are learning harmful lessons from each other’s attempts to push the privacy envelop,” she said during an FTC privacy workshop. “Even the most respected and popular online companies, the ones who claim to respect privacy, continue to launch products where the guiding privacy policy seems to be, ‘Throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks.’”
Read more on Network World.
I didn't see the annual Wiretaping report, but it might show up eventually.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023769.html
March 17, 2010
Sources for Finding Mandated Reports to Congress by U.S. Federal Agencies
Rick McKinney: "The Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C., Inc. (LLSDC) is pleased to announce the availability on its Legislative Source Book Website of a new title called "Sources for Finding Mandated Reports to Congress by U.S. Federal Agencies" (http://www.llsdc.org/fed-agency-reports/). The site briefly describes and links to sources that list or may make available reports from Federal agencies mandated by Congressional statute. Other matters discussed include where the text of report provisions can be found in the law, who receives the reports, sunsetted report provisions that remain in the U.S. Code, general reporting provisions applicable to most agencies, and other matters."
I always use Yogi Berra to explain how statistics can fail:
“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. “
“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. “
But one of the Comments said it best, “I would never believe a statistic that I did not make up myself! ”
Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 17, @09:30PM
Kilrah_il writes
"The linked article provides a short summary of the problems scientists have with statistics. As an intern, I see it many times: Doctors do lots of research but don't have a clue when it comes to statistics — and in the social science area, it's even worse. From the article: 'Even when performed correctly, statistical tests are widely misunderstood and frequently misinterpreted. As a result, countless conclusions in the scientific literature are erroneous, and tests of medical dangers or treatments are often contradictory and confusing.'"
It's a (brief) slideshow... Might show it in my Statistics class.
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023773.html
March 17, 2010
Pew Presentation: Teens and the internet -The future of digital diversity
Teens and the Internet: The Future of Digital Diversity, Kristen Purcell, Ph.D. Associate Director, Pew Internet Project, Fred Forward Conference, March 23, 2010.
Building a toolkit for geeks
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-10-downloaded-portable-applications-movers-shakers/
Top 10 Most Downloaded Portable Apps [Movers & Shakers]
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