http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=10829
AU: Police investigate Google over Street View data
June 6, 2010 by Dissent
And now Australia piles on:
Federal police have launched an investigation into Google and some of its employees for collecting private information while taking photographs for the Street View service.
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[Federal Attorney-General Robert] McClelland today said the data collection may have in breach of the Telecommunications Interceptions Act, “which prevents people accessing electronic communications other than for authorised purposes”.
Read more on news.com.au. Additional coverage on The Age.
(Related)
Google relents, to give WiFi data to Germany, France, Spain
Just a thought, but if the banks are claiming these are not their problem (not a breach of their security) they don't have to report them and we have no good measure of how big a problem this is.
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=12047
ACH Fraud Sparks Another Suit
June 5, 2010 by admin
Linda McGlasson reports:
In another round of bank vs. customer, a Maine business has sued its bank, alleging that the institution failed to prevent fraudulent ACH transactions totaling more than $500,000.
Patco, a Sanford, Maine-based construction company, had its corporate bank account raided over a six-day period last May by cyber thieves who were able to move over $588,000 to dozens of money mules throughout the country.
The business was able to recover only $230,000 of the stolen funds and has sued its bank, Ocean Bank of Portsmouth, NH, for failing to detect and prevent the bogus transfers.
Read more on BankInfoSecurity.com
Yes, it is a PowerPoint, but the lady does think through the problem and gives good advice.
http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=2855
Embedding Privacy into Health Information Technology: An Absolute Must
By Dissent, June 5, 2010 4:08 pm
A presentation by Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada at the MD Physician Services User Conference on Embedding Privacy into Health Information Technology, June 4.
You can see the PowerPoint here. It contains links to helpful brochures as well as some case examples.
Business models that work? Does this one translate to other industries?
TC Teardown: Chegg Is A Money Machine
Chegg may very well be the fastest-growing, most successful, second-generation e-commerce startup that you hardly ever hear about,except maybe for the fact that it’s raised more than $140 million. Chegg is the “Netflix for textbooks.” It lets students across 6,400 college campuses rent from a virtual bookstore containing 4.2 million books. Based on my analysis (which I get into more detail below), the company is on track to generate $130 million in revenues in 2010, up from $25 million in 2009, and $10 million in 2008. During the January, 2010 semester, I estimate the company made close to $1 million in revenue a day, up fivefold from $200,000/day the previous January, and it should double that this coming September. My analysis suggests Chegg will do close to $50 million in revenue this September alone. It is underappreciated, to say the least.
Cute! My website students might find it useful.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-movie-animated-gif-windows-movie-maker/
How To Turn A Movie Into An Animated GIF
… The weapon of choice in this tutorial is Windows Movie Maker. We won’t be using Windows Movie Maker to turn the file into a .GIF image, but we’ll be using it to edit the movie file so it can be easily turned into an animated movie .GIF image.
… Now that we have the video, we need to convert the file into a .GIF. This is one thing which Windows Movie Maker doesn’t do for us, but there are websites which will. Using the instruction in the Makeuseof GIF Ninja tutorial, you’ll easily be able to convert the video file into an animated .GIF.
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