On the “Internet of Things,” who
owns the data is going to be an rather important question.
Recommended
Reading: The Automotive Black Box Data Dilemma
April 26, 2012 by Dissent
A tweet
from the World Privacy Forum pointed out this excellent article by
Willie D. Jones on ieee
Spectrum. Here’s a snippet:
… “I don’t
see how there can be an expectation of [EDR] privacy in a criminal
case,” Gillingham insists. “When you’re driving on public
land, you give up expectation of privacy.” Challenged on whether
that statement conflicts with longstanding U.S. principles of search
and seizure, he says, “There’s an expectation of privacy with
regard to my body or my home; that’s very much different than the
engine of my car.”
But there is a
growing cadre of people who disagree with Gillingham, including the
Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District, which overturned
the manslaughter conviction in February 2011 on the grounds that
law enforcement did not secure a search warrant to retrieve the data.
(The other convictions were left intact.)
In the first civil
lawsuits and criminal cases involving cars equipped with EDRs, auto
companies claimed that they owned the data; courts eventually began
ruling that it belongs to vehicle owners and lessees. But
without federal laws governing who should have access to black box
data, the matter was left to the states. Thus far,
only 13 states have passed laws governing the ownership of EDR data.
Read more on ieee
Spectrum.
What is the opposite of “viral
marketing?” Perhaps this is the basis for a new Olympic sport –
Copyright Enforcement.
London
Olympics To Visitors: Don’t Share What You See
According to the London 2012 Olympic
“conditions for ticket holders,” you are not allowed to take
pictures or video of the events nor are you allowed to “exploit”
any video on social networks.
… This means no Instagrams, no
Tweetpics, no Facebooking (“OMG OLYMPICS!!”), and no nothing. In
short, you shouldn’t tell anyone you went to the Olympics.
According to Petapixel,
UK photographers are already being hassled for taking photos of the
Olympic “city” from public places, which suggests perhaps that
London should spring for a geodesic dome to cover the proceedings in
mystery and smash cameras of errant Tweeters.
Attention stalkers!
Here
Are 20 Companies Who Sell Your Data (& How To Stop Them)
April 26, 2012 by Dissent
Jon Mitchell writes:
Meet the data
brokers. There’s a whole industry full of companies who make their
money buying and selling our personal information. TheFTC
is working on busting this dark racket wide open, but in the
meantime, they’re out there. Who are they? Can we stop them?
Read on to find out.
Read more on ReadWriteWeb.
Would this also apply to random
interception of wireless communication?
Victory!
Federal Judge Rules Against Drug Testing of Florida’s State Workers
April 26, 2012 by Dissent
Great news from Baylor Johnson of the
ACLU of Florida:
Two months ago, I
was sitting in a federal courtroom in Miami watching as our staff
attorney, Shalini Goel Agarwal, argued for the rights of Florida
state workers against invasive, suspicionless mandatory bodily-fluid
searches. The ACLU of Florida, on behalf of the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), was challenging an
executive order issued by Gov. Rick Scott requiring random drug
testing for state employees.
Today, a
decision came down in that case affirming the privacy and
personal dignity of thousands of state employees by declaring the
order a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Without a “compelling
need,” a search of your bodily fluids is exactly the kind of
unreasonable search and seizure the Constitution clearly bars.
Read more on the ACLU’s
web site and congratulations to them or their successful
advocacy!
(Related) Just because it's legal
doesn't mean we can't use it against you. It is much easier to look
at every prescription issued by every doctor to see if anything
stands out, than to gather more specific information on the street.
(Drug companies won't complain about increased sales and Insurance
companies are unlikely to pay for unneeded drugs.)
By Dissent,
April 27, 2012
While a federal court ruled
Florida’s drug-testing law unconstitutional yesterday, not all
news is good news in terms of invasions of health issues. Vermont
Public Radio reports:
The Vermont Senate
has voted to allow police access without a search warrant to a
database of Vermonters’ prescriptions maintained by the Vermont
Department of Health.
In an 18-11 vote
after more than two hours of debate on Wednesday, the Senate rejected
the arguments of some members that allowing police access to the
database would violate rights against search and seizure promised by
the U.S. and Vermont constitutions.
The majority sided
with those saying police access would not be unlimited, and that
investigators need to be able to crack down on an epidemic of
prescription drug abuse in the state.
The House earlier
voted to require a search warrant before police got access to the
database. A conference committee likely will have to work out the
difference.
As regular readers of this blog know,
I’ve been following the state laws on prescription databases and by
now, many states do have laws that open up databases
to law enforcement in the name of busting prescription
abusers (usually pain killer medications). But since these
situations are usually not emergency situations with imminent danger
involved, why can’t law enforcement be required to show probable
cause to obtain a warrant? Inconvenient for law enforcement,
perhaps, but if the real issue is that law enforcement doesn’t have
enough information to rise to the level of probable cause, do we
really want them able to access someone’s prescription records?
“For every law there is a loophole.”
Who said that? (Every lawyers ever born?)
The
FBI Workaround For Private Companies To Share Information With Law
Enforcement Without CISPA
… In 1997, long-time FBI agent Dan
Larkin helped set up a non-profit based in Pittsburgh
that “functions
as a conduit between private industry and law enforcement.”
Its industry members, which include banks, ISPs, telcos, credit card
companies, pharmaceutical companies, and others can hand over
cyberthreat information to the non-profit, called the National Cyber
Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), which has a
legal agreement with the government that allows it to then
hand over info to the FBI. Conveniently, the FBI has a unit, the
Cyber
Initiative and Resource Fusion Unit, stationed in the NCFTA’s
office. Companies can share information with the
501(c)6 non-profit that they would be wary of (or prohibited from)
sharing directly with the FBI.
The Congressional version of “Ready,
Fire, Aim?” Perhaps, if my Ethical Hackers were to send the 248
Luddites their complete Internet dossier...
House
Passes Controversial Cybersecurity Measure CISPA
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and
Protection Act, or CISPA, sponsored by Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan)
and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland), passed on a vote of 248 to 168.
Interesting. I thought for sure Google
would pay this out of Petty Cash and move on. But as they say in
Calculus, as the Money available approaches infinity, behavior
becomes unpredictable.
Google
pushes back against FCC fine
April 27, 2012 by Dissent
Andrew Feinberg reports:
Google is pushing
back against a Federal Communications Commission proposal to fine the
Internet company for snooping on people’s Wi-Fi networks using
equipment in its Google Street View cars.
[...]
Google denied it
had obstructed the probe by not making personnel available, saying it
had let the commission take testimony from “everyone the FCC asked
to meet.” The company also argued that “the fact that a certain
engineer was legally unavailable did not leave any
significant factual questions unanswered.”
Read more on The
Hill.
[From the article:
...the engineer who wrote the offending
code code would not talk to the FCC
I fall mostly into the “not so fast”
crowd...
April 26, 2012
Pew
- The Future of Money in a Mobile Age
The
Future of Money in a Mobile Age by Aaron Smith, Janna Anderson,
Lee Rainie - Apr 17, 2012
- "Within the next decade, smart-device swiping will have gained mainstream acceptance as a method of payment and could largely replace cash and credit cards for most online and in-store purchases by smartphone and tablet owners, according to a new survey of technology experts and stakeholders. Many of the people surveyed by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project said that the security, convenience and other benefits of “mobile wallet” systems will lead to widespread adoption of these technologies for everyday purchases by 2020. Others—including some who are generally positive about the future of mobile payments—expect this process to unfold relatively slowly due to a combination of privacy fears, a desire for anonymous payments, demographic inertia, a lack of infrastructure to support widespread adoption, and resistance from those with a financial stake in the existing payment structure."
[Is Square the model
for future electronic transactions? Bob]
For my Ethical Hackers. What went
wrong? Exactly, he used his own name! And didn't test adequately.
(The potential cost of Cloud computing...)
Oops!
Amazon Web Services Customer Unleashes ‘Denial of Money’ Attack –
on Himself
Kickstarter loves creative projects.
I'd get one of these if I had a cell phone.
2-Cans-and-a-String
Technology Updated for Age of Mobility
Everything changes
SketchUp
Is Google’s First Divestment Ever, And It Made A Profit
Google’s sale
of a previously purchased arm of the company this morning, 3D
modeling software SketchUp,
to Trimble, isn’t just something it does “every now and
again”. It’s actually Google’s first divestment ever,
according to two sources, and we’re hearing the search giant made a
profit, as it sold SketchUp for more than it bought it for back in
2006.
… It wasn’t that SketchUp wasn’t
working. It had 30 million activations since joining Google as part
of @Last
Software in March 2006. But it just didn’t fit with the
direction Google is heading in. It’s a relatively
niche product for architects and the construction
industry, game developers, and filmmakers. It doesn’t fit with
last year’s theme of inherently social product that could be tied
to Google+, or this year’s plan to simplify everyone’s lives.
An interesting Charlie Rose interview
Jack
Dorsey, Chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square
It's a horrible secret. Whatever you
do, don't Google the words “zerg
rush”
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