Interesting. Does this shut down any
customer lawsuits? Why else would they even comment?
E. B. Solomont reports:
Schnuck Markets
Inc. did not violate Missouri law regarding data security, an
investigation into a widespread data breach at Schnucks by Missouri
Attorney General Chris Koster’s office has concluded.
The St.
Louis-based grocery chain “was itself a victim of criminal
wrongdoing,”Nanci Gonder, press secretary for the attorney general,
told the Business Journal. “After reviewing the records
and speaking with forensic investigators, we did not find that
Schnuck Markets violated Missouri laws regarding data security,”
she said.
Read more on St.
Louis Business Journal.
I think Colorado Technical
University should offer this one a scholarship! (Note that large
companies are not the only ones to re-assess their security after an
incident.)
Toddler
buys 1962 Austin Healey on eBay
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Sorella
Stoute bought a 1962
Austin Healey Sprite on eBay last month. She’s a
toddler.
The 14-month-old opened the
eBay
app on her dad’s smartphone last month and
bought the car for $225 — without his knowledge.
Her dad, Paul Stoute, didn’t know
about it until he got a congratulatory email from eBay.
… “I’m just glad she didn’t
buy the $38,000 Porsche I was looking at,” he said.
Since Sorella bought the car, though,
he activated the facial
recognition technology and has a new PIN code, just
in case she ever gets the shopping bug again.
Interesting, because they are trained
to use tools like LinkedIn, so I doubt they were unaware.
Mike Masnick writes:
So, over the
weekend, the Washington Post revealed
some of the code names for various NSA surveillance programs,
including NUCLEON, MARINA and MAINWAY. Chris Soghoian has pointed
out that a quick LinkedIn search for profiles of people in
Maryland with codenames like MARINA and NUCLEON happen to turn up
profiles
like this one which appear to reveal more codenames:
+Skilled in the
use of several Intelligence tools and resources: ANCHORY, AMHS,
NUCLEON, TRAFFICTHIEF, ARCMAP, SIGNAV, COASTLINE, DISHFIRE,
FASTSCOPE, OCTAVE/CONTRAOCTAVE, PINWALE, UTT, WEBCANDID, MICHIGAN,
PLUS, ASSOCIATION, MAINWAY, FASCIA, OCTSKYWARD, INTELINK, METRICS,
BANYAN, MARINA
TRAFFICTHIEF, eh?
WEBCANDID? Hmm… Apparently, NSA employees don’t realize that
information they post online can be revealed.
So… will DOJ prosecute these people
for leaks? Will the Army block the military from reading LinkedIn?
No, I don’t think either should
happen but if the government really wants to keep some information
from the public forum, they’re not doing a great job, are they?
But more to the point: how many members
of Congress even know what these programs are or do? How many
members of Congress are engaging in actual oversight of these
programs?
Does the new CEO hope to gain
credibility for the actions of her predecessor?
Brandon Bailey reports:
In a rare legal
move, Yahoo is asking a secretive U.S. surveillance court to let the
public see its arguments in a 2008 case that played an important role
in persuading tech companies to cooperate with a controversial
government data-gathering effort.
Releasing those
files would demonstrate that Yahoo “objected strenuously” to
government demands for customers’ information and would also help
the public understand how surveillance programs are approved under
federal law, the company argued in a filing with the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court this week.
Read more on Mercury
News.
You can read the court filing here.
Useful. Learn what laws you are
breaking! If you aggregate the laws of all 100 countries, could you
still operate a business?
Dave Banisar has updated his global map
on data protection laws:
Approximately 100
countries and independent jurisdictions and territories around the
world have adopted comprehensive [??? Bob]
data protection/privacy laws to protect personal data held by both
governments and private companies. This map shows which
jurisdictions have adopted laws or have pending initiatives to adopt
one.
You can download the map from SSRN.
Just in time for my Linear Algebra
students
Paperkit is a free to use website that
lets you download graph templates which you can print out. There are
various properties of the grid that the website lets you modify. To
get started using the site’s tools, you do not need to create any
new accounts – you simply visit the website and start tweaking the
various graph properties.
For all my students. Looks like the
grab the RSS feed. (At least, it works like an RSS reader but in
your browser!)
Most people who frequently use the
Internet have a bunch of websites bookmarked to get news and updates.
But visiting these websites individually and checking out their new
posts can be quite time consuming.
Skimr is a free to use web service that
helps you quickly browse the latest updates on your favorite
websites. This is accomplished by letting you view your favorite
websites in a list view where you click on a site and subsequently
read the corresponding updates. When you first the site’s home
page, you will find a list containing a few websites on which you
will find the latest technology-related news on the Internet.
You can edit this list by creating an
account on the website and adding any website that you want; you can
add the websites through their URL or through their RSS feed.
Similar: Skimzee
[Similar, but works with Twitter Bob]
(Related)
Last.fm
founders to use your browser history to conquer the Web
Last.fm founders Felix Miller and
Martin Stiksel think they have the solution to the overabundance of
the Web and the ever-flowing rivers on social media feeds.
The two European entrepreneurs, who
created a music service that recommends music based on your listening
history, have decided to apply their technology to the entire
Internet.
… The pair launched a new product
on Thursday, a Web discovery tool called Lumi.
In the spirit of Last.fm, which Miller and Stiksel sold
to CBS in 2007 for $280 million (CBS also owns CNET), Lumi is a
site that relies on a user's browser history to determine what they
should see or read on the Internet.
Users must install the
Lumi browser extension and allow the tool to collect their browsing
history. It's available on Chrome, Firefox
or Safari.
Lumi starts processing your information once you install it and
spits out results in about 20 seconds. (Two-thirds of Stiksel's
results are music-related, of course.)
… When they started testing Lumi in
December, 10,000 users signed up for its trial run. Those testers
were most concerned with privacy, Miller said. If
you browse in incognito mode, which hides your browsing history, Lumi
can't see where you have surfed. Otherwise, your movement on the
Internet is fair game.
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