Are they saying that
their current procedures cause harm? They are, aren't they? I would
really like to see how this would work. I see the potential for lots
of “False Positive” reports requiring (one hour?) reversals.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is seeking to
fast-track the rollout of a new process that state health
insurance exchanges will use to report–within one hour–information
security incidents.
With
the exchanges expected to open on October 1, CMS has submitted a
request for an emergency review of the new reporting system
from the Office of Management and Budget “because
public harm is reasonably likely to result if the normal clearance
procedures are followed,” according to a notice issued
on August 20.
Read more on Health
Data Management.
[From
the article:
In absence of this
change, [i.e. If we keep doing what we are doing...
Bob] a significant number of incidents will not be
detected; therefore causing harm and potential risk to the
public’s identity with identity fraud.”
Has anyone (government
or corporation) raised concerns like this?
Jasper Hamill writes:
Microsoft’s
new touchy Windows 8 operating system is so vulnerable to prying
hackers that Germany’s businesses and government should not use it,
the country’s authorities have warned in a series of leaked
documents.
According
to files published in German weekly Die
Zeit, the Euro nation’s officials fear Germans’ data is not
secure thanks to the OS’s Trusted
Computing technology– a set of specifications and protocols
that relies on every computer having a unique cryptographic key built
into the hardware that’s used to dictate what software can be run.
Read more on The
Register.
This was a really good
idea until users noticed that non-users thought it was a bad idea?
Associated Press and
Catherine Townsend report:
Google
Play has been forced to remove a Boyfriend Tracker app from sale in
Brazil in response to complaints about privacy abuses, as well as its
potential to be used for extortion or stalking.
Brazilians
were outraged when they learned their country was a top target of the
U.S. National Security Agency’s top secret overseas spying
operation, but it seems that all bets are off when it comes to
catching cheaters.
Tens
of thousands managed to download the software before it was pulled
off the market.
Read more on Daily
Mail.
An article to stimulate
ethical debate?
San
Francisco Fire Chief Bans Helmet Cams
… Hayes-White, the
San Francisco Chronicle reported, made her decision following
the death of 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan in the Asiana plane crash last
month. Footage from a helmet cam filmed during the incident shows
that battalion chief Mark Johnson did not know that Ye was lying on
the ground near the plane wreck, covered in fire-retardant foam, when
she was run over by a fire-department rig.
… But this
justification for Hayes-White's decision is, to put it mildly, a bit
suspect. Even Ye's family's own lawyer is unimpressed. "Why
would anybody not want to know the truth?" he told the
Chronicle. "What's wrong with knowing what happened?
What's wrong with keeping people honest? That's what the helmet cam
did, in effect, in this case."
(Related)
In
California, a Champion for Police Cameras
… Rialto has become
the poster city for this high-tech measure intended to police the
police since a federal judge last week applauded its officer camera
program in the ruling
that declared New York’s stop-and-frisk program unconstitutional.
Rialto is one of the few places where the
impact of the cameras has been studied systematically.
In the first year after the cameras were
introduced here in February 2012, the number of complaints filed
against officers fell by 88 percent compared with the previous 12
months. Use of force by officers fell by almost 60 percent over the
same period.
“This way to the
EGRESS.”
Ryan Calo has uploaded
a new paper to SSRN. Here’s the abstract:
Jon
Hanson and Douglas Kysar coined the term “market manipulation” in
1999 to describe how companies exploit the cognitive limitations of
consumers. Everything costs $9.99 because consumers see the price as
closer to $9 than $10. Although widely cited by academics, the
concept of market manipulation has had only a modest impact on
consumer protection law.
This
Article demonstrates that the concept of market manipulation is
descriptively and theoretically incomplete, and updates the framework
for the realities of a marketplace that is mediated by technology.
Today’s firms fastidiously study consumers and, increasingly,
personalize every aspect of their experience. They can also reach
consumers anytime and anywhere, rather than waiting for the consumer
to approach the marketplace. These and related trends mean that
firms can not only take advantage of a general understanding of
cognitive limitations, but can uncover and even trigger consumer
frailty at an individual level.
A
new theory of digital market manipulation reveals the limits
of consumer protection law and exposes concrete economic and
privacy harms that regulators will be hard-pressed to ignore.
This Article thus both meaningfully advances the behavioral law and
economics literature and harnesses that literature to explore and
address an impending sea change in the way firms use data to
persuade.
You can download the
paper from SSRN.
Not what I would have
guessed...
Assessing
Factors That Affect Patent Infringement Litigation Could Help Improve
Patent Quality
Conclusion
… This
suggests that the focus on the identity of the litigant —
rather
than the type of patent — may
be misplaced.
Not surprising. I have
students come to class in their sleep... (This is actually a joke,
right?)
The
sleep-texting epidemic
… Earlier this
year, Philadelphia nursing professor Elizabeth Dowdell worried
that teens were now LOLing while they slept.
But teens do all sorts
of crazy things out of which they ultimately grow. However, now a
New York doctor, sleep expert Dr. Josh Werber, reveals that
sleep-texting is spreading to even those with fully-developed
faculties.
In
a quite painful report published Wednesday, CBS New York
interviewed Werber, as well as a couple of women who sometimes wake
in the morning, to see that their sleep has been punctuated by
messaging.
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