Interesting
group. Interesting question.
Orin Kerr writes:
Last
Friday, I spoke on a very
interesting panel about how the Fourth Amendment should respond to
new technologies hosted by the Heritage Foundation. The
panelists were Miguel Estrada of Gibson Dunn, Susan Herman of the
ACLU and Brooklyn Law, and me. Paul Larkin of the Heritage
Foundation moderated. You can watch the panel here:
[and at
Heritage:
http://www.heritage.org/events/2013/09/technology-and-tyranny?ac=1
(Related)
You’re going to want
to read this exchange:
(Related) Same
interesting question?
Charlie Savage reports:
A
bipartisan group of senators on the Judiciary Committee on Monday
signed
a letter asking the inspector general for the intelligence
community, I. Charles McCullough III, to carry out a “full
accounting” of how the government is carrying its surveillance
powers.
Read more on The
New York Times.
I submit that we don't
really understand this technology stuff.
49%
of the Links Cited in Supreme Court Decisions Are Broken
Of course it's
confusing. It's a politician being “helpful.”
Tim Cushing writes:
Senator
Mike Rogers heads up the House Intelligence Committee and he, along
with Dutch Ruppersberger, have taken a squarely
antagonistic stance against any other members of Congress who
wish to do perform the oversight duties they’re tasked with. This
attitude has resulted in a wholly uninformed Congress which relies on
the Intelligence Committee to disseminate information on surveillance
programs.
Read more on TechDirt.
Anything
new?
Hanni Fakhoury writes:
As
the highest court in Massachusetts considers
whether cell-site data is private in the context of the Fourth
Amendment, we filed an amicus
brief arguing that when the police want to be able to recreate
your every step—figuring out your patterns of movement, where
you’ve been and with whom—they must obtain a search warrant.
Read more on EFF.
This can't work, can
it?
Governor Jerry Brown
has signed SB-568 into law. The bill has sometimes been referred to
as the online child privacy “eraser” bill because it
requires web site operators to allow minors to remove information.
There are exemptions, but here’s a portion of the text:
22581.
(a) An operator of an Internet Web site, online service, online
application, or mobile application directed to minors or an operator
of an Internet Web site, online service, online application, or
mobile application that has actual knowledge that a minor is using
its Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile
application shall do all of the following:
(1)
Permit a minor who is a registered user of the operator’s Internet
Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application
to remove or, if the operator prefers, to request and obtain removal
of, content or information posted on the operator’s Internet Web
site, online service, online application, or mobile application by
the user.
(2)
Provide notice to a minor who is a registered user of the operator’s
Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile
application that the minor may remove or, if the operator prefers,
request and obtain removal of, content or information posted on the
operator’s Internet Web site, online service, online application,
or mobile application by the registered user.
(3)
Provide clear instructions to a minor who is a registered user of the
operator’s Internet Web site, online service, online application,
or mobile application on how the user may remove or, if the operator
prefers, request and obtain the removal of content or information
posted on the operator’s Internet Web site, online service, online
application, or mobile application.
(4)
Provide notice to a minor who is a registered user of the
operator’s Internet Web site, online service, online application,
or mobile application that the removal described under paragraph
(1) does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the
content or information posted on the operator’s Internet Web site,
online service, online application, or mobile application by the
registered user.
So we may
someday have a defibrillator App, but not if I can randomly use it on
my students?
Toni Clarke reports:
The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued final rules governing
the development of mobile medical apps, saying it
will focus its oversight on those products that have the potential to
harm consumers if they do not function properly.
The
rules, announced on Monday, come more than two years after the FDA
released draft guidance in which it proposed regulating any mobile
app deemed to be a medical device.
Read more on Reuters.
For my Computer
Security students.
Cybersecurity:
Authoritative Reports and Resources
Cybersecurity:
Authoritative Reports and Resources. Rita Tehan, Information
Research Specialist, September 20, 2013
“Cybersecurity
vulnerabilities challenge governments, businesses, and individuals
worldwide. Attacks have been initiated by individuals, as well as
countries. Targets have included government networks, military
defenses, companies, or political organizations, depending upon
whether the attacker was seeking military intelligence, conducting
diplomatic or industrial espionage, or intimidating political
activists. In addition, national borders mean little or nothing to
cyberattackers, and attributing an attack to a specific location can
be difficult, which also makes a response problematic. Congress has
been actively involved in cybersecurity issues, holding hearings
every year since 2001. There is no shortage of data on this topic:
government agencies, academic institutions, think tanks, security
consultants, and trade associations have issued hundreds of reports,
studies, analyses, and statistics.”
“Legislation”
“Executive
Orders and Presidential Directives”
“Data
and Statistics”
“Cybersecurity
Glossaries”
“CRS
Reports by Topic”
“Related
Resources: Other Websites”
What
happens if Google wins?
Judge
appears to back Google's defense of digital books project
A U.S. judge made
comments Monday that suggest favor for Google's defense of its
digital books project, which could hobble an authors group's effort
to stop it.
… During a hearing
in New York on Monday, Circuit Judge Denny Chin said Google's fair
use defense hinged on whether the project "is a benefit to
society," according to a Reuters'
account of the hearing. Chin listed several examples how the
book-scanning project has helped people find information, including
his own law clerks.
"Aren't these
transformative uses, and don't they benefit society?" Chin
asked.
Edward Rosenthal, a
lawyer representing the authors, said the project "may benefit
society in some instances" but argued that it should be the
copyright holder who decides whether the work is displayed.
For all my students...
You can look at 'rights to privacy' in 139 constitutions.
Explore
the world’s constitutions with a new online tool
Official
Google Blog: “Constitutions are as unique as the people they
govern, and have been around in one form or another for millennia.
But did you know that every year approximately five
new constitutions are written, and 20-30 are amended or
revised? Or that Africa has the youngest set of constitutions, with
19 out of the 39 constitutions written globally since 2000 from the
region? The process of redesigning and drafting a new constitution
can play a critical role in uniting a country, especially following
periods of conflict and instability. In the past, it’s been
difficult to access and compare existing constitutional documents and
language—which is critical to drafters—because the texts are
locked up in libraries or on the hard drives of constitutional
experts. Although the process of drafting constitutions has evolved
from chisels and stone tablets to pens and modern computers, there
has been little innovation in how their content is sourced and
referenced. With this in mind, Google
Ideas supported the Comparative
Constitutions Project to build Constitute,
a new site that digitizes and makes searchable the world’s
constitutions. Constitute enables people to browse and search
constitutions via curated and tagged topics, as well as by country
and year. The Comparative Constitutions Project cataloged and tagged
nearly 350 themes, so people can easily find and compare specific
constitutional material. This ranges from the fairly general, such
as “Citizenship” and “Foreign Policy,” to the very specific,
such as “Suffrage and turnouts” and “Judicial Autonomy and
Power.” Our aim is to arm drafters with a better tool for
constitution design and writing. We also hope citizens will use
Constitute to learn more about their own constitutions, and those of
countries around the world.”
For my students.
Translate my lectures into plain English.
Google
Translate Updates Includes Handwriting Translation and Seven New
Languages
Google this week posted
a significant update to its powerful and easy to use Google
Translate (Free) iOS app, to include handwriting input, seven new
languages, and a modern redesign of the user interface.
Google Translate works
similar to the Google Search app which allows users to use voice to
text technology to get super quick translations between more than 70
languages
For my students
Is
College Worth It?
America’s colleges
and universities are enduring a crisis of faith among the public. As
we wrote last week in The
Supersizing of American Colleges, due to a subsidy-fueled
spending spree, the cost of college has increased over the past 30
years faster than the price of healthcare, housing, or just about
anything else. Tuitions, student debt, and student loan default
rates have all skyrocketed, leading indebted graduates to malign
their degrees and pundits to argue that college is not worth the
price tag.
In contrast, the
research on the financial value of a college degree all concurs: A
bachelor’s degree is a sound investment whose value is growing.
The extra income graduates earn compared to high school graduates
more than compensates for the high cost.
I need one! (Works on
wine too!)
Spin-chill
a beer in 30 seconds with the Beerouette
Perhaps you have
experienced the disappointment and despair of plunging your hand into
an ice chest and pulling out a still-warm beer. You have a few
options. Pop it in the freezer and wait. Plunge it deep into the
ice and wait. Or back the Spin
Chill Kickstarter and cool off your beer in less than a minute.
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