Consistent with
previous arguments. “Terrorists don't have copies of these
records, so we have neither searched nor seized.”
Matt Sledge reports:
The
government is arguing in the terrorism case that serves as the
National Security Agency’s primary public justification for its
bulk collection of telephone records that criminal defendants have no
constitutional right to challenge the agency’s sweeping
surveillance program.
In
a filing made Sept. 30, U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy of the Southern
District of California contends that only the
telephone companies have a Fourth Amendment interest in their call
records — and therefore that Basaaly Moalin cannot
challenge his conviction for providing material support to the Somali
terrorist group al-Shabaab.
Read more on Huffington
Post.
[From
the article:
Those same companies
are notably disinclined to assert the privacy rights of their users:
Last month it was revealed that none
has ever challenged the NSA's bulk records requests.
The government also
contends there is "no suppression remedy" for a violation
under the statute underpinning the sweeping records collection,
meaning Moalin cannot have the evidence against him thrown out even
if the NSA broke the law.
Do I read between the
lines correctly? Corporate communications were sent directly to the
employee's computer with no other copy kept by the employer?
BuckleySandler writes:
On
September 18, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of
Washington held
that an employee’s computer, issued by the employer, is not a
“facility” subject to protections of the Stored Communications
Act. Roadlink Workforce Solutions, L.L.C. v. Malpass, No.
13-5459, 2013 WL 5274812 (W.D. Wash. Sept. 18, 2013). In this case,
an employer sued a former employee for allegedly copying and then
deleting certain information from an employer-issued computer before
leaving to work for a competitor. The employer claimed a private
right of action under the Stored Communications Act based on its
allegation that the former employee intentionally exceeded his
authorization to access a “facility through which an electronic
communication service” it provided, and obtained and altered an
electronic communication while it was in electronic storage.
Read more on InfoBytes
Blog.
For those who are
paranoid enough to think they might be included in NSAs surveillance
but are not paranoid enough to believe sites like these are run by
the NSA.
– is a Virtual
Private Network service which enables you to browse the Internet
anonymously and with ease. With the recent revelations of internet
spying by the NSA, privacy online has suddenly become a very
important topic for everyone and one of the ways you can cover
your tracks is by using an encrypted VPN connection.
If you review the
reviews, or analyze Big Data,
you need to ensure that you do it correctly. I see “algorithm
failure” as a major category of class action lawsuits in the near
future.
Rage
Against the Algorithms
… A recent
survey found that 76 percent of consumers check online reviews
before buying, so a lot can hinge on a good or bad review. Such
sites have become so important to local businesses that it’s
not uncommon for scheming owners to hire shills
to boost themselves or put down their rivals.
To protect users from
getting duped by fake reviews Yelp
employs an algorithmic review reviewer which constantly scans
reviews and relegates suspicious ones to a “filtered reviews”
page, effectively de-emphasizing them without deleting them entirely.
But of course that algorithm is not perfect, and it sometimes
de-emphasizes legitimate reviews and leaves actual fakes intact—oops.
Some businesses have complained,
alleging that the filter can incorrectly remove all of their most
positive reviews, leaving them with a lowly one- or two-stars
average.
This is
just one example of how algorithms are
becoming ever more important in society, for
everything from search
engine personalization, discrimination,
defamation,
and censorship
online, to how teachers
are evaluated, how
markets work, how political
campaigns are run, and even how something like immigration
is policed. Algorithms, driven by vast
troves of data, are the new power brokers in society,
both in the corporate world as well as in government.
I could explain this to
my students, but instead I'll keep repeating “$1 Billion Dollars!”
Twitter has
filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to
become a public company, which will allow outside investors to buy
and trade stock in the company in the coming months. The San
Francisco company will trade under the symbol TWTR when it goes
public, it revealed in the S-1 document it filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. The S-1, which was made public today, said
that Twitter has 215 million monthly active users but is not yet
profitable. During the first six months of 2013 the company pulled
in $253.6 million in revenue, but its net loss increased by 41
percent to $69.3 million.
(Related) Probably the
hottest new hacker target. You must be a “Public Agency” (or a
teenage hacker) to use this service. Will it become mandatory to
monitor this service? (Everyone has to become a Twitter user?)
– if there is an
emergency of some kind, it is essential for as many people as
possible to hear about it. The dominance of social media and
smartphones today means that one of the best ways to broadcast an
alert about an emergency is through Twitter. Twitter Alerts is a
service where you can type your emergency tweets and have them sent
out.
Doing what the
government can't... Do they normally charge for access to the free
government data?
EBSCO
Information Services Releases a Free Version of ERIC During
Government Shutdown
“EBSCO Information
Services (EBSCO) is making the government database ERIC available
during the government shutdown. ERIC, the Education Resource
Information Center, is typically available through the government
website (http://eric.ed.gov/)
as well as via EBSCO’s EBSCOhost® research platform. Because of
the shutdown, access to the full text of articles and other materials
will not be available but researchers will have access to the full
set of A&I records on EBSCOhost. Users going to
http://www.ebsco.com/freeERIC
will now see ERIC listed among the other free EBSCO databases such as
GreenFILE™ and Library, Information Science & Technology
Abstracts™ (LISTA). ERIC provides access to educational literature
and resources including access to information from journals included
in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in
Education Index. It was designed as a national information system to
provide access to education literature and resources. According to
its website, “ERIC is the world’s largest and most frequently
used education digital library.” ERIC provides more than 1.4
million bibliographic records and dates back to 1966.”
Is this the best
publishers can do? I certainly hope not!
Scribd
And HarperCollins Launch All-You-Can-Read Book Subscription Service
For $8.99/m
Scribd — the new
service and the original web app have the same name — costs $8.99
per month and can be accessed on iPhone, iPad, Android and Web
browsers.
… The HarperCollins
catalogue will include its full backlist — books that are over a
year old. While the exact number hasn’t been disclosed, the
publisher counts some of the world’s most popular authors in its
mix, including Paulo Coelho, Neil Gaiman, Marian Keys and Elmore
Leonard.
An infographic for our
students who drink “5 Hour Energy” more that 5 times per day?
35
Secrets To Being Productive
For my website
students.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-starts-analytics-academy-to-teach-people-about-google-analytics/
Google
Starts Analytics Academy To Teach People About Google Analytics
If you are a website
owner, you know that understanding who has been visiting your site,
where they are from, and what pages they looked at (and for how long)
is absolutely essential if you are to have any hope of growing and
developing your online presence. If you have no idea who your site
visitors are, then you are walking blindfolded.
The tool that most
people turn to, in order to achieve this knowledge, is Google
Analytics.
… Google wants to
help you out there, to understand the facts and figures that they are
throwing at you. So that is why they have set up what they call the
Analytics
Academy.
(Related) I've
mentioned this before, this has a bit more detail.
Google
News: Color On Google Drive & The Launch Of Google Web Designer
… Google
Web Designer is a visual tool for easily designing interactive
HTML5 sites and ads. The tool has been launched in public beta
and is available for free download on Windows and Mac. The designing
software is meant for advertisers primarily who want to easily create
animated ads for mobiles and desktops. Though most of the features
are custom-made for ads, it can also be easily used for making full
scale HTML5 webpages. Google Web Designer is an attempt to simplify
the design process for cross-platforms and multiple screens.
For my students
Find
Free Birthday Gifts for Family and Friends
At
1HappyBirthday.com
you can download a personalized Happy Birthday song. They sing a
birthday song, with your name in it! It’s not just the
traditional ‘Happy Birthday’ song either.
BirthdayDialer.com
gives you the ability to set up a free birthday call to your friends
and family. They answer the call, a friendly voice tells them it’s
BirthdayDialer calling, and then plays them a great little birthday
song. The free version is somewhat limited, but I still enjoyed it.
Free
Birthday Treats is a directory of free things for your birthday,
based on age, or if you’re a pet
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