Does this protect my
encrypted files as well?
Password
Protection Laws Could Protect Much More than Passwords
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on November 24, 2013
O’Donohue, Sarah,
‘Like’ it or Not, Password Protection Laws Could Protect Much
More than Passwords (August 1, 2013). 20 J.L. Bus. & Eth.
(February 2014, Forthcoming). Available
at SSRN
“Employers and
schools in several states are now prohibited from requesting access
to the social networking accounts of their employees, students, and
applicants as a result of the “password protection” laws that
are sweeping the nation. These laws take an expansive view of
the definition of privacy by implying that viewing content on a
user’s restricted-access social networking profile without his
consent constitutes an invasion of privacy. Courts have consistently
held that the information users post on social networking websites
is, in fact, not private. Further highlighting the contrast between
legislative and judicial interpretations of privacy in the context of
these new technologies, the express language in one of the password
protection laws declares that all Internet users have a reasonable
expectation of privacy in their social networking website
communications and affairs. This Article argues that password
protection laws should be interpreted narrowly as only prohibiting
the invasive methods used by employers and schools to gather
information from social networking profiles — not as establishing
in all cases that communications to which access has been restricted
are private. The reasonableness of a user’s expectation of privacy
in the content of his social networking profile must be determined by
courts on a case-by-case basis, informed by such factors as how many
people he invites to view it, the relationship between the user and
his chosen audience, the exact calibration of his privacy settings,
and the degree to which his digital information is guarded by the
website under its privacy and data use policies.”
How about that...
Evelyn B. Stacey
reports:
After
months of parent protests, Colorado’s
Department of Education ended its contract with controversial
technology organization inBloom in November, shortly after Jefferson
County, Colorado’s school board cut ties with it for the same
reason by a 7-1 vote.
This
makes New York the sole remaining state to continue its relationship
with inBloom, of an initial nine.
Read more on
Heartland.org.
Remember the movie “The Day of the Jackal?”
The police collected the cards and processed them manually back in
1973.
Simon Davies writes:
The
next time you check into a hotel in any European country – or
indeed in many countries outside the EU – chances are you’ll be
required to fill out a guest registration form. At the very least
this form will demand information such as passport number,
nationality, home address, telephone number, gender and date of
birth.
Most
travellers are blissfully unaware that this information is an
internationally available
police and security resource required by law. Guests are rarely
informed of the fact, despite the ubiquity of data protection laws in
those countries.
Read more on Privacy
Surgeon.
Never let another
bureaucracy do what you could do with more people and a larger
headcount.
Spencer Ackerman
reports:
The
deputy director of the National Security Agency on Friday sounded
skeptical about permitting the FBI, DEA or other law enforcement
agencies to directly search through the NSA‘s
vast data troves, as a new bill would appear to permit.
A
bill recently approved by the Senate intelligence committee on a 13-4
vote blesses the ability of law enforcement agencies to directly
conduct “queries of data” from NSA databases of foreign-derived
communications content “for law enforcement purposes”.
Read more on The
Guardian.
We live in a changing
world. Customers are trading expensive Cable/Internet contracts for
Free WiFi – imagine that.
Commentary
– TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on November 24, 2013
Business
Insider – Jim Edwards: “The TV business is having its worst
year ever. Audience ratings have collapsed: Aside from a brief
respite during the Olympics, there has been only negative ratings
growth on broadcast and cable TV since September 2011, according to
Citi Research. Media stock analysts Craig Moffett and Michael
Nathanson recently noted, “The
pay-TV industry has reported its worst 12-month stretch ever.”
All the major TV providers lost a collective 113,000 subscribers in
Q3 2013. That doesn’t sound like a huge deal — but it includes
internet subscribers, too. Broadband internet was
supposed to benefit from the end of cable TV, but it hasn’t…
This is the macro problem: Ratings are falling across the board.
They have been for years. It’s not too surprising that broadcast
TV ratings are down. The major networks have faced increasing
competition for years from niche-interest cable channels and the
better-quality programming on places like AMC and HBO. But ratings
for both cable and the broadcast networks are down.”
Yeah, I still don't get
it. (Interesting poster though...)
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For my Statistics
students
Country
statistical profiles: Key tables from OECD for the United States
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on November 24, 2013
Country
statistical profile: United States – November 15, 2013, updated
annually. DOI: 10.1787/20752288-table-usa
“This table includes
data for United States on economy, education, energy, environment,
foreign aid, health, information and communication, labour,
migration, R&D, trade and society. The table is part of the key
tables collection on country statistical profiles.”
Dilbert explains why
you should know a little bit about technology.
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