Typical or government
inefficiency?
Nic Rigby of the BBC
reports on the cost to the U.S. of investigations involving U.K.
hackers:
Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, Suffolk, was arrested in October over
charges which include allegations he hacked the US Department
of Energy (DoE) computers. A report says personal
information on 104,000 people could have been taken. It says dealing
with the fall out of this cost $3.7m.
And the Gary McKinnon
incident cost the U.S. another $2.1m to pay for staffing “to help
correct the problems and deal with the aftermath.”
Read more on BBC.
(Related)
What's
a good set of Policies and Procedures worth?
I've drafted dozens of
them, including the form set currently available from the Texas
Medical Association. On average, I've probably charged around $5,000
to $10,000 for a worked-over set of policies (including adaption to
the client's specific needs, assisting with risk analysis, adding in
forms for BAAs and NoPPs, etc.). That's a lot of money for some
clients, and many balk at a price tag that high.
But what is the set
worth? If you're Adult & Pediatric Dermatology in Massachusetts,
the number is $150,000. APDerm
lost a flash drive with PHI on it: as far as anyone knows,
nothing happened to the PHI. But, the loss triggered an OCR
investigation, which uncovered that APDerm hadn't adopted policies
and procedures. That failure triggered a $150,000 fine.
Ignorant politicians.
This statement in an
OpEd in the Des
Moines Register by Anthony Gaughan, associate professor of law at
Drake University, gave me pause:
The
greatest threat to your privacy is not posed by the NSA. It’s
posed by hackers, thieves and corporations.
So what do you
think is the single greatest threat to privacy?
“Da world, she
change!” Keeping up is hard.
Orin Kerr points
us to this interesting post by law professor Miriam Baer:
As
I ready myself for teaching a new semester of Criminal Procedure I
(often known as the “investigation” course, as opposed to the
Crim Pro II “adjudication” course, which ostensibly covers
everything from “bail to jail”), I cannot help but think how much
the course — and my syllabus – has changed in the last year or
so, and how much it is likely to change over the next 24 months.
Just
two years ago, the discussion of whether police action constituted a
“search” would have been answered primarily by asking whether the
action intruded upon an individual’s “reasonable expectation of
privacy.” Today, however, it would be unthinkable
not to also ask whether the action interefered with the individual’s
property
rights.
A
few years ago, if one taught the “third party doctrine,” one
likely referred to it as an established yet disfavored doctrine that
drew the ire of civil libertarians and privacy scholars, but whose
implementation continued largely without challenge.
Read more on
Prawfsblawg.
Do these actually work?
Where can I find studies?
Sancheska Brown
reports:
Immigration
Minister Fred Mitchell said yesterday the Government is considering
introducing a National Identification Card as well as charging
persons who knowingly hire illegal immigrants in an effort to deal
with the country’s long standing illegal migration problem.
Read more on
Tribune242.
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