Happy Data
Privacy Day!
Interesting concept.
Can they execute?
In
response to a spate of cyber attacks targeting retailers nationwide,
the Retail
Industry Leaders Association (RILA) announced on Monday that it
would help its members improve their cyber defenses by launching a
new initiative to address cyber threats and promote further
safeguards to protect payment data.
… The
initiative is organized around three major components.
1.
Strengthening Overall Cybersecurity:
2.
Improving Payments Security:
Eliminate
the Mag-Stripe:
3.
Addressing Consumer Privacy:
You
may need to physically seize a server, is that approval to logically
seize all of the email on that server? If clients were after
security, are they “guilty by association?” Do you have “no
expectation of privacy” on “secure email services?” Would this
be similar to seizing one of those private “post office box”
services because one client was shipping drugs, and then looking at
everyone's mail?
Kevin
Poulsen reports:
While
investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last
year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail
database of a popular anonymous webmail service called
TorMail.
Now
the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated
investigations.
The
bureau’s data windfall, seized from a company called Freedom
Hosting, surfaced in court papers last week when prosecutors indicted
a Florida man for allegedly selling counterfeit credit cards online.
Read more on Threat
Level.
So if the government
made 1845 requests, companies could say “less than 2000.” Or
they could say, “More than 1000 and less than 1845 thousand.”
How does the exact number aid or comfort an enemy?
US
Allows Tech Giants to Reveal Spy Agency Demands
Facing
a legal challenge and a furious public debate, Attorney General Eric
Holder and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the
companies would now be allowed to disclose figures on consumer
accounts requested.
… Under
the agreement filed with the secretive Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court the companies will be able to disclose the
numbers, within ranges.
They
will have an option to reveal within bands of 1,000 the numbers of
"national security letters" and specific court orders.
Another option will be to disclose, in bands of 250, all the national
security requests, lumped together.
The
reports will have a six-month lag time, so data for the second half
of 2014 may be published in mid-2015, according to the agreement.
Perspective. Not what
I would have guessed.
Homicide
In The U.S. Known To Law Enforcement, 2011
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on January 27, 2014
Homicide
In The U.S. Known To Law Enforcement, 2011. Alexia Cooper,
Ph.D., Erica L. Smith. December 30, 2013. NCJ 243035
“Presents data on
homicide trends from 1992 to 2011. The report describes homicide
patterns and trends by age, sex, and race of the victim. It explores
weapon use, with a focus on trends in firearm use and homicide trends
by city size. It also includes special discussions of missing
offender data and firearm use in nonfatal violent victimizations.
The data are from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports, with
summary data from Crime in the United States, for homicide
data prior to 1980. Data on nonfatal victimizations are from BJS’s
National Crime Victimization Survey, 1993 to 1995 and 2008 to 2011.
Highlights:
- The U.S. homicide rate declined by nearly half (49%)
- From 2002 to 2011, young adults ages 18 to 24 had the highest homicide rate of any age group and experienced the greatest rate decline (down 22%) over the 10-year period
- The rate of homicides involving a firearm decreased by 49% from 1992 to 2011, while the percentage of homicide victims killed by a firearm (67%) remained stable.
- Large cities of 100,000 or more residents experienced the largest decline (23%) in homicide rates
Perspective. That
sounds like a lot until you realize that 815.3 million people flew in
2012. So that is 0.0002224 percent of passengers, or roughly 1 in
every 449696. Don't get me started on how many standard deviations
below average that would be... From their chart, Denver (the wild
west) was lowest and Atlanta was highest.
1,813
People Tried to Bring Firearms Through TSA Checkpoints in 2013
Dilbert points out that
it's not just technological ignorance that is bliss.
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