A tie-in to my “How
to Lie with Statistics” lecture. Perfect timing.
Ukraine
favors Europe over Russia, new CNN poll finds
… Two out of three
(67%) people in Ukraine approve of economic sanctions against Russia,
while one out of three (29%) disapproves, the poll by ComRes for CNN
found.
Ukrainians tend to see
Russian President Vladimir Putin as dangerous and a strong leader,
while they consider U.S. President Barack Obama friendly.
More than half (56%)
said they felt a stronger sense of loyalty to Europe than to Russia,
while 19% said they felt more loyal to Russia and 22% said neither.
Three percent said they didn't know.
… The findings, by
the London-based agency ComRes for CNN, come from a nationally
representative telephone poll of 1,000 Ukrainians conducted by
telephone in Russian and Ukrainian from May 7-11. The margin of
error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Things and stuff.
Security gets more generic as we “progress.”
The
Massive Challenge of Securing the Internet of Things
If
the buzz last year was all about software defined networking (SDN),
this year’s buzz is about the Internet of Things – everyday
devices that are IP-enabled, can communicate over the Internet and
can transmit what may be very confidential and important data. In
fact, according
to data from Cisco, there
are now more “things” connected to the Internet than there are
people on Earth,
and these “things” are not just smartphones and tablets. For
example, a Dutch
startup, Sparked,
is using wireless sensors on cattle so that when one of them is sick
or pregnant, it sends a message to the farmer.
… Massive
number of devices means massive ways to target an organization -
Gartner estimates that the
number of IP-enabled devices will reach 26 billion while IDC
projects 212 billion installed devices by the end of 2020. The
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s chairwoman, in a conference on the
Internet of Things last year, predicted 50 billion devices will be
connected to the Internet by 2020.
How specific must the
“request” be? “Delete document 806-b” or “Delete stuff
related to my bankruptcy?”
Alan Travis and Charles
Arthur report the stunning ruling:
A
European court has backed the “right to be forgotten” and said
Google must delete
“inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant” data from its
results when a member of the public requests it.
The test case ruling by
the European Union’s court of justice against Google Spain was
brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to
secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home
dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in
Catalonia.
Read more on The
Guardian.
This is huge.
[From
the article:
In technical terms the
ruling establishes that a search engine such as Google must be
regarded as a "data controller" under the data protection
laws in those EU countries where it establishes a branch to promote
and sell advertising.
(Related) How would
this judge request removal of data?
Cammy Clark reports:
Judge
David Audlin was serving as Monroe County’s chief circuit judge in
late April when he announced via an open letter to friends and
colleagues that he was retiring with four years left in his second
six-year term.
The
well-respected Audlin, 56, who was elected in 2006 and again in 2012,
did not give a reason at the time for his sudden and unexpected
departure from his $145,000-per-year judgeship with the 16th Judicial
Circuit Court.
On
Friday, his last day as a judge, Audlin said his voluntary decision
was based on an “inappropriate invasion of my privacy.”
Read more on Miami
Herald.
Interesting enough to
watch?
From PBS:
How
did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? In United
States of Secrets, a two-part series airing May 13 and 20,
FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside
story of the U.S. government’s massive and controversial secret
surveillance program—and the lengths they went to trying to keep it
hidden from the public.
Part
one, from Michael Kirk (League
of Denial, Bush’s
War), goes inside Washington to piece together the secret
political history of “The Program,” which began in the wake of
September 11 and continues today—even after the revelations of its
existence by Edward Snowden.
Then,
in part two, Martin Smith (The
Untouchables, To
Catch a Trader) explores the secret relationship between
Silicon Valley and the National Security Agency: How have the
government and tech companies worked together to gather and warehouse
your data? Part political thriller and part spy novel, United States
of Secrets is FRONTLINE’s definitive history of domestic
surveillance in a post-9/11 world.
Stuff you can use.
John E. Dunn reports:
The
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is burnishing its
credentials as a centre of
best practice by publishing a hit-list of the top security
weaknesses it says are the root cause of many of the data breaches it
investigates.
Protecting
Personal Data in Online Services: Learning from the Mistakes of
Others serves as an outline of the top issues, each of
which is accompanied by an analysis with recommendations on
remediation. The ICO doesn’t order the security vulnerabilities in
terms of their seriousness, but some are so basic the point is that
simple failings are often the most accommodating to attackers.
Read more on TechWorld.
Food for thought,
lawyer guys. Is he right?
The
Importance of Cybersecurity to the Legal Profession and Outsourcing
as a Best Practice – Part One
Cybersecurity
should be job number one for all attorneys. Why? Because we handle
confidential computer data, usually secret information that belongs
to our clients, not us. We have an ethical duty to protect this
information under Rule
1.6 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
… The threat is now
increasing rapidly because there are now criminal gangs of hackers,
including the Chinese
government, that have targeted this ESI for theft. These bad
hackers, knows as crackers, have learned that when
they cannot get at a company’s data directly, usually because it is
too well defended, or too risky to attack, there is often a back door
to this data by way of the company lawyers.
I'm confused. Is AT&T
looking for TV subscribers or the Wi-Fi spectrum they own?
AT&T
Courts Satellite TV With an Eye on Growth
AT&T is in talks to
buy DirecTV for at least $50 billion, and the two sides are actively
working toward an announcement, according to several people with
knowledge of the matter.
If completed, a deal
would give AT&T, the country’s second-largest wireless carrier,
control of the country’s largest satellite television provider,
further reshaping the rapidly changing telecommunications and
television industries.
… AT&T has
refocused its attention on the United States market, believing it has
an opportunity to expand its footprint in the pay-television
business. DirecTV has about 20 million subscribers in the United
States.
… But several
people in the industry said they believed that the ideal target for
AT&T would be not DirecTV but its main competitor, Dish Network.
Dish, run by the billionaire Charles W. Ergen, has amassed a trove of
spectrum that could be valuable to AT&T as it seeks to build out
its wireless network.
For my students.
(Infographic)
9
Ways To Be More Productive
Dilbert illustrates
“Digital Attention Deficit Disorder”
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