A
modern Willie Sutton would say, “It's where the PII is...”
Hospitals
Increasingly Targets of Malicious Activity: Websense
…
According
to Websense, there has been a significant global spike in
malicious activity attempted against hospitals beginning in October
2013. August 2014 has seen a 600
percent increase in
such activity compared to the average amount prior to October,
according to the firm.
"Healthcare
records hold a treasure trove of data that is valuable to an attacker
directly, or for resale on the cyber black-market," said Bob
Hansmann, director of product marketing at Websense. "Few
records are so rich in valuable PII [personally-identifiable
information] that can be used in a multitude of different follow-up
attacks and fraud. Health records not only contain vital information
on the identity of an individual…but also [are] often linked to
bank, credit card, insurance and other financial information."
“We
don't care what our users want.”
Allison
Grande reports:
AOL Inc.
disclosed on Friday that it doesn’t respond to signals sent by
major Web browsers that indicate that online users don’t want their
activities to be tracked across websites, although it said it may be
willing to reconsider its position if the industry can agree on a
uniform do-not-track standard.
As part of the latest update to the privacy policy that governs
several of AOL’s online properties, the company inserted a new
section on do-not-track signals that briefly explains how it intends
to react when a Web browser sends it a signal that users don’t want
their online activity tracked for behavioral advertising and other
purposes.
Read
more on Law360.
If
your car talks to my car, can they both talk to Big Brother?
Vehicle-to-vehicle
networks could save over 1,000 lives a year, US says
…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is
seeking input about a possible federal standard for
vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology, which would let cars
automatically exchange information, such as whether they’re close
to each other. The agency will accept comments from the public and
industry for 60 days from when the advance notice of proposed
rulemaking (ANPRM) is published in the Federal Register.
V2V
would let cars do some of the work of driving or even accomplish
things humans can’t, such as virtually “seeing” into blind
intersections before entering them. It may be one step on the path
to self-driving cars.
What
makes the difference? Too close? Get a telephoto lens and get the
same picture from a mile away. Disturbing? You won't see or hear
the drone that snaps that picture. Intruding on your privacy? How
do we measure that? If you are visible from the 37th
floor apartment across the street should you really expect to be
private?
Martin
MacMahon reports:
Laws and regulations for drones need to be updated, according to a
civil liberties group.
Micheal Vonn with the BC
Civil Liberties Association says existing laws aren’t adequate
for protecting peoples’ privacy.
“Citizens are exempt from
privacy legislation if they’re taking photographs for personal,
journalistic, or artistic purposes,” she says. “What
we hadn’t contemplated, of course, when we put that together, was
the idea that that cameras might be flying up the 37th storey.”
Read
more on News1130.
Looks
like we're starting to address e-death.
Delaware
becomes first state to give executors broad digital assets access
…
Last week, Gov. Jack Markell signed
House Bill (HB) 345, “Fiduciary
Access to Digital Assets and Digital Accounts Act,” which gives
heirs and executors the same authority to take legal control of a
digital account or device, just as they would take control of a
physical asset or document.
Earlier
this year, the Uniform Law Commission, a non-profit group that
lobbies to enact model legislations across all jurisdictions in the
United States, adopted
its Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (UFADAA).
Delaware is the first state to take the UFADAA and turn it into a
bona fide law. While some states, including Idaho and Nevada, have
some existing
provisions pertaining to limited digital assets for heirs, they
are not as broad as the new Delaware law.
(Related)
Twitter
to remove images of deceased upon request
…
Family members or other authorized people can request the removal
of photos or video of deceased people on Twitter “from when
critical injury occurs to the moments before or after death,” it
said.
Twitter
still refuses to provide account access to anyone, even if
they are related to the person who has died.
As
little minds are warped, so grows the adult.
Google
May Start Grooming Little Googlers
Google
is working on a plan to allow kids under 13 to have their own
personal accounts on services such as YouTube and Gmail, according to
reports.
Under
the new system, parents will be able to set up accounts for their
children, control their use of those accounts, and regulate the
information collected about them, according to The Wall Street
Journal.
Google
declined to comment for this story, noting that it does not comment
on rumor or speculation.
…
Google's likely motivation is "a desire to compete with
Facebook and other properties like Instagram, which see significant
usage among kids under 13. It's seeking to cultivate the next
generation of Google users," Sterling pointed out.
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