The
Streisand Effect defined? When attempts to limit the spread of
information become widespread news.
R.
Robin McDonald reports:
Former customers who are suing Aaron’s Inc. and its franchises
claim that when the rental company installed remotely activated
secret spyware on its rental computers, company employees had few, if
any, concerns about the privacy of the customers whose screen shots,
webcam photos and computer keystroke logs they intercepted and
recorded. But—in the name of customer privacy—the lawyers
defending the suits are seeking to limit public access to the
litigation by asking for broad restrictions on the use of discovery
in the cases.
In pleadings potential class action suits against Aaron’s and its
franchises in federal court in Pennsylvania and in Atlanta, lawyers
defending the rental company or its franchises have attempted to
dramatically expand protective orders that plaintiffs’ lawyer
Andrea Hirsch of Herman Gerel in Atlanta said originally were
intended to shield from public scrutiny personal information such as
passwords and bank account, credit card and Social Security numbers.
Read
more on Daily
Report.
Perhaps
we could ask Phil back for a Privacy Foundation seminar.
Iain
Thomson reports:
A killer combination of rapidly advancing technology and a desire for
greater privacy among the public should condemn current surveillance
state to an historical anachronism, according to PGP creator Phil
Zimmermann.
In an extended talk at Defcon 22 in Las Vegas, Zimmermann said it
might seem as though the intelligence agencies have the whip hand at
the moment but mankind had faced this situation before. He also said
the abolition of slavery and absolute monarchy, and the achievement
for civil rights, also once looked unlikely but were achieved.
Read
more on The
Register.
Amusing.
This explains why liberal supporters of politicians who do really
dumb things don't seem to care as much as conservative supporters.
Differences
in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology –
Research
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Aug 9, 2014
University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. (2014, July 31). Political
attitudes derive from body and mind: ‘Negativity bias’ explains
difference between liberals and conservatives.
[fulltext. PDF]
“Disputes
between those holding differing political views are ubiquitous and
deep-seated, and they often follow common,recognizable lines. The
supporters of tradition and stability, sometimes referred to as
conservatives, do battle with the supporters of innovation and
reform, sometimes referred to as liberals. Understanding the
correlates of those distinct political orientations is probably a
prerequisite for managing political disputes, which are a source of
social conflict that can lead to frustration and even bloodshed. A
rapidly growing body of empirical evidence documents a multitude of
ways in which liberals and conservatives differ from each other in
purviews of life with little direct connection to politics, from
tastes in art to desire for closure and from disgust sensitivity to
the tendency to pursue new information, but the central theme of the
differences is a matter of debate. In this article, we argue that
one organizing element of the many differences between liberals and
conservatives is the nature of their physiological and psychological
responses to features of
the environment that are negative. Compared with
liberals, conservatives tend to register greater physiological
responses to such stimuli and also to devote more psychological
resources to them. Operating from this point of departure, we
suggest approaches for refining understanding of the broad
relationship between political views and response to the negative.
We conclude with a discussion of normative implications, stressing
that identifying differences across ideological groups is not
tantamount to declaring one ideology superior to another.”
Perspective
Lawyers and the NFL, what do they have in common?
How
the Surface Tablet Won the NFL
Earlier
this week the NFL
announced they were moving to the Surface Pro 3 tablet for some
of their most critical field activities related to managing plays and
on-field activities
…
In talking to a number of people around the NFL deal and in a number
of legal offices, where the decision process is similar, I’ve come
away with two big reasons why the Surface Pro 3 tablet is kicking the
iPad and other tablets off the island. The
first is security.
The
vast majority of tablets simply won’t run the security packages
that have been mandates by a number of industries and governmental
agencies. These tablets will have what is basically the most
valuable information the various NFL teams have, the information on
plays and players. Other teams and those that bet on games would
find that information invaluable if they were to get their hands on
it.
The
other thing that works with these tablets is they run legacy software
that the teams have come to depend on. The legal offices I’ve
spoken with say similar things. They need something secure, a
machine that will run their data management packages – which
generally run on Windows and nothing else. And given it is massively
difficult to both move a database like this to a new platform and
retrain attorneys (often
the harder of the two tasks) they find migration to be
excessively time consumer, painful, and annoying.
For
my Homeland Security students. Don't take this too seriously, you
won't be doing everything.
Infographic:
A Day in the Life of DHS
by
Sabrina I.
Pacifici on Aug 9, 2014
Nextgov:
“Twelve years ago in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks, the Department of Homeland Security was established and
consolidated 22 agencies into one organization. Its goal: prevent
and respond to attacks and disasters — manmade or otherwise — and
safeguard citizens. All 22 components have unique missions and
plenty gets done in one day. Exactly how much is illustrated in DHS’
daily to-do list.”
For
all my students.
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