Dumb
and Dumber strike again? It's hard to escape technology.
GPS
led to arrests in Denver jewelry heist
…
Authorities say quick actions from Denver investigators and OnStar
led to the arrest
…
The robbers fled in a red SUV that was recovered in an alley nearby.
A records checked determined that the owner of the Blazer was an
Aurora resident, who told police he sold the car the following day to
the suspects after he placed an ad on Craigslist.
The
suspects came to the purchase in a newer Cadillac SUV with California
plates. Law enforcement was able to determine the California license
plate number and traced it back to a car rented Enterprise-Rent-A-Car
in San Francisco.
Investigators
then quickly contacted OnStar and determined that the SUV was driving
in a southbound direction on Interstate 80 near Roseville, CA. The
California Highway Patrol attempted to make contact with the Cadillac
SUV, but the suspects fled, leading authorities on a high-speed chase
which ended in a crash in the San Francisco area. The five were
taken into custody after a short foot pursuit.
A
small breach that raises a question...
Uber
security breach may have affected up to 50,000 drivers
…
In a statement, Uber’s managing counsel of data privacy, Katherine
Tassi, said the company discovered on Sept. 17, 2014, that one of its
many databases could have potentially been accessed because one of
the encryption keys required to unlock it had been compromised. Upon
further investigation, it found the database had been accessed once
by an unauthorized third party on May 13, 2014.
The
company said it could not say how the security vulnerability was
first discovered because the matter was under investigation.
[Suggests it was not Uber
that discovered the breach Bob]
(Related)
...how aggressive should a breached organization be and will the
courts support their quest for breach evidence?
FORK
ME! Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of
50,000 drivers
…
The ride-booking app maker is trying to force
GitHub [PDF] to hand over the IP addresses of anyone who visited
a particular gist post between March and September last year.
If
companies don't adopt Best Practices, governments will force them to.
Scott
Weinstein of McDermott Will & Emery writes:
In the wake of recent breaches of personally identifiable
information (PII) suffered by health insurance companies located
in their states, the New
Jersey Legislature passed, and the Connecticut
General Assembly will consider legislation that requires health
insurance companies offering health benefits within these states to
encrypt certain types of PII, including social security numbers,
addresses and health information. New Jersey joins a growing number
of states (including California
(e.g., 1798.81.5), Massachusetts
(e.g., 17.03) and Nevada
(e.g., 603A.215)) that require organizations that store and transmit
PII to implement data security safeguards. Massachusetts’ data
security law, for example, requires any person or entity that owns or
licenses certain PII about a resident of the Commonwealth to, if
“technically feasible” (i.e., a reasonable technological means is
available), encrypt information stored on laptops and other portable
devices and encrypt transmitted records and files that will travel
over public networks. Unlike Massachusetts’ law New Jersey’s new
encryption law only applies to health insurance carriers that are
authorized to issue health benefits in New Jersey (N.J. Stat. Ann. §
56:8-196) but requires health insurance carriers to encrypt records
with the PII protected by the statute when stored on any end-user
systems and devices, and when transmitted electronically over public
networks (e.g., N.J. Stat. Ann. § 56.8-197).
Read
more on National
Law Review.
Does
this include TSA looking for nervous passengers?
EPIC
Files Lawsuit for Details About Government “Pre-crime” Program
“EPIC
has filed a Freedom
of Information Act lawsuit about “Future
Attribute Screening Technology”, a “Minority Report”
program that purports to
identify individuals who will commit crimes in the future.
EPIC filed the complaint
after the DHS failed to respond to EPIC’s
FOIA request for information. EPIC charged that the agency uses
secret algorithms to identify behavioral “abnormalities” that the
agency claims indicate “mal intent.” “Minority
Report” is a 2002 movie with Tom Cruise about “a special
police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their
crime.”
If
this happened in a third world country, would the US be “suggesting”
regime change?
Putin
critic, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov killed in Moscow
Cheap
labor ain't so cheap any more? Competing for workers by offering
minimum wage isn't working.
TJX
to raise base pay to $9 an hour
…
The announcement comes a week after Walmart announced pay increase.
Fun
Facts? Not exactly Big Data, but could serve for a PDF scraping
exercise.
Colorado
releases trove of marijuana data
…
Colorado's Marijuana Enforcement Division unveiled an official
report documenting
a trove of information about marijuana and edible pot sales, the size
of the industry, and testing results.
…
The state of Colorado was cranking out almost 17,000 new plants each
day at the end of 2014.
Tools
for my programming students?
8
of the Best Free Collaborative Tools For Programmers
…
you’ll soon reap the benefits of the web apps I’m about to show
you. If they seem weird or useless at first, just give them a few
days to prove how useful they can be.
More
for the student toolkit.
How
to Search the Content of Your Files on Windows
…
By default, Windows won’t look at the internals of every single
file when performing your search. However, there is a way to enable
this.
Not
only can the Windows search be improved, but there are third-party
programs that might offer you better
search experiences.
Humor
weekly.
Hack
Education Weekly News
…
The US Department of Education released
model Terms of Service
guidance “aimed at helping schools and districts protect
student privacy while using online educational services and
applications.” (It’s, um, interesting that the “best practice”
guidelines suggest that TOS
should say schools – not students – own the data, including all
IP.)
…
Much like its neighbor state Wyoming, Colorado is now looking at
allowing concealed
weapons at K–12 schools, repealing a law that makes schools
“gun-free zones”. [Why
should kids be the only ones with guns? Bob]
…
Well here’s another business opportunity for MOOC providers: the
Corrective Education Company offers online courses for those busted
for shoplifting. Via
Slate: [Is this
extortion? Bob]
Imagine you're browsing at Bloomingdale's when a security guard taps
you on the shoulder and accuses you of shoplifting. He takes you to
a private room, sits you down, and runs your name through a database
to see if you have any outstanding warrants. Then he tells you that
you have two options. The first involves him calling the police, who
might arrest you and take you to jail. The second allows you to walk
out of the store immediately, no questions asked - right after you
sign an admission of guilt and agree to pay $320 to take an online
course designed to make you never want to steal again.
…
IBM
is working with Elemental Path to build toys that use its Watson
AI technology. The toys “will be capable of engaging in
age-appropriate conversations with children.” What
could possibly go wrong.
…
A study by Jonathan Supovitz, Alan Daly and Miguel del Fresno looks
at how
Twitter has shaped debates about the Common Core. #thankstwitter
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