For
my Computer Security students. As I understand the rules for finance
companies, they must keep copies of their files that the average
employee can not delete. “Recovery” should not be necessary.
Margot
Roosevelt reports:
Last year, according to the Mount
Olympus Mortgage Co. in Irvine, several of its
officers secretly downloaded confidential information on hundreds of
loan customers and transferred five gigabytes of data to a
competitor.
The loan officers then deleted files and emails on their computers
and went to work for that rival, Chicago-based lender Guaranteed
Rate, which has offices in Irvine, Newport Beach and
Santa Ana.
But Mount Olympus, a 38-employee operation also known as MOMco,
recovered the information, including more than 1,000 emails between
its former mortgage bankers and their soon-to-be new employer,
according to a lawsuit it filed last year in Orange County Superior
Court.
Read
more on Orange
County Register.
“On
the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” or an imposter.
Identity
Theft Tops FTC’s Consumer Complaint Categories Again in 2014
News
release: “”Identity theft topped the Federal Trade
Commission’s national ranking of consumer complaints for the 15th
consecutive year, while the agency also recorded a large increase in
the number of complaints about so-called “imposter” scams,
according to the FTC’s 2014
Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book, which was
released today. Imposter
scams – in which con artists impersonate government
officials or others – moved into third place on the list of
consumer complaints, entering the top three complaint categories for
the first time. The increase in imposter scams was led by a sharp
jump in complaints
about IRS and other government imposter scams. Debt collection
held steady as the second-most-reported complaint. “While identity
theft remains a huge issue, consumers should also keep a close eye
out for imposter scams,” said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC’s
Bureau of Consumer Protection. “Whether it’s pretending to be
the IRS during tax season, or making false promises of a lottery win,
scammers are increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to deceive
consumers, but the FTC will continue working to shut these scammers
down.” The Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book is produced
annually using complaints received by the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel
Network. That includes not only complaints made directly by
consumers to the FTC, but also complaints received by state and
federal law enforcement agencies, national consumer protection
organizations and non-governmental organizations.”
For
my Intro to IT students.
Facebook
Privacy: 25 Things The Social Network Knows About You
…
If you volunteer this information, ie. either actively inputting
data or simply sharing and liking topics and articles, these are a
few things Facebook knows about you: Name; email address; gender;
date of birth; family members; friends; education; sexual preference;
relationship status; religious views; your job; your location;
political standing; address of your own website or blog; favourite
music, books, TV shows and films; phone number; messages you post on
your own timeline; messages other people post on your timeline;
contents of private messages; sites you frequent; topics you talk
about; and what you look like.
On
top of all of that, concerns have been expressed over Facebook’s
mobile app listening in to a conversation – 15 seconds of it after
you finish writing a status update anyway – and how the social
networking site can be used by security agencies like the NSA and
GCHQ. There are ample reasons
to believe Facebook is used to spy on you.
…
If Facebook’s grip on your data particularly worries you, there
are measures
you can take to protect yourself. And don’t forget to manage
your Facebook app approvals.
A
rather large PDF to tell us there is no standard of governance? This
may apply to any “third party” we deal with, like Data Brokers
for example. How do they govern themselves and what minimum standard
should we expect.
Governance
of Online Intermediaries: Observations from a Series of National Case
Studies
Gasser,
Urs and Schulz, Wolfgang, Governance of Online Intermediaries:
Observations from a Series of National Case Studies (February 18,
2015). Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2015-5. Available for
download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2566364
or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2566364
“Online
intermediaries in various forms – including search engines, social
media, or app platforms – play a constitutive role in today’s
digital environment. They have become a new type of powerful
institution in the 21st century that shape the public networked
sphere, and are subject to intense and often controversial policy
debates. This paper focuses on one particular force shaping the
emergence and future evolution of online intermediaries: the
rapidly changing landscape of intermediary governance at
the intersection of law, technology, norms, and markets. Building
upon eight in-depth case studies and use cases, respectively, this
paper seeks to distill key observations and provide a high-level
analysis of some of the structural elements that characterize varying
governance regimes, with a
focus on intermediary liability regimes and their
evolution. Analyzing online intermediary governance issues from
multiple perspectives, and in the context of different cultures and
regulatory frameworks, immediately creates basic problems of semantic
interoperability. Lacking
a universally agreed-upon definition, the synthesis paper
and its’ underlying case studies are based on a broad and
phenomenon-oriented notion of online intermediaries, as further
described below. In methodological terms, the observations shared in
the synthesis paper offer a selective reading and interpretation by
the authors of the broader take-ways of a diverse set of case studies
examining online intermediary governance frameworks and issues in
Brazil, the European Union, India, South Korea, the United States,
Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. These case studies, in turn, have
emerged in the context of an international research pilot by the
Global Network of Internet & Society Research Centers (NoC),
through a process of in-person consultations and remote
collaborations among the researchers, and are based on a set of
broader questions regarding the role of online intermediaries in the
digital age.”
How
like the KGB, whatever we call it now.
About two weeks before he was shot and killed in the highest-profile
political assassination in Russia in a decade, Boris Y. Nemtsov met
with an old friend to discuss his latest research into what he said
was dissembling and misdeeds in the Kremlin.
He
was, as always, pugilistic and excited, saying he wanted to publish
the research in a pamphlet to be called “Putin and the War,”
about President Vladimir
V. Putin and Russian involvement in the Ukraine conflict,
recalled Yevgenia Albats, the editor of New Times magazine. Both
knew the stakes.
Mr.
Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, knew his work was dangerous
but tried to convince her that, as a former high official in the
Kremlin, he enjoyed immunity, Ms. Albats said.
I'm
working with “student intelligence” (no pun intended) but this
might work as part of our Business Intelligence project.
Google
researchers have created an algorithm that has a human-like ability
to learn, marking a significant breakthrough in the field of
artificial intelligence. In a paper published in Nature this week,
the researchers demonstrated that the algorithm could master many
Atari video games better than humans, simply through playing the game
and learning from experience.
A
tool for my student researchers.
Become
an Instapaper Power User With These 6 Cool Features
Instapaper
is a lightweight web and mobile app that allows you to quickly and
easily save all the online content you don’t have time for right
now (no
matter how fast you read), for later offline reading. The
app is available for free
on iOS,
Android,
and also within
your browser.
Instapaper’s
core features – like the removal
of distractions from web pages – make it particularly adept at
helping you to tackle your ever-expanding list of long-form articles.
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