Rather
unusual, but I expect many more, soon.
It
appears we have another criminal prosecution under HIPAA.
In
May 2014, ProMedica
disclosed
that almost 600 Bay
Park Hospital patients were to be notified of an
insider breach. In June, police announced that no
criminal charges would be filed because their investigation found
that no patient information such as social security numbers or
financial information had been compromised. At the time, they noted
that a HIPAA investigation would continue, however.
Today,
Amulya Raghuveer reports that Jamie Knapp, the former employee who
was a respiratory therapist, has been indicted by a federal court on
charges that she unlawfully obtained individually identifiable health
information and engaged in unauthorized access of a protected
computer. The first charge is under HIPAA, while the second charge
is under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
She
is alleged to have accessed patient’s health information between
May 10, 2013 to March 25, 2014.
Read
more on NBC.
The
case is United States of America v. Knapp,
3:15-cr-00132-JJH-1 in the Northern District of Ohio. The indictment
does not specify what types of personal information were accessed,
although hospital officials have said no financial information was
involved. Attachments to the indictment are currently restricted
access.
Something
for my Intro to Computer Security students. (All my students
actually) Interesting tag line: “You are not an individual. You
are a data cluster.”
Digital
Shadow Exposes What Facebook Really Knows About You
How
much can people discover about you over social media? It began as a
mere marketing stunt, but Digital Shadow remains a very useful (and
potentially scary) application.
Ubisoft’s
Watch Dogs is a sci-fi game that works on a smart premise:
that our lives can be laid out to a hacker and used against us. Our
family, our friends, our interests, our personalities: they build up
a digital trail, leaving us exposed. It sounds like an Asimov or
Bradbury concept, but the accompanying Digital Shadow, used to
advertise the game, shows us that this dystopia isn’t too far
removed from today.
By
allowing it access to Facebook, Digital Shadow gets to know you. But
how accurate is it really? I let it loose on my profile to find out…
…
It’s very easy to use. You just sign in using Facebook as you
might when commenting on sites.
Within
10 seconds, it’s pulled together all it needs to know.
…
Results vary wildly. It depends on how much time you spend on
Facebook, how many photos you’re tagged in, how often you update
your status.
As a
marketing stunt, Ubisoft has done brilliantly. It’s memorable,
emotive, and creepy. As a tool to find out about your digital trail,
it’s the tip of the iceberg: Facebook
knows even more. Nonetheless, this could be wake-up call for
millions of people.
I
wonder of there were drones looking over their shoulders as they
drafted this?
Legislating
for Drones: A Guide and Model Ordinances
by
Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Apr 6, 2015
McNeal,
Gregory S. and Rule, Troy A., Legislating for Drones: A Guide and
Model Ordinances (April 2, 2015). Available for download at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2589975
“Drones,
also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, present enormous benefits for
local government officials, but they are also creating new conflicts
with existing land uses. The growing popularity of drones
necessitates the crafting of innovative laws and ordinances designed
to safeguard privacy and protect landowners’ property rights. At
the same time, many municipalities are also searching for ways to
accommodate drone technologies and attract and promote drone-related
economic development.
This
Guide and its accompanying model ordinances seek to educate local
government officials about drone-related laws and to assist them in
adopting such laws within their respective jurisdictions.
Carefully-crafted drone ordinances can be a low-cost way for local
governments to balance competing privacy and economic development
concerns related to drones.”
Just
because it's a “first” does not mean it's important. Does it?
…
David Topkins pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally fix the
prices of posters he sold through an Amazon Marketplace store in the
latter half of 2013.
…
The Justice Department accused Topkins and his unnamed
co-conspirators of using an algorithm to coordinate how they would
change the price of their posters and then develop computer code to
set prices in accordance with the agreement.
Cheaper
than a smartphone but you have to find a monitor to plug into? I
don't get it.
Intel's
PC-on-a-stick dongle now available for preorder
Newegg
is
offering preorders of the Compute Stick with a release date of
April 24. (Update at 11:11 a.m. PT: now showing out
of stock on both with estimated arrival on May 1). The Windows
version costs $150 and the Linus version costs $110. Amazon also
shows listings for the Windows
and Linux
versions, but with no pricing or availability information.
…
Getting the Compute Stick up and running won't take much. The
device is simply plugged into a monitor's HDMI port and turned on.
Once it boots up, the owner's operating system of choice is running
and with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, the device can provide a
full computing experience.
…
The Compute Stick is also a competitor to the
Asus Chromebit announced last week. Like the Compute Stick, the
Asus Chromebit connects to an HDMI monitor and with help from
Bluetooth, provides a full computing experience. However, the
Chromebit is running on Google's Chrome operating system, rather than
the Windows and Linux options available on the Compute Stick.
Chromebit is slated to launch this summer for under $100.
Still
not exactly what I want my students to use when writing their own
textbook, but we're getting closer.
4
Quick Ways to Write & Publish Books on the Web
The
world of publishing is changing thanks to the Internet. People
aren’t willing to put their fates in the hands of traditional
gatekeepers anypmore. Writers aren’t just writers anymore. In a
lot of ways, writers
are the new publishers.
…
But I’m not just talking about the print-on-demand
kind of self-publishing. There are a handful of new web services and
tools that kick it up to the next level.
For
my website students.
How
Are Websites Built in 2015?
When
it comes to building
websites, there are a lot of ways in which the job gets done.
While we, as end users, just see the final results, designers
have a million things to think about when it comes to how they build
a site.
Like
everything, web
design is all about trends. In 2015, there are a few different
ways that websites tend to come together. Interested in a look
behind the curtain to see how most websites will come to be in 2015?
Check out the infographic below for a fascinating look.
Via
Rukzuk
For
all my students. “One should drink in the culture!” Oh wait, I
said that. (Because today is national beer day
http://nationaldaycalendar.com/2015/04/06/april-7-2015-national-beer-day-national-no-housework-day-national-coffee-cake-day-saam-day-of-action/
)
New
to Craft Beer? Start with the Best Beer Websites & Communities
…
Admittedly, beer is an acquired taste. [Some
of us acquired a love of beer at first sip. Bob] At this
point, non-drinkers of beer are asking, “Why go through the misery
of acquiring the taste?” Because once acquired, beer offers a
certain world of taste that no other beverage can — as long as you
avoid the mainstream macro brands.
If
you simply don’t like beer, that’s fine! Drink what you like and
don’t let anyone — including myself — tell you otherwise. But
if you want to experience the wonders of craft beer, then
these websites will help you on that journey.
For
those of us still using the biblical method (Seek and ye shall find)
Teach
yourself Touch Typing with Free Tools
Touch
typing, or the art of typing with your 10 fingers, can do wonders to
your productivity. Most technologically literate people know a bit
of typing but if you can type without looking at the computer
keyboard, you can get work done faster and gain an edge.
…
If you are just getting started, the BBC’s Dance
Mat Typing should be your go-to resource. It is a browser-based
game for kids where each lesson touches a different set of keys and
there’s a game at the end of each level to test what you have
learned. The lessons would require the Adobe Flash player enabled in
your browser.
The
next recommended resource is Typing.com,
a free website where you’ll find interactive tutorials and drills
to help you learn typing step-by-step. Typing
Study is a similar resource but unlike other typing lesson that
focus on the English keyboard, Typing Study has lessons for keyboards
of most popular languages including Hindi and it requires no Flash
Player either.
Tipp10
(Mac, Windows) and Typist
(Mac only) are desktop software that teach typing offline and you
also have the option to upload your own text – like pages of your
favorite novel – for practice.
Very
slick! My students often take pictures of the Math problems I work
on the whiteboard. Perhaps there is a use for this App?
Office
Lens - Digitize Handwritten Notes and Diagrams
Office
Lens is a new app for iOS and Android (still in limited
beta) designed for converting pictures of notes on whiteboards
and paper into notes that can be edited in Microsoft Word or
PowerPoint. If you don't need to edit the notes that your take
pictures of, you can simply export the file created by Office Lens to
JPEG or PDF. Probably the neatest aspect of Office Lens is that
hand-drawn images and figures captured through the app can be
separated from the text to move and manipulate as individual objects
in PowerPoint slides. See the video below for an overview of Office
Lens.
Office
Lens could be a great app for students to use to snap a picture
of something on a whiteboard then add their own comments to it in a
Word Document.
The
option in Office Lens to separate hand-drawn objects could be a good
way to digitize a brainstorming session. When I brainstorm I often
do it in a paper notebook that has pages of edits. By taking a
picture of the brainstorming session I could separate each part of
the notes then move them into new positions on slides or in a
document.
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