Could this work in the US?
Out-Law.com reports:
According to a report by Media Lawyer, High Court judge Mr Justice Nicol earlier this month ruled that an unnamed student can use Instagram to notify an unnamed accused of legal proceedings he is bringing against the accused. Anonymity has been preserved in the case.
It is believed to be the first time a judge has allowed legal claims to be served via Instagram, although judges have previously allowed legal claims to be served via other social media platforms.
Read more on Out-Law.com.
Another procedure that will need to be modified?
Was it unreasonable to expect a request for this data? Looks like
they missed an opportunity to push “lawyer ads.” (Does “removed”
mean “deleted?”)
Toby Sterling and Anthony Deutsch report:
Facebook must turn over any information it possesses that could help a young woman find out who published a sex video of her without her consent, a Dutch court ruled on Thursday.
The Amsterdam District Court said in its ruling that if the U.S. company cannot comply because it has erased the relevant data — as it argues — it must allow an external expert access to its servers to verify that.
Read more on Reuters.
[From
the article:
Facebook had argued that
the user who posted the video had done so from a fake account and
said it had erased all information relating to the post from its
servers, along with the video itself, in February.
"The
offending account was ultimately deleted
before we received any request for user data, so all
information about it was
removed
from our servers in accordance with our terms and applicable law,"
Facebook said in a statement emailed to Reuters.
(Related) Same folks, different tune. “For the
government, we never delete a thing!”
Trevor Timm writes:
State-of-the-art facial recognition technology, which had been the stuff of hypothetical privacy nightmares for years, is becoming a startling reality. It is increasingly being deployed all around the United States by giant tech companies, shady advertisers and the FBI – with few if any rules to stop it.
In recent weeks, both Facebook and Google launched facial recognition to mine the photos on your phone, with both impressive and disturbing results. Facebook’s Moments app can recognize you even if you cover your face. Google Photos can identify grown adults from decades-old childhood pictures.
Read more on The
Guardian.
As a non-lawyer, I explain it this way: Your next
door neighbor gets all the legal permissions to open a gun powder
factory. You notice that he stores all his finished inventory just
on the other side of your fence. You also note that this is the
“designated smoking area” for his employees. You don't suffer
any harm until the inevitable explosion damages your property. You
don't even get to claim the reduced property values as “damage.”
Damon W. Silver writes:
Among the multitude of unpleasant issues facing a company whose network has been breached is potential liability to customers and employees whose personal information has been compromised. However, recent district court decisions from around the country continue to limit the opportunity of those customers and employees to have their day in court. Specifically, these cases have held that, in order for a customer or employee whose data has been stolen to gain standing to sue the company that experienced the breach, the customer or employee must show that the stolen data was, in fact, used to the customer or employee’s financial detriment. And such financial detriment must be “concrete.” Increased risk of future harm does not suffice, damages are not recoverable for “mitigation” measures – such as the purchase of credit monitoring services – taken to protect against speculative future harm, and an individual’s allegations that he fears such future harm will generally not be enough to establish a claim for emotional distress.
Read more on Jackson Lewis Workplace
Privacy Data Management & Security Law Report.
Is this a big deal? “Don't tell them Fed-ral
Educator nothin!”
Ashley Bateman writes:
Homeschoolers in Virginia are pleased a widely supported privacy measure designed to prevent the sharing of personal information passed with bipartisan support.
Senate Bill 1383, sponsored by state Sen. Dick Black (R-Loudoun), passed the Virginia state legislature in late winter, but awaited a final signature by the governor. Rather than endorse or veto SB 1383, Gov. Terri McAuliffe (D) remained neutral, allowing the bill to pass into law unsigned.
Read more on Heartland.org.
[From
the article:
The new law “prohibits
a division superintendent or local school board from disclosing any
information from a Notice of Intent form or religious
exemption letter to the
Department of Education or other person or entity,”
according to Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV).
This website is down (briefly, I hope).
beSpacific
by Sabrina I. Pacifici
McKinsey – The Internet of Things – sensors
and actuators connected by networks to computing systems—has
received enormous attention over the past five years. A new McKinsey
Global Institute report, The
Internet of Things: Mapping the value beyond the hype, attempts
to determine exactly how IoT technology can create real economic
value. Our central finding is that the hype may actually understate
the full potential—but that capturing it will require an
understanding of where real value can be created and a successful
effort to address a set of systems issues, including
interoperability. To get a broader view of the IoT’s potential
benefits and challenges across the global economy, we analyzed more
than 150 use cases, ranging from people whose devices monitor health
and wellness to manufacturers that utilize sensors to optimize the
maintenance of equipment and protect the safety of workers. Our
bottom-up analysis for the applications we size estimates that the
IoT has a total potential economic impact of $3.9 trillion to $11.1
trillion a year by 2025. At the top end, that level of
value—including the consumer surplus—would be equivalent to about
11 percent of the world economy [Exhibit].”
Imagine what will happen when they start selling
shares!
Airbnb
raises $1.5 billion, valuing it at an eye-popping $25.5 billion
… Airbnb, the well-known home rental service
headquartered in San Francisco, has closed a new $1.5 billion funding
round, according to reports from
the Wall Street Journal and Financial
Times. The round, which has
been rumored for weeks, values the company at $25.5
billion—billions more than publicly traded neighbor Twitter, which
had raised far less ahead of its highly anticipated 2013 IPO, and
hotel giant Marriott, which runs more than 4,000 properties around
the globe.
Why?
Wikipedia
Available as a Printed Book
… Rob Matthews, a graphics design student from
UK, converted 5000 pages of Wikipedia into a printed book in 2012.
He downloaded few hundred featured
articles from Wikipedia and bound them together in a physical
book that was almost 1’7″ thick.
… Wikipedia does include a built-in book
creator that would let anyone, include anonymous non-logged users,
create
ebooks from Wikipedia articles. You can download these ebooks as
PDF files or send them to a print-on-demand service like Lulu or
PediaPress and have a custom printed book made of your favorite
Wikipedia pages.
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