This reads as actually encouraging my Ethical
Hackers and not such good news for other sports teams.
Robert Patrick interviews a number of attorneys
and white-hat hackers about whether the government is likely to
pursue charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in this
piece in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
[From
the article:
“You’ve got to be doing something bad. If
you’re checking out the website and shouldn’t have been on there,
that’s probably not actionable,” he said
… But Neil
Richards, a Washington University Law School professor who
specializes in privacy, First Amendment and information law,
cautioned that the statute is outdated, poorly designed and is “much
criticized.” He said that any unauthorized access to a protected
computer could result in a charge. He said that in order for there
to be serious penalties, there is a requirement that victims suffer
loss or damage of more than $5,000. The Astros could easily have
spent more than $5,000 responding to the attack, and lawyers could
argue that the team suffered a competitive disadvantage that far
exceeded that amount.
… “Frankly, if I were a federal prosecutor,
I would not be looking to push charges here,” said Richards, who
pointed out in the interests of impartiality that he was a Red Sox
fan.
“This was very naughty by the Cardinals if they
did it, but … on the scale of criminal hacking … (this) is really
quite low on the list of bad things that are happening,” he said.
This will be like wading through a sea of worms.
Who can make the request – must it be the victim? How would Google
confirm that the person in the picture is the victim? What if the
poster claims to have a 'release?'
Google to
remove "revenge porn" links at victims' request
Google is taking steps to address a persistent
problem of the digital age: What to do when people upload nude or
sexually explicit pictures of others without their permission. On
Friday, the company announced it will let victims of so-called
revenge porn ask for the removal of certain webpages from Google’s
search results.
“We’ve heard many troubling stories of
“revenge porn”: an ex-partner seeking to publicly humiliate a
person by posting private images of them, or hackers stealing and
distributing images from victims’ accounts,” said Google in a
blog
post.
As the company acknowledges in the blog post, the
new policy will not entirely solve the problem of “revenge porn”
since Google cannot delete the underlying website from the internet.
But it may bring victims some comfort by making the websites harder
to find.
Another potential subject for a Privacy Foundation
seminar. Should employers get this data or only insurers? If
wearing a device gets me a significant insurance discount, the
results of refusing on religious grounds is the same as being
penalized.
Wearables
for workplace wellness face federal scrutiny
Federal regulators are weighing reforms to
widespread workplace wellness programs that could affect how personal
data from consumer-grade fitness bands and smartwatches is kept
confidential.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC) issued a proposed rule that would amend regulations in Title 1
of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 as it relates to
employer wellness programs used by as many as 580,000 U.S. companies.
Public comments are being accepted
online through today.
… "If the information the employer is
obtaining is considered 'medical information' (e.g., a person's heart
rate over a period of time), then the information would be subject to
the ADA's confidentiality requirements regardless of how the employer
obtains this information," said EEOC spokesman James Ryan in an
email. "By contrast, information that would not be deemed
medical information (e.g., how many steps a person takes per day,
number of active minutes or calories burned) is not subject to the
ADA's restrictions on disclosure."
… "Even if wellness programs are
voluntary, if a high enough percentage of workers opt-in, then the
ones who don't are marked, in a way," Raicu said.
Can't hurt...
The Evolution of the Student Data Privacy and Security Paradigm:
Incorporating the Effective Data Privacy and
Security Practices of Other Sectors in Education
A RESOURCE FOR EDUCATION POLICYMAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS
A RESOURCE FOR EDUCATION POLICYMAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS
Authors: David F. Katz, Steven Y. Winnick, Reginal
J. Leichty, & Katherine E. Lipper
… This publication first examines data privacy and security approaches in the financial services, healthcare, and software sectors. A landscape analysis of these three sectors is intended to help states, districts, and schools see how common issues are addressed in other fields as they consider how to best to address privacy and security in their unique contexts. The paper then makes recommendations regarding best practice standards for use in districts and schools
[…]
Download the paper from EducationCounsel.com.
If it is possible to connect an individual to a
device or a video or a website, someone (attention students) will
create an App that automates the process.
Kim Chemerinsky and Dominique R. Shelton of Alston
& Bird write:
The District of Massachusetts’s decision in Yershov v. Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc., 1:14-cv-13112-FDS (D. Mass. May 15, 2015), adds additional fuel to the debate among the courts as to whether a unique device identifier may constitute personally identifiable information (PII) and whether a “subscription” requires payment under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).
Plaintiff Alexander Yershov filed suit against defendant Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc., alleging violations of the VPPA. Gannett publishes USA Today and has created the USA Today app, a mobile app designed to run on smartphones and other mobile devices and permit readers to view the online version of the newspaper. Users of the app can access video clips on various news, sports and entertainment topics. In his lawsuit, the plaintiff alleged that Gannett violated the VPPA by disclosing PII in the form of unique device identifiers to third parties such as Adobe Systems, Inc., an analytics company.
Read more on Lexology.
(Related) Create your own “personally
identifiable?”
Jack Bouboushian reports:
A federal class action claims online photo sharing service Shutterfly illegally uses facial recognition software to create a “face print” of anyone in its database of 20 billion photos.
Brian Norberg of Chicago says he’s never used Shutterfly or its subsidiary ThisLife and never had an account with either of them.
He claims they’re violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by “collecting, storing, and using – without providing notice, obtaining informed written consent or publishing data retention policies – the biometrics of millions of unwitting individuals who are not users of Shutterfly.”
Read more on Courthouse
News.
So many articles on the failures of government
make me think it must be time for another persidential election.
(Everyone gets their own “Quemoy
and
Matsu” crisis to flog.)
Even as evidence
poured into the nation’s top auto safety agency pointing to
dangerous defects in millions of vehicles, regulators repeatedly
failed for years to root out problems and hold carmakers accountable,
according to a long-awaited internal audit by the Transportation
Department.
The bluntly worded report, ordered last year after
General
Motors began recalling 2.6 million cars with a defective ignition
switch, paints a bleak portrait of the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency charged with
overseeing safety in the auto industry.
A couple (Okay, 3 out of 5) might be useful!
Imagine that.
5 Sites
That Teach You New Skills Quickly – Guitar, Mod Minecraft, &
More
Instinct:
Guitar Tutorials with Realtime Feedback
TweetType:
Learn Typing While Reading Tweets
Grammarly
(Chrome): Spell Check and Grammar Check for Your Browser
Grammarly is a Chrome extension that not only
points your mistakes out, but also explains them.
Once a week is all I could probably take. (You
can't make this stuff up)
Hack
Education Weekly News
… New York has passed
a bill that would require sexual assault charges be included on
college transcripts.
… The
staircase at Utah Valley University that’s been painted with
three lanes – one for walking, one for running, and one for texting
… Newark Memorial High School in California
has become the first high school in the US to install
“gunshot-sensing
technology” which places microphones and sensors in hallways
and classrooms.
… “Our findings, consistent with previous
evidence, suggest that passage of state medical marijuana laws does
not increase adolescent use of marijuana” according to a
study published in The Lancet.
… Via
Education Week: “U.S. Millennials Know Technology, But
Not How to Solve Problems With It, Study Says.”
Just because I love jazz. (and I'm old, if not
old school)
An
11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz
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