There will be a lot of discussion on this topic.
Avery Dial and Rory Eric Jurman of Fowler White
Burnett, P.A., write:
As it is commonly understood, the Great Fire of London spawned two fixtures of the modern world: advancements in firefighting and property insurance. The risk of fire was seen as a threat to society as a whole and mechanisms to mitigate that risk were naturally born. Now, the world has ubiquitous measures to minimize the risk of fire. However, in the modern era, we are facing a new fire: data breaches. In the words of the Talking Heads “[h]old tight, we’re in for nasty weather.“
Read more on JDSupra.
(Related) Another decision impacting businesses
with inadequate security. (In this case, “Pretty Good Practices”
vs. “Best Practices?”)
Jody Godoy reports:
The Seventh Circuit declined to rehear an appeal it decided against Neiman Marcus over a payment card data breach on Thursday, leaving in place the precedential ruling that held plaintiffs can sue for the trouble and expense of preventing fraud on their accounts.
The ruling will allow the suit in Illinois federal court, which has been on ice for a year during the appeal, to move forward. The plaintiffs claim their payment card details were compromised in the 2013 breach of Neiman Marcus systems that affected a proposed class of 350,000 customers, saying the retailer cut corners on security measures that could have prevented or mitigated the breach and didn’t give them timely notice of the attack.
Read more on Law360.
You don't hear about many of these. Are they not
news?
Jenn Schanz reports:
FBI officials and U.S. Attorney William Hochul called 38-year-old James Allen “a master manipulator.”
The Detroit man was convicted of Child Pornography and Cyber Stalking for harassing 18 Western New York girls online between April and August of 2012.
Monday, Allen was sentenced to more than 20 years behind bars.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the FBI in Buffalo, Holly Hubert, said despite Allen’s invasive crimes, he wasn’t an expert hacker or computer genius.
Read more on WIAT.
Isn't context important?
Remember when people put that “RTs ≠
endorsements” disclaimer in their Twitter bios, like that would
offer some form of protection from the being associated with what
they retweeted? Well, a retweet can be seen as an
endorsement. It can also apparently be used as evidence that you’re
trying to join ISIS.
Not surprising.
Judge Says
Hillary Clinton Didn’t Follow Government Email Policies
A federal judge on Thursday said that Hillary did
not comply with government policies in her exclusive use of a
personal email account while she was secretary of state, challenging
her longstanding position that she abided by the rules.
… At a hearing for a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit against the State Department, the judge, Emmet G.
Sullivan, pictured, of Federal District Court for the District of
Columbia, said that “we wouldn’t be here today if the employee
had followed government policy.”
Judge Sullivan also opened the door for the FBI,
which is ever-so-slowly investigating whether there was classified
information on Clinton’s email server, to expand its inquiry to
pursue emails that she may have deleted. The judge ordered the State
Department to ask the FBI to give it any emails recovered from
Clinton’s private server that were not already in the State
Department’s possession or that may be related to the lawsuit.
… In doublespeak that would have embarrassed
Orwell, the Justice Department, which oversees the FBI, has argued
before Judge Sullivan that Freedom of Information Act searches do not
typically involve a government employee’s personal email account.
Of course, had Clinton followed the rules and acted like ever other
government employee, including the rank-and-file who worked for her
at State, none of this would be considered personal email.
I've been following this for years. Amazing that
the government got off so cheap.
Feds agree
to pay $940 million to settle claims that US government shorted
tribes on contracts
The Obama administration has agreed to pay
hundreds of Native American tribes nearly $1 billion to settle a
decades-old claim that the government failed to adequately compensate
tribes while they managed education, law enforcement and other
federal services.
Weekly Waff?
Hack
Education Weekly News
… Jared Keller on Ahmed Mohamed's experiences
and “The
Criminalization of the American Schoolyard”:
… Manitoba announced
an Open Textbook Initiative, that will create a library of free and
openly licensed textbooks for the province’s most highly enrolled
college classes.
… Did
you really read the syllabus? A
test.
… Gawker
on “exam-time spyware software” ProctorTrack: “Students
Wonder When Creepy-As Hell App That Watches Them During Exams Plans
on Deleting Their Data.” (The answer: once the media picks up on
the story.)
… Via
the LA School Report: “While LA Unified may still be struggling
to integrate its iPads and other digital devices into the classroom,
its police department has found a few useful things to do with
theirs.” (That is, monitoring schools for “vulnerabilities.”)
Is Dilbert suggesting that Trump is in trouble?
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