The secret government requests for customer information
Yahoo made
public Wednesday reveal that the FBI is still demanding email
records from companies without a warrant, despite being told by Justice Department
lawyers in 2008 that it doesn’t have the lawful authority to do so.
That comes as a particular surprise given that FBI
Director James Comey has said that one of his top legislative priorities this
year is to get the right to acquire precisely such records with those
warrantless secret requests, called national security letters, or NSLs. “We need it very much,” Comey told Sen. Tom
Cotton, R-Ark., during a congressional
hearing in February.
Who would have expected honest answers from
advertising? (Or has Watson gone to the
Dark Side?)
IBM Watson Is Now Offering AI-Powered Digital Ads That Answer
Consumers' Questions
Perspective.
More Bad News for Twitter as Snapchat Jumps Ahead in
Popularity
A
new report from Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton reads
like a tick-tock of the company, which has struggled with flatlining
user-growth and a free-falling stock price. If three-time C.E.O. Jack Dorsey can’t pull it off this time,
it could be curtains for him, and possibly for the start-up, too. “There is no Plan B,” Twitter executives say. “This is it.” Now, a
new report from Bloomberg suggests Twitter has another thing to worry
about. Snapchat has 150 million people
using its app every day, according to the report—much more than use Twitter. And unlike Twitter, which seems to have lost
its ability to attract new users, Snapchat is continuing to grow quickly. In December, Bloomberg reports, Snapchat had
110 million daily active users—meaning that in the last five months, it grew
its user base by more than 35 percent. Twitter
has grown its own user base by just 3 percent globally, according to its most
recent quarterly report, and is estimated to have about 136 million daily
active users.
For my Computer Security students.
Security Pros Show Extensive Distrust of IoT Security
Security testing firm IOActive
recently surveyed 129
security professionals on the security of Internet
of Things devices at its IOAsis San Francisco 2016 event March 1-2,
2016. The result shows extensive
distrust of IoT security.
According to
Gartner, there will be 6.4 billion connected things this year. That number will more than triple to 21
billion connected things by 2020. "Your
refrigerator, smoke detector, doorbell and air freshener may already be. Next, clothes, traffic lights and pedestrian
walk buttons - and every part of a factory - and even your home's windows, will
all be connected, sharing information..." commented a CNBC report in February.
For my Computer Security / encryption talk.
How to Password Protect & Encrypt Your Microsoft
Office Files
For my student researchers.
Announcing the Net Data Directory
by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jun 2, 2016
“The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is delighted to
announce the launch of the Net
Data Directory, a free, publicly available, searchable database of
different sources of data about the Internet. The directory is intended to make finding
useful quantitative data about a broad range of Internet-related
topics—broadband, cybersecurity, freedom of expression, and more—easier for
researchers, policymakers, journalists, and the public.”
For our Criminal Justice students.
U.S. Supreme Court: Policies and Perspectives on Video and
Audio Coverage of Appellate Court Proceedings
by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jun 2, 2016
U.S. Supreme Court: Policies and Perspectives on Video and
Audio Coverage of Appellate Court Proceedings, GAO-16-437:
Published: Apr 28, 2016. Publicly Released: May 31, 2016
“The U.S. Supreme Court (the Court) posts audio recordings
of oral arguments on its website at the end of each argument week, but does not
provide video coverage of these arguments. In addition, starting in 2000, the Court
began granting requests for access to audio recordings of oral arguments on the
same day arguments are heard in selected cases. As of October 4, 2015, the Court had received
media requests for access to same-day audio recordings in 58 cases and had
granted them in 26 cases. Other selected
appellate courts have varying policies on video and audio coverage of oral
arguments. For example,
[Much omitted.
Bob]
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