The state’s announcement:
The Office of Consumer Affairs
and Business Regulation today announced the online public availability of its
Data Breach Notification Archive.
The Massachusetts Data Security
Law (M.G.L. c.93H) requires any entity that keeps a Massachusetts resident’s
personal information to notify affected residents, the Office of Consumer
Affairs and Business Regulation, and the Attorney General’s Office anytime
personal information is accidentally or intentionally compromised. The information maintained by the Office of
Consumer Affairs was previously only available through Public Records Requests.
Although the press release doesn’t seem to tell us where
to actually find the archive, you can find it here.
But, suspicion is sufficient, right?
Joe Cadillic writes:
Maine’s Marine Patrol is allowed
to put secret surveillance devices inside boats.
According to an article
in the Portland Press Herald, the Maine Department of Marine
Resources (DMR) wants the Marine Patrol to secretly install electronic
surveillance devices on the boats of fishermen suspected of violating state
fishing regulations.
Did you catch that, police will
secretly spy on anyone suspected of violating fishing regulations!
Read more on MassPrivateI.
What could possibly go wrong? (A possible question on my Computer Security
final.)
Her name is Aristotle, and she has eyes, and ears, inside
your child's bedroom.
… To new parents, Mattel is positioning
Aristotle as a smart baby monitor. Unlike
Google Home or Amazon Alexa, Aristotle is equipped with a camera that streams
video through an encrypted cloud connection to your phone. But with partners like Qualcomm (which makes
key chips inside most smartphones) and Microsoft (which provides both Bing
search intelligence and Cortana AI smarts), Aristotle is a lot more capable
than the baby monitors of today.
EFF – The State of Crypto Law: 2016 in Review
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Jan 3, 2017
Nate Cardozo – The State of Crypto Law: 2016 in Review
– “This year was one of the busiest in recent memory when it comes to cryptography
law in the United States and around the world…
In this post, we’ll run down the list of things that happened, how they
could have gone wrong (but didn’t), how they could yet go wrong (especially in
the U.K.), and what we might see in 2017…”
How to apply that dossier they’ve been building. My Data Management students need to think
about this.
Carnival Corp.’s new ‘smart ships’ know your name, what you
want and where you want it
Imagine a future world defined by technology so subtle you
hardly know its there.
Servers know what you want ahead of time, so your food is
ready when you sit down. The “what
should I do today?” question is answered by a list of curated options based on
your personal interests. Standing in
line is a remnant of a life long ago. And perhaps best of all, the technology works
so smoothly that no users’ manual is required.
But this isn’t some distant, Trekkie future. Within months, passengers will find these
features aboard Princess Cruises’ Royal Princess.
… The Doral-based
cruise company is set to announce its futuristic innovation at the 2017
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday, delivering what it promises
will be the idea that changes how companies approach not only cruising, but the hospitality industry altogether.
… It starts with a
medallion, a quarter-sized disc weighing just under 2 ounces emblazoned with a
traveler’s name, ship and sail date. Guests
need only carry it around, or purchase a wristband or necklace to carry it in.
This
medallion is like a starship room key embedded with information on the
individual cruiser. Like card keys and
bands on some other ships, the medallion helps travelers unlock doors and pay
for goods. But here it does much more. It can alert crew to know who guests are as
they approach. Guests preferences — such
as dietary restrictions and dining reservations — will also be part of the
information crew members see on tablets populated with information from the
medallions.
The
more cruisers do, the more the medallion knows what they like and the more
customized their experience becomes.
Watson
wants your job!
Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by
artificial intelligence
… One Japanese insurance
company, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance, is reportedly replacing 34 human
insurance claim workers with “IBM Watson Explorer,” starting by January 2017.
The AI will scan hospital records and other documents to
determine insurance payouts, according to a
company press release, factoring injuries, patient medical histories, and
procedures administered. Automation of
these research and data gathering tasks will help the remaining human workers
process the final payout faster, the release says.
Fukoku Mutual will spend $1.7 million (200 million yen) to
install the AI system, and $128,000 per year for maintenance, according to
Japan’s The
Mainichi. The company saves roughly
$1.1 million per year on employee salaries by using the IBM software, meaning it hopes to see a return on the investment
in less than two years.
… Artificial
intelligence systems like IBM’s are poised to upend knowledge-based
professions, like insurance and financial services, according to the Harvard
Business Review, due to the fact that many jobs can be “composed of work
that can be codified into standard steps and of decisions based on cleanly
formatted data.” But whether that means
augmenting workers’ ability to be productive, or replacing them entirely
remains to be seen.
I wonder if he would like to talk to the Privacy Foundation?
Zuckerberg’s 2017 challenge is to meet and listen to people
in all 50 states
… Facebook’s CEO
Mark Zuckerberg is using his yearly challenge to educate himself on the needs
and problems of his users around the United States.
… Zuckerberg writes “My work is about connecting the world
and giving everyone a voice. I want to
personally hear more of those voices this year.”
… The pledge’s
parallels to campaign tours might also draw speculation about whether
Zuckerberg is seriously considering getting into politics. The CEO filed documents asking Facebook’s board of directors to
potentially allow him to work in government while retaining control of Facebook.
Why India? Just because of
numbers?
Google Turns Focus to India’s Small Businesses Amid Search
for Users
Alphabet Inc.’s
Google is ramping up its efforts to get India’s small businesses online, the
latest step in its quest
to win new users in the populous nation.
Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said on Wednesday
that the Mountain View, Calif., company will launch later this year a tool that
allows owners of small businesses that are now offline to create
mobile-friendly websites for free. Google says nearly three quarters of the country’s 51
million small businesses currently lack a web presence.
India will be the first country to get access to the
feature, which will then be rolled out to other nations.
Perspective.
Amazon’s Third-Party Sellers Had Record-Breaking Sales in
2016
Amazon.com shipped 50 percent more items this holiday
season than last for third-party vendors and doubled the amount for 2016
overall, the retail giant said on Wednesday.
(Related).
Amazon’s robot army grows by 50 percent
The world’s largest e-commerce retailer said it has 45,000
robots in some 20 fulfillment centers. That’s
a bigger headcount than that of the armed forces of the Netherlands, a NATO
member, according to World Bank data. It’s also a cool 50 percent increase from last
year’s holiday season, when the company had some 30,000
robots working alongside 230,000 humans.
We don’t know yet how many people Amazon is employing in the fourth quarter
(that number is expected to be disclosed at the company’s earnings call in
early 2017) so we can’t exactly compare the growth of the human versus the
robotic workforce. But from the fourth
quarter of 2015 through the third quarter of 2016, Amazon reported a 46
percent, 12-month increase on average in staffers, not counting temporary
recruits.
Maybe all my students could use this?
The strategies in this article may not add hours to your
day, but you’ll be able to use the time you have more efficiently.
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