Trump administration considers 'extreme vetting' of foreign
visitors
Foreigners who want to visit the U.S., even for a short
trip, could be forced to disclose contacts on their mobile phones, social-media
passwords and financial records, and to answer probing questions about their
ideology, according to Trump administration officials conducting a review of
vetting procedures.
(Related). Well,
maybe not everyone knows…
New Bill Would Outlaw Warrantless Phone Searches At The
Border
Senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul as well as
Representatives Jared Polis and Blake Farenthold have introduced legislation
that would require law enforcement to first obtain a warrant before they can
search our phones when we enter the US.
… In a letter to
Homeland Security in February, Sen. Wyden asked the agency's chief, Secretary
John Kelly, to reveal how many times Customs and Border Protection personnel
had asked for or demanded US citizens disclose their phone, computer, email,
and social media passwords in the past several years. Sen. Wyden also asked Secretary Kelly to
explain what legal authority allows the CBP to demand those passwords and how
such demands are consistent with the Constitution and federal law.
The Senator asked Secretary Kelly to respond by March 20. But according to Sen Wyden's office, Homeland
Security has not written back.
Why I’m not a lawyer: A New York court has no jurisdiction
over a New York DA? Facebook can’t
challenge warrants for any reason unless they are the target? Targets of warrants must wait until the
warrant becomes public to challenge it?
New York's top court rejects Facebook search warrant
challenge
New York state's highest court on Tuesday rejected
Facebook Inc's challenge to 381 search warrants to uncover suspected widespread
Social Security disability fraud by its customers.
By a 5-1 vote, the Court of Appeals said it lacked jurisdiction
to hear Facebook's appeal over warrants obtained by the office of Manhattan
District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
… Prosecutors
had in July 2013 obtained the warrants ordering Facebook to turn over account
information belonging to people suspected of criminal fraud.
… Facebook
argued that the warrants were overbroad, and that Vance went too far by prohibiting the Menlo Park, California-based company
from telling users that the warrants existed.
… Writing
for the appeals court, Judge Leslie Stein said it was up to targets of the warrants, not third parties such as Facebook,
to challenge the warrants' validity.
Just in time. My
Spreadsheet class starts today.
My Computer Security class starts on Friday.
An interesting article.
Digital Maturity, Not Digital Transformation
People throw around the term “digital transformation”
these days, but there’s not much agreement on what that term means. Originally, the value in the term was that it
conveyed the need to engage in a fundamental shift in the way we think, work,
and manage our organizations in response to digital trends in the competitive
environment. While the need for
fundamental change remains, the overuse and misuse of this term in recent years
has weakened its potency.
… The best
understanding of digital transformation is adopting business processes and
practices to help
the organization compete effectively in an increasingly digital world.
… If managers
shift their thinking from a focus on digital transformation to a focus on digital
maturity, they may find a number of benefits for organizations seeking to
adapt to an increasingly digital competitive environment.
Perspective. Being
early is not an automatic win.
Ford, GM ranked ahead of Tesla, Waymo, Uber on self-driving
tech
Tesla on Monday overtook Ford in market value, but a new
independent research report ranks Detroit's big automakers ahead of Silicon
Valley upstarts in self-driving technologies.
Navigant ranked Ford, GM, Renault-Nissan Alliance
and Daimler at the top of its annual ranking, with Alphabet's Waymo unit and
Tesla in the second tier of "contenders."
Uber
is ranked in a third tier of so-called "challengers" among the 18
companies studied by Navigant.
Perspective. (Lit,
as in excellent?)
Google Sponsored Study Finds Kids Think Google Is Lit, Go
Figure
If you're not sure whether or not you'd be classified as
"cool", a quick way to find out is to open up that wallet and fund
your own study. That's just what Google did with a study titled: "It's
Lit: A Guide To What Teens Think Is Cool". The result were not too surprising.
With the help of a scatter chart highlighting results from
Gen-Z kids (post-millennial), we can easily see which brands reign supreme, and
which ones fall flat on their faces. Because
"10" is too even a number, Google decided to cap "Most
Cool" at 9, with YouTube
coming closest to that high mark. Right
behind it: Google, and Netflix.
Again, not too surprising.
… You can view a much larger version of this scatter chart in
Google's official PDF (25MB, right-click, save
as).
Our favorite con man completely innocent victim of FBI
harassment has a new idea.
Kim Dotcom announces Bitcontent, a new Bitcoin venture for
content uploaders to earn money
Controversial New Zealand-based internet mogul Kim Dotcom
plans to launch a Bitcoin payments system for users to sell files and video
streaming as he fights extradition to the United States for criminal copyright
charges.
… “You can create
a payment for any content that you put on the internet…you can share that with
your customers, with the interest community and, boom, you are basically in
business and can sell your content,” Dotcom said in the video.
He added that Bitcontent would eventually allow
businesses, such as news organizations, to earn money from their entire
websites. He did not provide a launch
date.
… A New Zealand
court ruled in February that Dotcom could be extradited to the United States to
face charges relating to his Megaupload website, which was shutdown in 2012
following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion, a decision he was
appealing.
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