Costco made $3.7 million selling ‘Tiffany’ rings. Now it must
pay $19 million to the real Tiffany.
Costco must pay the storied jewelry
company Tiffany & Co. more than $19 million for selling about 2,500
diamond rings falsely identified on store signs as “Tiffany” rings, a federal
judge ruled Monday.
Costco’s management “displayed at best a cavalier attitude
toward Costco’s use of the Tiffany name in conjunction with ring sales and
marketing,” U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of New York Laura Taylor
Swain wrote in her opinion.
… Swain wrote
Costco “provided credible evidence” of the practice of using the terms “Tiffany
setting” and “Tiffany style” generically throughout the jewelry industry.
The problem is Costco only used the word “Tiffany” when
describing the rings in its signage, suggesting they were made by the jeweler
rather than an imitation of its famous design.
This is obvious, isn’t it?
Judge says LinkedIn can't block startup from user’s public
data
Judge Edward Chen in the northern district of California
granted hiQ labs, an employment startup, a preliminary injunction that
forces LinkedIn to remove any barriers keeping hiQ from accessing public profile
information within 24 hours.
HiQ’s
operations depend on its ability to access public LinkedIn data. The company sells analytics to clients
including eBay, Capital One and GoDaddy that aim to help them with employee
retention and recruitment.
… LinkedIn argued
that users might not want to have employers tracking changes on their profiles,
for example if they are seeking a new job.
In his order, Chen argued that LinkedIn’s argument was
flawed.
… HiQ argues that
Linkedin’s attempts to limit the startup’s ability to use public profile data
is anti-competitive and is a violation of so-called data-scrappers free speech
rights.
Taking the lead from the President or something DoJ
thought up on their own?
DreamHost fights government request seeking 1.3 million IP
addresses of DisruptJ20 website visitors
Webhosting service DreamHost
has said that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested information on
everyone who visited DisruptJ20.org,
a website that was set up to organize political protests against the U.S.
administration.
… Central to the
request was information on the DistrupJ20.org website itself and its owner, but
where things get contentious is in relation to the site’s visitors. According to DreamHost, the DOJ’s request
includes 1.3 million IP addresses covering each device that connected to the
website. This was in addition to
“…contact information, email content, and photos of thousands of people — in an
effort to determine who simply visited the website,” according to a blog post. “This is, in our opinion, a strong example of
investigatory overreach and a clear abuse of government authority,” the
DreamHost statement added.
After challenging the DOJ’s request based on the
“overbreadth” of the warrant, DreamHost received a copy of an “order to compel”
filed by the DOJ in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia that sought
to dismiss DreamHost’s counterarguments. Last week, DreamHost filed
its legal arguments in response.
Will this improve health or allow Aetna to more accurately
calculate their risk?
Apple and Aetna reportedly held secret meetings, plan to
offer Apple Watch to 23 million insurance customers
Top executives from both companies met last Thursday and
Friday in Southern California, according to CNBC. Myoung
Cha, who heads up Apple’s special health projects, led the
talks, with hospital chief medical information officers from across the U.S.
also in attendance.
… Aetna
currently provides the Apple Watch to its more than 50,000
staffers. The Hartford, Conn.-based
insurance company also announced last September that it would subsidize the cost of Apple Watches for select large employers
and individual customers.
(Related) True or
not, would this change the perception of Apple/Cisco security?
Apple and the future of the insurance industry
… Apple CEO Tim
Cook joined
Cisco CEO, Chuck Robbins at Cisco Live to reveal the firms are working to deliver
lower cost cybersecurity insurance to customers choosing to use Cisco
equipment in combination with Apple kit.
"If your company is using
Cisco and Apple, then the combination of these should make that insurance cost
significantly less for you than it would if you were using some other personal
network side and the other operating system in the mobile area," Cook
said.
The idea is that insurers will be convinced to deliver
lower premiums to enterprises who standardize around Apple/Cisco solutions.
Those who do will not be required to subsidize those who
choose to use less secure combinations.
A great victory for the Dear Leader! And no doubt the President will take full
credit for it.
North Korea Stands Down On Threat To Guam
This has not been a problem with my students, but it might
be useful in other classes.
Library Guides for Detecting Fake News – AALL Spectrum July
2017
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I would never, ever do this.
I should remind my students, but I bet they all know about
this.
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