With apologies to Santayana:
Those who do not study technology are doomed to screw it up.
… “What we ought to do with regard to the
Russians is retaliate, seriously retaliate against the Russians,”
McConnell told MSNBC’s Hugh Hewitt on Saturday. “These tech
firms could be helpful in giving us a way to do that.”
McConnell did not elaborate on what that
retaliation might look like.
Interesting argument. It’s not a violation of
the law because it track a vehicle, not a person.
The Rutherford Institute has asked the Virginia Supreme Court to prohibit police from using license plate readers as mass surveillance tools to track citizens whether or not they are suspected of a crime. In filing an amicus brief in Neal v. Fairfax County Police Department, Rutherford Institute attorneys argue that Fairfax County’s practice of collecting and storing license plate reader data violates a Virginia law prohibiting the government from amassing personal information about individuals, including their driving habits and location.
Read more on The
Rutherford Institute.
[The
amicus brief:
https://www.rutherford.org/files_images/general/Neal_v_FCPD_Amicus_Brief.pdf
Do first, think about the downside later?
This may be one of those “the-road-to-Hell”
stories. Joe Cadillic sent it along and we are both of the opinion
that regardless of any good intentions, this
is not a good idea.
Meaghan Ybos reported:
Nearly 70 victims of domestic violence and rape in Memphis are wearing GPS devices thanks to the city’s Sexual Assault Kit Taskforce, according to its monthly progress report published in October.
[…]
The GPS devices, which are tracked in real time, “provide an extra measure of safety by alerting victims when alleged perpetrators out on bond come within a certain range of victims who voluntarily wear the device,” taskforce leader Dewanna Smith told me in an October 23 e-mail.
Read more on In
Justice Today.
Yeah…. no….. if a victim really wants to wear
the device, then I guess that’s their right and decision, assuming
that they have been fully informed of how data are collected and
stored and what THEIR data may be used for and by whom. But
otherwise, this strikes me as a pretty bad idea.
And does the perpetrator get a signal that they
have gotten too close to their victim? Does a loud alarm on their
monitor start shrieking at them? And if so, could that actually help
a perpetrator find their victim if they were looking for them?
There’s too much wrong with this. Joe: jump in
with your thoughts, please. I tend to agree with this statement in
the story:
“If somebody accused of rape is enough of a risk that a victim
would need to wear a safety monitoring device,” said Carrie
Goldberg, a New York civil
rights attorney and pioneer
in the field of sexual privacy, “then
perhaps it would make more sense to rethink that [perpetrator’s]
being on the streets in the first place.”
Is this education?
Beatrice Dupuy reports:
Teachers in one Oregon school district who fail to report the sexual activity of their students could be at risk of being fined or losing their jobs.
The Salem-Keizer district officials told teachers that if they hear about their students having sex they must report it to law enforcement or Department of Human Services officials. District officials say they are just following state law that has put them in a bind with their students.
Read more on Newsweek.
And here we have yet another horrible idea/law.
Schools should be creating an environment where it is safe for
students to share information with school personnel. These types of
snitch laws work against that.
A model for entrepreneurs?
… One night in the summer of 2015, over
Sichuan at Han Dynasty on 85th Street, Cogan asked Horwitz for advice
about his latest notion: selling contact lenses online. The contacts
business was dominated by a handful of companies like Johnson &
Johnson and Bausch & Lomb, which seemed to charge whatever they
wanted — at least in Cogan’s view, based on the price increases
for his own lenses. Surely a low-cost competitor could tempt away
customers
Perspective. Consistent with my classroom.
There are two very different pictures of the
students roaming the hallways and labs at New York University’s
Tandon School of Engineering.
At the undergraduate level, 80 percent are United
States residents. At the graduate level, the number is reversed:
About 80 percent hail from India, China, Korea, Turkey and other
foreign countries.
… The dearth of Americans is even more
pronounced in hot STEM fields like computer science, which serve as
talent pipelines for the likes of Google, Amazon, Facebook and
Microsoft: About 64 percent of doctoral candidates and almost 68
percent in master’s programs last year were international students,
according to an annual
survey of American and Canadian universities by the Computing
Research Association.
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