Who enforces Net Neutrality in NJ?
ISPs must
follow net neutrality in New Jersey, governor declares
New Jersey is enforcing net neutrality with a new
executive order that requires ISPs to follow neutrality rules if they
sell Internet service to state agencies.
The executive
order announced today
by Governor Phil Murphy is similar to ones previously signed by the
governors of New
York and Montana.
States are taking action because the Federal Communications
Commission repealed
federal net neutrality rules.
The executive order says that New Jersey state
agencies may only buy Internet service from ISPs that adhere to net
neutrality principles. But the net neutrality protections will cover
ordinary residents as well as government officials. That's because
the order says that "adherence to 'net neutrality' principles
means that an ISP shall not [violate the rules] with respect to any
consumers in New Jersey (including but not limited to State
entities)."
ISPs doing business with the state would not be
allowed to block or throttle lawful Internet traffic for any consumer
in New Jersey. Paid prioritization will also be off-limits.
… Separately, New Jersey Attorney General
Gurbir Grewal announced today that his state will join 21 other
states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit
against the FCC. The suit attempts to reverse the net neutrality
repeal.
Bad news, good news? How companies should respond
to security failures.
Security
hole meant Grammarly would fix your typos, but let snoopers read your
every word
A Google vulnerability researcher has found a
gaping security hole in a popular web browser extension, that could
have potentially exposed your private writings on the internet.
… Ormandy discovered that a simple piece of
JavaScript hidden on a malicious website could secretly trick the
Grammarly extension for Firefox and Chrome into handing over a user’s
authentication token.
With such a token, a malicious hacker could log
into your Grammarly account, access Grammarly’s online
editor, and unlock your “documents, history, logs, and all other
data.”
The good news is that Grammarly responded with
impressive speed after being informed of the problem by Ormandy.
Even though the Google security researcher gave Grammarly 90 days to
fix the issue, it was
actually resolved within a few hours – a response time
that Ormandy described as “really impressive.”
Do we condemn it or emulate it? Each time we
adopt one of China’s surveillance techniques, I have to wonder.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/china-surveillance/552203/?utm_source=feed
China's
Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone
The country is
perfecting a vast network of digital espionage as a means of social
control—with implications for democracies worldwide.
Imagine a society in
which you are rated by the government on your trustworthiness. Your
“citizen score” follows you wherever you go. A high score allows
you access to faster internet service or a fast-tracked visa to
Europe. If you make political posts online without a permit, or
question or contradict the government’s official narrative on
current events, however, your score decreases. To calculate the
score, private companies working with your government constantly
trawl through vast amounts of your social media and online shopping
data.
When you step outside
your door, your actions in the physical world are also swept into the
dragnet: The government gathers an enormous collection of information
through the video cameras placed on your street and all over your
city.
All businesses get a “Get out of jail free”
card?
Exclusive:
U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice - sources
Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe of how
Equifax Inc failed to protect the personal data of millions of
consumers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Equifax said in September that hackers stole
personal data it had collected on some 143 million Americans.
Richard Cordray, then the CFPB director, authorized an investigation
that month, said former officials familiar with the probe.
But Cordray resigned in November and was replaced
by Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s budget chief. The CFPB
effort against Equifax has sputtered since then, said several
government and industry sources, raising questions about how Mulvaney
will police a data-warehousing industry that has enormous sway over
how much consumers pay to borrow money.
… Three sources say, though, Mulvaney, the new
CFPB chief, has not ordered subpoenas against Equifax or sought sworn
testimony from executives, routine steps when launching a full-scale
probe. Meanwhile the CFPB has shelved plans for on-the-ground tests
of how Equifax protects data, an idea backed by Cordray.
The CFPB also recently rebuffed bank regulators at
the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency when they offered to help with on-site
exams of credit bureaus, said two sources familiar with the matter.
Equifax has said it is under investigation by
every state attorney general and faces more than 240 class action
lawsuits.
For my Data Management students.
How Big
Data and AI are Driving Business Innovation in 2018
After years of hope and promise, 2018 may be the
year when artificial intelligence (AI) gains meaningful traction
within Fortune 1000 corporations. This is a key finding of
NewVantage Partners’ annual
executive survey, first published in 2012.
The main finding of the 2018 survey is that an
overwhelming 97.2% of executives report that their companies are
investing in building or launching big data and AI initiatives.
Among surveyed executives, a growing consensus is emerging that AI
and big data initiatives are becoming closely intertwined, with 76.5%
of executives indicating that the proliferation and greater
availability of data is empowering
AI and cognitive initiatives within their organizations.
Eventually, someone will want to research even
Grover Cleveland?
Presidential
research resources: A guide to online information
DELUCA, Lisa. Presidential research resources: A
guide to online information. College & Research Libraries News,
[S.l.], v. 79, n. 2, p. 93, feb. 2018. ISSN 2150-6698. Available at:
<http://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/16883>.
Date accessed: 05 feb. 2018.
doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.2.93.
“This article highlights the breadth of freely available digital
collections of presidential documents. These repositories are
excellent resources for presidential, political science, history, and
foreign relations research. From the resources listed in this
article, librarians can choose multiple starting points for student
and faculty research inquiries for primary and secondary sources that
include handwritten documents by the founding fathers, interview
transcriptions, digitized documents, and photographs, to name a few.
This article does not contain public opinion, election, or media
content sources, which are an important component of presidential
research.”
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