This is changing. The GDPR is only the first of many laws and
regulations that will make breaches much more expensive. (Even
“material” in the accounting sense.)
Erik Sherman reports:
If you live in the United States, there’s almost a 50 percent chance your personal data was lost in the giant Equifax data breach a year ago of 143 million records. Google had its own data breach in October this year that exposed data on as many as 500,000 accounts. Or the most recent Facebook breach of data from 29 million users. Or, over the last five years alone, major breaches at Anthem, eBay, JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot, Yahoo, Target, Adobe … but you get the point. If it’s day that ends in “day,” there must have been another major data breach that keeps criminal hackers gainfully employed by selling your information.
Bad guys keep getting smarter, experts say. Why not corporations? The short answer is, because it’s not worth their trouble.
Read more on Motherboard.
(Related) For my students.
List of
free GDPR resources and templates
IT Governance: “The EU’s
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requires all
organisations that process
EU residents’ personal data to abide by its strict terms.
We’ve
produced five free resources to help you understand what the GDPR
requires you to do…
- Webinars: Supporting you in your GDPR compliance project
- Green paper: EU General Data Protection Regulation – A compliance guide
- Video: What does the GDPR mean for your business in the UK
- Infographic: What the GDPR means in 1 minute
- GDPR templates: Documenting your compliance
There is a way, but no one has used it yet (to my
knowledge). It requires voting machines to produce a paper voting
summary with a random number. All the summaries are then published,
in number order for voters to confirm. Any problem matching the
voter’s copy with the “official” version is automatically
documented. (There are a few more procedural steps, but nothing
impossible to implement.)
Was Your
Voting Machine Hacked? Without More User-Friendly Devices, We May Not
Know
… In their preliminary review of Election Day,
officials from the Department
of Homeland Security reported vote-casting problems in Alabama,
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, North Carolina, Texas, and
Virginia. But they said they did not detect “an outright hack of
voting systems.” Good news, of course. Yet, our antiquated
election infrastructure remains, on the whole, so unusable that even
if voting machines were more secure, voters would still be acutely
vulnerable to misinformation. This failure of “usability” means
voters aren’t in a position to properly detect irregularities on
the frontlines, a role that security
specialists depend on from their end-users.
… When discussing the future of voting in the
United States, it is absolutely right to call for verifiable,
accurate, secure, and transparent voting systems. But in a world
where “hacked,” “tampered,” and “rigged” is on the lips
of many voters, we must provide the most important election
stakeholders — the voters — with an easy, convenient, and
intuitive voting experience.
Consider possible downsides. Could the watch tell
your insurer that you are a bad risk? Could you “void” your
insurance coverage?
UnitedHealthcare
will pay for your Apple Watch if you meet your fitness goals
Back in 2016 UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm teamed
up on a fitness program called Motion. It's an incentive program
that can earn you up to $1,460 a year by meeting fitness goals.
While it started with a custom wearable, it soon added support for
devices from Fitbit and then Samsung and Garmin.
Facebook: It’s where the data is!
Facebook
reports a massive spike in government demands for data, including
secret orders
Facebook
has published the details of 13 historical national security
letters it’s received for user data.
… These demands
for data are effectively subpoenas, issued by the FBI without any
judicial oversight, compelling companies to turn over limited amounts
of data on an individual who is named in a national security
investigation. They’re controversial — not least because they
come with a gag order that prevents companies from informing the
subject of the letter, let alone disclosing its very existence.
… (You can read all of the disclosed national
security letters here.)
… Facebook’s latest
transparency report shows that the number of government demands
for data rocketed by 26 percent year-over-year, from 82,341 to
103,815 requests.
The U.S. government’s demands for customer data
went up by 30 percent, to 42,466 total requests, Facebook said,
affecting 70,528 accounts. The company said that more than half
included a non-disclosure clause that prevented the company from
informing the user.
(Related) Targeting better ads is very similar to
finding high-level terrorists. I suspect Facebook hires people from
certain government agencies to apply their skills.
Facebook
Filed A Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On
Family Photos
Facebook has submitted a patent application for
technology that would predict who your family and other household
members are, based on images and captions posted to Facebook, as well
as your device information, like shared IP addresses. The
application, titled “Predicting household demographics based on
image data,” was originally filed May 10, 2017, and made public
today. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for
comment, but the patent suggests that the company is interested in
exploring the technology, which is intended to help Facebook target
advertising more effectively.
… The system Facebook proposes in its patent
application would use facial recognition and learning models trained
to understand text to help Facebook better understand whom you live
with and interact with most. The technology described in the patent
looks for clues in your profile pictures on Facebook and Instagram,
as well as photos of you that you or your friends post.
It would note the people identified in a photo,
and how frequently the people are included in your pictures. Then,
it would assess information from comments on the photos, captions, or
tags (#family, #mom, #kids) — anything that indicates whether
someone is a husband, daughter, cousin, etc. — to predict what your
family/household actually looks like.
Lawyers do make mistakes, but this might work as
well if it was deliberate. Will Ecuador change it’s mind about
asylum?
Filing
indicates indictment was prepared for Julian Assange
A court document filed
by mistake has revealed that the Justice Department is
preparing to criminally charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
In a slip unearthed by a former U.S. intelligence
official and posted on Twitter, Assange’s name appears twice in an
August court filing by a federal prosecutor in Virginia — an
argument to keep sealed an unrelated case involving an accused child
sex criminal.
The prosecutor wrote that the charges and arrest
warrant “would need to remain sealed until Assange is arrested in
connection with the charges in the criminal complaint and can
therefore no longer evade or avoid arrest and extradition in this
matter.”
At another point in the document, the prosecutor
wrote that “due to the sophistication of the defendant and the
publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep
confidential the fact that Assange has been charged.”
.. Assange came to prominence after WikiLeaks
published secret military and diplomatic documents leaked in 2010 by
Pvt. Chelsea Manning.
Manning served 7 years in prison, but WikiLeaks
was not prosecuted. Justice Department lawyers
concluded at the time that they could not charge Assange
and WikiLeaks even as American newspapers, protected by the First
Amendment, were publishing the leaked material.
But in recent years, U.S. officials have sought to
distinguish WikiLeaks from journalists, as when then-CIA Director
Mike Pompeo referred to it as a “hostile non-state intelligence
organization.”
Who knew that space could get crowded?
FCC tells
SpaceX it can deploy up to 11,943 broadband satellites
The Federal Communications Commission voted to let
SpaceX launch 4,425 low-Earth orbit satellites in
March of this year. SpaceX separately sought approval for 7,518
satellites operating even closer to the ground, saying that these
will boost capacity and reduce latency in heavily populated areas.
That amounts to 11,943 satellites in total for SpaceX's Starlink
broadband service.
Where my academic world is headed.
Germany
pledges €3bn investment in artificial intelligence
Germany will spend €3
billion to boost its artificial intelligence capabilities
over the next six years, as part of a belated effort by Berlin to
catch up with leading AI nations such as China and the United States.
… The strategy paper also promises the
creation of 100 university
chairs with a focus on AI, along with additional research
centres to complement facilities such as the German
Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), which was
founded in 1988. In total, Germany is aiming for a network of 12
centres for research, development and application of AI
technologies offering “internationally attractive working
conditions and pay”.
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