Timely. Computer Security class starts January 2nd.
Teaching
Cybersecurity Law and Policy: Revised 62-Page Syllabus/Primer
Teaching
Cybersecurity Law and Policy: My Revised 62-Page Syllabus/Primer
(Bobby Chesney, Charles
I. Francis Professor in Law and Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs at the University of Texas School of Law) – “Cybersecurity
law and policy is a fun
subject to teach. There is vast room for creativity in
selecting topics, readings and learning objectives. But that same
quality makes it difficult to decide what to cover, what learning
objectives to set, and which reading assignments to use. With
support from the Hewlett Foundation, I’ve spent a lot of time in
recent years wrestling with this challenge, and last spring I posted
the initial fruits of that effort in the form of a massive “syllabus”
document. Now, I’m back with version 2.0. At 62 pages (including
a great deal of original substantive content, links to readings, and
endless discussion prompts), it is probably most accurate to describe
it as a hybrid between a syllabus and a textbook. Though definitely
intended in the first instance to benefit colleagues who teach in
this area or might want to do so, I think it also will be handy as a
primer for anyone—practitioner, lawyer, engineer, student, etc.—who
wants to think deeply about the various substrands of this emergent
field and how they relate to one another.”
(Related)
Cellphones,
Law Enforcement, and the Right to Privacy
Brennan Center for Social Justice: How
the Government Is Collecting and Using Your Location Data
“Cell phones are ubiquitous. As
of 2017, there were more cell phones than people in the United
States. Nearly 70 percent of those were smartphones, with
94 percent of millennials carrying a smart device. Cell phones go
nearly everywhere, and users are increasingly dependent on smartphone
applications for daily activities, such as texting, email, and
location-assisted direction services.. This white paper surveys the
landscape of government acquisition of location data about cell phone
users — from cellular providers’ collection of location
information to the use of technologies that pinpoint where
individuals and cell phones are located. It describes how cell
phones operate, how that location information is accrued and
disseminated, and the technologies that can be used to establish
where a phone is, where it has been, and what other users have been
in proximity…The paper then analyzes both the legal and policy
landscape: how courts have ruled on these issues, how they can be
expected to rule in the future, and how agencies have addressed these
issues internally, if at all. It adds to concerns that cell
phone-based monitoring could violate the constitutional privacy
rights of millions of ordinary Americans…”
Preparing for the 2020 election.
Why
Americans Fell for Russian Internet Trolls
… Researchers found an average of 1.73 likes,
retweets or replies for Russian trolls’ posts in Russian or any
language other than English; for
English-language posts, the rate was nine times that high (15.25).
Americans, it turned out, were easy targets for the Russian
propaganda.
… What remains unclear is why
Americans were so much more vulnerable than other targets.
An answer proposed by the study’s authors was
that the former Soviets were “immunized” against the Russian
propaganda. Because of their history, they expect to be lied to, and
so are generally more cynical than Americans.
Perspective. This neatly sums up what we’ve
been saying all along. (Is there an opportunity here?)
New on LLRX
– The Bullshit Algorithm
Via LLRX.com
– The
Bullshit Algorithm – Jason Voiovich goes directly to the heart
of the matter with his statements that are a lessons learned guide
that no researcher can afford to ignore – “Wasn’t the promise
of data-driven, search engine and social media algorithms that they
would amplify the truth and protect us from misinformation by tapping
the wisdom of crowds? The fact is that they do not. And cannot.
Because that is not what they are designed to do. At
the heart of every social media algorithm is a fatal flaw that values
persuasion over facts. Social media platforms (as well as
search engines) are not designed for truth. They
are designed for popularity. They are bullshit engines.”
“They’re skilled at avoiding (not evading)
taxes. They make a lot of money. We should take it from them.”
This was inevitable – tax laws have to change to reflect global
business.
France to
introduce tax on large internet, tech firms
France
has been pushing hard for a new so-called "GAFA tax" --
named after Google,
Apple, Facebook
and Amazon -- to ensure the global giants pay a
fair share of taxes on their massive business operations
in Europe.
"The tax will be introduced whatever happens
on January 1 and it will be for the whole of 2019 for an amount that
we estimate at 500 million euros ($570 million)," Le Maire told
a press conference in Paris.
… Policymakers across the world have had
difficulty in taxing the US-based giants who dominate their sectors
internationally, but who often route their revenues and profits via
low-tax jurisdictions to reduce their liabilities.
France's move to introduce the tax on January 1
could be driven by domestic budget concerns, with the finance
ministry looking for new sources of revenues and savings.
… Some other EU member states such as Britain,
Spain and Italy are also working on national versions of a digital
tax, with Singapore and India also planning their own schemes.
Perspective. For some reason, this astonishes my
students. “Didn’t Amazon kill all the bookstores?”
Instagram
is helping save the indie bookstore
For years, that’s been the
prevailing narrative: The
internet is killing IRL bookstores, particularly your beloved
mom-and-pop local independent bookstore. Since Amazon launched in
1995, it has been lamented
as earth-shattering for the brick-and-mortar
bookstore business. And when Amazon subsequently launched the Kindle
e-reader device in 2007, it sold out immediately. People fretted
that it was ushering
in the death of the print book in favor of the e-book.
… Between 2009 and 2015,
the number of independent
bookstores grew by 35 percent, according to the American
Booksellers Association. Print book sales are on the rise too: Sales
of physical books have increased every year since 2013. In 2017,
print book sales were up 10.8 percent from 2013, while sales of
traditionally published e-books
actually dropped 10 percent from 2016 to 2017.
To share with all my students.
… At the end of every year,
I do an extensive
analysis
of the MOOC
space. To help me with analysis, I send the top MOOC providers a
set of questions, one of them being the top enrolled
courses of 2018.
The list below contains the top
enrolled courses from the major MOOC providers: Coursera, edX,
Udacity, and FutureLearn. Combined, these providers represent a big
chunk of the MOOC learners (70+ million!).
[I
selected a few...
- Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ★★★★☆(119)
- Algorithms, Part I from Princeton University ★★★★★(58)
- Introduction to Cyber Security from The Open University ★★★★☆(20)
- Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Excel from Microsoft ★★★★☆(13)
- Data Science: R Basics from Harvard University ★★★★★(5)
- Introduction to Data Analysis using Excel from Microsoft ★★★★☆(5)
- Introduction to Python: Absolute Beginner from Microsoft ★★★★★(1)
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