German
politicians' data published online, Merkel unaffected
Personal data and documents from hundreds of
German politicians and public figures have been published online, the
government said on Friday, adding that no sensitive material from
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office was released.
An Interior Ministry spokesman declined to confirm
that the data breach, which triggered an emergency meeting of the
national cyber defense body, was the result of a hack.
… If the data release does stem from a hack,
it would be the latest in a number of hi-tech assaults on Germany’s
political institutions and key individuals.
Last year, lawmakers said a powerful cyber attack
breached the foreign ministry’s computer network.
Security officials have blamed most previous
attacks on a Russian hacking group APT28 that experts say has close
ties to a Russian spy agency.
I’m still not convinced, but I’m getting
closer to convinced.
The case
for why Big Tech is violating antitrust laws
Big Tech is behaving badly. And I'm not talking
about Facebook handing over your personal data to the highest bidder
or Amazon playing puppeteer in its HQ2 charade. Big Tech is
violating the Sherman Act of 1890.
A true treasure, but finding gems among the stones
is difficult.
New
Out-of-Copyright Works and Where to Find Them
Fortune:
“As for getting your hands (or smartphones, e-readers, etc.) on the
works themselves, websites are highlighting some of the best cultural
goodies. These include Duke University’s Center for the Study of
the Public Domain, which has
a list of prominent 1923 books (such as Kahlil Gibran’s The
Prophet), films (The Pilgrim by Charlie Chaplin) and
songs (“Yes, We Have No Bananas!”). Meanwhile, a scholarly
repository known as the Hathi Trust has made over 50,000
titles from 1923 available: You can also find the
newly-available works on non-profit sites like Project
Gutenberg and the Internet
Archive, or on Google
Books’ website and via the company’s Books app, which lets
Android users download the books to their phones or tablets. On
Amazon’s Kindle service, the 1923 works do not yet appear to be
available for free, though many other public domain works can be
found there for free or less than $1. This is just the beginning.
The first of January, 2020, will see another bonanza of works enter
the public domain, including famous novels like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby…”
I thought we had finished with this years ago.
For-profit
college cancels $500M in student debt after fraud allegations
The settlement
stems from allegations that Career Education Corporation lied about
job placement rates and misled prospective students.
A company that owns two national for-profit
college chains said Thursday that it will erase nearly $500 million
in debt incurred by former students as part of a settlement with 48
states and the District of Columbia.
The deal with Career Education Corporation will
resolve allegations that it lied about job placement rates and misled
potential students to get them to enroll. State attorneys general
began investigating the company in 2014 following complaints from
students and a damning report by the U.S. Senate.
Company officials on Thursday said they deny any
wrongdoing but called the settlement an "important milestone."
… Based in Schaumburg, Illinois, the company
enrolls about 34,000 students across two chains, Colorado
Technical University and American InterContinental University.
More than 90 percent of its students are enrolled through online
courses, according to the company.
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