Now
will you change the law?
Michigan AG
Nessel warns of possible data breach of more than 600,000 residents
A data breach possibly involving the theft of
names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, insurance
contract information and numbers, phone numbers, and medical
information of more than 600,000 Michigan residents has state
Attorney General Dana Nessel urging residents to pay close attention
to their personal information and credit reports.
… The data was stolen from Detroit-based
Wolverine Solutions Group and may have included data for customers of
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Health Alliance Plan, McLaren
Health Care, Three Rivers Health, and North Ottawa Community Health
System.
… The attorney general’s office is now
seeking more information about the breach. Under state law,
Wolverine was not required
to share information about the breach with the office.
Nessel said her office was first made aware of the breach through
media sources.
The company announced the breach on
Jan. 1, 2019 on its website, but did not list how many people may
have been impacted by the breach.
Security
tools.
Firefox
Send's free encrypted file transfers are now available to all
… Firefox Send was introduced in 2017 as part
of the now-defunct Firefox Test
Pilot, which allowed early adopters to try out experimental
features, and is now being graduated. Those with Firefox accounts
can now share files up to 2.5GB in size between browsers, while
everyone else is limited to 1GB. It's also getting its very own Send
Android app in beta.
… Firefox Send only comes with a basic free
option.
… But it should boast enough security perks to
keep general Firefox users happy: You can choose when your file link
expires, the number of downloads, and whether to add an optional
password. Recipients, on the other hand, simply receive a link to
download the file regardless of whether they have a Firefox account
or not.
We’ll see.
The bill, introduced in the Senate by Sens. Mark
Warner (D-Va.) and Cory
Gardner (R-Colo.) and in
the House by Reps. Will
Hurd (R-Texas) and Robin
Kelly (D-Ill.), would
require established standards for government use of the devices.
There should be consequences for such failures.
We seem to let them (Boards of Directors) slide.
Equifax Was
Aware of Cybersecurity Weaknesses for Years, Senate Report Says
… The
attack on Equifax started in May, but was only detected in July,
despite thousands
of queries sent by threat actors to the company’s databases
during that time.
A
December 2018 report from the House of Representatives’ Oversight
and Government Reform Committee Republicans blasted
the company for its poor security practices, and the new U.S.
Senate report does that once again, while also providing some more
details on Equifax’ failures regarding the incident.
According
to the report (PDF),
Equifax was aware of security weaknesses in its systems for two
years, but failed to properly address them. The critical
vulnerability that led to the data breach was patched only months
after being publicly reported.
… Equifax
employees were unable to respond adequately due to a failure to
implement basic cybersecurity standards, which prevented Equifax from
complying with its own internal policies and procedures,” the
report reads.
Moreover,
the company was unable to locate vulnerable assets in its inventory,
What
was illegal is now illegal-er? How does that help?
Drone
no-fly zones around UK airports are expanding this week
Starting this Wednesday,
March 13th, it will be illegal to fly a drone within three miles of
an airport in the UK, up from the 0.6-mile limit that’s currently
in effect. The rule changes, which were first
announced last month, more than quadruple the radius of each
airport’s drone restricted airspace.
The new laws are in response
to drone activity that effectively shut
down the UK’s second-largest airport, Gatwick, for over a day
in the run-up to Christmas last year. However, despite the incident
affecting over 1,000 flights and as many as 140,000 passengers,
police still don’t know
who was responsible.
How to create Internet Laws?
Ten
Principles for a New Approach to Regulating the Internet
… The
ten principles are:
Parity.
Accountability.
Transparency.
Openness.
Privacy.
Ethical
design.
Recognition
of childhood.
Respect
for human rights and equality.
Education
and awareness-raising.
Democratic
accountability, proportionality and evidenced-based approach.
Another way we run into Privacy laws.
… The California Consumer Privacy Act, set to
take effect next year, allows consumers to learn what personal
information about them is held by businesses, request deletion of
that information, and to opt out of its sale. The bill contains a
provision prohibiting companies from charging higher prices to
consumers who opt out of data collection and selling. But the
measure also allows businesses to offer "financial incentives"
to consumers who allow their data to be collected and sold --
provided that the incentives are related to the data's value.
The ANA is now calling on state Attorney General
Xavier Becerra to issue regulations specifically providing that
loyalty programs are permissible under the new law.
(Related)
Alston & Bird lawyers write:
On March 6, the Washington state Senate voted 46-1 to approve the Washington Privacy Act (WPA or the Act), otherwise known as SB 5376. If the bill passes the House, the bill would become the second comprehensive state privacy legislation behind the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect January 1, 2020. The bill would provide consumer rights, impose obligations on businesses collecting and selling personal information, and create an office of privacy and data protection to interface with state agencies on data privacy and data protection policy matters. The bill draws from the CCPA and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Read more on Privacy
& Data Security Law Blog.
Doing what no human can?
How
Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
No human, or team of humans, could possibly keep
up with the avalanche of information produced by many of today’s
physics and astronomy experiments. Some of them record terabytes of
data every day — and the torrent is only increasing. The Square
Kilometer Array, a radio telescope slated to switch on in the
mid-2020s, will generate
about as much data traffic each year as the entire internet.
The deluge has many scientists turning to
artificial intelligence for help. With minimal human input, AI
systems such as artificial neural networks — computer-simulated
networks of neurons that mimic the function of brains — can plow
through mountains of data, highlighting anomalies and detecting
patterns that humans could never have spotted.
Why I try not to laugh at my students.
Taking
Laughter Seriously at the Supreme Court
Jacobi, Tonja and Sag, Matthew, Taking Laughter
Seriously at the Supreme Court (March 9, 2019). Vanderbilt Law
Review, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=
“Laughter in Supreme Court oral arguments has
been misunderstood, treated as either a lighthearted distraction from
the Court’s serious work, or interpreted as an equalizing force in
an otherwise hierarchical environment. Examining the more than 9000
instances of laughter witnessed at the Court since 1955, this Article
shows that the justices of the Supreme Court use courtroom humor as a
tool of advocacy and as a signal of their power and status. As the
justices have taken on a greater advocacy role in the modern era,
they have also provoked an increasing level of laughter. The
performative nature of courtroom humor is apparent from the uneven
distribution of judicial jokes, jests, and jibes. The
justices overwhelmingly direct their most humorous comments at the
advocates who they disagree with, the advocates who are losing, and
at novice advocates. Building on prior work, we
show that laughter in the courtroom is yet another aspect of judicial
behavior that can be used to predict cases before justices
have even voted. Many laughs occur in response to humorous comments,
but that should not distract from the serious and strategic work
being done by that humor. To fully understand oral argument, Court
observers would be wise to take laughter seriously.”
For all my students.
Microsoft
launches business school focused on AI strategy, culture and
responsibility
In recent years, some of the world’s fastest
growing companies have deployed artificial intelligence to solve
specific business problems. In fact, according to new market
research from Microsoft on how AI will change leadership, these
high-growth companies are more than twice as likely to be actively
implementing AI as lower-growth companies.
What’s more, high-growth companies are further
along in their AI deployments, with about half planning to use more
AI in the coming year to improve decision making compared to about a
third of lower growth companies. Still, less than two in 10 of even
high-growth companies are integrating AI across their operations, the
research found.
… Today, Azizirad and her team are launching
Microsoft’s
AI Business School to help business leaders navigate these
questions. The free,
online course is a master class series that aims to empower business
leaders to lead with confidence in the age of AI.
AI Business School course materials include brief
written case studies and guides, plus videos of lectures,
perspectives and talks that busy executives can access in small doses
when they have time. A series of short introductory videos provide
an overview of the AI technologies driving change across industries,
but the bulk of the content focuses on managing the impact of AI on
company strategy, culture and responsibility.
… The business school complements other AI
learning initiatives across Microsoft, including the
developer-focused AI
School and the Microsoft
Professional Program for Artificial Intelligence, which provides
job-ready skills and real-world experience to engineers and others
looking to improve their skills in AI and data science.
Unlike these other initiatives, AI
Business School is non-technical and designed to get
executives ready to lead their organizations on a journey of AI
transformation, according to Azizirad.
For the student toolkit?
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