An
email is worth $3,700,000! It is if no one confirms it’s
authenticity.
WKYT
reports:
Scott County Schools has announced the district is a victim of a multi-million dollar online scam.
The FBI is now investigating after Superintendent Dr. Kevin Hub said an undisclosed vendor told the district it never was paid for an invoice from two weeks ago. As the district investigated, it learned it fell victim to a fraudulent email disguising as the vendor.
Read
more on WKYT.
I’m
sure they can get it right, just give them a decade or two.
CCPA
Amendments Advance through California Assembly
A
number of legislative proposals seeking to amend the California
Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are moving forward following an April 23
hearing
before
the California Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer
Protection in which the bills were approved.
Does $3 Billion get your attention?
Facebook’s
privacy woes have a price tag: $3 billion or more
The social network said Wednesday it's set aside
$3
billion to cover possible expenses for
a possible fine related to an ongoing investigation by the US Federal
Trade Commission. The as-yet-unannounced FTC fine, which Facebook
said could be as high as $5 billion, would be the largest ever
against a US tech company.
The FTC is looking into Facebook's privacy
practices and determining if the company violated a legal agreement
to keep user data private.
(Related) It got Wall Street’s attention.
Facebook
Set Aside $3 Billion For A Penalty. Then It Grew By $40 Billion.
Facebook is setting aside $3 billion to cover the
expected costs, including an anticipated fine, related to an ongoing
investigation with the Federal Trade Commission over its privacy
practices, the company said today. The expenses could go as high as
$5 billion, Facebook said.
The figure may sound massive, but Wall Street is
giddy. In after-hours
trading on Wednesday, Facebook's stock price shot up more than 8%,
signaling that investors consider the estimated fine to be a slap on
the wrist that could've been far worse.
… After
announcing the anticipated settlement, Facebook's market
capitalization climbed by approximately $40 billion in just over an
hour of after-hours trading.
A good summary.
Eight Steps
to Data Privacy Regulation Readiness
This May marks the first anniversary of the
European Union (EU)’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
having taken effect.
… Now with similar legislation taking effect
early next year in the form of the California Consumer Privacy Act
(CCPA) and Brazil's data protection law, Lei Geral de Proteção de
Dados (LGPD), organizations will be racing once again to get up to
speed, and in compliance. Additionally, other ordinances aimed at
boosting cyber resiliency, like the Australian Prudential Regulation
Authority (APRA), put further pressure on organizations to quickly
and effectively respond to security breaches.
… The
good news is that companies can leverage the lessons learned and
investments made in preparation for GDPR to expedite compliance for
these and future related regulations. Outlined below are eight steps
to develop a repeatable framework for protecting data likely to fall
under new and existing data privacy regulations.
1.
Scope Your Data:
2.
Understand Data Transfer Agreements:
3.
Update Consent Methods or Legal Basis for Processing:
4.
Prepare for Subject Access Requests:
5.
Plan for Notification:
6.
Amend Your Contracts with New Obligations:
7.
Revise Your Privacy Policies and Statements:
8.
Designate a Data Protection Officer:
The joy of managing global markets.
Facebook's
flood of languages leave it struggling to monitor content
Facebook Inc’s struggles with hate speech and
other types of problematic content are being hampered by the
company’s inability to keep up with a flood of new languages as
mobile phones bring social media to every corner of the globe.
The company offers its 2.3 billion users features
such as menus and prompts in 111 different languages, deemed to be
officially supported. Reuters has found another 31 widely spoken
languages on Facebook that do not have official support.
Detailed rules known as “community standards,”
which bar users from posting offensive material including hate speech
and celebrations of violence, were translated in only 41 languages
out of the 111 supported as of early March, Reuters found.
"I
can see by your outfit that you are a lawyer."
These
words he did say as I boldly walked by.
"Come
an' sit down beside me an' hear my sad story.
"I'm
told they won’t hire an' I want to know why."
The Legal
and Ethical Implications of Using AI in Hiring
Digital
innovations and advances in AI have produced a range of novel
talent identification and assessment tools.
Many of these technologies promise to help organizations improve
their ability to find the right person for the right job, and screen
out the wrong people for the wrong jobs, faster and cheaper than ever
before.
These tools
put unprecedented power in the hands of organizations to pursue
data-based human capital decisions.
… While
these novel tools are disrupting the recruitment and assessment
space, they leave many yet-unanswered questions about their accuracy,
and the ethical, legal, and privacy implications that they introduce.
… In
this article, we focus on the potential repercussions of new
technologies on the privacy of job candidates, as well as the
implications for candidates’ protections under the Americans
with Disabilities Act and
other federal and state employment laws. Employers recognize that
they can’t or shouldn’t ask candidates about their family status
or political orientation, or whether they are pregnant, straight,
gay, sad, lonely, depressed, physically or mentally ill, drinking too
much, abusing drugs, or sleeping too little. However, new
technologies may
already be able to discern many of these factors indirectly and
without proper (or even any) consent.
Coming soon to a Walmart near you?
Walmart
experiments with AI to monitor stores in real time
Walmart, which faces fierce competition from
Amazon and other online retailers, is experimenting with digitizing
its physical stores to manage them more efficiently, keep costs under
control and make the shopping experience more pleasant.
… Thousands
of cameras suspended from the ceiling, combined with other technology
like sensors on shelves, will monitor the store in real time so its
workers can quickly replenish products or fix other problems.
…
Hanrahan
says the cameras are programmed to focus primarily on the products
and shelves right now. They
do not recognize faces, determine the ethnicity of a person picking
up a product or track the movement of shoppers,
he says. Some other companies have recently started experimenting
with store shelf cameras that try
to guess shoppers’ ages, genders and moods.
…
Hanrahan
says Walmart has made sure to protect shoppers’ privacy and
emphasized that there are no cameras at the pharmacy, in front of the
rest rooms or in employee breakrooms.
First
chalking tires, now location data. Warrants make courts comfortable?
Massachusetts
Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Cell Phone Location Data
There's
heartening news for our location privacy out of Massachusetts this
week. The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court, ruled
that
police access to real-time cell phone location data—whether it
comes from a phone company or from technology like a cell site
simulator—intrudes on a person’s reasonable expectation of
privacy. Absent exigent circumstances, the court held, the police
must get a warrant.
Perspective.
See? It’s not all President Trump.
Pew
– 10 percent of Twitter users create 80 percent of tweets
“We
know from Pew Research Center surveys that 22%
of U.S. adults use Twitter.
But surveys can only tell us so much about how
these
Americans actually use the platform. A new
Pew Research Center study
goes a step further. First, we asked survey respondents whether they
use Twitter and, if so, for permission to look at their Twitter
accounts. After reviewing
each account, we
quantified these Americans’ tweets, likes, followers and
followings. The result is the Center’s first study of Twitter
behavior that’s based on a representative sample of U.S. adults who
use the platform.
Among U.S. adults, Twitter discourse is dominated by a small share of tweeters. The most prolific tweeters – those in the top 10% by number of tweets – are responsible for 80% of all tweets created by U.S. adults. That includes all types of tweets: original tweets, retweets and quote tweets…”
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