No
consequences, no security? Now how about senior management?
This
is the kind of insider breach that makes patients lose confidence in
hospitals. I am not surprised that the jury came down hard on the
hospital. Of the $300,000 award, $295,000 is punitive
damages against the hospital for not doing anything against the
doctor when they were made aware of the problem.
A Coffee County jury on Tuesday awarded $300,000, including punitive damages, to plaintiff Amy Pertuit against Medical Center Enterprise for illegal access and disclosure of protected health information.
In a unanimous verdict, the jury found that Medical Center Enterprise failed to take action against its then-employee, Dr. Lyn Diefenderfer, after it learned that Dr. Diefenderfer had illegally accessed and disclosed Pertuit’s medical records.
Mr.
Paranoia says: Probably an individual attack. Possibly a ‘proof of
concept’ military exercise.
Aircraft
Component Maker ASCO Hit by Ransomware, Shuts Down Global Production
Belgian
company ASCO Industries, a key leader in manufacturing components for
both civilian and military planes, fell victim to a ransomware attack
on June 7 that shut
down production around the world,
writes
ZDNet.
With all IT systems incapacitated, some 1,000 of 1,400 employees
were sent home.
… The
company has plants in Belgium, Germany, Canada and the US, as well as
office representation in Brazil and France. A week later, the plants
are still closed and an investigation by external experts seeks to
determine the actual damage caused. The infection occurred at the
production plant in Belgium, but the plants in the rest of the
locations were shut down as a precaution to prevent the ransomware
from spreading across the entire network.
ASCO
Industries manufactures airplane parts for Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier
Aerospace, Lockheed Martin and the new F-35 fighter plane.
Interesting
question. Would the FBI then make it public or allow the recipient
to make it public or require the recipient to ignore it unless they
can confirm it independently?
To
Congress: If Russians Seek to Provide Dirt, Make it a Requirement to
Report!
Shockingly
– if anything shocks anymore – President Donald Trump told
ABC news Wednesday that he need not tell the
FBI if the Russians once again reached out with an offer of “dirt”
on his opponents in the race for president. When Trump was told that
Christopher Wray, the FBI director the president himself appointed,
said
last month that this kind of attempted foreign
election interference was something that should be reported to
federal law enforcement, Trump’s response was: “The FBI Director
is wrong.”
The good news
is that Congress is already
working on this issue.
The Anti-Collusion
Act,
introduced Wednesday by Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), would require
everyone running for federal, state, or local office to report offers
of assistance from a foreign government or agent of a foreign
government to the Department of Justice.
Why are political reactions so often over
reactions? “We gotta do something” overrides “let’s think
about this.”
Amelia
Vance of the Future of Privacy Forum has an excellent commentary in
the Orlando
Sentinel that
begins:
After the horrific school shooting in Parkland last year, state legislators passed a law that included a little-noticed provision creating a new government database. Education Week recently reported that the database will include a vast range of sensitive, personal information about Florida students. The state plans to merge information from social media with records of students who have been bullied or harassed based on their religion, race, disability, or gender, plus data about students in foster care. In deciding which data to include, Florida did not take an evidence-based approach; instead, the state merely asked agencies and a few districts if they had any data that might indicate that someone was a threat.
Read
her whole commentary in the Orlando
Sentinel.
Ignore this if you’re certain you are not
impacted, but expect lawsuits when you find out you are.
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Alabama
is in the forefront?
State
commission to study artificial intelligence technology
Alabama
now has one of the first state commissions formed to study the policy
implications of artificial intelligence technology.
… The
Alabama Commission on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Associated
Technologies will make policy recommendations to advance AI’s
growth in the state’s tech sector.
For
our non-geeks?
NYT
has a course to teach its reporters data skills and now they’ve
open-sourced it
NiemanLab:
“Should journalists learn to code?” is an old question that has
always had only unsatisfying answers. (That was true even back
before it became
a useful heuristic for identifying Twitter jackasses.)
Some should! Some shouldn’t! Helpful, right? One way the
question gets derailed involves what, exactly, the question-asker
means by “code.” It’s unlikely a city hall reporter will ever
have occasion to build an iPhone app in Swift, or construct a machine
learning model on deadline. But there
is definitely a more basic and straightforward set of technical
skills — around data analysis — that can be of use to nearly
anyone in a newsroom.
It ain’t coding, but it’s also not a skillset every reporter
has. The New York Times wants more of its journalists to have those
basic data skills, and now it’s releasing
the curriculum they’ve built in-house out
into the world, where it can be of use to reporters, newsrooms, and
lots of other people too…”
and
for our geeks.
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Perspective.
This could be difficult for my smartphone using students. Maybe
there’s an App for that?
Jobs
of the future: teaching empathy to artificial intelligence
… Now,
thanks to advancements in technology, we’re at a stage where we can
think about the importance of empathy in machines. Artificial
intelligence (AI) is becoming an ever-increasing presence in our
daily lives, whether it’s the voice assistant on your phone, or the
complex algorithms used to fight diseases.
The
way we design interactions with AI systems and the results they
provide should be thoughtfully considered, and in the future, the
responsibility for designing artificial empathy could fall under the
remit of an empathologist – a job that has yet to exist.
It’s my understanding that they don’t teach
this in high school.
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