Overreaction?
Ransomware
forces New Mexico school district to scrub 30,000 devices
A
New Mexico school district that had
its systems infected by
ransomware last month is now having to scrub the hard drives of about
30,000 devices, district officials announced Thursday.
At
a news conference held by the Las Cruces Public School District on
Thursday, Interim Superintendent Karen Trujillo said the cyberattack
has kept the district’s 39 schools offline since the malware was
detected on Oct. 29.
School
officials said they did not engage with their attacker, Las
Cruces Sun News reported,
and so recovery will consist of reformatting the hard drives of
thousands of desktop computers, laptops and other devices and then
reinstalling operating systems.
… The
attack against Las Cruces is just one
of 23 ransomware attacks school districts in
the U.S. since August.
Good
luck, students.
State
Privacy Laws Have the Potential to Haunt Industry
With
less than two months until it goes into effect, many practitioners
are focused on bringing their programs into compliance with the
California
Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”)
by January 1, 2020. But the rapid pace of privacy legal developments
could continue next year. This past year, five states established
studies or task forces to study privacy laws and report back to the
legislature before their next session begins. Bills in Washington
and Illinois passed one legislative chamber before failing, and their
proponents have promised
a renewed effort in
2020.
This
is the first of a series of blog posts on what states other than
California were considering to help you anticipate and prepare for
2020. In total, at least
eighteen states considered comprehensive privacy bills this year.
This initial blog post — on the heels of Halloween last week —
focuses on some of those that are the scariest: bills in New York,
Massachusetts, and Maryland.
New
York Privacy Act.
(S. 5642)
… The
bill would create a “data fiduciary” concept that requires data
controllers to exercise duties of care, loyalty and confidentiality.
This would require controllers to “act in the best interests of the
consumer, without regard to the interests of the entity, controller
or data broker, in a manner expected by a reasonable consumer under
the circumstances.”
Massachusetts
SD 341 and
Maryland’s
Online Consumer Protection Act depart
from the CCPA by allowing consumers to opt out of any disclosures to
third parties – not just sales, but all disclosures, subject to
limited exceptions
It’s
the nagging that we’ll hate most. “Bob, You really shouldn’t
eat all that chocolate covered bacon.”
Amazon’s
roadmap for Alexa is scarier than anything Facebook or Twitter is
doing
Rohit Prasad, the scientist in charge of Alexa‘s
development, recently gave MIT Technology Review’s Karen
Hao one of the most terrifying
interviews in modern journalism. We know how dangerous it is to
let bad actors run amok with AI and our data – if you need a
refresher, recall the
Cambridge Analytica scandal.
… Hao writes:
Speaking with MIT Technology Review, Rohit Prasad, Alexa’s head scientist, has now revealed further details about where Alexa is headed next. The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, Alexa will anticipate what the user might want. The idea is to turn Alexa into an omnipresent companion that actively shapes and orchestrates your life. This will require Alexa to get to know you better than ever before.
You can’t always read everything atone sitting.
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