Hire
the elderly?
Cybersecurity's
Weakest Link Grows Exponentially Due to Device Proliferation
It
may surprise you to learn that individuals under the age of 30, often
referred to as “digital natives”, are less likely to adopt
cybersecurity best practice than those over the age of 30 with
“acquired digital DNA”. That’s according to a recent report
commissioned by NTT that involved 2,256 organizations in 17 sectors
across 20 countries. For security professionals, the good news is
that all that work raising awareness for cybersecurity and educating
employees has paid off. The bad news is our challenges are mounting.
Researchers found that
younger people entering the workforce expect to use more of their own
applications and devices while believing the responsibility for
security rests solely with their employer.
Ignorance
works two ways. “We didn’t know what they were doing.” vs. “We
don’t want to spend too much time or money fixing things.”
Labels
& Publishers Win $1 Billion Piracy Lawsuit Against Cox
Communications
Cox
Communications was found liable for the piracy infringement of more
than 10,000 musical works by a U.S. District Court jury in Virgina on
Thursday (Dec. 19), awarding $1 billion statutory damages to
plaintiffs Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and
EMI.
The
labels and their publishing entities filed the lawsuit in July 2018,
accusing the cable and internet service provider of turning a blind
eye to pirates on its network. They
alleged that Cox “deliberately refused to take reasonable measures”
to combat copyright infringers, even after the company became aware
of specific acts of infringement by its customers.
Cox
was also accused of imposing an “arbitrary cap” on the number of
infringement notices it would accept from copyright holders --
thereby allowing said infringement to continue -- and of failing to
permanently terminate customers who were found to have pirated. The
complaint noted that at least 20,000 Cox subscribers could be
categorized as repeat infringers.
Cox
was found guilty of infringment claims on 10,017 pieces of work --
the full amount charged by plaintiffs -- and fined $99,830.29 per
work.
Typical.
If
you made a claim for $125 from Equifax, you’re not getting it after
court awards nearly $80 million to attorneys
… On
Thursday, Dec. 19, a Georgia
federal judge awarded $77.5 million to
the attorneys representing the class of consumers against Equifax.
That’s over 20% of the roughly $380 million settlement fund Equifax
agreed to set up to directly help consumers affected by the breach,
according to the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, which house the
Center
for Class Action Fairness and
opposed
the high fee award.
It’s
also one more reason why the consumers who sought a cash settlement
from Equifax won’t be getting the full $125 as initially expected.
In fact, consumers were never going to get $125, says Ted Frank,
director of litigation for Hamilton Lincoln. “That’s down to $6
or $7 [per consumer] now. Maybe even less than that,” he tells
CNBC
Make It.
Would
that the US agreed.
Glyn Moody writes:
One of the features of surveillance in Germany is the routine use of malware to spy on its citizens. The big advantage for the authorities is that this allows them to circumvent end-to-end encryption. By placing spy software on the user’s equipment, the police are able to see messages in an unencrypted form. Austrian police were due to start deploying malware in this way next year. But in a welcome win for digital rights, Austria’s top court has just ruled its use unconstitutional (in German). The Austrian Constitutional Court based its judgment on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR — pdf). The Web site of the Austrian national public service broadcaster ORF reported the court as ruling:
Read
more on TechDirt.
Changing
the data process.
Examining
Industry Approaches to CCPA “Do Not Sell” Compliance
Over
the past year, the online advertising (“ad tech”) industry has
grappled with the practical challenges of complying with the new
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Once the new law — the
first of its kind in the United States — goes into effect on
January 1, 2020, businesses operating in California will be required
by law to provide California residents (“consumers”) with
“explicit notice” and the opportunity to opt-out of the sale of
their personal information, thus establishing powerful individual
rights that represent a major step forward in US privacy legislation.
Practically
speaking, however, the law’s notice and “Do Not Sell”
obligations present unique structural challenges for ad tech
companies, many of whom operate as intermediaries, lack a direct
relationship with users, and may or may not have formal contractual
relationships with data supply chain partners, including publisher
properties where the personal information and insights about user
activity are utilized to power data-driven advertising. In light of
the imminent effective date of CCPA and with an aim to address these
challenges, several key ad tech players have developed approaches to
comply with specific CCPA requirements that demonstrate a variety of
perspectives toward viable compliance solutions.
Forbes
(and Fortune) are writing a lot about AI, but with little real
substance. It seems like they are telling the business world that
there is something to all the AI hype, but they haven’t quite
figured out what.
AI
Will Transform The Field Of Law
… Among
the social sciences, law may come the closest to a system of formal
logic. To oversimplify, legal rulings involve setting forth axioms
derived from precedent,
applying those axioms to the particular facts at hand, and reaching a
conclusion accordingly. This logic-oriented methodology is exactly
the type of activity to which machine intelligence can fruitfully be
applied.
Within
the field of law, a few areas stand out as particularly promising for
the application of AI. Exciting progress is already being made in
each of these areas.
Contract
Review
Contract
Analytics
Litigation
Prediction
Legal
Research
… Consider
the main functional areas in a typical business: marketing, sales,
customer success, finance, accounting, human resources, talent,
legal.
In
nearly all of these functions, billion-dollar-plus enterprise
software businesses have been built in the past two decades to
enhance productivity and workflows. To give a few examples: HubSpot
(marketing); Salesforce (sales); Zendesk (customer success); Workday
(finance); NetSuite (accounting); Gusto (HR); LinkedIn (talent).
The
glaring exception is legal.
Kill
now, explain later? (He was in the advance stages of an incurable
disease and his insurance had run out – so I nuked him.)
When
Robots Can Decide Whether You Live or Die
Computers
have gotten pretty good at making certain decisions for themselves.
Automatic spam filters block most unwanted email. Some US clinics
use artificial-intelligence-powered
cameras to
flag diabetes patients at risk of blindness. But can a machine ever
be trusted to decide whether to kill a human being?
It’s
a question taken up by the eighth
episode of
the Sleepwalkers
podcast,
which examines the AI
revolution.
Recent, rapid growth in the power of AI technology is causing some
military experts to worry about a new generation of lethal weapons
capable of independent and often opaque actions.
Mr.
Zillman collects everything. Worth looking through the list
carefully.
2020
Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources and Tools
Via
LLRX
–
2020
Open Educational Resources (OER) Sources and Tools –
This
is a comprehensive listing of Open Educational Resources (OER)
sources and tools available in the United States and around the
world, by Marcus
P. Zillman.
His guide includes references to: search engines, directories,
initiatives, books, E-books, E-textbooks, free online seminars and
webinars, subject guides, open and distance learning, open access
papers and research, as well as related costs and metrics to identify
and choose reliable, subject matter expert sources for free and open
continuing education and research on the internet.
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