Another
take on Privacy.
Meera
Narendra reports that Jamaica’s new Data Protection Act 2020 was
passed in the Senate and will take effect in 2022.
Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, Leader of Government Business, said the bill will take effect after a two-year transitional period, whereby a public education exercise will be undertaken.
“It is anticipated that during this transition period, it will be treated as an appropriate period for public education…So we will pass the Bill and educate people as we go through… [so that] people will understand the Bill when it has come into effect,” she said.
Read
more on PrivSecReport.
Because
my students probably don’t know all the answers.
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Missing that
warm, fuzzy feeling…
New
annual report from Information Security Oversight Office
2019
Report to the President – Information Security Oversight Office
(ISOO),
June 2020: “…Our Government’s ability to protect and share
Classified National Security Information and Controlled Unclassified
Information (CUI) continues to present serious challenges to our
national security. While dozens of agencies now use various advanced
technologies to accomplish their missions, a
majority of them still rely on antiquated information security
management practices.
These practices have not kept pace with the volume of digital data
that agencies create and these problems will worsen if we do not
revamp our data collection methods for overseeing information
security programs across the Government. We must collect and analyze
data that more accurately reflects the true health of these programs
in the digital age…
…An effective classification system depends on a presumption of good faith on the part of classifiers, checked by independent oversight, and some consensual understanding of the meaning of national security. All of these factors are in doubt, absent, or undergoing swift transformation. Meanwhile, classification today is openly wielded as an instrument of political power…”
Not
sure how this would work. No sales to police departments but sales
to a city would be Okay? Sales to any third party that might “rent”
the service to the police? All police departments are evil racist
oppressors?
Google
employees demand the company end police contracts
… Employees
are specifically calling out Google’s
ongoing Cloud contract with
the Clarkstown Police Department in New York, which
was sued for allegedly conducting illegal surveillance on Black Lives
Matter protestors in 2015.
They’re also highlighting the company’s indirect
support of a sheriff’s department in Arizona tracking
people who cross the US-Mexico border.
Porter
is brilliant but I’m not sure he can save politics. (Podcast)
Applying
Porter’s Five Forces to Fix U.S. Politics
Katherine
Gehl,
a former CEO and the founder of the Institute for Political
Innovation, and Michael Porter, a professor at Harvard Business
School, apply his Five Forces framework to explain why U.S. politics
are dysfunctional. They argue that the Republican and Democratic
parties make up an industry duopoly with high barriers to entry and
low consumer power, and that the resulting lack of competition
incentivizes these two dominant players to avoid compromises with
majority support. Gehl and Porter provide specific innovations on
how to enhance competition and better serve the public, including
nonpartisan primary elections and ranked-choice voting. Gehl and
Porter are coauthors of the new book The
Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan
Gridlock and Save Our Democracy and
the HBR article “Fixing U.S. Politics.”
Perspective:
“We’re number two! We’re number two!”
Japanese
Supercomputer Is Crowned World’s Speediest
… The
Japanese machine carried out 2.8 times more calculations a second
than an IBM system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,
which Fugaku bumped to second place in the so-called Top500 list.
Perspective.
A prerequisite for a first rate world power?
China
launches its final satellite to complete its rival to the US-owned
GPS system
I
think of these tips as a way to get rid of my students.
How
to Nail a Job Interview — Remotely
I
seem to be more like Wally every day.
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