It’s
not hiding the evidence, is it?
How
to make sure Google automatically deletes your data on a regular
basis
Vox:
“…The company announced
on Wednesday that
auto-delete will be the default setting for user account activity
settings. That said, this “default” setting only
applies to new accounts or existing accounts that now turn on data
retention after having it disabled.
And the default auto-delete time still gives Google as much as three
years of your data, as opposed to manual
auto-delete settings that keep as little as three months’ worth.
Google also announced that its account privacy and security settings
will soon be accessible through its search page. You’ll also be
able to switch over to Chrome’s Incognito mode in its apps more
easily — simply press down on your profile photo for a second or
two. Incognito
mode lets
you browse the internet “privately,” which means Google Chrome
won’t save your history or cookies on your computer. It does
not,
however, mean that the websites you visit or the server you use can’t
see what you’re doing. The Google announcement comes just a couple
days after rival Apple announced
some new privacy features for
its software. More on that in a second. If you have a Google
account and use Google products like Gmail, YouTube, or Chrome,
you’re probably logged in all the time. In this case, your
activity while using those apps and services can be tracked by
Google, which will then use that data to target ads to you, among
other things. Over the years, Google has introduced privacy controls
over the data you send the company and has made efforts to make those
features more obvious to users. You can find most of these privacy
controls in your
account settings
by clicking on “Manage
your data & personalization.”
From there, you can click on “Manage
your activity controls.”
This is the section where you can save your web and app activity,
location history, and YouTube history if you want Google to use that
data to give you what it calls a “more personalized experience.”
Or you can just ask Google not to save anything and have an
impersonal, but more private, experience…”
(Related)
UK
Information Commissioner Says Police Are Grabbing Too Much Data From
Phones Owned By Crime Victims
The
UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has taken a look at what
law enforcement officers are hoovering up from citizens' phones and
doesn't like what it sees. The relentless march of technology has
enabled nearly everyone to walk around with a voluminous, powerful
computer in their pocket – one filled with the details and detritus
of everyday living. And that relentless march has propelled citizens
and their pocket computers right into the UK's regulatory void.
The
ICO's report
[PDF]
doesn't just deal with the amount of data and communications UK cops
can get from suspects' phones. It also deals with the insane amount
of data cops are harvesting from devices owned by victims
and
witnesses
of
criminal acts. Left unaddressed, the lack of a solid legal framework
surrounding mobile phone extractions (MPEs) will continue to lead law
enforcement officers to believe they can harvest everything and look
for the relevant stuff at their leisure.
In
case you missed it.
Average
Cost of a Data Breach: $116M
The
authors of the "Trends
in Cybersecurity Breach Disclosures”
report from Audit Analytics reviewed 639 cybersecurity breaches at
public companies since 2011 and discovered that, on average, each
cyber breach costs $116 million.
“What’s
in a name?” Shocking as it may sound, I believe that Russians can
read. As long as they see a loophole, they will gladly exploit it.
Cyberwarfare
in Latvia: A Call for New Cyberwarfare Terminology
Two
recent Russian malicious cyber operations in Latvia targeted the
government and a social media platform. But, legally, those
instances do not rise to the level of a “cyberattack” as defined
by the Tallinn Manual 2.0. Despite not satisfying the elements of a
cyberattack per se, the Kremlin is nonetheless using disinformation
campaigns and other cyber activity tactics to create instability
abroad, and international rules on cyberwarfare and cyberattacks must
be reevaluated to include these new forms of warfare. The current
terminology is inadequate: “cyber activity” and “cyber
operation,” which have been used to define such attacks, suggest
Russia’s actions are not serious or harmful. Instead, a new term
like “soft power cyberattacks” should be coined to reflect the
changes in cyberwarfare and provide governments appropriate recourse.
… The
Tallinn
Manual 2.0,
published by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and
international law experts, is the current most comprehensive, but
non-binding, source on international law and cyber operations.
According to the manual, “A cyberattack is a cyber operation,
whether offensive or defensive, that is reasonably expected to cause
injury or death to persons or damage or destruction to objects,”
during an armed conflict. However, under the Tallinn Manual, cyber
espionage—or any act that is used “to gather, or attempt to
gather information”—is considered legal during peacetime.
Undue
reliance. (Even I, the non-lawyer, know this goes back to at least
1964: Ford Motor Credit v. Swarens
https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Credit_v._Swarens
)
Wrongfully
Accused by an Algorithm
ars
technica:
“Civil rights activists have filed an official complaint against
the Detroit police, alleging the department arrested the wrong man
based on a faulty and incorrect match provided by facial recognition
software—the
first known complaint of this kind.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the complaint (PDF
)
Wednesday on behalf of Robert Williams, a Michigan man who was
arrested in January based on a false positive generated by facial
recognition software. “At every step, DPD’s conduct has been
improper,” the complaint alleges. “It unthinkingly relied on
flawed and racist facial recognition technology without taking
reasonable measures to verify the information being provided” as
part of a “shoddy and incomplete investigation.”…
[Much
omitted Bob]
Just
when I was learning to spell CCPA…
California
Privacy Rights Act to Appear on November 2020 Ballot
It’s
official. The California
Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
has received
enough valid signatures to
appear on the November 2020 ballot. And if polling from late last
year remains accurate, California voters are likely to approve it.
If voters approve the initiative, the CPRA
would significantly expand the CCPA,
establish the California Privacy Protection Agency, remove the CCPA’s
cure period, and impose a number of GDPR-styled obligations on
businesses, among other requirements. The substantive provisions of
the CPRA would take effect January 1, 2023.
Hard
to tell when the President is serious, joking, or simply out of
touch.
Could
Donald Trump claim a national security threat to shut down the
internet?
...
An
obscure provision tucked at the back of the Communications Act
(Sec.706,
codified as 47 USC 606) empowers the president to “cause the
closing of any station for radio communications” (such as
broadcasting or mobile phone networks) as well as “cause the
closing of any facility or station for wire communications” (such
as telephone and internet networks). All that is necessary for the
exercise of these huge powers is a “proclamation by the President”
of “national emergency” in the case of broadcast stations and
mobile phones, or the “interest of the national security” for the
internet or telephone networks. The statute also gives the president
the power to suspend or amend FCC regulations.
Such
authority makes one tremble when considered alongside Donald Trump’s
stated
belief, “When
somebody’s the President of the United States, the authority is
total.” His recent threat to social media platforms to “close
them down” continues
his efforts to use government authority to coerce and manipulate the
media.
We’ve
changed our mind… (Or lost it)
Google
will start paying publishers to license content
In
a major departure from its long-standing practice of not paying
publishers directly to distribute their work, Google executives tell
Axios that the search giant is creating a licensing program to pay
publishers "for high-quality content" as a part of a new
news product launching later this year.
Why
it matters: Regulators
around the world have been threatening
Google
with broad-based policies that would force it to pay publishers on
policymakers' terms. Google aims to get ahead of that threat by
introducing its own payout terms, while also strengthening its
relationship with the embattled
publishing
community.
Not
sure I agree, unless there will be an asterisk next to their degree?
Are they also teaching how to use the tools law firms are likely to
continue to use even after the pandemic has run its course?
‘Subpar
in Every Aspect’: Harvard Law Student Sues Over Online Classes
Law.com
–
“A
Harvard Law student has filed a class action against the university,
arguing that students should be charged a lower tuition for online
classes on the grounds that they are inferior to in-person
instruction. Harvard is the latest target in a wave
of litigation focused
on college and university tuition reimbursements amid the COVID-19
pandemic—at least 100 campuses have been sued thus far. Plaintiffs
firms Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, which is representing incoming
second-year law student Abraham Barkhordar, has also filed suit
against 13 other universities. Barkhordar’s complaint, which seeks
to represent all Harvard students and not just those who attend the
law school, takes issue not only with the fact that students were not
issued tuition refunds last spring when classes shifted online, but
also that the law school plans to keep tuition at the same level of
$65,875 even though the fall
semester will be entirely remote.
“While Plaintiff’s coursework requires group projects and
collaboration, such teamwork is now significantly harder to
orchestrate,” reads
the complaint,
filed June 22 in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Massachusetts. “Plaintiff has also been unable to connect with
professors and classmates on the same level online as he had
in-person and is similarly lacking the intellectual stimulation of
the in-person learning environment.”…
(Related)
Get
A Comfortable Chair: Permanent Work From Home Is Coming
NPR
–
“Indefinite.
Or even permanent. These are words companies are using about their
employees working from home. It’s three months into a huge,
unplanned social experiment that suddenly transported the
white-collar workplace from cubicles and offices to kitchens and
spare bedrooms. And many employers now say the benefits of remote
work outweigh the drawbacks. Tech companies Twitter and Facebook
captured headlines with announcements about permanent
work from home.
But the news from a 94-year-old company based in the heartland —
Columbus, Ohio — may have been even more significant. Nationwide
Insurance is
shutting five regional offices since
remote work has gone off so smoothly during the pandemic. And
thousands of employees will permanently ditch their commutes for home
offices… One potential change: Demand for commercial real estate
falls due to the growth of remote work and the realities of a painful
economic downturn. For example, 90%
of the 60,000 employees at
investment bank Morgan Stanley have been working remotely during the
pandemic. Lesson learned, according to Morgan Stanley CEO James
Gorman…”
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