Friday, July 17, 2020


A story of credibility lost.
We take data protection very seriously,” New Zealand Friday edition
There were two incidents concerning New Zealand leaks or breaches in my news feed this morning. One of them caught my attention because the story didn’t seem accurate — and not because the reporters weren’t reporting accurately, but because the entity may not have been fully transparent or accurate about the incident.




Makes one wonder how dependent they are on facial recognition.
HOMELAND SECURITY WORRIES COVID-19 MASKS ARE BREAKING FACIAL RECOGNITION, LEAKED DOCUMENT SHOWS
WHILE DOCTORS AND politicians still struggle to convince Americans to take the barest of precautions against Covid-19 by wearing a mask, the Department of Homeland Security has an opposite concern, according to an “intelligence note” found among the BlueLeaks trove of law enforcement documents: Masks are breaking police facial recognition.




Perspective.
Video – Covid, Privacy, and Education with Daniel Solove and Tracy Mitrano
In this video, Daniel Solove and Tracy Mitrano (former IT Policy at Cornell and now Democratic candidate for US Senate in New York’s 23rd district) discuss Covid, privacy, education, work-from-home, and other privacy, security, and technology issues.




Coming soon to many more companies...
Walmart Sued Under CCPA After Data Breach
Walmart has become the latest big-name brand accused of violating California’s new data breach regulations.
The retail giant is the subject of a new complaint alleging that customers now face “significant injuries and damage” after an unspecified incident.
Customer names, addresses, financial and other information were among the haul for attackers, according to the suit filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
As a result of defendants’ wrongful actions and inactions, customer information was stolen. Many customers of Walmart have had their PII compromised, have had their privacy rights violated, have been exposed to the risk of fraud and identify theft and have otherwise suffered damages,” the suit alleges.
Further, despite the fact that the accounts are available for sale on the dark web, and Walmart’s website contains multiple severe vulnerabilities through which the data was obtained, Walmart has failed whatsoever to notify its customers that their data has been stolen.”
Although it’s unknown at present how many customers were affected by the incident, the filing claims that the number of class members is “at least in the thousands.”
If the maximum damages under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are awarded, that means $750 per customer.




Something ear-y about Van Gogh?
Van Gogh’s paintings online
blooloop: “The Van Gogh Museum’s website receives more than 8.5 million visits every year. The new redesign is more than a place to find out the museum’s opening times or to buy a ticket. Its new layout allows visitors to explore the artwork of Vincent Van Gogh in more detail and links seamlessly to retail. Content is displayed with the user experience as its foundation. The Van Gogh Museum has now put their entire collection of letters, paintings and drawings online. Visitors to the new website will even be able to zoom in on each artwork to see the brushwork. There will also be information about which artwork is currently on display at the museum. A new filter system means it is easy for visitors to search the collection online. The new ‘Vincent for scale’ function allows visitors to visualise the size of each painting compared to Van Gogh’s height of 1.64 metres…”




Useful techniques.
How to Insert a PDF Into Word
We’re going to show you all the ways to add a PDF into a Word document. This includes copy-pasting text from PDF into Word, using screenshots, and inserting the PDF directly into the Word document.




The chart we should be using?
COVID Risk Chart
XKCD – This is the chart that you want to share to help educate others using real world examples of conduct in correlation to non-COVID and COVID associated risk – imaginative and cogent.



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