Think
it can’t happen here?
And
this, kids, is a great reminder of why people can never really trust
their government with their health/medical information. They may
collect it with a set of promises about confidentiality and then
decide they can violate their promises. Or in some cases, there may
be no law at all specifically protecting your medical info and your
government will share it with …. your neighbors… in the name of
public safety.
From
the Jakarta Post:
The national COVID-19 task force is
considering releasing patients’ personal data in an effort to
encourage adherence to health protocols in affected areas.
Task force chief and National Disaster
Mitigation Agency (BNPB) head Doni Monardo said such data would only
be made available to people living in the patients’ neighborhoods.
(Related)
“We don’t need no stinking Doctors!”
Trump
Administration Strips CDC of Control of Coronavirus Data
The
New York Times –
“The
Trump administration has ordered
hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and send all Covid-19 patient information to a central database in
Washington beginning on Wednesday. The move has alarmed health
experts who fear the data will be politicized or withheld from the
public. The new instructions were posted recently in a
little-noticed
document on
the Department of Health and Human Services website. From now on,
the department — not the C.D.C. — will collect daily reports
about the patients that each hospital is treating, the number of
available beds and ventilators, and other information vital to
tracking the pandemic. Officials say the change will streamline data
gathering and assist the White House coronavirus task force in
allocating scarce supplies like personal protective gear and
remdesivir,
the first drug shown to be effective against the virus. But the
Health and Human Services database that will receive new information
is not open to the public, which could affect the work of scores of
researchers, modelers and health officials who rely on C.D.C.
data to
make projections and crucial decisions…”
Another
regulator talks security.
SEC’s
OCIE Issues Ransomware Risk Alert
Kate
Hanniford of Alston & Bird writes:
On
July 10, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and
Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk
Alert noting
the increasing sophistication of ransomware attacks on SEC
registrants and service providers to SEC registrants. The Risk Alert
is notable for its encouragement of financial services market
participants more broadly and not just SEC registrants to monitor
CISA alerts, and for the specificity of the cybersecurity measures it
includes as recognized defenses to current ransomware threats.
[From
the Blog:
The
Risk Alert includes two new observations related to operational
resiliency, first that registrants are determining which systems and
processes are capable of being restored during a disruption so
business services can continue. Second, it notes that registrants
are focusing on the capability to continue operations in the event a
primary system is unavailable, which underscores the importance of
“geographic separation of back-up data, and writing back-up data to
an immutable storage system in the event primary data sources are
unavailable.”
(Related)
Continuity of Privacy.
COVID-19
and GDPR: Organizational Considerations for Business Continuity of
Privacy Compliance Programs
Businesses
are facing new and exceptional challenges in connection with the
COVID-19 outbreak. In times of uncertainty, ensuring the ongoing
availability of resources within an organization is important to
limit disruption to daily business operations and maintain
appropriate internal governance. This article discusses key steps
businesses may consider taking to
ensure the business continuity of their privacy compliance programs
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Is
law enforcement’s use of facial recognition also Technology
Theatre?
Technology
Theatre
On
June 18, 2020, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada
would join the ranks of governments launching a mobile
contact-tracing application as part of the national response to
COVID-19. That announcement came a few days after Norway’s
government shut
down its app for
failing a necessity and proportionality analysis, the United Kingdom
abandoned
its
contact-tracing app project in favour of the Google-Apple model and
reports
that
Australia’s app was working on just 25 percent of phones. In other
words, there was a lot of attention paid to contact-tracing apps at
all political levels, despite their questionable — if not actively
harmful — role in the response to COVID-19.
Whether
it’s the national release of contact-tracing apps meant to battle a
pandemic, or Sidewalk Labs’ (now defunct) bid to create a “city
built from the internet up,”
public
conversations about major policy initiatives tend to focus on
technological components and evade significantly harder questions
about power and equity.
Does
your insurance provide any assurance?
Beyond
Data Breach: Evaluating Coverage for Misuse of Information Claims
New
and comprehensive privacy and cyber regulations continue to
proliferate across the globe. These are not your father’s data
breach notification laws.
… In
addition, these mandates typically are not limited to data breach and
disclosure situations; they often apply to how covered entities treat
protected information throughout its entire lifecycle, from
collection or creation, through use, retention, security, until
ultimate disposition. They may create disclosure obligations
concerning the entity’s information-related practices as well as
actionable rights for affected individuals. Some laws require that
companies create certain roles such as a data protection officer or a
chief information security officer, and establish requirements
concerning oversight by corporate boards. They also may mandate
creation of specific internal and/or publicly-facing written policies
and procedures. In addition to empowering enforcement by a state
attorney general or other governmental or regulatory agency, these
new laws and regulations sometimes provide a private right of action
to affected individuals, pursuant to which they can seek statutory
and/or actual damages.
… Cyber
insurance policies typically include coverage for claims arising out
of violations of cyber and privacy laws and regulations, but the
coverage provided can vary greatly from policy to policy. When
considering whether any given claim falls within a policy’s
coverage, the following issues should be considered:
Still
short of consensus.
Ethical
and societal implications of algorithms, data, and artificial
intelligence: a roadmap for research
Whittlestone,
J. Nyrup, R. Alexandrova, A. Dihal, K. Cave, S. (2019) Ethical
and societal implications of algorithms, data, and artificial
intelligence: a roadmap for research.
London: Nuffield Foundation. “The aim of this report is to offer
a broad roadmap for work on the ethical and societal implications of
algorithms, data, and AI (ADA) in the coming years. It is aimed at
those involved in planning, funding, and pursuing research and policy
work related to these technologies. We use the term ‘ADA-based
technologies’ to capture a broad range of ethically and societally
relevant technologies based on algorithms, data, and AI, recognising
that these three concepts are not totally separable from one another
and will often overlap. A
shared set of key concepts and concerns is emerging,
with widespread agreement on some of the core issues (such as bias)
and values (such as fairness) that an ethics of algorithms, data, and
AI should focus on. Over the last two years, these have begun to be
codified in various codes and sets of ‘principles’. Agreeing on
these issues, values and high-level principles is an important step
for ensuring that ADA-based technologies are developed and used for
the benefit of society. However, we see three main gaps in this
existing work: (i) a lack of clarity or consensus around the meaning
of central ethical concepts and how they apply in specific
situations; (ii) insufficient attention given to tensions between
ideals and values; (iii) insufficient evidence on both (a) key
technological capabilities and impacts, and (b) the perspectives of
different publics.”
I
would base my European operations in Ireland too.
Apple
wins appeal against $15 billion EU tax bill
Apple
has won its appeal against a European Commission ruling that it owed
Ireland €13 billion ($14.9 billion) in taxes.
The
European Union's second highest court ruled
Wednesday
that the Commission had not proven that the company had received
illegal state aid from Ireland through favorable tax agreements.
The
European Commission — Europe's top antitrust authority — said in
2016 that the Irish government had granted Apple an illegal advantage
by helping the iPhone maker keep its tax bill artificially low for
more than 20 years.
But
Ireland didn't want the money. The small country became the European
base for companies such as Apple, Google (GOOGL) and Facebook (FB)
because it has one of the
lowest corporate tax rates in Europe. So it teamed up
with Apple to fight the Commission.
…
"The
correct amount of Irish tax was charged taxation in line with normal
Irish taxation rules," the finance ministry said in a statement.
… Margrethe
Vestager, the Commission's top antitrust official, said she was
carefully studying the judgment before deciding on next steps. But
she vowed that the Commission would continue to aggressively pursue
what it considers "illegal state aid."
Tools
for handouts?
Book
Creator Adds New Options for Copying and Re-using Pages
Book
Creator is
one of my go-to tools for making ebooks and digital portfolios. In
fact, I like it so much that it's one of the featured tools in my
Practical
Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp.
And now there is a new feature that makes Book Creator better than
ever. That new feature is the option to copy multiple pages from one
of your books and re-use them in another book.
In
Book Creator you can now copy and re-use any of the pages in your
books including the cover page. This can be done within the same
book or be done between multiple books.
… As
Book Creator wrote in their Tweet announcing this new feature,
copying and pasting pages could be quite useful in creating
a template that you want students to use for their books.
I find that when using Book Creator as a tool for a portfolio it's
nice to have students follow the same structure. Following the same
structure makes it easier for a teacher to quickly locate an artifact
related to a topic or standard within a portfolio.
Helping
my students move on…
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