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Monday, 26 April 2010 14:15 |
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Jim Harper comments:
The “Cyber Privacy Act”? No it ain’t!
Michigan Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R) has introduced a bill to create a take-down regime for personal information akin to the widely abused DMCA process. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act established a system where copyright holders could as a practical matter force content off the [...] |
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Monday, 26 April 2010 14:15 |
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Matthew Heller comments:
A high-profile privacy lawsuit against a Pennsylvania school district that allegedly used remote-controlled cameras on laptop computers to snoop on students may turn out to be a tempest in a teapot unless the plaintiffs can show the district had some voyeuristic purpose.
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There is no doubt the district bungled badly by [...] |
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Monday, 26 April 2010 12:36 |
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Britain is currently testing a motorist tracking system that employs GPS and advanced speed cameras with license plate recognition technology to catch speeding drivers.
The system, named SpeedSpike and developed by PIPS Technology Ltd., could monitor thousands of vehicles — day or night, and in all weather conditions — with cameras communicating with each other and [...] |
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Monday, 26 April 2010 12:33 |
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A new White House memo sets out the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) standards for federal agencies. All agencies must comply with the FISMA standard and report security practices for information under agency control. The standard also extends obligations to agency contractors. By November 15, 2010, all agencies must be capable of monitoring all information traffic on their networks; and make reports to CyberScope, a platform launched last year to provide a single government-wide security management tool for FISMA reports. The Memorandum included requirements to respond to breaches of personal information. Agency Inspectors General will provide oversight of agency FISMA compliance. For more information, see EPIC's Cybersecurity page. |
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Monday, 26 April 2010 12:00 |
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Another new Fourth Amendment article: The Irrelevancy of the Fourth Amendment in the Roberts Court by Thomas K. Clancy of the University of Mississippi School of Law, 85 Chi.-Kent L. J. 191 (2010). Here’s the abstract:
Since John Roberts Jr. became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, there has been a measurable [...] |
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Monday, 26 April 2010 10:36 |
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Monday, 26 April 2010 10:24 |
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Garbage In, Unnecessary Arrests Follow: Via Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union.
(Originally posted on Daily Kos.)
We all know the government has a love affair with data and data mining, and while Congress tried to kill the Total Information Awareness program, it never quite went away. One of the key arguments against data mining is that bad data in the system would increase errors exponentially, creating huge privacy and civil liberties problems for innocent people and wasting resources by generating a huge number of false leads (and you don't have to trust us, the National Academy of Sciences said so). Well an article that ran in USA Today lastWednesday gave us yet another reason to worry about the quality of data in government databases.
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Monday, 26 April 2010 10:20 |
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Mass. Data Security Law Says "Thou Shalt Encrypt": Via Slashdot.
emeraldd writes with this snippet from SQL Magazine summarizing what he calls a "rather scary" new data protection law from Massachusetts: "Here are the basics of the new law. If you have personally identifiable information (PII) about a Massachusetts resident, such as a first and last name, then you have to encrypt that data on the wire and as it's persisted. Sending PII over HTTP instead of HTTPS? That's a big no-no. Storing the name of a customer in SQL Server without the data being encrypted? No way, Jose. You'll get a fine of $5,000 per breach or lost record. If you have a database that contains 1,000 names of Massachusetts residents and lose it without the data being encrypted, that's $5,000,000. Yikes.'"
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Monday, 26 April 2010 10:16 |
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Massive Number of Godaddy Wordpress Blogs Hacked: Via Slashdot.
A nasty little exploit has hit a large number of Godaddy Hosted Wordpress Blogs this weekend. The best part is that the exploit only executes when the traffic is referred by Google, making it the sort of thing that site maintainers won't easily notice. Clever and devious.
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Monday, 26 April 2010 08:13 |
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The Adept Quattro is a packaging and assembly robot that moves faster than any other robot—or human—on Earth. At this month’s National Robotics Week, attendees were encouraged to go toe-to-toe with the Quattro to determine who is faster: man or machine.
Each challenger sought to move a sliding platform with a Wii remote faster than the [...] |
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Monday, 26 April 2010 07:59 |
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The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare on Vimeo.
Tilt-shift photography uses small- and medium-format cameras to create miniature scenes. The scenes are simulated by rotating the lens plane relative to the image plane and moving the lens parallel to the image plane.
I wonder what surveillance video would look like using tilt-shift lenses? |
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