Texas HS Student Fighting Suspension for Refusing to Wear RFID Nametag
Here's a story below from SANS NewsBites Vol. 14 Num. 94. A high school in Texas is RFID ing students as a means of funding. In addition to the unexpected use…
Online exam proctoring? Solving one problem of Massively Open Online Courses
I came across a recent post regarding proctoring during online exams (http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506346/in-online-exams-big-brother-will-be-watching/). As you might imagine, teachers face a legitimate problem of being assured that students taking online classes are…
Game company sued for using two factor authentication. Hun?
There's a story (http://www.securityprivacyandthelaw.com/admin/trackback/289911) about a lawsuit filed against the game company, Blizzard, which seeks class action status. It appears that the company is being sued for enabling two factor…
Cyber crime insurance policy now covers data breach losses
A recent circuit court ruling held that a company's 'computer crime' policy covered them for losses stemming from a data breach, despite the policy stating otherwise. In the world of…
Resources from your friendly NYU Librarian
I had occasion to visit the NYU law librarian recently. I was looking for information regarding WestLaw's search strategy for federal cases. In addition to being very helpul, Gretchen also…
You know what? I’d like to learn what’s being collected about me, too.
From SANS Newsbites 14(82): --Senator Rockefeller Seeks Information About Data Brokers' Business Practices (October 10, 2012) US Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) has sent letters to nine data brokerage companies,…
Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data 2(4), 2012
I received a notice about this journal issue: http://idpl.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/4.toc?etoc I'm not sure why I received it, exactly, but it scanning the articles, many of them look quite interesting. It's particularly…
CELS, Nov 9-10, at Stanford
http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/cels2012/ This year's CELS conference will be at Stanford in november. The program is now available at http://www.law.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/event/265957/media/slspublic/PreliminarySchedule.pdf. Lots of good stuff there!
Secretly Installed Software on Rented Computers Collected Information, Took Pictures of Consumers in Their Homes, Tracked Consumers’ Locations
Here's an interesting story, public action, and settlement about a company secretly spying on users from their rental computers.From: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/09/designware.shtm "Seven rent-to-own companies and a software design firm have agreed…
New GAO report on medical device security
In response to congressional requests, the GAO produced a new report on medical device security (http://www.gao.gov/assets/650/647767.pdf). Unlike agencies like NIST, the GAO provided a number of specific recommendations for the…