The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 21, 2018

Carole Cadwalladr just wanted to insure her car. Six months later, she found a mass of personal details held by a firm she had never contacted that is run by Leave.EU’s biggest donor, Arron Banks. How did it get there? If a 29-year-old Peugeot 309 is the answer, it’s fair to wonder: what on earth is the question? In fact, I had no idea about either the question or the answer when I submitted a “subject access request” to Eldon Insurance Services in December last year.

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IT Governance

APRIL 21, 2018

A Ponemon Institute survey has found that 95% of organisations will be performing a cyber security risk assessment in the next 12 months. It’s no wonder this figure is so high, given that risk assessments are essential to identifying potential sources of cyber attacks, data breaches or other disasters. An effective risk assessment will consider: Specific scenarios that can affect various business activities; How damaging each of these scenarios will be; and.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 21, 2018

Former Cambridge Analytica director told MPs Brexit campaign group may have used data from Moneysupermarket Personal information gathered from price comparison websites may have been used without people’s knowledge or consent by pro-Brexit campaigners in the European referendum. An ex-director of Cambridge Analytica told parliament last week that she believed the Leave.EU campaign, headed by Nigel Farage and bankrolled by Arron Banks, may have breached data protection laws by using people’s priv

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 21, 2018

Xbox hacking, LinkedIn bugs, and more security news this week.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 21, 2018

We think nothing of sharing personal information with tech giants so why are we so suspicious about our health records? Half of us born after 1960 will be told we have cancer at some point in our lives. Virtually no one will go through life untouched by the disease, whether as a sufferer, a survivor or supporter. So every year, millions of us lace up running shoes, bake cakes and cultivate moustaches in memory of loved ones to raise the cash needed for cancer research.

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Docuware

APRIL 21, 2018

You may already be mindful of the three Rs mantra: Reduce, reuse, recycle. #EarthDay2018, which has been celebrated on April 22 since 1970, brings public attention back to the importance of reducing the pressure that we put on the Earth’s resources.

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InfoGovNuggets

APRIL 21, 2018

“ Wells Nears $1 Billion Settlement,” The Wall Street Journal , April 20, 2018 B1. Wells Fargo is about to be (has been) fined close to $1 billion for irregularities regarding auto loans, auto insurance, and mortgage loans. This is the civil side. This is in addition to the $185 million for the account cramming scandal in 2016, where the bank opened new accounts and credit cards that consumers did not request.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 21, 2018

In the wake of Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘grilling’ by Congress, here’s a rewritten user agreement that makes what the social network does painfully clear One of the few coherent messages to emerge from the US Senate’s bumbling interrogation of Mark Zuckerberg was a touching desire that Facebook’s user agreement should be comprehensible to humans. Or, as Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana put it : “Here’s what everyone’s been trying to tell you today – and I say it gently – your user agreement

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InfoGovNuggets

APRIL 21, 2018

“Comey’s Handling of Memos Is Investigated,” The Wall Street Journal , April 21, 2018 A1. Apparently, the former head of the FBI (and a lawyer) considers memos he wrote in the course of his employment, about a meeting with his boss in his capacity as an employee, on his employer’s computers, to be personal documents, rather than government documents.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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InfoGovNuggets

APRIL 21, 2018

“Probe Focuses on Cellphone IDs,” The Wall Street Journal , April 21, 2018 B1. DOJ investigates. Are phone companies (and a standard-setting company) conspiring to make it harder for you to keep your phone number if you change carriers? Or are they trying to make phones smaller? Is your phone number information? If so, to whom does it belong?

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InfoGovNuggets

APRIL 21, 2018

“SunTrust Sees Risk of Breach,” The Wall Street Journal , April 21, 2018 B3. A SunTrust employee may have stolen information (names, addresses, account balances, and phone numbers) on 1.5 million customers. The bank became aware of a problem in February, but only recently became aware that the (now-former) employee was trying to share the information outside the bank.

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InfoGovNuggets

APRIL 21, 2018

“Porsche Executive is Arrested,” The Wall Street Journal , April 21, 2018 B6. In continuing fallout from the VW emissions cheating scandal, a senior Porsche executive (head of engine development) was arrested by German police and several offices and factories were raided. A member of the Porsche board is also under investigation. Fooling the emissions tests was not a great idea.

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