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This Was Entirely Predictable – Hackers Tricking People Into Facial Scans
Collecting all of that information to verify the age of website visitors creates an extra-large target for that biometric information. When I applied online for unemployment, I had to provide copies of my social security card, driver’s license, and a live facial scan. Remember that this is the same state government with the entire DMV driver’s license database sitting on MoveIt when that tool got hacked, requiring me to store even more of my identity online with a third-party service.
The risk level is outrageous.
Linked – Better Information Governance Means Better E-Discovery Outcomes—Part I: E-Discovery in the Big Data Era
This should be obvious, but I suspect that in the majority of cases, a whole lot of time and effort is spent just trying to figure out what data is out there, and where it is. “Anyone familiar with electronic discovery (e-discovery) and complex civil litigation knows that there is tremendous evidentiary benefit to quickly…
Linked – You Have An Ethical Duty To Understand Social Media
This makes absolute sense to me. If there’s an ethical duty to understand technology, that has to include social media, one of the most popular forms of technology in use by millions of people, creating tons of data. Of course, if you’re reading this on my blog, you probably already have an understanding of social…
IE Tab in Firefox
Picked up this story at Download Squad the other day, about a Firefox Extension that will run an Internet Explorer engine inside one of your Firefox tabs. This is kinda cool if, like me, you work some place that uses Outlook Web Access, which runs much smoother in IE, or has an intranet site that…
Linked – For Lawyers, Social Media Creates More Headaches Than Friendships
“One panelist, U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen Mix, who sits in Colorado, said the first thing lawyers need to remember is that most judges don’t have Facebook pages, and may know about how the site works only through their grandchildren’s explanations. “Our understanding is nowhere near as thorough as complete as if we were users,” said…
Linked – Connected Homes and Cars Can be Difficult for New Buyers to Un-Plug
I guess this is a really good reason to never buy a used smart device, right? In a recent blog post, An IoT Love Story: Always Apart, Never Disconnected, Henderson shared the personal story of what happened when he sold his convertible a few years ago. Henderson was connected to that car via a mobile…
