It's a "solved problem in computer science"... but the people who solved it were auditors!
Have a peek at How NASDAQ solved YouTube’s problem. While this is not a perfect fix (you tube has some unique issues), it's a pattern that has worked for large-scale, high-volume trading.
The false negative/false positive rate has to be multiplied by the (number of people in the database * number of people you're scanning) to get the (number of comparisons). You multiply that by the failure rate and you get...
The german federal security service stopping someone's grandmother to see if she is a (male) terrorist (:-))
They only hear what other people in the boardroom say. This produces only positive feedback, which feels good, but it positive feedback is the same thing that produces an anguished scream when the microphone gets too close to the speaker (:-))
Fortunately, there are companies who preferentially hire older workers. A major publisher I worked for recruited semi-retired persons because they had experience with the (shiney, new) mainframe they bought. Who promptly brought up a Linux partition for us young whipper-snappers (;-))
They wanted to prevent people plugging modems into the phone lines: 4800 baud half-duplex was available from them and only them, and that's all anyone could ever need, so there!
No, actually. You want a case that doesn't let the phone distort, which breaks stuff. Mere deceleration isn't all that evil for phones (unlike human heads (;-))
With respect, the standard of living in Canada is statistically indistinguishable from the US. The absolute numbers suggest Canada is a tiny bit richer.
I you can't get the state to consider it a criminal act, all that's left is a lawsuit. Now, if you had people called "police" and "prosecutors", the situation might be different...
The Canadian Supreme Court ("SCC") seems to have avoided this, as all the parties have been careful to appoint really good jurists, on the grounds that they might be out of power at some point...
And today, an article about the reverse brain drain,
https://www.theglobeandmail.co...
reporting evidence contradicting the UofT article.
Amusingly the data comes from MaRS.
[MaRS is an incubator, originally for "Medical and Related Sciences."]
That's the case for inaccurate information in Canada and the EU: you can require inaccurate or no-longer-accurate (outdated) information be removed. Accurate? That's harder.
They included language in an agreement that had anyone who agreed to use their email service grant permission to contact their friends with ads. Unlawful in Canada, and now withdrawn... in Canada.
That's closer to the mode of a boutique store on the "high street", rather than a shopping mall. There is very little risk there, as people will go there purely on shopping expeditions, rather than hanging out at the mall the way my parents used to hang out on the actual grassy mall with the row of trees and stuff in Chatham. (Shopping malls are deliberately named after the sheltered promenades of years past, to sound inviting. Part of the problem!)
There are nutcases that claim that web sites and malls are public space, but that's not the case. The problem is that they are in fact private, and are legally treated as private, while at the same time being the only places where random people can congregate. Non-random people can congregate here (;-)) but that group doesn't include my late mother's friends.
The owners think of them as private spaces, but sell them to the public as public spaces. At some point they become de-facto monopolies or oligopolies (which see), and we end up having to create trust-busters, just like after the previous great depression.
So why did a Canadian engineer recently start at my US-based company? When I asked him about it he said that he was having too much trouble finding work in Canada lately.
Bad HR problems. In both Canasta and the US, people who are qualified are unemployed while I can't find qualified candidates.
Also the anti-female and anti-black racism. As a old pink guy in Canada, it's way easier to have a life in Canada than the United States, because you don't have to hate folks who look suspiciously like you.
At least in the US none of that matters. What matters is that he accessed that computer without the direct permission of the owner. That's how the CFAA works in the US and I imagine the Canadian version is similar.
The Canadian version is substantially (In USian, "completely") different.
He made a request for information that is public, and the site unlawfully served him a docoument which contained personal information. The federal and Nova Scotia privacy commissioners have noted that the site has arguably breached PIPEDA by doing so.
The Privacy Commissioner of Nova Scotia has already opened an investigation into the privacy breach, beating the federal commissioner. In the US, you'd say they're both pissed. In Canada, we say "there is an expression of concern" (;-))
The province broke federal law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act by putting personal information on a public server. See https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/l...
Arguably the federal Privacy Commissioner should apply to the Federal Court for punitive sanctions against the province of Nova Scotia.
Requiring a signature was insisted upon by customers, noit vendors. People require a way to prove that they didn't authorize a charge, especially in the UK where the card vendors claimed that a PIN was "unbreakable" and there was no fraud. The courts eventually caught on, and now require the vendors to prove that the customer authorized the charge.
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It's a "solved problem in computer science"... but the people who solved it were auditors!
Have a peek at How NASDAQ solved YouTube’s problem. While this is not a perfect fix (you tube has some unique issues), it's a pattern that has worked for large-scale, high-volume trading.
The false negative/false positive rate has to be multiplied by the (number of people in the database * number of people you're scanning) to get the (number of comparisons). You multiply that by the failure rate and you get...
The german federal security service stopping someone's grandmother to see if she is a (male) terrorist (:-))
They only hear what other people in the boardroom say. This produces only positive feedback, which feels good, but it positive feedback is the same thing that produces an anguished scream when the microphone gets too close to the speaker (:-))
Fortunately, there are companies who preferentially hire older workers. A major publisher I worked for recruited semi-retired persons because they had experience with the (shiney, new) mainframe they bought. Who promptly brought up a Linux partition for us young whipper-snappers (;-))
They wanted to prevent people plugging modems into the phone lines: 4800 baud half-duplex was available from them and only them, and that's all anyone could ever need, so there!
No, actually. You want a case that doesn't let the phone distort, which breaks stuff. Mere deceleration isn't all that evil for phones (unlike human heads (;-))
With respect, the standard of living in Canada is statistically indistinguishable from the US. The absolute numbers suggest Canada is a tiny bit richer.
I you can't get the state to consider it a criminal act, all that's left is a lawsuit. Now, if you had people called "police" and "prosecutors", the situation might be different...
The Canadian Supreme Court ("SCC") seems to have avoided this, as all the parties have been careful to appoint really good jurists, on the grounds that they might be out of power at some point...
Some companies waited until after the last date for asking their customers to re-consent, then sent requests that were, you guessed it, SPAM!
[MaRS is an incubator, originally for "Medical and Related Sciences."]
That's the case for inaccurate information in Canada and the EU: you can require inaccurate or no-longer-accurate (outdated) information be removed. Accurate? That's harder.
They included language in an agreement that had anyone who agreed to use their email service grant permission to contact their friends with ads. Unlawful in Canada, and now withdrawn... in Canada.
That's closer to the mode of a boutique store on the "high street", rather than a shopping mall. There is very little risk there, as people will go there purely on shopping expeditions, rather than hanging out at the mall the way my parents used to hang out on the actual grassy mall with the row of trees and stuff in Chatham. (Shopping malls are deliberately named after the sheltered promenades of years past, to sound inviting. Part of the problem!)
There are nutcases that claim that web sites and malls are public space, but that's not the case. The problem is that they are in fact private, and are legally treated as private, while at the same time being the only places where random people can congregate. Non-random people can congregate here (;-)) but that group doesn't include my late mother's friends.
It's the number of sites they can usefully post to that are limited, not the number of people who are able to post to them.
The owners think of them as private spaces, but sell them to the public as public spaces. At some point they become de-facto monopolies or oligopolies (which see), and we end up having to create trust-busters, just like after the previous great depression.
The authors need to work in "sheltered" employment: in a world containing facts, they're at a distinct disadvantage (;-))
The introduction of Automatic Teller Machines led to an increase in human tellers, as well as business.
So why did a Canadian engineer recently start at my US-based company? When I asked him about it he said that he was having too much trouble finding work in Canada lately.
Bad HR problems. In both Canasta and the US, people who are qualified are unemployed while I can't find qualified candidates.
Also the anti-female and anti-black racism. As a old pink guy in Canada, it's way easier to have a life in Canada than the United States, because you don't have to hate folks who look suspiciously like you.
At least in the US none of that matters. What matters is that he accessed that computer without the direct permission of the owner. That's how the CFAA works in the US and I imagine the Canadian version is similar.
The Canadian version is substantially (In USian, "completely") different. He made a request for information that is public, and the site unlawfully served him a docoument which contained personal information. The federal and Nova Scotia privacy commissioners have noted that the site has arguably breached PIPEDA by doing so.
Yes they should but they won't ...
The Privacy Commissioner of Nova Scotia has already opened an investigation into the privacy breach, beating the federal commissioner. In the US, you'd say they're both pissed. In Canada, we say "there is an expression of concern" (;-))
The province broke federal law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act by putting personal information on a public server. See https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/l...
Arguably the federal Privacy Commissioner should apply to the Federal Court for punitive sanctions against the province of Nova Scotia.
Requiring a signature was insisted upon by customers, noit vendors. People require a way to prove that they didn't authorize a charge, especially in the UK where the card vendors claimed that a PIN was "unbreakable" and there was no fraud. The courts eventually caught on, and now require the vendors to prove that the customer authorized the charge.