CAUCE NORTH AMERICA NEWS, Vol 14, No 3, 21 2013

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CAUCE News, Volume 14, Number 3
March 21, 2013


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Dennis Dayman is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute

CAUCE Board member Dennis Dayman announces he was just named a
Distinguished Fellow by the Ponemon Institute, a research center
dedicated to privacy, data protection and information security
policies.
Ponemon Institute Fellows represent some of the top privacy and
security strategists in the world, associated with many of the leading
brands in this space. The organization helps provide both the private
and public sectors with a clearer understanding of the trends,
perceptions and potential threats that will affect the collection,
management and safeguarding of personal and confidential information.
Ponemon Distinguished Fellows are nominated and selected by their
peers. http://www.ponemon.org/ponemon-institute-fellows
Congratulations, Dennis!
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Updating the Electronic Communication Privacy Act

Back 1n 1986, the Congress passed and President Reagan signed
the Electronic Communication Privacy Act (ECPA), which set the rules
under which the government could get copies of a relatively new-fangled
medium called electronic mail. While it was a forward looking law for
the 1980s, it's gotten pretty creaky. In a rare bipartisan move, Sen.
Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) have introduced a bill to update
it. The bill is surprisingly good.
In 1986 disks were small and expensive, so when people got e-mail, they
retrieved it from the mail system and saved it on their own disk or
printed it if it was important, or deleted it if not. Under the ECPA,
the government needs a warrant approved by a court to get copies of
mail less than 180 days old, but only needs a subpoena (a much lower
bar) for mail older than that, under the presumption that anything that
old still in the mail system is abandoned. These days, of course,
people routinely keep their mail at Hotmail, Gmail, and other mail
systems indefnitely. The new bill removes the 180 day exception, and
always requires a warrant. Normally, the subscriber has to be notified
that his or her mail has been turned over to the government, but the
warrant can (if the judge approves) delay notice. The notice period is
increased from 90 to 180 days for law enforcement, not a particularly
important change since they could and still can request repeated
notification delays. The bill slightly tightens the rules for getting
information about an e-mail subscriber, which now only requires a
subpoena, but will require a warrant, court order, or an existing
special exception for investigations of telemarketing fraud. While this
is not a huge improvement, it is an incremental move in the right
direction. Sen. Leahy is the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary
committe, and Sen. Lee is an influential Republican member, so the
chances of this bill moving forward are quite good. CAUCE supports it.
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Facebook, their Walled Garden, and McAfee Anti-Virus - What Really
Happened

On Sunday, a number of Facebook users reported being locked out of the
system. When they attempted to log in they were presented instead with
the a series of screens, informing them that their computer was
infected, and providing a link to a free scanning service by McAfee
antivirus software....

Read more: [2]Facebook, their Walled Garden, and McAfee Anti-Virus -
What Really Happened
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What happens when people respond to pharma spam?

NPR's Planet Money did a remarkable piece yesterday, based on research
by reporter Brian Krebs and UCSD professor Stefan Savage, looking at
pharma spam (black market pharmacies selling prescription drugs), who
sends it, and what happens when people respond. The most surprising
discovery was that, for the most part, people...

Read more: [3]What happens when people respond to pharma spam?
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Are You Donating to a Real Charity?

Please share this post. After a tragedy, many of us want to donate to
funds and charities to show our support for a community. However, scam
charities immediately pop up, looking to steal your well intentioned
donations. There are at least 30 newly-registered domains created in
the past 48 hours...

Read more: [4]Are You Donating to a Real Charity?

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