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EFF Submits Consumer Data Privacy Comment to the California Attorney General The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires the California Attorney General to take input from the public on regulations to implement the law, which does not go into effect until 2020. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed comments on two issues: first, how to verify consumer requests to companies for access to personal information, and for deletion of that information; and second, how to make the process of opting out of the sale of data easy, using the framework already in place for the Do Not Track (DNT) system. Verification of Requests When it comes to verifying requests that users make of businesses to access their own data, EFF asked the Attorney General to carefully balance the interest of the consumer in obtaining their own personal information without undue delay or difficulty, with their interest in avoiding theft of their private data by people who might make fraudulent CCPA re...

Taiwan Highway Bureau’s (THB) primary missions are planning, construction, and maintenance of all the highways across the country. Meanwhile, it also helps to manage registration and monitoring of all vehicles, driving licenses, and transportation industry nationwide. With more than 6000 staff, with an aging IDC infrastructure in THB’s old headquarters was quickly becoming obsolete and could not meet the ever-growing requirements for more IT applications and data processing. Under this pretext, the IT division decided to build a new data center that could satisfy IT needs for the next 20 years to come. Green technologies from the outset “At first, we planned to renew the current IDC inside the old headquarters building, but later we gave up due to restricted power supply and insufficient stress-resistance of the current flooring, constrained by the design of the building,” pointed out Mr. Chen Shouqiang, Director of THB’s IT Division. “So we decided to build a whole new IDC inside ...

This is a common question we’ve heard enough times that we decided to test containment across a range of “leakiness” and came up with some practical guidance. You may have heard the term “percent leakage” as a means of assessing the effectiveness of a hot or cold aisle air containment solution. But what does this actually mean? How would you measure it or validate a particular claim in your own data center? Does this percent leakage spec correlate to your desired data center operating temperature range? You may be paying for a tighter tolerance than what is really needed. Or worse yet, paying for a “tight” solution that doesn’t perform in practice as it did in a test lab. From reading this blog, you’ll learn some practical metrics and practices you can take to ensure that your IT equipment stays cool and your energy bills low. What is “percent leakage”? I searched for containment-related documents that included the term % leakage and I found two loose definitions in that they weren...

The European Copyright Directive: What Is It, and Why Has It Drawn More Controversy Than Any Other Directive In EU History? During the week of March 25, the European Parliament will hold the final vote on the Copyright Directive, the first update to EU copyright rules since 2001; normally this would be a technical affair watched only by a handful of copyright wonks and industry figures, but the Directive has become the most controversial issue in EU history, literally, with the petition opposing it attracting more signatures than any other petition in change.org’s history. How did we get here? European regulations are marathon affairs, and the Copyright Directive is no exception: it had been debated and refined for years, and as of spring 2017, it was looking like all the major points of disagreement had been resolved. Then all hell broke loose. Under the leadership of German Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Axel Voss, acting as “rapporteur” (a sort of legislative custodi...

Here’s Why You Can’t Trust What Cops and Companies Claim About Automated License Plate Readers Shopping Centers Shut Down ALPR Program After Denying Data Was Shared with ICE. New Emails Show ICE Did Access Data Through a Fusion Center. In response to an ACLU report on how law enforcement agencies share information collected by automated license plate readers (ALPRs) with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials have been quick to deny and obfuscate despite documentary evidence obtained directly from ICE itself through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Let’s be clear: you can’t trust what ALPR company Vigilant Solutions and its clients says. It’s time for higher authorities to conduct an audit. Through years of research spanning California (and beyond), EFF has discovered that agencies that access ALPR data are often ignorant or noncompliant when it comes to the transparency and accountability requirements of state law . Furthermore, their agreemen...

Companies are continuing the transformation to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)  characterized by digital, highly automated “smart” systems in virtually every vertical industry. As they do, it’s driving new requirements for machines in industrial settings. In short, the machines can’t lose data – so they need  industrial UPS protection. The end user companies that buy those machines rely on them not only to perform their intended function– whether filling soda bottles or packaging pharmaceuticals – but also to feed data to other systems that track production, inventory and more. Even if the machine itself should fail for some reason, customers can’t afford to lose the data they hold. That means machine builders have to ensure the machines are properly protected with an industrial UPS. In some cases, the machines may need an industrial UPS that’s large enough to keep it running in the event of a power failure. A high-speed machine can suffer damage if it unexpected...