E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- February 16, 2016

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Encryption Bans and Backdoor Efforts Are Misguided, Harvard Study Finds
Do 1800s Antitrust Laws Apply in the E-Commerce Age?
Time Scoops Up MySpace With Viant Buy
Google Expands Europeans' Internet Amnesia Zone
NIST Risk-Assessment Framework Shapes Federal Cybersecurity Strategy
Pegasystems Takes Customer Service Far Afield
IRS Halts Hack Attack

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Encryption Bans and Backdoor Efforts Are Misguided, Harvard Study Finds
Any effort to ban encryption or provide government agencies with
backdoor access would be unenforceable and prone to failure, according
to a Harvard University report released last week. Bruce Schneier, a
fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Security,
collaborator Kathleen Seidel, and student Saranya Vijayakuma, identified
and surveyed 865 encryption products from 55 countries.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83118.html

Do 1800s Antitrust Laws Apply in the E-Commerce Age?
Laws usually are established after interpersonal or business activities
collide with the real or perceived rights of others. After parties with
different positions fight about who's right and who's wrong,
legislatures create laws to solve the legal issues raised, and courts
enforce them or create their own. Many of the laws from the past,
however, do not make sense when applied to e-commerce.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83117.html

Time Scoops Up MySpace With Viant Buy
Time on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire the assets of Viant
Technology. The deal will let Time combine its premium content,
subscriber data and ad inventory with Viant's first-party data and
targeting technology. "We're going to be able to deliver both data-
driven capabilities and premier content in a single platform," Time
spokesperson Jill Davison said.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83113.html

Google Expands Europeans' Internet Amnesia Zone
Google is expanding the right of Europeans to be forgotten on the
Internet to domains outside their countries, according to reports
Thursday. Searches made from European IP addresses for people whom
Google has granted a right to be forgotten will turn up zero links,
regardless of which version of Google is used. Previously, links from
such searches were blocked only from European versions.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83111.html

NIST Risk-Assessment Framework Shapes Federal Cybersecurity Strategy
The U.S. government is under pressure to improve cybersecurity and is
meeting that challenge with a commitment to enhance spending for
protecting IT systems. The Obama administration projected the budget for
cybersecurity spending in fiscal 2016 would be about $14 billion -- an
increase of $1.4 billion from 2015. That represents strong support to
safeguard operations and protect personal data.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83108.html

Pegasystems Takes Customer Service Far Afield
Pegasystems has launched Pega Field Service, an application designed
expressly to streamline and automate critical components of field
service operations. The software's key components are a customer service
dashboard and a mobile application that enables organizations to
centralize distributed field service work. Pega Field Service keeps
track of all aspects of the field service process.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83109.html

IRS Halts Hack Attack
The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday said it recently discovered and
halted an automated bot attack on its electronic filing PIN application
website. Identity thieves used malware in an attempt to generate E-file
PINs for 464,000 Social Security numbers stolen from another source, the
IRS said. The hackers succeeded in accessing an E-file PIN for 101,000
of those numbers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/83106.html

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