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• How to keep personally identifiable information safe

  23 janvier 2020, par Joselyn Khor
  The protection of personally identifiable information (PII) is important both for individuals, whose privacy may be compromised, and for businesses that may have their reputation ruined or be liable if PII is wrongly accessed, used, or shared.

  Curious about what PII is ? Here’s your introduction to personally identifiable information.

  Due to hacking, data leaks or data thievery, PII acquired can be combined with other pieces of information to form a more complete picture of you. On an individual level, this puts you at risk of identity theft, credit card theft or other harm caused by the fraudulent use of your personal information.

  On a business level, for companies who breach data privacy laws – like Cambridge Analytica’s harvesting of millions of FB profiles – the action leads to an erosion of trust. It can also impact your financial position as heavy fines can be imposed for the illegal use and processing of personally identifiable information.

  So what can you do to ensure PII compliance ?

  On an individual level :

  1. Don’t give your data away so easily. Although long, it’s worthwhile to read through privacy policies to make sure you know what you’re getting yourself into.
  2. Don’t just click ‘agree’ when faced with consent screens, as consent screens are majorly flawed. Users mostly always opt in without reading and without being properly informed what they opt in to.
  3. Did you know you’re most likely being tracked from website to website ? For example, Google can identify you across visits and websites. One of the things you can do is to disable third party cookies by default. Businesses can also use privacy friendly analytics which halt such tracking. 
  4. Use strong passwords.
  5. Be wary of public wifi – hackers can easily access your PII or sensitive data. Use a VPN (virtual private network), which lets you create a secure connection to a server of your choosing. This allows you to browse the internet in a safe manner.

  A PII compliance checklist for businesses/organisations :

  1. Identify where all PII exists and is stored – review and make sure this is in a safe environment.
  2. Identify laws that apply to you (GDPR, California privacy law, HIPAA) and follow your legal obligations.
  3. Create operational safeguards – policies and procedures for handling PII at an organisation level ; and building awareness to focus on the protection of PII.
  4. Encrypt databases and repositories where such info is kept.
  5. Create privacy-specific safeguards in the way your organisation collects, maintains, uses, and disseminates data so you protect the confidentiality of the data.
  6. Minimise the use, collection, and retention of PII – only collect and keep PII if it’s necessary for you to perform your legal business function.
  7. Conduct privacy impact assessments (PIA) to find and prevent privacy risks (identify what and why it’s to be collected ; how the information will be secured etc.).
  8. De-identify within the scope of your data collection and analytics tools.
  9. Anonymise data.
  10. Keep your privacy policy updated.
  11. Pseudonymisation.
  12. A more comprehensive guide for businesses can be found here : https://iapp.org/media/pdf/knowledge_center/NIST_Protecting_PII.pdf

  Unsure of what information could be considered PII ? Check out this list of examples.

  Additional resources :

  • https://www.umassmed.edu/it/security/compliance/what-is-pii/
  • http://www.osec.doc.gov/opog/privacy/PII_BII.html

• laravel-ffmpeg - fopen(/tmp/laravel-ffmpegi340VY.mkv) : failed to open stream : No such file or directory

  26 janvier 2020, par jyoti gautam

  Using the laravel-ffmpeg librabry to convert video file from .webm to mp4 aws s3 bucket url and using following code.

  $videoFile = '/courses/images/1579626678msr-2020-01-21T17-11-18-771Z.webm';  //= upload/video1.mp4
  
     FFMpeg::fromDisk('s3')
  
      ->open($videoFile)
  
      ->getFrameFromSeconds(10)
  
      ->export()
  
      ->toDisk('s3')
  
      ->inFormat(new \FFMpeg\Format\Video\X264)
  
      ->save('small_steve.mp4');

  How can access file from s3 bucket and convert ?

• Analytics for the Internet of Things : collecting all your things’ data with Piwik to stay in control ?

  25 novembre 2015, par Matthieu Aubry — About

  At Piwik our mission is to create the leading free and open source analytics platform, and supporting global organisations and communities to keep full control over their data.

  Our broad mission started 8 years ago and we focused at first helping people to liberate their website analytics data, then liberate their mobile app analytics data. But it is clear that there is much more than Web + Mobile : data is everywhere and a lot more data is being generated by software, people and their activities, robots, sensors…

  I’d like to share an interesting article which highlights one of the growing trends of technology : the rise of the Internet Of Things : 6 Ways Analytics And The Internet Of Things Will Transform Business.

  Here is an extract :

  The tech industry is no stranger to change, but the data derived from the IoT is taking disruption to a new level.

  At IBM’s Insight conference last month, Bob Picciano, senior vice president of IBM Analytics, talked about the rise of the “cognitive business”, or an enterprise that engages with analytics to improve its customer relations, business processes, and decision-making capabilities.

  There are dueling predictions over how ubiquitous the Internet of Things will be, but most indicate that the marketplace will host between 50 and 75 billion connected objects by 2020, signaling novel challenges for hardware manufacturing and development. Software engineers, likewise, may need to completely revamp programs to better exploit the influx of data, while innovators need to wrestle with the changes wrought by analytics.

  IBM’s Insight event unfolded in light of this wave of disruption. The lineup of corporate presenters converged on the same message : Analytics is for everyone, and your viability in the marketplace depends on it.

  […]

  IBM’s Insight 2015 conference sounded off on the most important trends in data usage and management. It also served a wake-up call for developers, engineers, and tech leaders. As the Internet of Things alters the landscape of analytics, hardware design needs to change, software development requires novel approaches, and tech management must become more agile in order to realize data’s greatest benefits.

  So far there are 1 million websites using Piwik… but what if there could be 10 or 50 million things (sensors, devices) being measured by Piwik ?

  Together we will be creating the best open source and generic analytics platform, that is engineered to last, and designed to help humanity keep control and gain Freedom.

  We aim for Piwik to be the ideal platform to measure the Internet Of Things.

  We’re still at the beginning of this journey and it will take the best of all of us to get there.

  See you on the way !

  PS : if you’d like to get involved with Piwik, we would be glad to welcome you !