The mandatory notification of data breaches: Issues arising for Australian and EU legal developments

Public and private sector organisations are now able to capture and utilise data on a vast scale, thus heightening the importance of adequate measures for protecting unauthorised disclosure of personal information. In this respect, data breach notification has emerged as an issue of increasing importance throughout the world. It has been the subject of law reform in the United States and in other jurisdictions. This article reviews US, Australian and EU legal developments regarding the mandatory notification of data breaches. The authors highlight areas of concern based on the extant US experience that require further consideration in Australia and in the EU.     

Full Sibling Identification by IBS Scoring Method and Establishment of the Query Table of Its Critical ValueCSCD

Objective: To establish a query table of IBS critical value and identification power for the detection systems with different numbers of STR loci under different false judgment standards. Methods: Samples of 267 pairs of full siblings and 360 pairs of unrelated individuals were collected and 19 autosomal STR loci were genotyped by Goldeneye™ 20A system. The full siblings were determined using IBS scoring method according to the 'Regulation for biological full sibling testing'. The critical values and identification power for the detection systems with different numbers of STR loci under different false judgment standards were calculated by theoretical methods. Results: According to the formal IBS scoring criteria, the identification power of full siblings and unrelated individuals was 0.764 0 and the rate of false judgment was 0. The results of theoretical calculation were consistent with that of sample observation. The query table of IBS critical value for identification of full sibling detection systems with different numbers of STR loci was successfully established. Conclusion: The IBS scoring method defined by the regulation has high detection efficiency and low false judgment rate, which provides a relatively conservative result. The query table of IBS critical value for identification of full sibling detection systems with different numbers of STR loci provides an important reference data for the result judgment of full sibling testing and owns a considerable practical value. © 2017 by the Editorial Department of Journal of Forensic Medicine.     

接点治理：理解国家与农民关系的新视角——以鄂西北王村为例

税费改革之前,国家通过接点治理的形式来处理与农民的关系,接点治理是指国家利用乡村组织等体制性中介和乡村社会体制外精英进行治理的方式。接点治理的有效性在于其同时具备了国家政权赋予的合法性和地方社会赋予的认同感。接点治理经历了三种模式,集体时期的吸纳模式、税费时期的授权模式和后税费时期的结合模式。税费改革后,国家试图绕开基层组织以实现与农民直接对接,接点治理转变为直接治理,带来了混混等灰黑势力进入乡村和基层治理内卷化的危机。     

The post-war paths of occult national socialism: from Rockwell and Madole to Manson

Kaplan takes an in-depth look at the religious and cultic aspects of American national socialism in the post-war era. Beginning with the founder of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, in the late 1950s, he follows the development of occult beliefs and practices in the tiny and fractious American neo-Nazi movement. He emphasizes as well the brief turn to revolutionary violence in the 1970s through an examination of the National Socialist Liberation Front, and, finally, examines the attraction of Charles Manson and his followers to the occult fringes of the national socialist 'movement'. The article is built primarily on fieldwork, in-depth interviews with adherents of occult national socialist beliefs, and primary source materials from the 1960s to the present.     

Normative challenges of identification in the Internet of Things: Privacy,profiling, discrimination,and the GDPR

In the Internet of Things (IoT), identification and access control technologies provide essential infrastructure to link data between a user's devices with unique identities, and provide seamless and linked up services. At the same time, profiling methods based on linked records can reveal unexpected details about users' identity and private life, which can conflict with privacy rights and lead to economic, social, and other forms of discriminatory treatment. A balance must be struck between identification and access control required for the IoT to function and user rights to privacy and identity. Striking this balance is not an easy task because of weaknesses in cybersecurity and anonymisation techniques. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to come into force in May 2018, may provide essential guidance to achieve a fair balance between the interests of IoT providers and users. Through a review of academic and policy literature, this paper maps the inherent tension between privacy and identifiability in the IoT. It focuses on four challenges: (1) profiling, inference, and discrimination; (2) control and context-sensitive sharing of identity; (3) consent and uncertainty; and (4) honesty, trust, and transparency. The paper will then examine the extent to which several standards defined in the GDPR will provide meaningful protection for privacy and control over identity for users of IoT. The paper concludes that in order to minimise the privacy impact of the conflicts between data protection principles and identification in the IoT, GDPR standards urgently require further specification and implementation into the design and deployment of IoT technologies.     

巴特的族群理论述评

族群研究的重点是族群边界问题,族群边界的作用在于组织、沟通、结构和规范人们之间的互动。族群认同在于自识和他识,只要人们在互动中保持族群认同,就会确立其成员的标准和标志其族群边界的方式,因此,族群边界是由族群认同生成和维持的。族群是具有文化差异的社会组织,而不是文化承载和区分的单位,共享文化是长期社会进程的结果。多族群的相互依赖取决于族群间的互补性,其文化不同是族群间长期差别造成的结果。族群研究的一般方法是把理论与实证相结合,探究族群认同与族群边界保持,而不是研究个别族群的内部构成和历史。     

单位犯罪刑事责任的独立性

目前,学界关于单位犯罪的刑事责任理论基于对单位结构的不同认识以及刑法中对单位犯罪的双罚制和单罚制的规定而有失严谨。依据单位本质的独立人格性、单位意志的成员意志合力性及刑事责任的基本原则,可以肯定单位犯罪刑事责任的独立性。以此为基础,可以解决一人有限责任公司的刑法地位和单位实施的“非单位犯罪”的具体处理问题。另外可以把自然人本身视为“身份”来解决单位实施的“非单位犯罪”的认定问题。     

Establishing Identity: How Direct‐to‐Consumer Genetic Testing Challenges the Assumption of Donor Anonymity

The rise of direct‐to‐consumer genetic testing is challenging the rules and expectations of the fertility industry concerning donor anonymity. While ethicists debate whose rights should prevail, many donor conceived people, recipient parents and donors are currently sharing their genetic information, along with methods to identify genetic links, in vast online communities, invalidating donor anonymity and providing a platform for those who advocate globally for legislative change to support donor‐linking practices. This article looks at why it is important to access this information in relation to identity and kinship formation and how the Family Court Community can apply this knowledge in order to achieve better outcomes for children and families.     

香港青年内地发展政策与大湾区“融合发展”--基于HKPSSD数据的实证研究

促进港澳青年"北上"内地发展,融入国家发展大局,最终实现"人心回归",是"粤港澳大湾区"政策体系中的重要内容和目标。回归以来,中央已累计推出100多项鼓励香港青年到内地发展的政策,其效果和机制亟需进行评估。论文基于香港社会动态追踪调查HKPSSD数据,以国家认同作为政策效标,评估现有内地发展政策对香港青年国家认同的效应,并从心理层面考察其作用机制。研究发现,频繁返回内地对青年国家认同确有提升作用,心理融合在此过程中起到完全中介作用。该机制在通过倾向值匹配进行稳健性检验后依然稳健,并且心理融合的中介效应量有所上升。研究表明,香港青年内地发展政策已取得了一定程度的积极效应,心理融合在机制中起到关键的效能转化作用。在粤港澳大湾区"融合发展"的战略目标和制度框架底下,做好心理融合工作,将是香港青年内地发展经历转化为国家归属感的重要抓手。     

论领导者提高执政能力的境界

领导干部应该善用权力、下属认同、多出人才、做人为先,方能达到提高执政能力的境界。领导者应当以对领导规律的科学把握和领导权力的恰当运用统御部属;以高尚纯正的品格做派、先进的领导理念领导方法艺术、正确的召唤和指令等影响下属,并得到他们的认同,从而赢得广泛的追求者;在本单位本部门开发、培养和吸纳尽可能多的人才,并运用好这些人才,以作为事业的支撑;正确理解和处理做官与做人的关系,奉行“做人为先”的原则,以人格的力量打造自己的领导形象和领导力。