Total liabilities: Closing the stable door after the horse has bolted It’s fair to say that the industry was pretty shocked when ‘freedom and choice’ legislation was announced, and we at PI have yet to find anyone who claims to have known for sure it was coming in advance. What followed was chaos as providers and schemes alike scrambled to get ready in time with no notice and little consultation.Two short years later and it seems that the Treasury has not yet learnt its lesson. While there were rumours that a new Pensions Bill would be announced a couple of days ahead of the Budget, it appears that this was more last minute than might have been thought.Fortunately, I understand that the great and the good of pensions provision and governance have been summoned to DWP to discuss the proposed bill. Less fortunately, they were asked to drop everything with only a few days’ notice. Let’s hope they didn’t have anything too important to be getting on with… How Nationwide encouraged staff to pay more to get more
Lifetime ISAs: how will they affect pension saving and what comes next? Should pension schemes invest to achieve social good? PI in a Pod: Episode nine - the auto-enrolment review “There’s going to be some dodgy dealers out there" - the new SPC president on pensions post-Budget- resistant to change of position or condition; "stable prices"constant - steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection; "a man constant in adherence to his ideals"; "constant as the northern star"lasting, permanent - continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "literature of permanent value"steady - not subject to change or variation especially in behavior; "a good steady ballplayer"unstable - lacking stability or fixity or firmness; "the tower proved to be unstable in the high wind"; "an unstable world economy"Weblio 辞書 > 英和辞典・和英辞典 > 英語イディオム表現辞典 > shut the stable door after the horse has boltedの意味・解説
英語イディオム表現辞典での「shut the stable door after the horse has bolted」の意味 shut the stable door after the horse has bolted 訳語 手遅れである；取り掛かるのが遅すぎる；後の祭りである解説 lock/close the stable door after the horse has boltedとも表現する。 英和辞書の「shut the stable door after the horse has bolted」の用語索引 shut the stable door after the horse has boltedのページの著作権英和・和英辞典情報提供元は参加元一覧にて確認できます。Sony try to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted. It may not work. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has warned media owners they could face legal action for substantial damages if they report the contents of stolen documents that were leaked online following a cyber-attack on Sony in November 2014. In a blunt letter written by a top US law firm, SPE has requested media organisations including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and The Hollywood Reporter to destroy “stolen information” which includes documents, personal data and emails that’s sensitive data that is now presumed to be in the public domain.
In a thinly veiled threat, the letter warned: “If you don’t comply with this request and the stolen information is used or disseminated by you in any manner, SPE will have no choice but to hold you responsible for any damage or loss arising from such use or dissemination by you. The signatory to the letter is David Boies, a lawyer who has in the past represented Hank Greenberg, former AIG chief executive. Sony HQ in Tokyo declined to comment on the letter, fearing that this would become the news story in its own right and over-shadow its desperate crisis management attempts that continue to look incredibly amateur for a company of its size and stature. This latest move represents a clumsy attempt to contain the growing damage Sony has suffered after weeks of embarrassing leaks that includes details of executives’ salaries, unpublished film scripts, sensitive contracts and candid exchanges about actors between Amy Pascal, Sony’s co-chair, and Scott Rudin, the Hollywood producer.
And as Sony is in the content business, it doesn’t get any more interesting than that, although it would rather keep all of this stuff behind closed doors. Employees’ personal data has also been leaked, including social security numbers and health records. The reputation of the consumer tech giant lies in tatters as its tried to rebuild its credibility and reputation but by all accounts the company is still in panic mode. A computer hacking group calling itself “Guardians of Peace” has demanded that Sony Pictures stop the release of The Interview, a satirical comedy about a farcical attempt to assassinate Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator. The group has threatened Sony Pictures with more releases of private information if it doesn’t comply with the demand. North Korea has denied any involvement in the attack by hackers. The lawyer’s ‘letter before action’ was sent in the wake of unsuccessful private attempts to dissuade media organisations from publishing the leaked information, which has already been widely posted on the internet and therefore already in the public domain.
The latest calamity to hit the consumer electronic and movie giant demonstrates the difficulties that companies face in tackling hackers who can skilfully engage media outlets to maximise the reputation damage they cause. Such brand attacks are now becoming much more commonplace and it’s one reason why the European Parliament and Council of Ministers want to see a much tougher regime in place to protect data under the forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation that could potentially levy fines on Sony if it was shown to have fallen short of a high standard of data protection and security than it does at present. Aaron Sorkin, the award winning US screenwriter and producer of The West Wing, put the onus on US media groups on this issue in a recent op-ed in The New York Times. Sorkin argues that there’s nothing in the leaked data that rises to the level of public interest that would justify exposing the stolen documents. “Do the emails contain any information about Sony breaking the law?