The simplest form of PCI compliance is a self assessment and most companies qualify. The simplest form of a self assessment is a SAQ-A or -A-EP. This assessment form is for merchants that do not collect or store payment card information and outsource the payment process pretty much completely. If you capture the card info […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Texas AG Sue TikTok Under SCOPE Act The Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act is designed to protect kids online. The Texas AG claims that TikTok failed to comply with the parental verification requirement, unlawful sharing, disclosing or selling of a minor’s PII and failure to create and provide parental tools. While this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I bet this shows up as a surprise to exactly no one. There are at least 600 undersea fiber lines that connect the world. While these two going away at roughly the same time is annoying, the Internet is quite resilient. However, depending on WHICH fiber lines are cut, the problems can be more severe. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The EPA tested 1,062 drinking water systems that server over 193 million Americans. That is about 60 percent of the population. However, there are 149,000 drinking water systems in the United States. So that is about 0.7 percent of all of the drinking water systems in the US. A lot of them serve really small […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Can Vendors Enforce License Agreements for Kids on Parents? Ed Tech vendors (those companies that sell tech to schools for use by their students) apparently sell your kid’s data and think that because the school agreed to some terms that implicitly binds the parents. In one case, the court said no. I didn’t know that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is a bit unclear. Last time around he railed against big tech. During the campaign he floated a love fest with crypto. Here are some cases that are in doubt. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took steps to put Google under formal federal supervision. This would give the feds access to very sensitive Google […]
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