Many people are familiar with Illinois’ biometric privacy law called BIPA, The Biometric Information Privacy Act. BIPA says that companies can’t use your biometric data without your permission. BIPA only applies to IIllinois residents, but it is still having an impact. Like California’s privacy law, BIPA allows you and me (if we live in Illinois) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tracking pixels are those tiny, invisible beacons that companies like Google and Facebook use to capture information about what you are doing, send it back to the mother ship, aggregate it with other data and then use it, mostly, for advertising purposes. Of course it can be used for many other purposes as well. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CISA issued a Binding Operational Directive. BODs only are “binding” on federal executive branch agencies, but this is one time where if it is good for the feds, it is good for you. The directive tells agencies to keep track of assets and vulnerabilities. They have six months to comply. Specifically, they want agencies to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CEO of Election Software Company Arrested on Personal-Data Theft Charges Here here is one that seems to have some facts behind it. Los Angeles has charged Konnect founder Eugene Yu with theft of PII and computer hard drives. Konnect is required to keep the data on POLL WORKERS that they are storing in the United […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I keep saying this and will continue to say it until people understand. Cryptocurrency is merely software and software always has bugs. Governments try to stop people from counterfeiting paper money (and lots of other things) and that is only moderately successful. To the degree that it is successful, that is because it is hard […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a case of technology getting ahead of the law. There are existing federal laws that cover credit card fraud, debit card fraud and check fraud. These are all different laws with slightly different rules, but, for the most part, the law says that if you report the fraud quickly enough (the time varies […]
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