While I have written about this in general before, this item is specific to the Land Rover and its “Discovery” model. If this is a surprise to you, it should not be. If you buy a used Land Rover, it is possible (likely) that the previous owner can still control your car through the Land […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is step one of a multi-part series on complying with the new privacy rules, both in Europe and, just recently, in California. Watch for further steps over the next several weeks. While companies are supposed to be compliant with GDPR already, many are not and the California law’s effective date is still almost 18 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Deleting All Call Detail Records (CDRs) Acquired Since 2015 While the NSA is not providing a lot of details about what went wrong, the NSA is saying that it is deleting all CDRs acquired since 2015 because of technical irregularities that resulted in it receiving data that, likely, would be illegal under the current […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a survey conducted by storage software vendor Veritas, 2 in 5 or 40% of what the EU calls “data subjects” (and what the rest of us call people) plan to request businesses to tell them what data they have within the first six months after the GDPR goes into effect later this month. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The European Union has passed a new privacy law called the General Data Protection Regulation and it goes into effect in May of 2018. For companies that do not do business or have customers in Europe, this regulation may not effect you. However, if you have customers in Europe, even if you do not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Another day, another healthcare ransomware attack. Erie County Medical Center and Terrace View long term care in Buffalo, New York have been dealing with a ransomware attack for about 10 days now. On April 9th, a Sunday, the computers got hit by what they are only calling a virus, but according to someone I talked […]
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