You probably haven’t thought about this if you are privately owned. You might not even heard about it. Effective September 5th, publicly traded companies have four business days to disclose a material breach. That disclosure, on a form 8-K, will be publicly available on the SEC’s EDGAR public company reporting site. The same place they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That doesn’t mean they will stop trying. Going back to the 1990s and the Communications Decency Act, and then the Child Online Protection Act in 1998, the Supremes keep saying that it is not the government’s role to regulate speech. Of course the government only tries to regulate speech that is unpopular, whether it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NIST Special Publication 800-171 is the guide that all defense contractors must follow for protecting controlled unclassified information. It has been around since 2015 and has gone over several revisions. Revision 3 is the most recent and NIST has released the “initial public draft”. Expect a final draft this fall and a released version in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Bing Chat, there were 15.6 million cars and light trucks sold in the US in 2013, 16.5 million in 2014, 17+ million in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, but only 14 million in 2020 and 13 million in 2021 and 2022. But something else changed between 2013 and 2022. By 2022 almost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 1995 the US and EU started working on a cross border data transfer agreement. First came Safe Harbor (2000). In 2015 the EU Court of Justice invalidated this agreement in what is known as the Schrems I decision. In 2016, the US and EU agreed, in principle to Privacy Shield, a replacement for Safe […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Securities and Exchange Commission is not happy with JP Morgan for accidentally deleting millions of emails related to it’s Chase Bank subsidiary. The company deleted something on the order of 47 million electronic communications records from almost 9,000 mailboxes covering the period January 1 to April 23, 2018. Many of these records were required […]
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