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Security News Update for November 22, 2024

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 […]

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Disney+’s “I Agree” May Stop You From Suing if you Die at DisneyWorld

One downside of these mega mergers is that things that have nothing to do with each other are now totally related to each other. Two recent cases. Jeffrey Piccolo filed a lawsuit after his wife, Karen, died at a Disney owned restaurant in Florida. She had a fatal reaction to the food after being assured […]

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Security News Update for November 15, 2024

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 […]

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What Will Happen to Big Tech Under a New Administration?

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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US Still Supports Flawed UN Cybercrime Treaty

Even if the UN passes the cybercrime treaty, the Senate would need to ratify it and Trump would need to sign it. It is unclear what Trump’s opinion of the treaty is but he is not a big fan of the UN. The draft of the resolution was approved yesterday, even as tech companies, human […]

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