For those of you who do not have a life and hence follow the shenanigans of the legislative process in various states, today is a day that you will remember. The California legislature was held hostage by real estate mogul Alastair Mactaggert. Mactaggert spent $3 million of his own money (for him seat cushion money) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]People thought they were going crazy. Their air conditioner randomly turned off. The combination on their door lock changed every day. The doorbell kept ringing even though no one was there. These are all symptoms of domestic abuse where one partner understands how to use those technical toys against the other partner. And, in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Effective September 1, 2018, *ALL* companies doing business in Colorado will have just 30 days to notify residents if their data was breached. That is just one of the new rules. The rules apply to both government entities and businesses, which is a bit of a surprise. Different laws, but basically the same requirements. What […]
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]SESTA/FOSTA was a bill that was supposedly designed to shut down sex trafficking sites on the Internet by effectively repealing the protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which protects online service providers like Facebook and Google from being prosecuted for the postings of their users. The bills, which have been around […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With all the news lately about the Russians trying to change the outcome of the elections (like, I might add, the U.S. has been trying to do around the world for decades – think of the Shah in Iran, the Congo elections, Chile and many others – see here), the real question is can the […]
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