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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Most of the time software license agreements say “we are not responsible for anything that might happen”. In fact, most license agreements say that it is up to the user to figure out if the software is even appropriate for whatever the user plans to use it for. So what would happen if a software […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here’s a thought. If the lawsuit against Yahoo succeeds and the award is $10 per victim, that would be a $30 billion judgement. The breach, you may remember, was publicly disclosed after Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo but before the deal closed. As a result of the announcement the price was lowered by $350 million, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For the most part, police need a search warrant to search your possessions. Want to search your house, get a warrant. Search your phone, yup, need a warrant. But when it comes to your car, the rules are different. The rules for searching your car don’t run back to the Constitution. After all, there were […]
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