HHS Beefs up Privacy Protection for Reproductive Healthcare Info In a final rule released this week, doctors, clinics and other providers are prohibited from disclosing protected health information related to lawful reproductive healthcare. The rule is designed to protect women who cross state lines seeking an abortion and their providers. The 291 page regulation will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are a lot of people with a lot of opinions about this. Here are mine. In no particular order. First, if you assume that TikTok makes a buck per user per month off selling your data, if they just invest One month’s revenue – $170 million – they can outspend everyone else as they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Give Another Chip Maker Subsidy to Build in US Last week the feds announced a subsidy to Taiwan Semi to build multiple chip plants (fabs) in Arizona. This week the feds announced, based on last year’s CHIPS Act, a subsidy to Samsung to build multiple plants in Texas. This creates a lot of construction […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You have probably heard this expression before, but it bears repeating. If you are not paying for a service, then you are the product. Case in point. Microsoft has always offered a free email product in Windows called, very creatively, Windows mail. But it really was a pretty horrible competitor to GMail and other mail […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD Opens Cyber Policy Office As reported earlier, the planned opening of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy officially happened on March 20th. Ashley Manning will manage it until the Senate confirms someone else. President Biden announced that his nominee will be Michael Sulmeyer. Whether the Senate confirms him or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks Either Mozilla didn’t run much of a background check or Onerep’s CEO is great at hiding his other businesses. Mozilla hired him to provide identity protection services, but it turns out that he runs dozens of sites that provide dirt on people. Not exactly compatible […]
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