In September the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a law that allowed the police basically unlimited access to any video feed which the owner allows them to access – without a warrant or judicial oversight and basically, for an unlimited period of time (although there are some limited restraints on this). A coalition of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Brussels Warns Musk That the Bird Must Fly By EU Rules in Europe The EU Commission warned Musk – via Twitter of course – that he will need to comply with EU’s Digital Services Act that goes into effect next month. It is the EU’s newest version of content moderation rules that may conflict with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is just one example. Fallout from the hack of Australian health insurer Medibank continues to get worse as the company has “widened” the group of people affected by the breach. Again! Remember, this is not a mom-and-pop corner sandwich shop. This is the largest private health insurer in Australia. Last week they admitted that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Get ready for this. We have five states that need to issue regulations and every one will have multiple iterations. Here is the current state of California’s regs, issued by the CPPA. In addition to the modified regulations, they also issued 16 pages of explanation. These takeaways are from Daniel Goldberg of the law firm […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many people are familiar with Illinois’ biometric privacy law called BIPA, The Biometric Information Privacy Act. BIPA says that companies can’t use your biometric data without your permission. BIPA only applies to IIllinois residents, but it is still having an impact. Like California’s privacy law, BIPA allows you and me (if we live in Illinois) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tracking pixels are those tiny, invisible beacons that companies like Google and Facebook use to capture information about what you are doing, send it back to the mother ship, aggregate it with other data and then use it, mostly, for advertising purposes. Of course it can be used for many other purposes as well. The […]
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