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]Amazon is selling facial recognition technology that it has developed – called Rekognition – to law enforcement agencies and maybe others – Amazon won’t say. While there is nothing illegal about this and if Amazon doesn’t do it, others likely would, it certainly raises privacy concerns. Two police departments that are known to have purchased […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Glad I am not Mark Zuckerberg, Well, maybe. I think I would like to have his bank account 🙂 Facebook is making some efforts to rehabilitate it’s image within the fundamental constraint that it is selling your data for a living. While pretending that it is all for your benefit. As part of this rehab […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has a interesting strategy. Build prototypes of products. Show them or leak them. See if anyone cares. Kill them if it doesn’t work out – there are lots of examples. After many users are already using them. One other thing that they do is attempt to lock users into the Google ecosystem. Of course. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NBC is reporting that the Intelligence Community developed substantial evidence that Russian financed attackers compromised the voter registration systems or web sites of seven states to different degrees. Up until this time DHS has been completely mum about this, saying absolutely nothing. But now NBC is reporting that the seven states are Alaska, Arizona, California, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why do people usually use a VPN connection over the Internet? Usually it is for added security and privacy. What if a VPN offered security, but even less privacy than without it – would you use it? Well some people are and probably do not even know it. In 2013 Facebook bought an Israeli company, […]
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