The Utah House of Representatives unanimously passed a consumer privacy bill which the Senate passed earlier this year. The governor is expected to sign it and has 20 days to veto it. This bill has a higher threshold – it targets businesses who target Utah residents, have an annual gross revenue of over $25 million […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Scrambles to Try and Figure Out How to Stop Stalkers From Using AirTags Their newest idea is, when you initialize a new AirTag, it will tell you that Stalking may be illegal in your country. I really, really, doubt that will have any effect. They are also shortening the time window for notifying you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GitGuardian reported yesterday that organizations leaked more than 6 million passwords, API keys and other secrets last year. That is just in the code that they scanned. This is double the number found the year before. In part, this is due to better software that can sniff out these secrets. That translates to 3 out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. and the E.U. have been struggling for years over data flow of E.U. residents to the United States. Curiously, their big complaint is that the NSA is a spy agency and they intercept communications. The way the E.U. constructed GDPR, their intelligence agencies are exempt from complying with the law – but ours […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The whole model of loyalty programs is how do we make them so hard to use that we can pretend we are giving people something when, in fact, we are not really. Enter the airlines. They give out frequent flyer miles for all kinds of things from actual airline tickets to anything that you buy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Scammers Figure out How to Fake Out Facial Biometrics Multi-factor authentication is not magic. For the most part, it is software. And if software is not well written, it can be fooled. That means that we should not be surprised if scammers try to use deep fakes and other techniques to fool automated facial recognition. […]
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