FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested that the tech industry follow the model of the financial services industry. Some of the big banks have created a messaging app with delete capability so to keep the regulators happy, they agreed to save a copy of each message for 7 years. Lets apply that to the tech industry […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Talk to Google or Facebook and they will tell you that they never met a piece of information that they did not want to add to their databases. More information means better profiles; better profiles mean that they can charge more for ads. But some Silicon Valley firms are rethinking that idea. Silicon Valley startup […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Authorities in L.A. obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged gang member to press her finger on an iPhone to unlock it because they wanted to see what was in it. Whether this violates the 5th amendment or not is in dispute and this was an L.A. court – likely a district […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Encryption can be very secure. Or Not. It depends on how it is implemented. Apparently, at least according to some sources, most of the Internet has gotten it wrong. That’s not very comforting. The rules of who people are protecting themselves from has changed from just a few years ago. Now we are talking about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many of you are aware that the Customs and Border Patrol has ruled that there is a 200 mile zone inside the U.S. where they can search your belongings without a warrant and without probable cause. The Constitution does give Customs a lot of latitude for searches at the border – much more power than […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New Jersey enacted a new law which requires data encryption (see bill information) as a response to the health care data breaches – I assume like Anthem. The bill is short, only 4 pages, but, at least to me, that does not make things very clear. The bill covers health insurance carriers, but then defines […]
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