If you have customers in the EU this is important to you but even if you don’t, you may get involved. We recently heard of a case where a small company was sent a threatening letter of non-compliance with EU law, even though they don’t do business in the EU. Turns out that doesn’t matter. […]
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]San Francisco Cops Want Real-Time Access to Private Security Cameras for Surveillance San Francisco lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow police to use private security cameras for real time surveillance. This bill expands a 2019 city ordinance that requires police to seek authorization before acquiring and deploying surveillance, hence this notice. While it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Digital Markets Act is designed to reign in big companies like Amazon, Facebook and Apple. Alternatively, those companies could choose not to do business in Europe, fearing the requirements could be too expensive or too risky. My guess is that none of the platforms will have the guts to do that, but who knows. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Decreased Account Takeovers by 50% by Mandating 2FA Late last year Google forced about a hundred fifty million users to start using multi-factor authentication. What results did they see? Account takeovers in that group were reduced by 50%. Google has previously said that only 10% of their users were using MFA. Now they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]USTRANSCOM Starts CMMC Lite Now The DoD’s transportation command, the folks who are in charge of getting all the stuff that the military needs from where it is to where it needs to be, has announced that they are implementing a light version of CMMC NOW instead of waiting for the five years that it […]
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