Well, we certainly DO live in interesting times. The UK is supposed to leave the EU at the end of March, but no one knows if they will, if there will be a deal, if they will delay Brexit, if they will have another vote. The European Data Protection Supervisor says do not expect anything […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GDPR Gone Crazy I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat! According to the European Commission, Europe’s data protection regulators received more than 95,000 complaints about possible data breaches in the first 8 months of GDPR. At the same time businesses reported over 41,000 breaches. But regulators only opened 255 investigations. Many of the complaints […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oklahoma Government Data Left Unprotected The Oklahoma Department of Securities left data going back to at least 1999 unprotected online. Data exposed included state agency passwords and login information, data on FBI investigations, information on thousands of securities brokers and other information. The state says it was unprotected for “a limited duration”. They are investigating. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Vietnam’s New Cybersecurity Law in Effect Vietnam’s new “cybersecurity” law which requires companies to remove any content from the Internet that the government finds offensive went into effect on January 1. It also requires some companies like Facebook and Google to open offices in Vietnam if they want to continue to do business there. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC to Investigate Centurylink In an example of “can you believe this”, Ajit Pai, who earlier this year said that the FCC can’t regulate Internet providers wants to investigate why Internet provider Centurylink had an outage today that affected 911 call centers across the country. Centurylink, who told people earlier today that if they had […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Austria Issues First GDPR Fine; Has 115 Fine Proceeding In Q Austria has issued its first GDPR fine. 4,800 Euros for having a security camera that covers the sidewalk (a no-no) without warning people that they are under surveillance. Welcome to GDPR. In the first 100 days of GDPR, they have 115 fine proceedings in […]
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