This is step one of a multi-part series on complying with the new privacy rules, both in Europe and, just recently, in California. Watch for further steps over the next several weeks. While companies are supposed to be compliant with GDPR already, many are not and the California law’s effective date is still almost 18 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Supremes Say Warrant Required For Cell Data In a 5-4 decision last week, the Supremes said that the police should have gotten a search warrant before they asked for months worth of location data of a suspect. The suspect in a robbery case was tracked by the police – over 12,000 locations, over 127 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]8 new Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities Researchers have reportedly found *8* new Spectre-class vulnerabilties. Intel has classified 4 of them high risk and 4 of them medium risk, although they are not releasing any details on them – yet. The entire set is being referred to as Spectre Next Generation or Spectre-NG. At least one of them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC Investigates Securus Now that LocationSmart who’s data was used illegally by a Sheriff to track other law enforcement officers and was then hacked is out of the closet, their somewhat shady but possibly completely legal business practices are no longer in the shadows and the FCC has begun an investigation. We shall see if […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a survey conducted by storage software vendor Veritas, 2 in 5 or 40% of what the EU calls “data subjects” (and what the rest of us call people) plan to request businesses to tell them what data they have within the first six months after the GDPR goes into effect later this month. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Max Schrems – the same Max Schrems that battled Facebook and won and the same Max Schrems that got the Court of Justice of the European Union to strike down Safe Harbor – that Max Schrems – has a new mission. The General Data Protection Regulation, the new privacy law that takes effect in the […]
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