It is interesting how “productive” the folks in DC can be when they want to. But I ask what have you been doing for the last four years. Getting my whining out of the way, there is a lot of stuff happening in this last week of the outgoing administration. The Federal Trade Commission handed […]
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Even if the UN passes the cybercrime treaty, the Senate would need to ratify it and Trump would need to sign it. It is unclear what Trump’s opinion of the treaty is but he is not a big fan of the UN. The draft of the resolution was approved yesterday, even as tech companies, human […]
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15 million people trusted 23andMe with their DNA data. Their privacy policy says how they will use your data. Sort of. After all, lawyers wrote it. 23andMe is, to be polite, having a bit of a financial challenge. The stock is about to be delisted. It shut down its in-house drug development unit last month. […]
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An American diplomat that helped negotiate a UN cybercrime treaty pushed by Russia and China said it is likely to be approved by the UN. Administration officials have acknowledged concerns about the treaty in its current form. Human rights advocates say it would enable surveillance on a massive scale and do so in complete secrecy. […]
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White House Proposes Ban of Chinese, Russian Connected Vehicles and Software The Department of Commerce on Monday announced it is proposing a rule which would ban the sale or import of connected vehicles containing specific software and hardware produced by China or Russia or with a “sufficient nexus” to them. While it has national security […]
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The FTC has been investigating Amazon (Twitch), Meta (Facebook), YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, Discord, Reddit and Whatsapp (Meta). The probe began in 2020 investigating their data collection methods, how they track personal and demographic info and the impact of that on kids. FOUR YEARS into it, the FTC released a report. FTC chair Lina Khan […]
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