One thing about a country that has no federal privacy law – There are very few limits on what someone can do with data that they have legally collected. The legal part is that you agreed to allowi your “smart car” to collect your driving data. That data may include things like your speed and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Montana and Indiana TikTok Ban Stunts Unsurprisingly Fail in Court Both Indiana and Montana passed laws completely banning TikTok – both at the app store and private citizen level. Given that these laws were political stunts designed to try and impress voters, it is not surprising that they failed in court. The courts struck down […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]King Charles approved the Online Safety Act last month and its regulator, known as Ofcom, has already issued its first regulation in draft form. Among other “features” of this law is a requirement to scan end to end encrypted messages for CSAM, even though that is impossible. The act also requires platforms to execute a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Norway fined Meta for its targeted advertising practices and issued a temporary ban several months ago. Now Norway has gone to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and asked for the ban to be made permanent and EU/EEA wide. Since Facebook makes most of its money from targeted ads and untargeted ads fetch a dramatically […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The California Privacy Protection Agency, the government agency that enforces the California Privacy Rights Act, has released two DRAFT documents recently. They are going to discuss the drafts at their meeting tomorrow but they have not yet started the rulemaking process. The two regulations are the cybersecurity audit regulations and the cyber risk assessment regulations. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well That is a Bit of an Oops A Google employee uploaded a list of 5,600 Virus Total customer administrators to Virus Total itself, making it visible to anyone. Among the users were admins from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI. UK Ministry of Defense and ministries in Germany, Japan, Qatar, Turkey, Frances and a dozen other […]
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