This is not directly a security issue. Or a privacy issue. Because the County did not get hacked. BUT it still is important to businesses. And governments. Juries are no longer sitting back and allowing organizations to ignore basic privacy law without consequences. In this case it is Bucks County, Pennsylvania (population about 650,000), and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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]You would think that in light of all of the negative publicity that Facebook has had, it would reign in some of it’s badder practices, but maybe they are just daring Congress to regulate them. Facebook created a VPN product called Onavo Protect. The public claim was that it was designed to protect your traffic, […]
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]For those of you who do not have a life and hence follow the shenanigans of the legislative process in various states, today is a day that you will remember. The California legislature was held hostage by real estate mogul Alastair Mactaggert. Mactaggert spent $3 million of his own money (for him seat cushion money) […]
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