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Another California Data Privacy Law
The California Consumer Privacy Act is a lesson in missed opportunities. It was passed in haste, to stop a ballot initiative that would have been even more restrictive: In September 2017, Alastair ...
Understanding Data Encryption Requirements for GDPR, CCPA, LGPD & HIPAA
Take a proactive approach towards your organization’s security and compliance by gaining a greater understanding of current industry regulations for the GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and HIPAA regarding encryption In this... The post ...
Modern Mass Surveillance: Identify, Correlate, Discriminate
Communities across the United States are starting to ban facial recognition technologies. In May of last year, San Francisco banned facial recognition; the neighboring city of Oakland soon followed, as did Somerville ...
Should We Sell Our Data?
Tech companies are profiting off of buying and selling our data, which gets harvested whenever we share something on social media, listen to music, or watch TV shows. We’ve lost control of ...
CCPA vs GDPR: What You Need to Know About These Data Privacy Laws
These two far-reaching pieces of legislation are confusing — we’ll provide a bit of clarity about how they affect your organization Looking at the information security and data privacy industries... The post ...
New York SHIELD Act: The Latest Amendment to NY State’s Cybersecurity Law
New York is updating their cybersecurity laws — here’s how these changes impact your business (even if you’re not in NY) The New York SHIELD Act. It sounds like it... The post ...
How Privacy Laws Hurt Defendants
Rebecca Wexler has an interesting op-ed about an inadvertent harm that privacy laws can cause: while law enforcement can often access third-party data to aid in prosecution, the accused don't have the ...
The Importance of Protecting Cybersecurity Whistleblowers
Interesting essay arguing that we need better legislation to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers. Congress should act to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers because information security has never been so important, or so challenging. In the ...

