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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 ...
Best of 2019: Companies Ignoring Third-Party Breach Alerts
As we close out 2019, we at Security Boulevard wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the first in our weeklong series of the Best of ...
DHS Cyber Agency Seeks Subpoena Authority to Obtain Cyber ‘Victim’ Info
On Dec. 12, senators Ron Johnson (R. Wis.) and Maggie Hassan (D. N.H.) introduced legislation that would grant DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) the authority to issue subpoenas to force ...
California adds biometric specs to data breach law
California is changing its Information Practices Act of 1977 to expand the definition of personal information with additional identifiers, including biometric data of those affected. The amendment comes with new instructions on ...
Criminalize Ransomware Payment? A Bad Solution for a Bad Problem
On June 24, the Washington Post came up with a simple solution for the ransomware problem that is plaguing the U.S. critical infrastructure in general, and municipalities in particular. The Post opined ...
San Francisco Says NO to Facial Recognition Tech in Police Investigations
Local government agencies in San Francisco are prohibited from using facial recognition technology as a surveillance tool in criminal investigations for fear it might be inaccurate, the city’s Board of Supervisors decided ...
US Senate to End Deceptive Practices and Dark Patterns on Online Platforms
A bipartisan Act proposed by US Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Deb Fischer (R-NE) would counter immoral data collection methods by large online platforms, forbidding “deceptive practices” and “dark patterns” that manipulate ...
Equifax breach leads U.S. Senate to propose America draft its own GDPR
A US Senate report on an investigation into the monumental Equifax breach chastises the company for lax security, and proposes heading off similar incidents in the future – by making American companies ...
US Senate to Take Legal Steps to Prevent a Repeat of Equifax, Marriot Security Negligence
Time and again, Equifax disregarded warning signs of security vulnerabilities in its IT network, displaying a clear sign of “negligence,” before and after the 2017 data breach, concluded a report by a ...
Ransomware to land cyber-crooks decades in Maryland prisons if new bill passes
Ransomware attacks have been increasing steadily for a few years, and operators gain confidence with every new strike. While cyber-experts burn the midnight oil coming up with solutions to thwart this dangerous ...
