Recent rules passed in India that threaten end-to-end encryption are being challenged in court by WhatsApp. New "traceability" rules require social media platforms with at least five million users to be able to identify the originator of a message.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
Some of these new DHS cybersecurity regulations have been in the works for some time, but the rapid rollout of changes comes in response to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that created temporary gas shortages.
The SolarWinds hackers are back again, this time leveraging the stolen email account of a United States federal agency to run a phishing campaign against 150 government entities in 24 countries.
Though Silicon Valley would prefer data federal privacy laws that are favorable to them to a patchwork of state laws, Big Tech appears to be putting more effort into lobbying at the state level as of late.
A budding bipartisan movement toward establishing a federal data privacy bill began to take shape about two years ago appears to be moving forward, as legislation that was shelved in 2019 has been taken up again.
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Ad spend is barely impacted by the new Apple IDFA restrictions at worst, and even slightly up according to at least one ad company, but iOS 14.5 adoption has been unusually low.
As with Apple's new program, the proposed privacy labels are meant to give end users a quick reference to the range of data that Android apps are asking for.
AXA made news earlier in the month for opting to drop ransomware payment coverage from new cyber insurance policies in France. Operations in Asia were subsequently hit by a ransomware attack.
Faced with unrelenting policy, Apple has reportedly turned over servers containing iCloud data to the charge of the Chinese government.
