U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a labeling program intended to make the relative security level of smart devices more apparent to consumers, is based on a NIST standard first put forward in a February 2022 white paper, addressing a longstanding problem with shortcomings in IoT security.
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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.
The assessment of the damage from the recent cyber espionage campaign by Chinese hackers has now been revised and greatly expanded, with more senior officials and ambassadors confirmed to have been targeted and potentially "hundreds of thousands" of email accounts breached.
Elon Musk is asking a US District Court to put an end to the FTC privacy settlement the company has been subject to since May of last year, claiming biased investigations and misconduct.
The legal gauntlet for "generative AI" chatbots continues as OpenAI is now under FTC investigation, an action that could firm up questions about the extent to which consumer protection laws apply to AI tools and signal the direction of future federal regulation.
The temporarily-delayed Google Bard is now available in the European Union, as the Irish DPC has decided that Google has provided enough information to assuage EU privacy concerns. Google Bard is adding the ability to opt out of personal data collection.
The National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP) establishes 65 high-impact initiatives that agencies will be required to meet within set timelines for each. A greater degree of public-private partnership is also being promoted.
Study from Citizen Lab Toronto explores the WeChat ecosystem and finds that data sharing can exceed what the user expects, and that the privacy policy does not always make the extent of this sharing clear.
Microsoft's threat research team says that the Chinese hackers breached at least two dozen organizations in total, including government email accounts at multiple federal agencies. Campaign reportedly began in mid-May.
The EU-US data transfer decision at least grants a reprieve for big tech platforms that are built on targeted advertising such as Meta and Google, which are already under regulatory fire on multiple fronts.
Meta has now lost that case in the EU's highest court, opening the door for other antitrust law investigations in the bloc to incorporate data privacy violations and frame them as part of a systemic abuse of market position.










