A little under a decade ago, Google marketed its smart glasses as a combination of fashion and function that it expected to become a hot trend. Facebook is forging ahead with its own version, and regulators are not wasting any time scrutinizing it.
European Commission announced an interoperability solution for decentralized coronavirus infection track and trace apps that relies on a gateway service to share information between EU countries.
Google recently won the court case over not applying ‘right to be forgotten’ rules globally. It defended the policy as a way to balance the right to personal privacy and the right to freedom of information.
GCHQ is being taken to task for a mass surveillance program first revealed by the Snowden leak, marking the first ruling against the UK government of this nature.
EU court recently ruled for website operators to seek user consent before transferring personal data via the Facebook ‘like’ button. This could have an impact to operators’ commercial gains and user experience when using the websites.
Long the weakest link in networks, smart devices and similar connected devices could soon be forced to bolster their defenses by the EU Cyber Resilience Act, requiring design-level security and ongoing patching.
Proposed EU Cyber Resilience Act includes a vulnerability disclosure requirement that would have all manufacturers report to the government within 24 hours of first discovered exploitation. In most cases, this would mean disclosing before the vulnerability has been mitigated.
The Digital Markets Act focuses on Big Tech, and its requirements would force message interoperability among other terms that Facebook and similar services are unlikely to be happy about.
The European Vulnerability Database was announced via press release on May 13, which indicated that the undertaking is already operational. Though the timing is likely coincidental to at least some degree, the announcement comes just weeks after the MITRE CVE database avoided defunding.
A new handbook published by crypto advocacy group European Crypto Initiative (EUCI) warns that EU regulators will ban anonymous crypto accounts and privacy coins by 2027, according to the terms of the recently adopted Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR).
