Facebook was served with a legal warrant and returned a set of messages in which mother and daughter discuss how to properly use abortion pills. The pair appear to have not enabled the optional message encryption.
North Carolina and Florida have banned ransomware payments for government agencies. Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, Arizona and New Jersey have also had bills of this nature recently come up for consideration.
Some cities and states that were early to ban law enforcement from using facial recognition software appear to be having second thoughts as crime spikes become a major political issue.
Amid concerns that tech companies will share potentially incriminating user data with states that have outlawed abortions after the Roe v. Wade decision, a coalition of Democratic lawmakers and privacy advocates is renewing calls for enhanced regulation.
American lawmakers may once again be ready to seriously take up the idea of a federal privacy law. A report about the bill was quickly followed by publication of a discussion draft for public view.
While the CFAA and all of its troubled language remains in place, the DOJ has announced that security researchers who do not have malicious intent do not have anything to fear anymore.
A nearly unanimous vote in the Connecticut House made the CTDPA official, with its terms set to go into effect on July 1, 2023. As with the other state privacy laws, only businesses that meet certain thresholds of personal information handling will be regulated.
With increasing privacy regulations, how exactly can organizations prepare for the looming privacy-driven era of digital advertising? It starts with baking privacy and transparency into all facets of operations.
The EU and US have reached an agreement in principle on a Privacy Shield replacement, but details of the data transfer deal are not yet available to the public.
The White House said that there is "no certainty" that there will be a cyber attack from Russia, but that the country is exploring options to target US critical infrastructure and that companies should harden cyber defenses.
