President Biden signs an EO that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans' personal data like geolocation to “countries of concern”, including China and Russia
The bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial and health data will be off-limits to “countries of concern.”
The FTC settles with Blackbaud, ordering the cloud software company to delete consumers' data and boost security after a May 2020 data breach affected millions
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Q&A with Sen. Brian Schatz on Congress' dysfunction in the tech space, regulating tech firms, the EU's DMA, AI, deepfakes, social media laws for kids, and more
Today, I'm talking with Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii. He's been in the Senate for a little more than a decade now, and he's seen a lot in that time.
Legislators and privacy experts detail how the tech industry has sought to water down state privacy regulation in the US; 13 US states now have privacy laws
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Privacy experts say that US state laws requiring data brokers to register are not adequately enforced, letting large numbers of brokers operate under the radar
Suzanne Smalley / The Record : X: @suzannemsmalley X: Suzanne Smalley / @suzannemsmalley : Data broker registry laws have not been well enforced, leading many brokers to ignore th...
Current and former CISA employees and sources detail an agency that lacks a clearly defined strategic direction and whose leadership seems more focused on PR
and director Jen Easterly, a former Morgan Stanley exec—has been glowing. But this report details an agency hampered by internal divisions and muddled priorities. https://www.cyber...
Current and former CISA employees and sources detail an agency lacking a clearly defined strategic direction and whose leadership is often focused on its PR
and director Jen Easterly, a former Morgan Stanley exec—has been glowing. But this report details an agency hampered by internal divisions and muddled priorities. https://www.cyber...
Overview of Xi Jinping's efforts to bolster China's hacking teams, already skilled in espionage, by focusing on cultivating talent and funding security research
Dakota Cary / CyberScoop : Tweets: @suzannemsmalley Tweets: Suzanne Smalley / @suzannemsmalley : The latest @CyberScoopNews column from @DakotaInDC argues that Xi's calculated inv...
Congress plans to vote on a bill to ban firms that sell spyware from working with the US government; experts say the surveillance market will be hard to curtail
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