Parents, students, and educators are navigating a novel educational landscape. Some schools are relying on a virtual model that requires significant technological involvement, others have opened up their facilities for in-school learning, with significant testing and safety precautions, and others have created a fusion of the two. Each […]
A few years ago, if you wanted to wreak havoc online, you needed some skill. You needed to understand coding and how to break into other computers. You needed to develop attack bots and probe for vulnerabilities. Now you just need to point and click. Aside from the […]
Facial recognition technology has been controversial lately, as governments struggle with how to use this powerful tool. The city-state of Singapore has begun to build face placing detectors into the very fabric of society – the system that facilitates interaction with both the government and private sector. Singapore […]
Legislators can become heroes. With one act of non-partisan legislation, your representatives could save thousands of lives, could boost the U.S. manufacturing economy, and could make all of our lives easier, safer, and less expensive. Oh, and the legislation would pay for itself. Why would you not do […]
Article 45 of the GDPR allows the transfer of personal data from the EU to a third country when the third country ensures an “adequate level of protection” (adequacy decision). In determining “adequacy,” the GDPR provides specific factors to consider including the country’s respect for human rights, the […]
We all have them. Old computers sitting around in storage, never to be used again. Broken servers that have passed their prime. Laptops abandoned for their newer, shinier versions. And what do you do with them? If these are business computers and you were considering tossing them into […]
In less than a month, Californians will vote on a consumer privacy ballot initiative, the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) went into effect on January 2, 2020, and state Attorney General (“AG”) began enforcing the law’s provisions on July 1, 2020. While […]
Some companies don’t seem to care about privacy compliance. They may not have the money to build a compliance regime. They may not believe in the laws or believe that the laws would ever be applied to them. They may just not have thought much about it. However, […]
Historians believe we have started a fourth industrial revolution where physical, digital, and biological worlds will merge to form the basis of a new economy. One of the key elements of this transformation is the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT). Yet the IoT may create havoc […]
In ancient European lore, vampires cannot enter a home without being invited in. Once invited, they are free to pass at will, feasting on the inhabitants. Of course, this legend had a practical purpose – to teach the young and naïve not to invite strangers who might do […]
