While you still need to take extra precautions for privacy when entering or leaving the U.S., it seems that border agents no longer have complete discretion to search your phone and computer. In a change to effective search policy, border agents need to establish reasons for suspicion of […]
When researchers at University of Washington pulled together a clip of a faked speech by President Obama using video segments of the President’s earlier speeches run through artificial intelligence, we watched with a queasy feeling. The combination wasn’t perfect – we could still see some seams and stitches […]
Long ago, when I worked as a lawyer at a large bank, we were generally able to rely on new state consumer protection laws being pre-empted by Federal financial regulations. This was a positive thing, because our bank, like many other big national consumer-facing companies, would usually wrap […]
Finding comfort in products that display commitment to both privacy and information security is understandable. The Mobile Ecosystem Forum, a global mobile trade association, published a study that indicated that 49% of the 15,000 survey respondents said a lack of trust limits the number of applications downloaded. This […]
I’ve been thinking back to simpler times when data was carried on paper and it required physical access to break into somebody’s files. Outside the hospital and maybe the bank there were few obligations for caring for this information hoard and nobody’s business spent much money to do […]
A recent Wall Street Journal article stated that the excessive costs of responding to breaches have become a challenge for insurance companies. The article presents insurance company executives being particularly concerned with their clients not implementing basic data management controls such as having a designated employee that is […]
For years we have been treated to the impassioned entreaties of cryptohippies, hardcore libertarians, and straight-up conmen for the rest of us to understand that both blockchain and Bitcoin have “changed everything” and are driving us toward a destiny of money freed from government interference and life choices […]
There are so many intertwining threads in this story about this “re-educational” Chinese app, we could make some very high-quality bedsheets. The ineffectiveness of “consent”. Tech as a force-multiplier for the state. The opacity of the black boxes we increasingly rely on to run our lives. Big Brother, […]
Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Similarly, everybody seems to despise the entire business of data brokerage – third parties who collect information about us second-hand and third-hand, but who do not actually have a relationship with the data subjects whose information is […]
On October 10th California Attorney General Becerra released a set of proposed regulations as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act, which we have posted about here, here, and here. Although the draft rules do not incorporate the amendments passed by the legislature because they were not signed […]
