October 6, 2020 — As technological advances allow for more data to be generated on consumers, the public has become […]
September 18, 2020 — The United States Commerce Department said Friday that it plans to restrict access to WeChat and […]
September 14, 2020 – The transatlantic relationship between the European Union and the United States has reached a critical point, […]
September 11, 2020 – Given the way that robocalls “implicate a wide jurisdiction,” Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai stressed […]
August 6, 2020 — Although many ethical technologies are still in early developmental stages, they are here to stay, said […]
July 28, 2020 — Many Americans will continue to work remotely for the foreseeable future, posing major security threats to […]
July 27, 2020 — Online data practices are negatively impacting the lives of internet users, said Woodrow Hartzog, professor of […]
July 24, 2020 — The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs voted to bar federal employees from downloading […]
July 21, 2020 — Allowing users of online platforms to shape the use of their own private information can be […]
July 20, 2020 — There are no shortage of news headlines warning of the dire results of the lack of […]
July 14, 2020 — Russia is actively attempting to shift trusted institutions both in the United States and abroad, said […]
July 13, 2020 — The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to ramp up mandated cybersecurity efforts for financial institutions by […]
July 10, 2020 — The coronavirus pandemic has created an environment that is highly vulnerable to nefarious actors, said Rep. […]
July 9, 2020 — Metrics are a new frontier for automating certain cybersecurity measurements, according to Mariam Baksh, a staff […]
June 29, 2020 — The coronavirus has exacerbated the threat of electoral interference, said journalists and legislative experts in a […]
June 18, 2020 — The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting shift to primarily-online learning have placed students’ privacy in jeopardy, […]
June 17, 2020 — As the world adjusts to the long-running nature of the coronavirus pandemic, people in democracies are […]
June 15, 2020 — “Our election system is way more vulnerable than we think,” said Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, warning […]
June 10, 2020 — The development of digital contact tracing solutions raises endless security issues: Where should data be stored […]
June 8, 2020 — States that utilized cloud computing for cybersecurity initiatives were better positioned to handle the surge in […]
June 5, 2020 — The rise of telehealth across the country could mean a lack of privacy for its users, […]
June 4, 2020 — Victor M. Rios, associate dean at the University of California Santa Barbara, has filed a class […]
June 4, 2020 — Federal privacy legislation is more important than ever, said participants in a Brookings Institution webinar Wednesday. […]
June 1, 2020 — Google and Apple are rarely criticized for not collecting enough data on users, but under the […]
May 28, 2020 — The age of remote working and learning has led to a dramatic increase in cybersecurity risks, […]
May 27, 2020 — The internet could be better serving world peoples affected by the coronavirus pandemic, said Tim Berners-Lee, […]
May 2, 2020—News about the coronavirus pandemic “shouldn’t be an avalanche that buries” news on human rights, said David Kaye, […]
April 20, 2020— When a Zoom user had his question read out during the “Ask Eric Anything” webinar on Wednesday, […]
April 19, 2020 – Apple and Google are forgoing using their massive troves of location data for contact tracing and […]
April 19, 2020— The Federal Trade Commission will take into account “good faith” when exercising prosecutorial discretion for investigating Zoom, […]
April 10, 2020 – Data produced by cell phones is “not sufficiently accurate to be used for contact tracing,” according […]
April 10, 2020 – Data privacy regulation will undergo a subtle but massive shift due to the coronavirus, according to […]
Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, on Thursday joined 31 of […]
April 1, 2020 –States have put privacy legislation on a back burner during the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, even […]
WASHINGTON, March 9, 2020 – The Wednesday panel session hosted by the Federal Communications Bar Association’s Consumer Protection Committee featured […]
The House of Representatives passed a revised version of the Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability (DATA) act on Tuesday […]
Telecommuting and telemedicine are beginning to be discussed as potential remedies to the damage being done by the novel coronavirus, […]
In the seemingly never-ending debate over whether broadband classifies as a Title I information service, or a Title 2 telecommunications […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed a “third status for Facebook that would fall between telecom provider and publisher, while expressing […]
WASHINGTON, February 12, 2020 – As states draft and pass state-wide privacy laws, company compliance becomes increasingly “untenable,” said Konture […]