Collaborate Disseminate
“My parents, who have a Gmail account, aren’t getting my campaign emails,” Rep. Greg Steube told Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Continue reading GOP Congressman Turns Antitrust Hearing Into Personal Tech Support Session
The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau revealed Thursday that the agency had suffered some 240 “lapses” in data security over an unspecified time period, in addition to a suspected 800 other such incidents. “We have been able to document about 200-odd – I think 240 – lapses in our data security,” Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney told the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs during a hearing on the bureau’s semi-annual report to Congress. “Lapses – is that a breach?” Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., asked Mulvaney during a tense exchange. “I think data got out that should not have gotten out,” Mulvaney replied, adding, “there’s another 800 [incidents] that we suspect that we haven’t been able to confirm.” As part of its mandate to protect consumers, the CFPB has the right to collect data on credit card transactions, mortgages, and car loans, Mulvaney said. “Everything that […]
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The Facebook CEO and founder has been repeating the claim that, technically, the site doesn’t sell users’ data during his Congressional hearings. Continue reading Let’s Talk About Mark Zuckerberg’s Claim that Facebook ‘Doesn’t Sell Data’
Kirstjen Nielsen, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Homeland Security Secretary, said during her confirmation hearing Wednesday that securing the nation’s computer networks against hackers, spies and online crooks was one of the key missions of the sprawling federal department. Lawmakers with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee mostly agreed with that sentiment. Then everyone proceeded to largely ignore the subject for the rest of the hearing. Wednesday was instead dominated by the political lightning rods of border security, immigration enforcement and even climate change. There were questions about Nielsen’s relative lack of senior-level leadership experience, but cybersecurity — one of the increasingly rare topics on which there is actually bipartisan agreement in Congress — took a back seat. The hearing yielded some dribs and drabs of cyber, however, which we’ve chronicled below. From elections to the energy grid A key cybersecurity topic focused on electronic voting machines and other online election systems — starting with the […]
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