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The commission would no longer have the authority to enforce its privacy regulations for common carriers such as AT&T and Verizon.
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The crackdown comes as lawmakers look to update children’s privacy protections.
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A group of 10 U.S. lawmakers on Friday asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate companies that sell Americans’ personal data by exploiting online advertising, calling for any lawbreaking firms to be shut down. The lawmakers, including Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., decried the data-selling practices as an “outrageous privacy violation,” citing reports that Mobilewalla, a data broker, compiled data from Black Lives Matter protestors for marketing purposes. The broader market for consumers’ personal data is lucrative, and includes a bidding process for online ads that include code for gobbling up information on users’ locations and personal devices. The lawmakers want the FTC to use its investigative power to determine if data brokers have broken a federal law that prohibits “unfair and deceptive” business practices. An FTC spokesperson declined to comment. “[T]here is no effective way to control these tools absent intervention by regulators and Congress,” the lawmakers wrote to FTC Chairman Joseph Simons. “Technological […]
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IBM has stopped work on facial recognition, because the technology risks “promoting discrimination and racial injustice.”
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A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to both the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security on Monday urging them to take more action to defend the U.S. healthcare sector against hackers that have been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic. The senators warned that if Gen. Paul Nakasone, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, and Christopher Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), don’t take more action to deter hackers, they will continue to pummel the U.S. healthcare sector will continue to get pummeled with coronavirus hacking campaigns. “Unless we take forceful action to deny our adversaries success and deter them from further exploiting this crisis, we will be inviting further aggression from them and others,” Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Mark Warner, D-Va.; David Perdue, R-Ga.; and Edward Markey, D-Mass. write. “The cybersecurity threat to our stretched and stressed medical and public health systems should […]
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Crooks have stolen tens of millions of dollars and other valuable commodities from thousands of consumers via “SIM swapping,” a particularly invasive form of fraud that involves tricking a target’s mobile carrier into transferring someone’s wireless service to a device they control. But the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the entity responsible for overseeing wireless industry practices, has so far remained largely silent on the matter. Now, a cadre of Senate lawmakers is demanding to know what, if anything, the agency might be doing to track and combat SIM swapping. Continue reading Senators Prod FCC to Act on SIM Swapping
Sen. Markey and 2 consumer groups said the Google-owned service must comply with COPPA and should be held accountable for not doing so.
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For the first time in 41 years, a congressional hearing was held on the subject of the President’s authority to launch nuclear weapons. Continue reading Experts Tell Senate: Don’t Limit the President’s Nuclear Authority
The internet-connected devices that broke the internet in 2016 — what kid needs a Wi-Fi connected teddy bear? — sell like mad to consumers who have little idea if any security lies below the interfaces. One year after the Mirai botnet attacks brought some of the biggest tech companies to their knees, a new bill introduced on Friday aims to create a voluntary cybersecurity certification program to “independently identify, verify, and label compliant Internet-of-Things devices with strong cybersecurity standards.” The bill, known as the “Cyber Shield Act,” was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and in the House of Representatives by Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif. The act would establish an advisory committee to evaluate devices like cameras, cellphones, laptops and baby monitors. Companies meeting the standards could display a label on their products that would better inform customers on security issues. “It is critical that we prioritize developing products with the security of […]
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