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Others contend that loosening things up could have dangerous consequences, and the administration should go the opposite direction.
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Civil liberties advocates want to narrow the scope of an amendment to a controversial surveillance law.
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The legislation eventually garnered widespread support on its way to becoming law, but much remains unresolved.
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Battle lines are drawn in Congress over legislation that would require companies to report some cyber incidents to the federal government, with industry groups lining up to support a House of Representatives bill poised to create fewer challenges for business leaders than a similar proposal in the Senate. The debate involves questions about how quickly companies would have to report attacks, what kinds of specific intrusions would trigger notification and whether failure to comply with the rules would lead to financial penalties. The idea of breach notification legislation gained momentum following last year’s discovery of the SolarWinds hack that compromised nine federal agencies and some 100 companies, as well as the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in May. At issue are such questions as whether companies have 24 or 72 hours to report an incident, along with who would be on the hook outside of critical infrastructure owners and operators, if […]
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Few issues divide the tech community quite like privacy. Much of Silicon Valley’s wealth has been built on data-driven advertising platforms, and yet, there remain constant concerns about the invasiveness of those platforms. Such concerns have intensified in just the last few weeks as France’s privacy regulator placed a record fine on Google under Europe’s […] Continue reading Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019?
In an effort protect the internet and its denizens from coordinated, automated cyberattacks, an industry group released an “International Anti-Botnet Guide” on Thursday. The guide offers best practices to collectively secure the digital ecosystem from botnets, the large networks of computer systems that malicious cyber actors use to automate and scale destructive online activity spreading malware like distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The guide was put together by the Council to Secure the Digital Economy (CSDE), a group of trade associations that represent the technology industry, including USTelecom, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) and Consumer Technology Association (CTA). At an event announcing the new guide in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, industry representatives touted the effort as a stepping stone for market self-regulation that will curb the cyber risks that organizations often face when acting alone. “The fact that our companies touch virtually every single country is proof-of-concept that we […]
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The United States Supreme Court last week ruled in ‘Carpenter v. United States’ that the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution requires law enforcement agencies to obtain a search warrant to access individuals’ cellphone location hi… Continue reading Monday, June 25: Dtex, Insider Threat in the News: Dtex CEO Christy Wyatt Speaks to Dark Reading about Tesla Insider Attack, NBC about Privacy and SCOTUS Cell Phone Decision; Tech’s Mega Players Meeting Wednesday to Talk Privacy and Regulation