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While you’d be hard pressed to find any startup not brimming with confidence over the disruptive idea they’re chasing, it’s not often you come across a young company as calmly convinced it’s engineering the future as Dasha AI. The team is building a platform for designing human-like voice interactions to automate business processes. Put simply, […] Continue reading Dasha AI is calling so you don’t have to
Equifax is fined $675 million, while New York data breach notification law now covers biometrics, passwords, and more. Continue reading Post-Equifax settlement, NY updates data breach notification laws
New York has updated its breach notification and data security law, expanding the definition of a data breach and imposing detailed reasonable security requirements, among other changes. The amendment also adds a number of new data elements to the def… Continue reading New York Becomes Fifth State to Define a Breach to Include “Access” to Information
Businesses throughout the U.S. will now be required to notify New Yorkers as quickly as possible when their information is compromised in a security incident, under a bill that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Thursday. The consumer-friendly data protection law updates New York’s current rules to cover biometric data, and forces firms to alert consumers when their email address, combined with the corresponding passwords or security questions and answers, are compromised. The state legislature quietly passed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act, or SHIELD Act, in June. The law, which takes effect March 2020, requires companies to notify individuals “in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay,” a time period that generally means 30 days, state Sen. Kevin Thomas, who re-introduced the SHIELD Act after it failed to pass in 2017, previously told CyberScoop. If the incident affects more than 500 New York residents, the affected business is required to provide written […]
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New York City is considering a law that could stop cellphone carriers and smartphone app vendors from selling their location data. Continue reading New York City moves to protect citizens’ location data
The company behind the gay dating app left users’ private photos online for a year in spite of knowing about the security bugs.
Continue reading Dating app Jack’d fined $240K for leaving private photos up for a year
One problem with building things using state-of-the-art techniques is that sometimes those that look like they will be “the next big thing” turn out to be dead ends. Next thing you know, that hot new part or piece of software is hard to get or unmaintained. This is especially true …read more
Continue reading The OS/2 Operating System Didn’t Die… It Went Underground
Construction has begun on a large new extension for New York City’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The building, designed by Studio Gang, will boast a degree of sustainable technology and provide additional exhibition spaces, a th… Continue reading Work begins on sculpted American Museum of Natural History extension
Uber is partnering with mobile network operator AT&T on the always-on connectivity it’ll require for its aerial transportation service network. The on-demand mobility company announced the team-up at its annual Elevate Summit, which brings together a number of key players working toward making affordable, accessible in-city aerial transit a reality. Uber said that it’s already …
Continue reading “Uber and AT&T team up for always-on connectivity for Uber Copter and Uber Air”
Continue reading Uber and AT&T team up for always-on connectivity for Uber Copter and Uber Air
Troops helps sales teams communicate via Slack. Continue reading VCs bet $12M on Troops, a Slackbot for sales teams