The California Consumer Protection Act or CCPA became effective on January 1, 2020. This act, while mandated for California, applies to any company that does business with a California company, has California resident customers, or collects any personal data of a California resident for any purpose (customer or non-customer). The mandate basically says that companies…
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after reaching a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Zoom has agreed to upgrade its security practices to what it has been promising its customers for years. Zoom has been reporting since 2016 that it offered ‘end-to-end, 256-bit encryption’ to its secure users. The truth is that while the video conferences are encrypted while in session, the criteria for calling it ‘end-to-end’ is definitely not applicable.
Defensive disinformation is a great tool against the data mining activities of governments and the big Internet companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple. Learn about this powerful capability that can be used by the little guy to make the data collected by the big entities become useless. This is like asymmetric warfare. Simple tools with…
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Vice reports “On Tuesday, Jackson, Mississippi’s city council signed off on a 45-day pilot program that would let police access Ring surveillance cameras in real time. In partnership with technology companies PILEUM and Fūsus, the pilot program will run through the police department’s surveillance hub, the Real Time Crime Center, from which Jackson’s police department…
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