On February 27, 2015, the White House presented a Discussion Draft on Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The proposed Privacy Bill aims at establishing protections for individual privacy and at implementing it through enforceable codes of conduct. According to the draft, covered entities shall process consumers personal data abiding, among others, to the following […]
On February 26, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to regulate broadband Internet access service as a public utility (e.g., water and telephone). Reclassification as a telecommunication service utility will allow for network neutrality. In order to safeguard net neutrality, the FCC’s rules provide for: (i) no blocking: access to content and services shall […]
Author describes the risk to privacy whenever one visits a health-related web page. From the article: “An analysis of over 80,000 such web pages shows that nine out of ten visits result in personal health information being leaked to third parties, including online advertisers and data brokers.” The full text is available at: http://phys.org…
Inside Counsel (2/19/2015) Author illustrate the questions that in-house counsels should be able to answer about his or her organization’s legal and business cybersecurity risk profile. The full text is available at http://www.insidecounsel.com…
Starting Feb. 12, 2015, users have a new option in their Facebook security settings: it lets them choose a legacy contact to pass their account management over when the time comes. The setting provides: “Choose a family member or close friend to care for your account if something happens to you.” Once you have chosen a […]
On January 16, 2015, President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron agreed to deepen their cybersecurity cooperation to better protect American and British citizens. Obama assured that they will work “to find … a consistent framework whereby our publics have confidence that their government can both protect them, but not abuse our capacity to operate in […]
On January 15, 2015, NY Attorney General A.G. Schneiderman announced that he would propose legislation that will impose new data security standards to protect personal information, broaden the scope of information subject to existing breach notification laws, and encourage companies to meet highest standards for data protection. Currently, New York State does not have a […]
On January 29, 2015, the House Technology & Economic Development Committee passed Bill 1093 which prohibits flying drones onto someone’s private property and record them without their consent. “The legislature intends to protect personal privacy by prohibiting the use of unmanned aircraft equipped with sensing devices that collect personal information, including images of individuals on […]
On January 27, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission “FTC” released a detailed report on the Internet of Things (“IoT”), recommending a series of concrete steps for businesses to enhance and protect consumers’ privacy and security. The report includes several recommendations addressing four main topics. First, it recommends the implementation of security measures for companies developing […]
A number of leading scholars and business leaders have recently warned about the danger of artificial intelligence (see Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates among others). For example Elon Musk, patron of Tesla, said: “I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, […]