Last October, the ACLU filed suit after an incident that still boggles my mind. As Cecilia Wang of the ACLU described the background at the time: On February 22, 2017, Delta Airlines Flight 1583 departed San Francisco and headed for John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. As the plane was landing, passengers heard a…
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Key Insights From The 2018 Education Report by SecurityScorecard
In 2018, SecurityScorecard analyzed 2393 companies with a footprint of 100 IP addresses or more in the education industry. We found the following: The education industry performed last in terms of cybersecurity performance compared to all other major industries. The education industry performed poorly in patching cadence, application security, and network security. There are several…
Federal data privacy bill introduced by 15 US senators
Laura Hautala reports: The US doesn’t have a single data privacy law that applies to all fifty states. On Wednesday, a group of 15 US senators indicated it wanted to change the status quo, introducing the Data Care Act. The bill (PDF) would require companies that collect personal data from users to take reasonable steps to safeguard the information….
Bulk surveillance is always bad, say human rights orgs appealing against top Euro court
Rebecca Hill reports: A band of human rights organisations have appealed against a top European court’s ruling on bulk surveillance, arguing that any form of mass spying breaches rights to privacy and free expression. The group, which includes Liberty, Privacy International and the American Civil Liberties Union, has taken issue with parts of a September…