Tim Cushing writes: Just a reminder this is the sort of thing that is happening at our borders with exponentially-increasing frequency. The agents proceeded to search my belongings and demanded that I unlock my smartphone and laptop. This was rather concerning for me. My phone and laptop are property of my employer and contain unreleased…
Category: Govt
A.I. and Privacy Concerns Get White House to Embrace Global Cooperation
Steven Lohr reports: Two hallmarks of American economic policy under President Trump are a reflexive aversion for regulation and go-it-alone nationalism. But in technology policy, that stance is changing. In September, the Trump administration abandoned its hands-off approach and began working closely with the 36-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to create international guidelines…
FTC says it only has 40 employees overseeing privacy and data security
Harper Neidig reports: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday told Congress that it only has 40 full-time employees dedicated to overseeing internet privacy and data security and requested lawmakers give the agency more resources to adequately police tech companies. FTC Chairman Joseph Simons, a Republican appointed by President Trump, wrote in a letter to…
Utah Governor Signs Electronic Data Privacy Bill Requiring Warrants to Access Certain Types of Data
Utah has become the first state in this country to require law enforcement to get a warrant for data held by a third party This is huge. Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On March 27, 2019, Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed HB57, the first U.S. law to protect electronic information that individuals have shared with certain…