D. Rockwell Brower of Polsinelli PC writes: A leadership change at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may spell relief for U.S. businesses grappling with the agency’s enforcement measures amidst an increasingly dangerous cybersecurity landscape. On January 25, 2017, President Donald Trump named Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen acting Chairman of the FTC. Ohlhausen has served at the agency in…
Category: Govt
FCC’s in quite the privacy predicament
Lawrence J. Spiwak writes that developments in the past year have resulted in consumers being farther away from good privacy protection: Our story begins with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) controversial decision to reclassify broadband Internet access as a Title II common carrier telecommunications service in its 2015 Open Internet Order With reclassification, two related legal…
ZA: Health authorities want to illegally access private information
Wilmot James, the Democratic Alliance (DA) Shadow Minister of Health, writes: The DA have a letter from the Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, to the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) in July last year in which he requested the CMS to collect private data about medical scheme members in order maintain a ‘Beneficiary Registry’ of members. His…
Coinbase says fighting IRS subpoena could cost up to $1 million
Cyrus Farivar reports: Coinbase’s CEO, Brian Armstrong, has estimated that it will cost the company between $100,000 and $1 million to defend its customers from what he described as an “overly broad subpoena.” Last month, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Coinbase could be ordered, at the request of the Internal Revenue Service, to provide years of…