Mark Young and Paul Maynard of Covington and Burling write: UKG) proposals for new, sector-specific cybersecurity rules continue to take shape. Following the announcement of a Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill and a consultation on the security of apps and app stores in the Queen’s Speech (which we briefly discuss here), the UKG issued a…
Category: Laws
EFF to California Governor: Protect Abortion Data Privacy
Adam Schwartz of EFF writes: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-choice sheriffs and bounty hunters will try to investigate and punish abortion seekers based on their internet browsing, private messaging, and phone app location data. Legislators must act now to protect this personal data. Reproductive justice requires data privacy. That’s why EFF urges California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign A.B….
ANALYSIS: Can New York Mandate Speed Governors on New Cars?
Eve Kessler reports: Advocates are cheering a first-in-the-nation New York bill that would mandate speed-limiting technology in new cars and would limit large passenger vehicles that have blind spots that endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users. But does New York even have the authority to regulate cars this way? And would the law be doomed to…
Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law
Weronika Strzyżyńska reports: The Iranian government is planning to use facial recognition technology on public transport to identify women who are not complying with a strict new law on wearing the hijab, as the regime continues its increasingly punitive crackdown on women’s dress. The secretary of Iran’s Headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, Mohammad…