Washington D.C., Sept. 20, 2023 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today approved a rule to revise the Commission’s regulations under the Privacy Act, which is the principal law governing the handling of personal information in the federal government. The final rule clarifies, updates, and streamlines the Commission’s Privacy Act regulations. In addition, the final…
Category: Misc
iOS 17 includes these new security and privacy features
Zack Whittaker reports: Apple’s long-awaited iOS 17 update for iPhones lands today with a number of new and improved security features. Much of the new features are aimed at protecting iPhone owners who are at greater risk of cyberattacks and spyware, like journalists, activists and human rights defenders. Other iOS 17 features are better suited for the…
A Radical Proposal for Protecting Privacy: Halt Industry’s Use of ‘Non-Content’
Law professor and privacy scholar Susan Landau writes: …. Following the spirit of consumer protection laws such as those requiring that cars must have seatbelts, we urge that, with narrow exceptions, regulations or legislation limit the uses of metadata and telemetry information to the purposes for which they were designed: delivery of content and better…
Cyberattacks And Compromise of Attorney Client Confidences
Scott Greenfield comments on a ruling previously noted on this site: In an underappreciated ruling, District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the multinational law firm Covington & Burling must comply with an SEC subpoena requiring the firm to give up the names of clients, publicly-traded corporations, in order for the SEC to investigate whether…