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Last week I had the privilege of attending the Construction Financial Management Association Dallas/Ft Worth Chapter’s monthly membership education luncheon as a prospective member. The educational topic was Cybersecurity and...more
The EU Data Act came into force on January 11, 2024. The Data Act is part of the European Commission’s data strategy released in February 2020 and obliges manufacturers of connected products to make use-related data available...more
On 22 December 2023, the EU published Regulation (EU) 2023/2854, the Data Act, in the Official Journal of the EU. The Data Act is a new regulation providing harmonised rules on access to data, switching cloud providers and...more
Cybersecurity and data protection is front and center on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) agenda. The latest manifestation of this is the FCC’s issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on August 25,...more
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the European Data Act on June 28 after lengthy negotiations. The Data Act creates a legal framework for a single European data market, and its key...more
On June 16, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a final rule, effective July 17, 2023, on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services ("ICTS") Supply Chain, signaling potential new actions on...more
On 24 November 2021, the DCMS announced a new bill that would require manufacturers, importers and distributors of digital tech products (including physical shops and online retailers) to ensure that consumer...more
CYBERSECURITY - CISA Issues Incident Response + Vulnerability Response Playbooks for Executive Branch - The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued the Cybersecurity Incident & Vulnerability Response...more
Thomas Friedman's 2005 book titled The World is Flat discussed how globalization and technology flatten barriers to entry, making the world more competitive. From 2005 to 2021, there is no shortage of examples to highlight...more
The surge in new health apps and connected devices, which only increased during the pandemic, continues to raise many legal and ethical questions. As a result, lawmakers have been scrambling to define the obligations...more
Published on June 9, 2021, President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting America’s Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries is the latest Executive Order seeking to strengthen national security by improving public and...more
We always suspected that the Amazon Echo resting quietly in your family room was more insidious than it seemed. Now we have confirmation. We know that the Echo can hear us. We also know that it records private conversations...more
Tenants in New York City may soon have reason to sleep a little easier – the New York City Council has enacted a Tenant Data Privacy Act that is poised to enhance privacy protections in multifamily buildings in the city. ...more
CYBERSECURITY - C-Suite + Managers Pose Higher Security Risk to Organizations - You executives and managers who are in my age group (that is, you didn’t grow up with mobile devices and computers) listen up. According to...more
There are billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices out there in the world and this number will only grow. I’ve written before about smart light bulbs and smart security cameras and it’s no secret that I am fascinated by...more
The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 was signed into law on December 4, resulting in the first federal regulation of the Internet of Things (IoT). ...more
There is a new federal IoT law, H.R. 1668, the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020, that recently passed the House and Senate and was signed by the President on December 4. ...more
“Increased usage of consumer products and industrial devices connected to the internet will also raise new risks for privacy, information- and cybersecurity, including increasingly potential impacts on the integrity and...more
On Tuesday, November 17, the Senate passed H.R. 1668, the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020, by unanimous consent. The bill, which previously passed the House of Representatives in September after...more
How is a refrigerator like a stoplight camera and a delivery drone? Each of these devices and hundreds of millions of others are part of the internet of things (IoT), meaning that manufacturers are building them with sensors...more
Last night, the Senate passed by unanimous consent H.R. 1668, the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act. The House had previously passed the bill by voice vote in September after lengthy negotiations with...more
My team and I regularly carry out Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) according to Art. 35 GDPR with regard to the deployment of Voice Assistants for private and public bodies in Germany. This article shows my...more
The Pandemic has fast-tracked the use of telehealth services. Hussein Akhavannik discusses how medical device companies are looking to add to or expand remote monitoring capabilities. However, some capabilities raise legal...more
I continue to be quite surprised at the lack of understanding that people have about personal assistants such as Alexa and Echo. It seems logical to me that when you yell out “Alexa, turn on the lights!”...more
Following the UK Government's announcement in January 2020 that it would be moving forwards with regulation on consumer IoT device security, the Government has now published its legislative proposals and is seeking feedback...more