The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 11: Signal and Noise: The New Administration, Privacy, and Our Digital Rights with Cindy Cohn of Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One)
In light of recent reports of cyberattacks on telecommunications companies, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a series of reports and statements recommending secure communications,...more
While the balance of security, privacy, and public safety has always been a concern, recent cyberattacks have highlighted conflicting guidance by United States government officials, creating potential pitfalls for businesses....more
As a recent DataPhiles post explored, the threat to telecommunications infrastructure and private call records posed by foreign threat actors only continues to grow. In fact, at least one U.S. government agency has urged...more
There has been a lot of coverage about the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC and Commission) new and expansive data breach notification Order, approved on a 3-2 vote at the Commission’s December 13 Open Meeting. Much...more
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress released the Encryption Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft) for public comment on July 5, 2019 (the “2019 Draft”). The Encryption Law is being enacted to do...more
Data centers are the twenty-first century nexus between the commercial real estate and telecommunication business sectors. Owners, operators and developers of data centers face the difficult task of continually adapting to...more
Earlier this year Vodafone Group (“Vodafone“) published an update to its Law Enforcement Disclosure Statement (“Statement“), including an annexe summarizing law enforcement and encryption laws in 28 countries. The Statement...more
New York Attorney General Announces Record Number of Data Breach Notices in 2016 - On March 21, 2017, the New York Attorney General's Office announced that it received 1,300 reported data breaches in 2016—a 60 percent...more
Maintaining a global supply chain brings its share of commercial, financial, and regulatory risks. Increasingly, telecommunications companies with global operations and suppliers are finding that U.S. trade control laws...more
The dream of hack-proof communication just got a little closer to reality. On August 16, 2016, China launched the world’s first “quantum satellite,” a project the Chinese government hopes will enable it to build a...more
By now, you have probably read about how the FBI is asking Apple to create software that would help the FBI unlock the iPhone of one of the deceased San Bernadino attackers. You have probably heard the talking heads scream...more
For privacy advocates, it is universally accepted that encryption is a very good thing. After all, encrypted data is deemed a safe harbor under HIPAA and state breach-notification laws, providing an “out” from potential fines...more
On December 27, 2015, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's national legislative body, passed the Counter-Terrorism Law of China, which entered into force on January 1, 2016. Although the law's...more
Powerful new computational technology pioneered in e-commerce presents Chinese regulators with potential concerns and solutions to the perennial problem of information, pricing, and settlement capacity. Online payment...more
The recent showdown over renewal of certain provisions of the USA Patriot Act (often called simply the Patriot Act) and the subsequent enactment of the USA Freedom Act have raised a number of questions about the ongoing...more