Regulation and targeted response strategies to fight disinformation worked after FDR took office in 1932, and it’s likely to work again today when someone will muster the national trust of residents ready to take action. Without that kind of popular support, and by instead making conciliation to technology companies, it’s unlikely we’ll see any progress … Continue reading U.S. Fighting DisInformation? Look at 1932 Presidential Election→
A privacy breach affecting hundreds of thousands of users in June 2014 happened several months after Yahoo had hired a CSO who publicly boasted he personally was the reason users could trust security of the service. He then quietly left in disgrace, failing to reveal this and other breaches, to become the CSO at Facebook … Continue reading Massive Biometric Data Breach Traced to 2014 Yahoo→
The California Attorney General (AG) Xavier Bacerra has posted Proposed Regulations to implement the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). Bacerra also has posted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Action (NOPA) and an Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR). Critics already are playing up that they can’t do business if they have to follow regulations … Continue reading California Posts CCPA Proposed Regulations→
General Eisenhower wisely and famously wrote to General Marshal in 1945 that we need to protect the future by carefully documenting the past: I made the [Buchenwald concentration camp in Thuringia, Germany] visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a … Continue reading EU Court: Holocaust Denial is not Protected Speech→