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The Need for Trustworthy AI

Schneier on Security

Internet companies’ manipulating what you see to serve their own interests is nothing new. What distinguishes AI systems from these other internet services is how interactive they are, and how these interactions will increasingly become like relationships. Smart TVs spy on you. Phone apps collect and sell your data.

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SiteLock Named To The 2016 Online Trust Alliance Honor Roll

SiteLock

Through its comprehensive study, it evaluates companies in three major categories: a company’s consumer protection, data and site security and adherence to responsible privacy practice. The Online Trust and Honor Roll Audit is the only independent online trust benchmark study. Media Contact. Kimberly Waterhouse.

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Data Privacy in the United States: A Recap of 2023 Developments

Centraleyes

California – A 127: State Government California’s A 127 focuses on the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act and the California Children’s Data Protection Working Group. Delaware – H 154: Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act Delaware’s H 154 focuses on personal data privacy and consumer protection.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection. For over 30 years I have studied the technologies of security and privacy. Before the. 1 November 2017.

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MY TAKE: Why Satya Nadella is wise to align with privacy advocates on regulating facial recognition

The Last Watchdog

The surveillance regime the UK government has built seriously undermines our freedom,” Megan Golding, a lawyer speaking for privacy advocates, stated. You may not have noticed, but there has been a flurry of breakthroughs in biometric technology, led by some leapfrog advances in facial recognition systems over the past couple of years.

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Advice for manufacturers on the coming PSTI regulation

Pen Test Partners

The enforcement of the UK’s Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Act 2022 and the 2023 Regulations marks a pivotal shift towards stricter oversight of connectable consumer product security. It’s not all about consumer protection though.

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New IoT Security Regulations

Schneier on Security

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. This is the Internet of Things, and it's a security nightmare. It falls upon lawmakers to create laws that protect consumers.

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