Saturday, April 20, 2019


I went to the Privacy Foundation seminar yesterday. It helped me reach a few conclusions. Call them “Privacy Minimums” if you will:
First, Privacy Regulation will become universal. Today you need to consider the GDPR if you do business in the EU or with EU citizens. California and Brazil are mere months away from implementing their own, similar laws. Within the lifetime of a normal IT system, most countries will have similar regulations.
Second, none of the follow-on laws will make compliance simpler. You must comply with the toughest law, so why even consider “separate but simpler?”
Third, for each system (old or new) and for each data element, you will need to know where the data comes from, how it is used, everywhere it is stored and where (and when) it goes. Can it be used to identify an individual by itself or combined with other data? Do you have “opt in” permission? Has that individual ever exercised “opt out?”




How to handle a ransomware attack: back up in an hour!
A ransomware attack took The Weather Channel off the air
The Weather Channel was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, briefly taking a live TV program off the air, according to .a Wall Street Journal report
The attack came amid severe weather in the southeastern United States and knocked out the cable channel for more than an hour. The FBI told the Journal a ransomware attack was the source of the problem and that the agency is investigating.
We experienced issues with this morning’s live broadcast following a malicious software attack on the network,” the channel confirmed in a tweet about the incident, adding that “backup mechanisms” had allowed the channel to restore service.




Three freedoms of the Internet?
Don't Regulate The Internet Like Every Company Is The Same
key to his approach is a more modern update to the common "free as in speech v. free as in beer" concept that everyone in the open source world is familiar with. Ben talks about a third option that has been discussed for decades, which is "free as in puppy" -- meaning something that you get for free, but which then has an ongoing cost in terms of maintaining the free thing you got.



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