Friday, May 15, 2020


Predicting a stronger CCPA?
CCPA 2.0 And Where We Go From Here
On May 4th, 2020, Californians for Consumer Privacy confirmed that they had submitted hundreds of thousands more signatures than required to qualify for a ballot initiative. It is still yet unknown whether the Attorney General will qualify the ballot for the November 2020 election, let alone whether it would pass. If the initiative passes, it will be noteworthy for a number of reasons.




Probably not doctor prescribed.
Hungarian Government Suspends GDPR Data Subjects Rights
On May 4, 2020, the Hungarian Government issued a Decree that suspends, during the COVID-19 created state of emergency, the one-month deadline that controllers have under the GDPR to reply to data subject rights requests. The Decree also allows public entities to refuse or suspend freedom of information (“FOIA”) requests in certain situations. The Decree has been heavily criticized by civil society groups and prompted the scrutiny by the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”).




Like much of what TSA does and says, I don’t get this at all. Sounds like they are going to become a huge surveillance database and start screening people who aren’t currently required to go through TSA screening.
TSA Issues Road Map to Tackle Insider Threat With Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Security Administration is planning to increase and share information it collects, including that gleaned from employees, with other federal agencies and the private sector in an effort to prevent insiders from perpetrating various harmful malfeasance.
Artificial Intelligence, probabilistic analytics and data mining are among tools the agency lists in a document it issued today loosely outlining the problem and the plan to create an “Insider Threat Mitigation Hub.”
A TSA press release identified three parts of that strategy as “promoting data-driven decision making to detect threats; advancing operational capability to deter threats; and maturing capabilities to mitigate threats to the transportation sector.”
Under the first objective, TSA plans to “develop and maintain insider threat risk indicators,” which could include behavioral, physical, technological or financial attributes that might expose “malicious or potentially malicious” insiders.
TSA pre-empted concerns [Riiight… Bob] usually associated with massive data collection practices by including the protection of privacy and civil liberties among the “guiding principles” it said would accompany its efforts.
[From the “plan”:
For the purposes of this roadmap, we define Insider Threat as the threat that an individual with authorized access to sensitive areas and/or information, will wittingly or unwittingly misuse or allow others to misuse this access to exploit vulnerabilities in an effort to compromise security, facilitate criminal activity, terrorism, or other illicit actions that inflict harm to people, organizations, the transportation system, or national security




I’ll try to pull some of this into my classes. There seems to be a lot to choose from.
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