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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