For
my security students.
Ransomware
Costs in 2019
“In
2019, the U.S. was hit by an unprecedented and unrelenting barrage of
ransomware attacks,” said Emsisoft’s The
State of Ransomware in the US: Report and Statistics 2019.
The ransomware costs of 2019 are higher than they ever have been, and
are expected to rise even further in 2020.
… The
ransomware attacks at least 966 government agencies, educational
establishments and healthcare providers. To be more specific:
- 113 state and municipal governments and agencies
- 764 healthcare providers
- 89 universities, colleges and school districts. This means that up to 1,233 individual schools were affected.
It’s
hard to know exactly how much the costs of a ransomware attack is,
but Emsisoft estimates that the costs in 2019 alone could have
exceeded $7.5 billion.
Not
incentivized by 4% of global revenue?
Companies
Use 'Dark Patterns' to Mislead Users About Privacy Law, Study Shows
Passed
in May of 2018, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
was supposed to usher in a new age of consumer privacy transparency
and protection across Europe. Instead, researchers say companies
have been tap dancing around the law with little
to no meaningful enforcement by European Union member
countries and regulators.
A
new
joint study
by researchers at MIT, UCL, and Aarhus University found that websites
in the EU not only aren’t adhering to the law, many are using
required privacy alerts to mislead users.
We’ll
be trying to comply with many contradictory laws until Congress stops
lollygagging.
State
Privacy Trends to Watch in 2020
While
all eyes are on California following the implementation of the
California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) earlier this month and
the start of enforcement later this year, other states are off
to the privacy races already.
On Monday, Washington State became the latest entrant with the
introduction of a revised
Washington Privacy Act.
From
the proposals introduced so far this year in Washington,
Virginia, New Hampshire, Illinois, and Nebraska, it is clear
that states will continue to follow last year’s trend of varied
approaches to state privacy legislation.
A
different path to a privacy law?
Ottawa
considering 'significant and meaningful' compensation for privacy
breach victims
Mandate
letters for Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Navdeep Bains
and Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault say they've been asked by
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to work on a "digital charter"
that would include legislation to give Canadians "appropriate
compensation" when their personal data is breached.
It's
not clear when the legislation will be introduced, or what a
compensation package would even look like, but Bains said it
will include punitive fines for those found guilty of breaching
personal data.
"It
will be significant and meaningful to make it very clear that privacy
is important. Compensation, of course, is one aspect of it,"
said Bains, adding that the government also wants "to
demonstrate to businesses very clearly that there are going to be
significant penalties for non-compliance with the law. That's really
my primary goal."
Statistics
Canada says that about 57 per cent of Canadians online reported
experiencing a cyber security incident in 2018.
Ryan
Berger, a privacy lawyer with Lawson Lundell in Vancouver, said
legislating compensation could get private companies to start taking
privacy more seriously.
"It
will incentivize organizations ... to take steps to protect that
information and ensure that, for instance, health information is
encrypted," he said.
For
everyone.
Verizon
Media launches OneSearch a privacy-focused search engine
VentureBeat:
“Verizon Media, the media and digital offshoot of
telecommunications giant Verizon, has launched a “privacy-focused”
search engine called OneSearch.
The launch comes at a time when public
trust in
big technology companies has hit rock bottom following countless
reports of breaches, lapses, and data
harvesting escapades.
Consequently, “privacy” is
pretty much the
buzzword
of
choice emanating from
most of
the big
tech companies,
and with its new search engine, it’s clear that Verizon is adopting
a similar tack. With OneSearch, Verizon promises there will be no
cookie tracking, no ad personalization, no profiling, no
data-storing, and no data-sharing with advertisers…”
A focus on facial recognition.
FPF
Director of AI & Ethics Testifies Before Congress on Facial
Recognition
In
a hearing
today
before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Future of Privacy
Forum (FPF) Senior Counsel and Director of AI and Ethics Brenda
Leong testified
on
the privacy and ethical implications of the commercial use of facial
recognition technology.
… To
read Leong’s written testimony, click here.
For an archived livestream of the committee
hearing,
visit https://oversight.house.gov/
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