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First, the bad: over the holiday break, crooks who are so morally bankrupt that they target the organizations that serve children pounced on schools in the US city of Pittsburg, California. On Monday, the superintendent of Pittsburg Unified School District, Janet Schulze, put up a message about the ransomware attack on the district's Facebook page.
One of the bigger challenges with the CCPA is the question of tracking the location of that user data, Terry Ray, SVP and fellow with Imperva, tells Threatpost. So CCPA changes a little bit of it in that CCPA says, look, you know, we're not asking everybody to comply to this, we're asking people that are going to store what California considered a reasonable amount of data - 50,000 records - if you store more than that you're relevant to CCPA, you have to start thinking about how am I going to protect that data, monitor that data, find that data and ultimately deal with processes around the potential breach of that data.
California state lawmakers should be lauded for SB 327, their well-intentioned legislative attempt at tackling one of the most pressing issues in the tech sector: IoT security. To its credit, SB 327 - popularly known as the IoT security law - provides a good first step towards much-needed and extensive cybersecurity legislation: with an estimated 22 billion connected devices worldwide, the very existence of an IoT security law is encouraging.
A landmark privacy rights bill took effect Jan. 1, 2020 in California and will have broad implications for U.S. consumers and businesses. The California Consumer Privacy Act mandates strict requirements for companies to notify users about how their user data will be used and monetized along with giving them straightforward tools for opting out.
As US lawmakers head home without agreeing on consumer privacy legislation, a new California law is set to become the de facto national standard, potentially leaving consumers and businesses...
Facebook on Thursday said it was ready for a data privacy law that will go into effect in its home state of California at the start of next year. read more
In September, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a new bill aimed at regulating the security of IoT devices, and it’s set to go into effect in a few short months on January 1, 2020....
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect Jan. 1, will have a longstanding impact on privacy regulation across the U.S., a security expert says.
In the absence of a federal digital privacy law, Microsoft has decided to comply with the requirements of California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) throughout the U.S. The CCPA in short The CCPA...
Microsoft said CCPA is good news, given the failure of Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy protection law at the federal level.