Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2021
Reality Winner, a former NSA contractor who leaked classified documents to the press in 2017, has been released from prison to home confinement. Reality Winner is a former NSA intelligence contractor who leaked a classified hacking report to the press in 2017. The FBI arrested Reality Leigh Winner on 3rd June for leaking classified information to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice was to assign investigation on ransomware attacks the same priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack. The U.S. Department of Justice plans to equate investigations into ransomware attacks with investigations into terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack. Colonial Pipeline before, and recently the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2021
US banks are giving the green light to the adoption of facial recognition technology, while authorities provide regulations and updates guidelines Many among the US biggest banks are trying their luck with facial recognition technology. The FTC issues a new set of guidelines about the use of Artificial Intelligence. The European Union’s stance on face […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2021
German data regulator LfD announced a €10.4M fine under GDPR against the online laptop and electronic goods retailer NBB for video-monitoring employees. The State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) Lower Saxony announced a €10.4 million fine under the GDPR against an online laptop and electronic goods retailer NBB’s (notebooksbilliger.de) for video-monitoring employees for at least […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2020
The European Union is going to unveil two laws, the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts, that will impose new rules for tech giants. The European Union is set to unveil two laws, the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts, that aim at defining new rules for the digital market, especially for the operations of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2020
The European Union this week agreed to tighten up rules for the sale and export of dual-use technology. European Parliament votes to tighten up rules for the sale and export of surveillance and encryption technology. EU lawmakers and the European Council aim to update controls for the sale of dual-use solutions such as surveillance spyware, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2020
Earlier this month, German authorities have raided the offices of FinFisher, the German surveillance software firm, accused of providing its software to oppressive regimes. German authorities have raided the offices of FinFisher, the popular German surveillance firm as part of an investigation into the alleged sale of their software to oppressive regimes. The news was first reported […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2020
Members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance once again call for tech firms to engineer backdoors into end-to-end and device encryption. States of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), plus Japan and India, once again call for tech firms to implement backdoors into end-to-end and device encryption. “We, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2020
Earlier this year, Indonesia joined the ranks with the first four ASEAN countries including Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand to have enacted laws relating to personal data protection. On January 28th, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology announced that the final draft for the Personal Data Protection Act has been submitted to the president […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2020
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill that aims at improving the security of IoT devices. The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act, a bill designed to improve the security of IoT devices. The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act First was first introduced in […]
