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FTC Lessons in Handling Sensitive Location Data
This week, let’s consider the FTC’s continued focus on sensitive location data. We’ll look at the lessons that can be learned from its latest actions, and provide a related thought on how irony emerges when considering local governments' widespread adoption of Smart City technologies.
Five Eyes Issues Guidance for the Deployment of “Smart City” Technologies
This week, let’s review the new “smart city” cybersecurity guidance issued by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, and offer some perspective accrued over time as long as this guidance is overdue.
“It’s Turtles All the Way Down” - FTC Focuses on AWS Security
This week, let’s look at a recent FTC Consent Order, then consider what lessons can be drawn about using AWS. We’ll also explain how IT infrastructure fits the turtle metaphor featured in the title of this post.
2021 - The Year of Supply Chain (Vendor) Management
This week, we’re providing our privacy prediction for 2021 - Spoiler: SolarWinds will make this “the year of supply chain management.”
What You Should Know about the Data Supply Chain
This week, we turn from current events to focus on the data supply chain, where personal information is transferred from citizen consumers to companies far-far away.