For more than a decade, Congress has tried to address the rampant occurrences of data breaches. Since the ChoicePoint breach in 2005, the House and Senate have introduced roughly 50 different pieces of legislation related to data security. None of them have been enacted into law. The reasons for this [...]
Yesterday, China introduced its new Cybersecurity Law, a long debated law that will impose tough regulations, introduce serious uncertainties, and possibly prevent market access for American companies conducting business in China. This law is particularly toxic for ACT | The App Association’s app developer and small business members seeking access [...]
ACT | The App Association has long been a leading voice in the fight to ensure that our members and other digital economy innovators are permitted to utilize strong technical encryption to protect consumers and their data. We strongly encourage policymakers around the globe to think carefully as they deliberate [...]
The internet today sits at a crossroads. Data breaches and hacks occur everyday, stealing massive amounts of private information from American citizens. Engineers and researchers play whack-a-mole around the clock against exploits and malicious parties. For engineers, it is largely a role of damage control, as they lack the resources [...]
Online and IT privacy is a ripe issue for President Obama's or McCain's administration. It often takes a confluence of concerns and momentum to elevate an issue to the national forefront, and with privacy we have concerns related to targeted ads, ID theft, government snooping, electronic health records, and to [...]
