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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2020
The British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released a guideline, dubbed The Vulnerability Disclosure Toolkit, for the implementation of a vulnerability disclosure process. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released a guideline, dubbed The Vulnerability Disclosure Toolkit, on how to implement a vulnerability disclosure process. The guidelines highlight the importance for any organization […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2020
A new Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) mandate requires U.S. agencies to implement vulnerability-disclosure policies by March 2021. The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA has issued a mandate that requires federal agencies to implement vulnerability-disclosure policies (VDPs) by March 2021. The main purpose of vulnerability-disclosure policies is to ensure that required information, other than […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2020
The Australian government aims at giving itself the power to manage the response of private enterprises to cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. The Australian government wants to increase the security of critical infrastructure, for this reason, it plans to manage the response of private enterprises to cyber attacks targeting them. According to a Consultation Paper […]
