Zack Whittaker reports: Apple’s long-awaited iOS 17 update for iPhones lands today with a number of new and improved security features. Much of the new features are aimed at protecting iPhone owners who are at greater risk of cyberattacks and spyware, like journalists, activists and human rights defenders. Other iOS 17 features are better suited for the…
Category: Misc
A Radical Proposal for Protecting Privacy: Halt Industry’s Use of ‘Non-Content’
Law professor and privacy scholar Susan Landau writes: …. Following the spirit of consumer protection laws such as those requiring that cars must have seatbelts, we urge that, with narrow exceptions, regulations or legislation limit the uses of metadata and telemetry information to the purposes for which they were designed: delivery of content and better…
Cyberattacks And Compromise of Attorney Client Confidences
Scott Greenfield comments on a ruling previously noted on this site: In an underappreciated ruling, District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the multinational law firm Covington & Burling must comply with an SEC subpoena requiring the firm to give up the names of clients, publicly-traded corporations, in order for the SEC to investigate whether…
Announce: New category on PogoWasRight
Given the explosion of news and analyses concerning artificial intelligence, a category for the topic has now been added to PogowasRight.org. Items from 2023 have the category added. For earlier articles, use the site’s search function for “Artificial Intelligence.”