As more processes become digitized, there are increasing opportunities for bad actors to cause harm. It’s important for individuals to recognize the importance of IoT security, both for their personal data and their company’s data. I’ve outlined some best practices to consider when developing IoT projects below, to help you keep both your own and […]
This article was published by American Marketer (free) and Luxury Daily (paywall) on May 29, 2019. A year ago Saturday, May 25, marks the one-year anniversary of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), a tsunami that washed on to the world’s shores. Even though the GDPR waters have yet to settle, it is abundantly clear […]
The following GDPR insights from Michael Becker, along with those from eleven other industry leaders, were reproduced by the Mobile Ecosystem Forum (2019) in “Industry views: GDPR one year on” on May 23, 2019. It has been a year since the GDPR tsunami washed on to the world’s shores. And, even though the GDPR waters […]
June 28 Update: It’s official, California signed into law June 28, 2018 Bill AB-375, giving its citizens far-reaching privacy rights! More to come, I’m sure. *********** Original piece – June 27, 3018: On Tuesday, June 25, 2018, the California State Legislature voted to send Bill AB-375, the California Consumer Privacy Act 2018, from the State’s Senate Judiciary Committee to the […]
Not a day goes by that I don’t see an article pop up about GDPR and blockchain, but rarely do I see them come up in the same context, so I thought I’d write one. Here is the question, can a company use blockchain to manage transactional records with people and not run afoul of […]
“While the U.S. administration is dialing-back on regulations that protect personal information, European regulators are ratcheting them up.” Michael Becker “We’ve lost control of our personal data.” Tim Berners-Lee. Remember Orwell’s book “1984”? It turns out that George Orwell might have been an optimist. Since the dawn of the Internet, we’ve looked at the web as […]