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MY TAKE: What it takes to beat cybercrime in the age of DX and IoT: personal responsibility

The Last Watchdog

Back in 2004, when I co-wrote this USA TODAY cover story about spam -spreading botnets, I recall advising my editor to expect cybersecurity to be a headline-grabbing topic for a year or two more, tops. What’s more, key industry standards-setting bodies and government regulators are well aware of what’s at stake. I was wrong.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

And the FEC — that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech — the FEC made sure that when audiences were targeted with creative that supports one candidate or another, those audiences could know who was behind same-said creative. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud.

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The CCPA governs how businesses treat “consumer” “personal information.” The CCPA defines “personal information” broadly to include information that “identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the The government mostly stayed out of Google’s way during this period. When Google went public in 2004, it was estimated that between 15 to 25 percent of advertising on its platform was fraudulent. And the FEC?—?that’s

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the The government mostly stayed out of Google’s way during this period. When Google went public in 2004, it was estimated that between 15 to 25 percent of advertising on its platform was fraudulent. And the FEC?—?that’s

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The CCPA governs how businesses treat “consumer” “personal information.” The CCPA defines “personal information” broadly to include information that “identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”

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