Nov 21, 2024 DHS Nominee Opposed Federal Cyber Spending as Governor By Mitzi Hill The new administration has proposed North Dakota's governor Kristi Noem as head of DHS, which includes oversight over federal...
Nov 14, 2024 California Regulator Pressing Forward with Privacy-Driven AI Rules By Mitzi Hill The state regulator charged with enforcing California's comprehensive privacy law has given official notice of a rulemaking regarding...
Nov 07, 2024 Employee Monitoring AI Tech Under Regulatory Scrutiny By Mitzi Hill Federal regulators are taking a stand against employee monitoring and profiling via AI technologies. The real concern seems to be...
Oct 24, 2024 Marriott Paying $52M to Settle Federal and State Data Breach Investigations By Mitzi Hill In connection with several data breaches affecting hundreds of millions of hotel guests, Marriott will settle outstanding investigations...
Oct 15, 2024 Scam/Fraud Warning Follows Hurricanes; Reminder of How Most Cyber Events Start By Mitzi Hill As if the toll of natural disasters were not bad enough, the reality today is that criminals use them as a way to perpetrate frauds on...
Oct 08, 2024 California Privacy Class Actions Target Website Analytics Tools By Mitzi Hill There has been a spate of claims against small website operators in recent years, claiming that the pixels, cookies, and other trackers...
Sep 17, 2024 American Bar Association Issues Guidance on Ethical Use of GAI in Legal Services By Brandie Barrows On July 29, 2024, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released Formal...
Sep 12, 2024 Bipartisan Bills Would Promote Cyber Security Efforts in Healthcare By Mitzi Hill The Senate has passed, and in late summer the House introduced, legislation aimed at improving cyber security in healthcare. Congress'...
Sep 10, 2024 California AI Bill Would Make Companies Liable for "Critical Harms" to Humanity By Mitzi Hill California's legislature has passed AI-regulating legislation that, if signed, would directly take on developers of large AIs. The bill...
Feb 28, 2024 America’s Growing Addiction to Data Centers! By Jeffrey Nix We in America are constantly swiping our credit cards to make purchases. In 2022, credit card transactions in the US alone totaled 54.8...
Jan 24, 2024 The 8 Dimensions (yes 8) of Building Information Modeling By Jeffrey Nix Building Informational Modeling or BIM originated as a 3D digital model in the 1970's. BIM depicted the dimensions of a physical asset,...
Oct 25, 2023 How the Creation of Smart Cities Impacts Urban Life? By Jeffrey Nix Smart cities use and apply data collected through information and communications technology or ICT to adjust, manage and improve urban...