Friday 23 February 2018

The FTC's Controversial Battle To Force Companies To Protect Your Data

The FTC's Controversial Battle To Force Companies To Protect Your Data: "The FTC recently brought in Andrea Matwyshyn, an Internet security lawyer and law professor, who has been attending Defcon for a decade, as a senior policy advisor. It was her idea to run the robocall contest at Defcon this year. “The Internet of Things is bringing code into very personal aspects of our lives – into our homes and into our bodies,” she said. “When our medical devices, our cars, our homes, the gadgets we interact with are non-transparent agents of our trust, it’s increasingly important to consumers that there is transparent security and trust expectations for governance of their data.”"

Four years ago and still the best thing the FTC has ever done...'via Blog this'