What we’ve been working on.
As policymakers look for better ways to empower parents to protect their children
online, we also need to protect parents and kids from proposals that further
undermine children’s privacy, without solving important issues facing parents.
Last week, the Texas legislature passed a bill that would require Apple, Google, and others to conduct age verification on their users, shifting the burden
Trusted Future recently hosted a conversation focused on efforts to digital financial scams and fraud. Participants discussed how to combat fraud, build a more trustworthy
Legislative proposals should avoid simply shifting responsibility from the app developer who knows their customer and content best to the app stores that distribute them.
Today, the European Commission issued its first fines under the controversial Digital Markets Act.
These couple weeks have proven to be a powerful reminder of the power of encrypted messaging apps, and the equally significant harm to national security when someone unwittingly gains access to important private conversations.
The need for the world’s leading executives and government national security experts to weigh in on non-security “civil” legislation stands on its own as an imperative.
The Washington Post reported in February that the U.K. government issued a “secret order” that “demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud.”
While the immediate order is centered on Apple’s cloud data, the U.K.’s order for blanket access to encrypted material raises broader questions about its applicability to other companies and its potential to undermine end-to-end encryption, a critical tool businesses and consumers broadly rely upon today to keep their devices, services and data safe.
By any account, the transatlantic relationship appears to be at a low point. From trade and economics to matters of war and peace, the United States and Europe are in an apparent period of disunity not seen in decades.
However, there is one area where there appears to be more alignment than one might expect: cybersecurity.
As we warned they might do, today, under the guise of advancing interoperability, EU regulators have taken another major step backwards when it comes to