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James Lamond: How Companies Can Keep Kids Safe In Today’s Digital World

For parents today, the world is drastically different than the one they grew up in. While the proliferation of connected technologies has created countless opportunities for children to learn and experience the world, there are very serious risks for kids if they don’t enter the digital world safely. This can often feel overwhelming for parents. The good news is that companies can take real measures to help parents navigate the digital environment and give their kids the opportunities to benefit from all that technology has to offer.

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Tina’s Video Game Journey

New laws in Texas and Utah and proposals in Louisiana and the U.S.
Congress require an app user’s age be verified at the app store. On the surface, these bills have a great goal: ensuring that children only access age-appropriate content online.

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Travis’ Story

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.

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The Huge Costs for Small Businesses of App Store Age Verification Bills

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

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Consumer Protection in the Digital Age: Four Lessons From Experts

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

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Empowering parents with trustworthy options to simultaneously protect kids privacy and safety

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.

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Three Problems With the New Digital Markets Act Fines and Interoperability Regulatory Measures

Today, the European Commission issued its first fines under the controversial Digital Markets Act.

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Signalgate, and NSA warnings about Signal vulnerabilities, highlight the inherent vulnerabilities in the EU’s latest interoperability rules   

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.  

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Adam Golodner: The EU’s cybersecurity dilemma: It’s time for executives to take action

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.

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Jim Kohlenberger: Cybersecurity Risks Of Encryption Backdoors: What Business Leaders Should Know

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.

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