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.
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.
If you don’t like prying eyes, but want secure data, listen up. The UK government has ordered a US Tech company to create a backdoor in its cloud infrastructure, weakening end-to-end encryption, the very technology that keeps your data safe. This isn’t just a UK issue.
Last March, in the forward to the White House Cybersecurity strategy, the President wrote, “[W]hen we pick up our smart phones to keep in touch with loved ones, log on to social media to share our ideas with one another, or connect to the Internet to run a business, we need the ability to trust that the underlying digital ecosystem is safe, reliable, and secure.”
The European Commission is moving forward on its implementation of the recently passed Digital Markets Act (DMA). To this end, it is holding a series of
As the European Union and member states move forward with implementing the ambitious Digital Markets Act (DMA), they face some big challenges in terms of
In 1973, the first handheld cell phone call was made on a clunky phone that cost $4,000 at the time. In 1983, Time magazine put a personal computer on its
In a new survey, parents are very concerned about their ability to protect their family’s digital safety and privacy. As their top priority, they want
Innovation is the key to economic growth, improved standards of living, opportunities for all Americans and even America’s strength on the world stage. At time when Washington is almost defined by hyper-partisanship, one of the few areas where there is real, meaningful bipartisan agreement is on the pending Bipartisan Innovation Act.