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Senator Rubio: Latest Privacy Legislative Efforts A Futile Exercise

January 26, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Death of Privacy, Incompetent Governance, Questionable Legislation

Senator Rubio's new privacy bill will prevent States from ratifying their own privacy laws; I wonder what his Constituency thinks of this.

I'm astonished that the good Senator bothers to leave his home in the morning to craft what is essentially a rehash of previous ineffective legislation for his 'American Data Dissemination Act of 2019’. Perhaps he should just phone-in his CRs (Clean or Not), Bills and what-not ... I'll wager his effectiveness, efficiency and popularity would rise exponentially...

Perhaps this weekend, I'll point my admittedly jaundiced (don't forget skeptical) gaze towards Simson Garfinkel, PhD's (Dr. Garfinkel is the United States Census Bureau's Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access and the Chair of the Bureau's Disclosure Review Board) superb tome targeting the oft-uttered 'death of privacy'. Entitled in a apropos fashion: 'Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century". (Please note the preceding book link is not an affiliate link to booksellers - mh). Oh, and then there's this...

January 26, 2019 /Marc Handelman
Death of Privacy, Incompetent Governance, Questionable Legislation

The Federal TLS Chronicles: A Litany of Failed Certificate Governance

January 15, 2019 by Marc Handelman in Incompetence, Incompetent Governance, Government Incompetence, Information Security, Web Security

via the always informative Catalin Cimpanu, writing at ZDNet, comes the anticipated TLS Certificate renewal failures for at least 80 United States federal websites due to the federal government shutdown. Color us a bright shade of completely not surprised.

"In the end, nothing good will come out of this shutdown. May it be a cyber-attack that goes undetected or agencies losing cyber-security personnel leaving for the private sector, the ripple effects of this shutdown will haunt agencies for months or years to come." - via Catalin Cimpanu, writing at ZDNet, comes news of federal website TLS Certificate renewal failures.

January 15, 2019 /Marc Handelman
Incompetence, Incompetent Governance, Government Incompetence, Information Security, Web Security