Weekly Digest (27 March 2022)

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A Red State Data Privacy Bill Moves

The Wavelength is moving! This week, you’ll get the same great content, but from the Ghost platform from this email address. The move will allow for a price decrease because of reduced costs. Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash This week, a house of a legislature passed one of the strongest privacy bills to be … Continue reading A Red State Data Privacy Bill Moves

Iowa’s Data Privacy Bill Mirrors Utah’s

Photo by Alexander Sinn on Unsplash The Wavelength is moving to the Ghost platform. The move will allow for a significant price decrease, so consider subscribing. It appears that the data privacy bill the Iowa House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to send to the state Senate is dead. Supposedly, because a Senate committee did not … Continue reading Iowa’s Data Privacy Bill Mirrors Utah’s

Another Hearing On “Big Tech” But With Proposed Legislation

The Wavelength is moving! Next week, you’ll get the same great content, but from the Ghost platform. The move will allow for a price decrease because of reduced costs for me.   Photo by FLY:D on Unsplash This week, the United States (U.S.) House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee held the … Continue reading Another Hearing On “Big Tech” But With Proposed Legislation

Wavelength Weekly Digest (6 March 2022)

The Wavelength is now a subscription newsletter, so if you want access to all the content, subscribe today. The Wavelength is now a subscription newsletter, so if you want access to all the content, subscribe today. Here are the editions from the past week you may have missed: Congress Considers Alternatives To Amending Section 230, … Continue reading Wavelength Weekly Digest (6 March 2022)

Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events (16 August 2021)

Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want the content on my blog delivered to your inbox four times a week before it’s posted here. Other Developments The European Commission (EC) opened “an in-depth investigation to assess the proposed acquisition of Kustomer by Facebook under the EU Merger Regulation” according to their press release. … Continue reading Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events (16 August 2021)

Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events (9 August 2021)

Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want the content on my blog delivered to your inbox four times a week before it’s posted here. Other Developments The United States (U.S.) Department of Justice (DOJ) provided an update to its January statement that it had been compromised in the SolarWinds hack. Over 27 U.S. … Continue reading Other Developments, Further Reading, and Coming Events (9 August 2021)

Key Senate Republicans Issue New Version of Privacy Bill

Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want the content on my blog delivered to your inbox four times a week before it’s posted here. Key Republican privacy stakeholders have revised and released the third iteration of their data privacy bill. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Consumer … Continue reading Key Senate Republicans Issue New Version of Privacy Bill

Stark Lines Drawn at FTC Hearing

Photo by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash Subscribe to my newsletter, The Wavelength, if you want the content on my blog delivered to your inbox four times a week before it’s posted here. The House Energy and Commerce Committee heard from all five Federal Trade Commission (FTC) members and other experts on how the FTC should … Continue reading Stark Lines Drawn at FTC Hearing