It can be amazing to think back to a quaint time when the internet didn’t touch every part of your life.
Just ten years ago, for example, I recall setting up the very first Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube accounts where I worked. It has been a decade of rapid innovation and changes to our daily routines and the way we interact with one another.
It has also forced to the forefront discussions about privacy, collection of personal data, the responsibility of government and private businesses when they collect that data.
Europe has jumped out ahead of the United States in the way it protects personal data. There they have adopted a policy known by most simply as the GDPR, which stands for General Data Protection Regulation. The policy has resulted in billions of dollars of fines against the big internet companies like Google at $5 billion and Facebook at $1.63 billion.
Now, similar legislation is popping up at the state level across the US and even at the federal level. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden recently released an initial version of what he’s calling “The Consumer Data Protection Act of 2018 Discussion.” This is draft legislation and there’s a long road ahead… but some think it will find some support in both the House and Senate and we are likely to see some type of consumer protection become law in the next 12 months.
So, in this week’s episode of CYBER24, we get some insight from an expert, Dan Schuyler a cybersecurity systems architect at VLCM.
