Data monitoring could be the reason your rates go up even if you’re really a safe driver. Progressive, for example, says that 20% of those who enroll in its UBI program end up seeing a rate increase.
As Congress works on data privacy laws, I hope they will consider the needs of small businesses like those in NC's Outer Banks and strive to strike the right balance between data privacy and business success.
Based on the headline of this article, you could be forgiven for asking questions like, “Who is this Eric fellow, why did you use to back him, and why don’t you back him anymore?” First, ERIC is not a who but a what. It is the Electronic Registration Information Center, a nonprofit organization registered in...
National Data Privacy Week came and went in January. Although most people don’t mark it on their calendars or celebrate it, data privacy is a critically important issue, and how it is regulated greatly matters to businesses. Unfortunately, the federal government has been stifled for several years in enacting a single national privacy standard that...
The benefit of blockchain is found in its transparency as a public ledger. This is beneficial if it is not controlled or limited by a central authority. If it were centrally controlled and limited, it could quickly become a weapon against private property, individual liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is in this point of contingency that lies...
In September of 2021, the Texas Legislature passed a law meant to reel in the social media giants’ monopoly of online opinion. The bill, known as H.B. 20, requires large tech companies to produce regular reports of removed content, create a complaint system, and disclose their content regulation procedures. It applies to companies whose users...
One in three internet users worldwide is a child under 18, estimates show. Expect that figure to rise as smart toys and all sorts of smart devices fuel constant connection. How will personal data, collected today, be used tomorrow? Answers are evolving. In a marketplace where information is money, privacy should be protected at every turn. Invasive or...
I have found the recent demonization of Facebook and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg fascinating and revelatory. We have discovered that during the 2016 presidential campaign the social media giant played unwitting host to hundreds of Russian bots and fake accounts peddling misinformation about the candidates. It has also attracted bad publicity for allowing third parties to...
Several attorneys general, including North Carolina’s, staged a pointless conflict with MySpace about identifying users with previous convictions for sex crimes.
