The EU Parliament and Council reach agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act, paving the way for passage. The proposed law, considered a first-of-its-kind, will require manufacturers of IoT devices to report serious breaches and conduct risk assessments of their products along with informing customers of unpatched vulnerabilities.
Our most intimate data is shared with healthcare providers and services, so when a breach happens there as it did with Blue Shield of California, people are particularly vulnerable. This breach at one of the state’s largest providers potentially impacts the data of 4.5 million patients and can give access to very sensitive information, including social security numbers, information on family, and where you live as well as medical and insurance data.
Ofcom, the UK’s internet regulator, has issued a draft guidance for porn sites to meet a new legal requirement to prevent children from accessing adult content. The guidance offers a range of options including signing into Open Banking, uploading a copy of their passport with a live selfie to match against, letting the system estimate their age based on a webcam view of their face, and providing credit card details.
T-Mobile will allow advertisers to target more than 20,000 screens in 11,000 store locations. That’s a lot of screens, but how much foot traffic does the average T-Mobile store get? It’s also linking up with streaming media company Plex as a CTV partner.