Update 20 July 2022 – Amazon is taking positive action against fake reviews I am sure you check the reviews on Amazon products before you buy, I know I do, and it has influenced my buying decisions more than once. So it is obviously important that these can be relied …
Here are a couple of background stories on privacy
With the UK Online Safety Bill, on hold at the moment as the Conservatives choose a new Prime Minister for the United Kingdom, here are a couple of stories from around the world where authorities have seized PII information – with or without due process: Amazon Handed Ring Videos to …
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Indian government VPN logging deadline extended
The deadline for implementing a range of infosec directives, issued by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has been extended by 90-days. India extends deadline for compliance with IT Directions • The Register InfoSec in Indian now always seems to …
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Indian Government’s confidential information security directive leaks!
So the Indian government issued a confidential document to it’s employees on how to keep things secure and secret. It sounds like a great idea and something you should be doing in your organisation – Octagon Technology has such a document. Our document is version controlled, and I, as CISO, …
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VPN companies start to vote with their feet when it comes to storing user data in India
Because of the soon to be law, requirements for VPN companies operating in India, to keep full logs of their user’s activities for five years, so India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and law enforcement can have access to them – so removing the levels of privacy that a VPN …
