Month: February 2020
Senators attempt to force Twitter to ban Iranian leadership
Four senators, including Ted Cruz (R-TX), have asserted that, as a consequence of sanctions placed on Iran, Twitter must cease providing its services to Ayatollah Khamenei and other leaders in the country. “The Ayatollah enjoys zero protection from the United States Bill of Rights,” he wrote in a letter to…
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CCPA won’t be enough to fix tech’s data entitlement problem
Fredrick Lee Contributor Fredrick “Flee” Lee is chief information security officer at Gusto, the people platform for 100,000 small businesses nationwide. He previously led security at Square after holding senior security roles at Bank of America, Twilio and NetSuite. When the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) rolled out on January…
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3 unicorn takeaways from the Casper and One Medical IPOs
With Casper’s public offering earlier this week, we’ve closed the book on the first two venture-backed IPOs of note in 2020. Casper, joined by One Medical, carried over $870 million of private capital, venture and otherwise, across the finish line. Even though each IPO featured an unprofitable tech-enabled business that…
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The coronavirus could stick around, but the way we fight it will change if it does
Countries around the world are actively searching for cases of the new coronavirus in an effort to stop its spread around the world. But if they can’t contain the virus, public health officials may need to start fighting a different battle. Right now, countries are relying on measures like quarantine…
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Many businesses still haven’t patched Citrix flaw
Despite the fact that Positive Technologies released an overview of a critical vulnerability in Citrix software that put 80,000 companies in 158 countries at risk, one out of every five companies have yet to take action to patch the flaw a month and a half after its disclosure. The firm’s…
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Trump tests disinformation policies with new Pelosi video
A new video promoted by President Trump is testing the altered media limits put in place at Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, offering a provocatively edited version of an incident at the end of the recent State of the Union. At the close of Tuesday night’s State of the Union, House…
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