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Hacked Firms Face ‘Frankenstein’ of State-Based Cyber Notification Laws
Last summer, Katherine “Kitty” Green received some disturbing news about the computer network at Florida Gulf Coast University, where she oversees a foundation for private donors. An outside data provider warned it had detected that hackers sneaked into the university’s systems and might have made off with sensitive personal information of its benefactors.
Six months later, FGCU sent out notices to 5,498 financial supporters, offering free credit-monitoring and a hot line to call for more information. One reason it took so long is that, after consulting with technical and legal experts, the university concluded that under local laws, it would have to file different notifications in 16 different states.
US Firms Are Profiting From Uyghur Forced Labor: Expert
A parade of witnesses told the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on March 10 that it’s all but impossible for U.S. firms to buy goods or services from China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that aren’t produced with forced labor.
That’s because Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have imposed such a pervasive system of repressive political, economic, social, and religious policies on the mostly Muslim population in the region of northwest China.
“It is a practical impossibility for a U.S. corporation to source from the Uyghur region without using forced labor, which means that every corporation that has chosen to stay in the Uyghur region is complicit in the crime of forced labor,” Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), told the USCIRF during a March 10 hearing.
Here’s Merrick Garland’s Orientation Memo for the Trump-Era Hangover on Press Freedom
President Joe Biden walks along the Colonnade of the White House Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (White House photo by Adam Schultz)
When President Biden announced the nomination of Merrick Garland as the next attorney general, Biden criticized incendiary rhetoric against the press as contributing to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. A new president and new leadership at the Department of Justice will mean turning a corner on a strenuous four years, in which the Justice Department was repeatedly drawn into then-President Trump’s attacks on journalists and First Amendment rights.
America seems to be witnessing the early stages of mirror-image McCarthyism, with leftists harassing their opponents.
The stifling intolerance that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI) and his ideological allies fostered during the 1950s went far beyond the effort to purge government employees suspected of being part of the international Communist movement. The campaign also exerted pressure on the news media, universities, and the entertainment industry to exclude individuals subjectively considered to be disloyal.
There are more than a few unsettling similarities between the abuses committed during that period and the current calls to investigate and cancel (purge) individuals in those same occupations and professions who reject left-of-center ideological positions on an array of issues. In essence, America seems to be witnessing the early stages of mirror-image McCarthyism, with leftists harassing their opponents. And if that trend is not halted, we are likely to suffer similar delete