Maine governor signs ISP privacy bill
Less than one week after Maine Governor Janet Mills received one of the nation’s most privacy-protective state bills on her desk, she signed it into law. The move makes Maine the latest US state to implement its own online privacy protections.
Maine inches closer to shutting down ISP pay-for-privacy schemes
Unlike a data privacy proposal in the US and a new data privacy law in California, the Maine data privacy bill aimed at Internet Service Providers (ISPs) explicitly shuts down any pay-for-privacy schemes.
Zombie email rises from grave after eight years of radio silence
What do you do when an email account you assumed was long gone comes back to life after eight years?
Your ISP, browsing history, and what to do about it
In late March, Congress approved a bill lifting restrictions imposed on ISPs last year concerning what they could do with information such as customer browsing habits, app usage history, location data, and Social Security numbers. Given that the repealed restrictions hadn’t yet come into effect, the immediate impact of the new bill is somewhat unclear. But given what typically happens with massive stores of aggregated, location-specific customer data, the prognosis is not good.
Scammers Impersonate ISPs in New Tech Support Campaign
Scammers devise a new ploy to trick users into thinking their own ISP is warning them about malware.
