Although a handful of U.S. states have enacted strict privacy laws, the United States still lacks a comprehensive federal privacy statute, a vacuum that has fueled what many observers argue is a culture of “surveillance capitalism.” The lack of a national privacy law looms particularly large now as the Supreme Court seems poised to overturn […]
In November 2021, the Biden administration issued a binding operational directive that created two major tools to protect federal data and systems against cyberattacks. First, it established a formal, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-managed catalog of known-exploited, critical vulnerabilities; and second, it set forth the requirements for all federal agencies (and contractors) to remediate them. […]
The Biden administration is monitoring fuel supply shortages in the southeastern United States after the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, the White House said in a statement late Monday. “The President continues to be regularly briefed on the Colonial Pipeline incident. The Administration is continually assessing the impact of this ongoing incident on fuel supply for […]
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