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Some items</b> that may be of interest to the membership.... <br>
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<font size="+2"><b>"Right to Privacy Extends to Foreign Internet
Users, German Court Rules"</b></font><br>
<i>'The intelligence services cannot randomly search the digital
data of citizens of other countries living abroad, judges said, in
a decision welcomed by civil rights activists.'</i><br>
Melissa Eddy<br>
The New York Times<br>
19 May 2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/world/europe/germany-privacy.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/world/europe/germany-privacy.html</a><br>
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BERLIN — Privacy rights enshrined in Germany’s Constitution extend
to foreigners living abroad and cover their online data, the
country’s highest court ruled on Tuesday, ordering Chancellor Angela
Merkel’s government to overhaul a law governing the foreign
intelligence agency.<br>
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The decision by the Constitutional Court found that parts of a 2016
law governing the country’s foreign intelligence agency, known by
its German abbreviation BND, in part violated the universal right to
privacy in communication. The ruling ordered the law to be rewritten
to clarify the motivation for spying on individuals abroad, but it
stopped short of banning the practice outright.<br>
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<font size="+2"><b>ADT Sued After Technician Gained Access to More
Than 200 Customers’ Cameras</b></font><br>
IZZY KAPNICK<br>
<b>Courthouse News Service</b><br>
May 18, 2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.courthousenews.com/adt-sued-after-technician-gained-access-to-more-than-200-customers-cameras/">https://www.courthousenews.com/adt-sued-after-technician-gained-access-to-more-than-200-customers-cameras/</a><br>
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<font size="+2"><b>DevSecOps report: Cloud IT complexity creates
'immutable' security issues</b></font><br>
<i>Cloud IT deployments can be so complex that security issues
cannot be fixed easily -- so they aren't -- raising the attack
surface for enterprises.</i><br>
By Tom Foremski<br>
ZDNet<br>
May 19, 2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/report-finds-cloud-it-complexity-creates-immutable-security-issues/">https://www.zdnet.com/article/report-finds-cloud-it-complexity-creates-immutable-security-issues/</a><br>
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<font size="+2"><b>CEOs and CISOs disagree on cyber strategies</b></font><br>
<i>There are growing disparities in how CEOs and CISOs view the most
effective cybersecurity path forward, according to Forcepoint.</i><br>
<b>Help Net Security</b><br>
May 20, 2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/05/20/ceos-cisos-disparities/">https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2020/05/20/ceos-cisos-disparities/</a><br>
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<font color="#b3b3b3"><i>Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.<br>
Principal Technologist &<br>
</i><i>Distinguished Senior Research Scholar</i><i><br>
</i><i>Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)</i><i><br>
</i><i>University of Hawai'i</i></font></div>
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