Every piece of personal data about you has inherent value. As long as there are customers clamoring for that data, breaches are likely to continue.
- Professor of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University
The European Union has issued its first fine, cracking down on companies that misuse users’ personal data. Why hasn’t the US taken a similarly strong approach?
The Europeans have something to teach the US about protecting citizens subject to Russian internet propaganda. Their effort isn’t just a different form of propaganda. It’s more like fact-checking.
Efforts to kick extremists off the internet can’t succeed and might even have the unintended side effect of bolstering support for radical groups.
It can be useful to think of hackers as burglars and malicious software as their burglary tools. Both types of miscreants want to find ways into secure places and have many options for entry.
What happens after a data breach? What does an attacker do with the information collected? And who wants it, anyway?
Throwaway phones are just one piece of the ever-widening technological arsenal of extremists and terror groups of all kinds.
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