Techstrong News Recap – May 23, 2023
On May 23, William Willis covered the European Union fining Meta $1.3 billion for sending user data to the United States, Britain revealing its semiconductor strategy and China telling manufacturers to stop purchasing Micron Technology chips. He also talked about Twitter accusing Microsoft of data misuse. Finally, he previewed articles from Security Boulevard, DevOps.com and Cloud Native Now, which covered comparing cloud service providers’ shared responsibility models, GitHub adding capabilities for developers with disabilities and Rafay Systems adding the Backstage plugin to its Kubernetes management platform.
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Hi again, everyone. Here are the headlines from May 23rd. 3 billion for privacy violations in order the company to stop transferring user data back to the US by October.
This decision is the latest development in a long-standing legal battle dating back to 2013, driven by concerns of over US. Surveillance of European countries define itself pertains to various categories of user data targeted for online advertising. Meta asserts that its European service remains unaffected at present with no immediate disruption reported, defined as the largest ever imposed under the eu.
Data privacy regulations surpassing even Amazon's penalty back in 2021. Defiance poses potential challenges for META'S data operations and may necessitate costly infrastructure changes, but meta intends to appeal the decision and seek a suspension of the ruling. The decision highlights the clash between the EU and US privacy standards, creating concerns for other companies engaged in in EU u s data transfers.
The faded data privacy agreements between the two entities remained uncertain given the previous invalidation of the privacy shield and the current rejection of stock legal contracts. Next, the British government has revealed that semiconductor strategy aiming to reduce reliance on Asian ship production and strengthened its domestic industry. Over the next 10 years, the industry will receive a government investment of up to 1 billion.
Although the funding amount is smaller compared to the US Chips Act. In the European Unions CHIP program, it will be focused on key areas such as research and development design, intellectual property, and cutting edge compound semiconductors. An initial allocation of 200 million will be provided between 2023 and 2025.
The strategies objectives includes boosting domestic chip industries, D addressing supply chain disruptions, and safeguarding national security. While on the subject of semiconductors, China's cyberspace administration has urged users to avoid purchasing products from micron technology citing serious network security risks that could endanger China's information infrastructure. This statements lack specific details, but instructs critical information infrastructure operators to see spying from Micron.
This, this development comes as the us Europe, and Japan have restricted access to advanced chip ma King technology and the Chinese officials looking for ways to retaliate without harming domestic industries. Despite tensions, Beijing has been cautious to avoid disrupting industries reliant on foreign chips, and is investing in chip development to reduce dependence on foreign technology. Zooming out, US Chinese relations have remained strained amids various disputes, and these conflicts raise concerns about global decoupling and incompatible technology standards impacting both innovation and costs.
In other news, Elon Musk's lawyer has accused Microsoft of misusing Twitter data and is requested an audit from the software giant. The focus of the letter is on Microsoft's alleged violations concerning access to Twitter's tweet database. While Musk previously accused Microsoft and OpenAI of illegal use of Twitter data for AI development, the letter avoids directly addressing This issue and instead emphasizes Microsoft's potential overuse of Twitter data.
It mentions that Microsoft has SD over over 26 billion tweets in 2022 exceeding and agreed upon limit. The letter also points out Microsoft's failure to inform Twitter about the purpose of data usage for certain apps. In violation of the agreement by supplying Twitter data to government related virtual locations without notification.
The letter demanded detailed information about Twitter data held by Microsoft. The purpose of each app utilizing Twitter information and whether government entities receive data. Microsoft has responded by stating it will review their concerns raised in the letter and respond accordingly without specifically addressing the details.
Mentioned in the letter on Security Boulevard, we have an article comparing cloud providers shared responsibility models. Many enterprises are becoming multi-cloud, and when evaluating cloud service provider security is one of the biggest concerns. This being said, though, some CSPs aren't responsible for securing everything, it is important to know where responsibility lies in the cloud.
This article looks at the differences in three CSPs shared responsibility models. com. We've an article looking at how GitHub added capabilities to make it easier for developers with disabilities to access the platform.
Some of the new capabilities included navigation and search tool that can be used with a screen reader and its contribution graph being removed of keyboard only barriers. com. Finally on cloud native, now we have an article looking at how Rafa Systems at a backstage plugin to its Kubernetes management platform.
Rafa Systems has stated that the backstage plug-ins will make it easier for Rafa to Kubernetes operations platform to initially configure an instance of backstage. com, and that's today's tech strong news recap.
