Techstrong News Recap – October 25, 2022

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for October 25th. First up Facebook is stated that they may ban news sharing in Canada based on legislation that is currently in the works. The legislation in question.

The online news act will require platforms like Facebook and Google to share Revenue with Publishers that they receive news from The goal is to fairly compensate news outlets, but meta has stated that Publishers benefit from posting on their platform by allowing many more eyes to see the content. This story might sound like when you might have heard of already as Australia introduced a similar law last year that ultimately resulted in Facebook turning off all new sharing before the law was reworked. As far as this story is concerned though.

We'll have to keep our eyes on it and see how it progresses. Next up Texas is filing a lawsuit against Google on the basis of collecting biometric data from millions of Texans without proper consent. According to Texas Google is collected and used biometric data for commercial ends in Google photos Google assistant and Nest Hub Max.

Texas has lost prohibiting companies from collecting people's faces voices or other biometric data without informed consent. However, Google has said these users have the option to turn it off. It will fight this lawsuit in court.

Zooming out. This is the most recent in a long line of privacy lawsuits filed against Google from states such as Arizona, Indiana, Washington State and District of Columbia. Next following Australia's MetaBank breach Australia's proposed several new penalties on companies that fail to protect customer data.

4 million dollars to 32 million dollars additionally a company that could be fine for 30% of its revenues over a period of time if determined that the amount of the fine exceeds 32 million dollars. The new changes are designed to make companies think more about cybersecurity and provide a meaningful reason to improve on it. Australians Parliament will resume this week the first time since mid-september and two of Australia's biggest cybersecurity breaches.

In other news the White House is reportedly in talks with Elon Musk about setting up spacex's starlink to serve in Iran. The satellite-based broadband service could help Iranians avoid Iran's harsh restrictions on internet and social media access. The US Treasury Department has stated that some satellite internet equipment can be exported to Iran in musketson said that he would activate starlink in response to the US Secretary of State's goal to provide the free flow of information to Iranians.

Zooming out this development is due to the protests that have erupted in the country since last month. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at how the White House conducted a meeting to discuss the development of a security label for iot devices. The label system which was initially for routers and video cameras we made so that Americans can recognize which devices meet the highest cyber security standards to protect against hacking.

com. com. We have an article looking at cosmonics unveiling of a past environment for building Cloud native applications using webassembly.

The cosmotic pass will give developers access to a lightweight environment to quickly build applications. com. Finally on container Journal.

We have an introduction to Cloud custodian a tool set that can manage and enforce Cloud policies in a standardized format. com. And that's today's text drawing news recap.