Techstrong News Recap – September 15, 2022
On Sept. 15, William Willis covered Twitter’s former chief of security’s congressional hearing and the allegations made against the company, the EU upholding the 4 billion dollar Android antitrust fine against Google and California becoming the first state to make companies share their social media policies with regard to the removal of disturbing content. He also talked about Uber’s 100 million dollar payment of back taxes to New Jersey and a report showing that TikTok search results are filled with misinformation. Finally, he previewed articles from Digital CxO, Security Boulevard and DevOps.com, which covered developing digital empathy, JumpCloud Inc.’s new password manager and a New Relic survey looking at observability challenges.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for September 15th. First up Twitter's former security Chief told Congress that there was at least one agent from both China and India that potentially gave those Nations access to sensitive data about its users. This is just one of the many bombshell Revelations from Peter zakko in a recent Congressional hearing.
Zachary talked with high confidence about foreign Agents from both countries making its way into Twitter. Zako also made claims about how Twitter ignored his engineers' concerns over security and that the platform being plagued by week cyber defense. Zacho, originally filed a whistleblower complaint back in July claiming that Twitter violated the terms of a 2011 FTC settlement.
This being said those that could did not bring extensive internal documents to back up the claims. He made at this hearing. Next a European Union Court rejected Google's appeal against the 4 billion dollar antitrust fine.
The eu's executive commission originally gave the fine back in 2018 for throttle and competition and reducing consumer Choice through its control of the Android operating system. Google required smartphones to take a bundle of Google Apps and prevented selling altered versions of Android operating systems. Google has argued that Android results in low-cost phones and drives competition with Apple.
So it has a reason for doing so this spine is just one of the three that has been given to Google in the past couple of years by the EU as it pushes to rain in big Tech. Google has one more chance to appeal this decision though do the EU court of justice, but it hasn't decided yet whether it would do so or not. In other news California has signed a bill into law that will require social media companies to publish their policies for removing disturbing content additionally social media companies would have to give details on how and when they remove that content.
According to the law disturbing content would include hate speech and disinformation. The Law's opponents have stated that this would disclose sensitive information of the companies, but the bill Advanced with bipartisan support. This would be one of the strongest transparency requirements for companies to disclose how much they remove content to date.
Next up Uber and one of its subsidiaries paid 100 million dollars in past due taxes to New Jersey after an audit by the State's Department of Labor and Workforce Development showed that Uber classified as workers at independent contractors. Workers that are classified as independent contractors don't receive unemployment disability and family leave Insurance in the companies don't have to pay for these taxes. In spite of this payment Uber has still stated that it views drivers as independent contractors.
This is just the most recent development as the gig economy has been fighting tooth and nail in courts to classify workers as independent contractors in the past couple of years. So we'll have to see how this pans out. Next a new research report published on Wednesday showed that one out of five videos suggested by tiktok contained misinformation.
The large amount of misinformation is troubling as tiktok has a very large young audience and is the second most popular domain in the world only behind Google? Tiktok released a statement saying that his guidelines prohibit harmful misinformation and is taking steps to direct users to trustworthy services. Tiktok also stated that removed 102 million videos that violated its rules in the first quarter of 2022.
But only a small percentage of them were due to misinformation. Tiktok's rise in popularity has gotten the attention of government officials who are concerned about data privacy security and now it seems misinformation too on digital cxo. We have an article looking at how it is imperative that companies develop effective digital employee experience strategies.
Many companies are experiencing digital friction from the adoption of remote and hybrid work models and the traditional methods to combat. This have been proved to be less than successful. An effective digital employee experience strategy needs all parts of the company to work together.
com. On Security Boulevard, we have an article about how jumpcloud Inc recently launched a new password manager that stores encrypted credentials locally on the user's devices and then synchronizes vaults between devices. Jumpcloud is stated that this approach is more efficient and gets rid of the need for users to remember Master passwords.
As more and more cyber criminals have been targeting Master passwords recently from password managers this acts as a more secure approach. To learn more about jumpcloud's new password manager go to Security Boulevard calm. com.
We have an article looking at a recent survey by New Relic that unearth observability changes. the survey polled 1,614 practitioners in it decision makers and among its findings only 27% of respondents had achieved full stack observability and that 33% still detect outages manually. com.
And that's all we have for today's texturing news recap.
