Two U.S. senators want the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to up its cybersecurity game after a recent hack. Last week, someone breached SEC’s account on X to falsely announce the regulator’s long-awaited approval of bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). While that approval would come a day later, the phony...
Sen. Edward J. Markey and Rep. Pramila Jayapal have led several colleagues in demanding answers from CEOs of leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies regarding the working conditions of their data workers. In a letter dated Wednesday (Sept. 13) and addressed to the leaders of nine prominent AI companies, the lawmakers...
The amount of money transfer data available to law enforcement is larger than previously reported. The database includes 150 million such transfers from the United States to other countries, is growing and is accessible to more than 600 agencies without a court order, the Wall...
U.S. lawmakers have proposed a bill that would make tech companies detect and remove any discriminatory biases found in their technologies. The Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019 would give new power to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as well as require tech companies with...
July 02, 2024
Four Democratic U.S. Senators have a message for bankrupt FinTech Synapse: Let your customers get access to their deposits. The four senators — Senate Banking Committee chair Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman — wrote to the company’s owners and FinTech partners Monday (July 1), […]
January 14, 2024
Two U.S. senators want the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to up its cybersecurity game after a recent hack. Last week, someone breached SEC’s account on X to falsely announce the regulator’s long-awaited...
September 13, 2023
Sen. Edward J. Markey and Rep. Pramila Jayapal have led several colleagues in demanding answers from CEOs of leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies regarding the working conditions of their data workers. In a letter dated...
January 18, 2023
The amount of money transfer data available to law enforcement is larger than previously reported. The database includes 150 million such transfers from the United States to other countries, is...
