2021-01-07
I’m still struggling to wrap my brain around yesterday, but in the meantime… Stay safe all. Write your representatives and senators, tell them to impeach the motherfucker, yes, again.
Read More →2021-01-03
Big breakers down at the beach this morning, but the most visible sign of it from the beach is that the breakers go out a lot further than normal, and the line of foam is a little higher up the sand than normal.
Read More →2021-01-01
Since moving to Long Beach, I’ve been going for walks on the beach most mornings. (I don’t quite force myself to go, especially if the weather sucks or something is sore.) I’ve been taking pictures pretty much every day, but they just… stay on my phone. So I thought I’d start posting them here, instead. […]
Read More →No Masters
It has been a week, hasn’t it? We’ve all been searching for things to do, things to say, ways to deal. Today, I spent a chunk of my day building a couple of simple bash scripts to remove the Master branch from my git repositories and replace them with Release branches instead. They’re not complicated […]
Read More →Seattle-area Employers Coping With the Coronavirus Crisis Face Expanded Data-Protection Challenges
A commentary piece with Xavier Clarke of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt P.C. COVID-19 has changed the way we interact with each other. It has also changed how we work, with many people now working from home on a full-time basis. Just a month ago, a large fully remote workforce was unimaginable. Now it’s a reality, […]
Read More →The Business Owner Privacy Checklist for 2019
Privacy regulation in the United States has historically not been something business owners spent a lot of time worrying about – it’s been limited to specific industries or situations. But as this graphic demonstrates, that’s all changing. Most business owners have heard of the California Consumer Privacy Act, or at least recognize it when they […]
Read More →And Now For Something Completely Different
Today, I’m going to share a video about teapots. No, not honeypots – teapots. Bear with me, there’s a good reason for it. Thanks to the proliferation of inexpensive high-quality tools for video production, social media has an endless supply of people making videos about their passions. As you might expect, the quality varies, but […]
Read More →Capital One: What’s in YOUR Breach Announcement?
Over 100 Million customers of Capital One have had their data stolen. As usual, the fact that there’s a data breach isn’t surprising or newsworthy, although the scale of this one is above average. But looking closely at the details of the incident can tell us a lot about the state of things for the company that suffered the breach – and potentially offer important lessons for the rest of us.
Read More →Data Minimization? Why?
Evite has just learned a painful lesson about retaining information you don’t actually need.
Read More →Employee Privacy under the CCPA
Proposed changes to the CCPA bring a renewed focus on employee privacy – and now is the time for companies to start figuring out how they want to address it.
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