Siobhan MacDermott's posts
Public Policy :
4 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
This month consumer privacy is squarely at the intersection of governmental and regulatory forces, negotiations and legislative maneu...
Public Policy :
26 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
Let's recount the dreadful Boston Marathon bombings 10 days ago (Apr 15) to see how street video evidence played a part in the bomber...
Public Policy :
70 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
The title of a Computing.co.uk article published on March 11 is provocative, to say the least: “Symantec CTO: World War III could s...
Public Policy :
79 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
The news that sells, the news that’s read or watched—the newsworthy news—is the news that raises the blood pressure and steps u...
Public Policy :
123 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
On January 15 2013, Facebook announced the beta launch of “Graph Search,” a remarkable—and, yes, revolutionary—tool for uniqu...
Public Policy :
188 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
Some headlines are surprisingly true, and some are true, unsurprisingly. The one at the top of Declan McCullagh’s post on CNET the ...
Public Policy :
202 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
On October 29, 2012, Bloomberg BNA reported on recent speculation (anguished, in some circles) that the Obama administration’s Cons...
Public Policy :
218 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
The good news is that the 2012 platforms of both the Democratic and Republican parties give prominent play to Internet and Privacy is...
Public Policy :
230 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
September was a busy month for cyber attackers. On September 30, Washington Free Beacon editor Bill Gertz reported—and on October...
Public Policy :
231 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
On September 30, 2012 Washington Free Beacon editor Bill Gertz reported that hackers “linked to China’s government broke into one...
Public Policy :
249 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
As most of us see it, "Internet safety" is a matter of taking commonsense precautions against identity theft, phishing schemes, malwa...
Public Policy :
253 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
Mention “Ma Bell” in the presence of any aging Baby Boomer, and you’re sure to get at the very least a knowing roll of the eyes...
Public Policy :
263 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
The very first of President Woodrow Wilson’s famous “Fourteen Points” of 1918—what he called “our program . . . of the worl...
Public Policy :
267 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
“Facedeals” is a new app being tested by Redpepper (“Ad agency by day. Invention lab by night.”) to scan your face in exchang...
Public Policy :
273 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
At Dawn We Sleep?
In Part 1 of this post, I suggested that the Senate’s failure to pass the Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act...
Public Policy :
275 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
0
At Dawn We Sleep?
At Dawn We Slept—it was a chilling title for Gordon W. Prange’s great 1981 book on “The Untold Sto...
Public Policy :
334 days ago
by
Siobhan MacDermott
3
Welcome to AVG’s Policy blog! I’m Siobhan MacDermott, AVG’s Chief Policy Officer and I’ll be posting articles and commentary ...
