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Companies have paid out eye-popping sums in recent years to settle claims they violated Illinois’s biometric privacy law. Last week, a historic legal judgment against BNSF Railway Co. highlighted that data lapses by third-party contractors also don’t come cheap. A jury’s award of $228 million to truck drivers whose fingerprints were scanned without proper consent signaled that businesses can’t blame data violations on vendors, privacy lawyers say. Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act provides little distinction between companies and contractors that process data on their behalf, upping the ante for firms as they vet potential vendors’ data practices and structure contracts. There is no comprehensive federal privacy law.
Corporate Cybersecurity Teams Struggle to Fill Jobs
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Catherine Stupp | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +5 min
Newsletter Sign-up WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Cybersecurity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors. PREVIEWSeventy percent of around 11,000 cybersecurity practitioners and decision makers surveyed by (ISC)2 said their companies don’t have enough cybersecurity staff to be effective. Decathlon has become more flexible and creative in its search for cybersecurity staff and hired 26 employees last year and more than 30 so far in 2022, Mr. Illikoud said. Many corporate cybersecurity leaders hire staff from other internal teams and offer specific training if they need it. Around 43% of Principal’s cybersecurity team is now remote, up from roughly 20% before the pandemic, she said.
Edge Computing Helps Feed Taco Bell’s Digital Business
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Kim S. Nash | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +5 min
Taco Bell is making aggressive use of edge computing to support the many digital ways customers can place orders, the fast-food chain’s head of technology said. PREVIEW“We took [on] our most critical workloads in order processing and menu data,” Mr. Parizher said. General Electric Co. and Siemens AG , for example, are using edge computing to optimize factory machines in real time. The Wall Street Journal's Steven Rosenbush, left, talks with Vadim Parizher, Taco Bell's vice president of technology, at an online event Thursday. With edge-computing foundations in place, he said, Taco Bell can experiment with connected robotic equipment that can fry food, warm up tortillas or pour drinks.
“They can’t be viewed in isolation when you think about foreign interference.”Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly. Instead, election officials this year have reported a surge in physical threats, largely from people angry about President Biden’s defeat of former President Donald Trump in 2020. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Cybersecurity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors. Governments and technology companies shored up their security after a 2016 race in which U.S. officials said Russia interfered to help elect Mr. Trump with digital disinformation and the hack and leak of Democratic emails. Mr. Trump fired then-CISA Director Chris Krebs days later.
The International Seabed Authority, a United Nations observer organization, is drawing up a regulatory framework for deep-sea mining based on data collected from explorations conducted by TMC and other ventures to inform its decisions. PREVIEWThe ISA is expected to meet member nations in March, when deep-sea exploration and its regulations are expected to be discussed. TMC started conducting pilot testing in September 2022 to determine whether deep-sea mining would harm the environment. For most mining companies, exploration licenses usually are a significant step in attracting funds, but the lack of clarity around the legality of deep-sea mining is creating a barrier. TMC remains key but not imperative to the lobbying push to change or confirm regulations on mining of the deep sea, industry participants said.
Corporate boards need to propel companies’ investment in cyber defenses and push management to treat hacking threats as a core business risk, according to a top official of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. As boards learn to assess those defensive measures, cybersecurity will become more ingrained in American corporations, Mr. Wales said. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Cybersecurity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors. PREVIEWRecently, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed that companies be required to disclose detail on board members’ cyber expertise and how often the board addresses cybersecurity. CIOs should address third-party risks when discussing cybersecurity with boards, Mr. Wales said.
Delta recently appointed company veteran Amelia DeLuca as its chief sustainability officer. Amelia DeLuca, Delta Air Lines’ chief sustainability officer Photo: Rank StudiosWSJ Pro: Where were you in December 2015 when the Paris climate accord was signed? That gave me clarity of what my role is: that we’ve got to get a running start on this. WSJ Pro: How do carbon offsets fit into what you’re doing at Delta? The second thing is really trying to understand how you connect your sustainability agenda to everyone throughout your company.
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