Cybersecurity Regulators Feel Companies Need To Step Up To Protect Consumer Privacy
In the world of technology, there has always been a huge debate going on regarding consumer privacy policies. Ever since the Internet came around, regulators have been struggling to keep up with privacy policy adoption, and that gap is going only growing larger now that technology is evolving at an accelerated pace. During the CES 2016 interview, heads of two cybersecurity regulation agencies stated how tech companies need to be more vigilant regarding personal information protection. There is no denying something has to change if companies and governments want to properly protect consumer....
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