security

On April 18, 2019, Jennifer Lynch with the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) wrote an article about Google’s Sensorvault, a database Google keeps that records location data of its users. The Sensorvault is a valuable tool for Google, and as it turns out, an invaluable tool for law enforcement as well. How? Well, it starts with what amounts to a blank search warrant that an incompetent judge signs off on, requiring Google to release data to law enforcement that spans a time period (up to about a week) and a geographic region.

This is a slimmed down version of an essay written in early 2017 by Bryan for his Master of Cybersecurity degree at Purdue University. The stock market crash of 1929 that led to the Great Depression of the early 1930’s also led to the creation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 [4]. From the Securities Exchange Act came the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) tasked with not only restoring confidence in the financial markets, it defined and enforced laws regarding investments in publicly traded companies, specifically, the placement of investors first above the needs and owners of the business [4].