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• Michael Bugeja is a distinguished professor of liberal arts and sciences at Iowa State University.

Long after risks became apparent 20 years ago — including screen addiction, loss of face-to-face communication, cyber stalking, bullying and harassment — lawmakers finally are trying to restrict social media accounts of underage users and monitor effects of these perilous platforms.

Lack of legislation has allowed tech CEOs to deflect deleterious effects, hire D.C. lobbyists and write service terms so obtuse that users simply ignore them and click “I agree,” the most pervasive lie told every day across Iowa.

As the Des Moines Register reported, the Iowa House has approved a bill (House File 2523), requiring children under age 18 to get parental approval to open social media accounts…

“Break up with the Chinese Communist Party, or break up with the U.S.”

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is out with a new piece on why Congress must pass H.R. 7521, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which protects Americans from the national security threats posed by CCP-controlled TikTok. Check out excerpts and highlights below: 

The House on Wednesday is expected to vote on a bill that would give popular social-media app TikTok an ultimatum: Break up with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or break up with the U.S. It didn’t need to come to this, but Beijing and TikTok’s Chinese-owner ByteDance left Washington with no choice.

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Donald Trump tried in 2020 to force ByteDance to divest TikTok, but his executive order was…

Tell us about IriusRisk

 
IriusRisk is the industry’s leading threat modeling and secure design solution that allows engineering teams to design secure software from the start. Every sector of the global economy is being transformed by software, yet software vulnerabilities are frequently exposed by cyber attacks. More than half of these vulnerabilities are flaws in the design of the system. IriusRisk helps non-security experts identify these software security design flaws before they write a line of code.

IriusRisk works with clients that include four of the top 10 Globally Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) to automate the process of threat modeling and enable organisations to design secure software, at scale.
 
 

 
 

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