{"id":954,"date":"2018-05-03T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/05\/03\/3-reasons-tech-companies-want-a-data-security-bill-vetoed-in-the-cherokee-rose-state\/"},"modified":"2018-05-03T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:46:00","slug":"3-reasons-tech-companies-want-a-data-security-bill-vetoed-in-the-cherokee-rose-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/3-reasons-tech-companies-want-a-data-security-bill-vetoed-in-the-cherokee-rose-state\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Tech Companies Want a Data Security Bill Vetoed in the Cherokee Rose State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of tech companies, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft<\/li>\n<li>+\u00a050 academics, researchers, cybersecurity experts and technologists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>are asking Georgia Governor Deal to veto a bill that makes unauthorized cyber access a crime punishable with up to 1 year in jail because the bill will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>chill security research<\/li>\n<li>harm the state\u2019s cybersecurity industry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is that a big deal?<\/strong> Because the bill for the first time would &#8220;create\u00a0new liabilities for security researchers who identify and disclose weaknesses to improve cybersecurity&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;ll punish the white hat hackers- who hack to make systems better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/civilian\/2018\/05\/02\/tech-giants-urge-governor-to-veto-georgia-cybercrime-bill\/\">AP |\u00a0Tech giants urge governor to veto Georgia cybercrime bill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of tech companies, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft<\/li>\n<li>+\u00a050 academics, researchers, cybersecurity experts and technologists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>are asking Georgia Governor Deal to veto a bill that makes unauthorized cyber access a crime punishable with up to 1 year in jail because the bill will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>chill security research<\/li>\n<li>harm the state\u2019s cybersecurity industry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why is that a big deal?<\/strong> Because the bill for the first time would &#8220;create\u00a0new liabilities for security researchers who identify and disclose weaknesses\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,23,2,3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-business-trend","category-data-privacy","category-legislative-trend","category-regulatory-enforcement","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}