Around the World in Privacy Laws
In 1991, the World Wide Web went live. In the thirty years since, the world has forever changed — right down to the legal landscape. …
Basics of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
In June of 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was signed into law. The landmark privacy legislation passed on the heels of the European…
ANSI Art and ASCII Art – Origins in Standards
While both ANSI art and ASCII art have fizzled in popularity since their glory days on bulletin board systems (BBSs), they have remained consistently practiced,…
Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Nobel Prize Win You Use Everyday
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three scientists who developed lithium-ion batteries: John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley…
ISO/IEC TS 27008:2019 – Technical Specification on the Assessment Of Information Security Controls
An ISO technical specification, ISO/IEC TS 27008:2019 – Information Technology – Security Techniques – Guidelines For The Assessment Of Information Security Controls, has been released….
Evolution of Digital Assistants
Within recent years, the digital assistant has assertively embedded itself into the fabric of American lives. In fact, according to a 2017 report by the…
ISO/IEC 29147:2018 – Vulnerability Disclosure in Information Technology
Vulnerabilities are undesirable in all facets of life. In fact, the word “vulnerable” derives from the Latin vulnus, meaning “wound.” For information technology and cybersecurity…
The SQL Standard – ISO/IEC 9075:2023 (ANSI X3.135)
SQL (standing for Structured Query Language) is the standard language for relational database management systems. When it originated back in the 1970s, the domain-specific language…
SQL: American National Standard Adoptions by INCITS
SQL is the standard language for relational database management systems, and, in the age of mass digitization, its intuitive capabilities in database manipulation have accelerated…