News and commentary about white-collar crime, enforcement, and compliance
Harry Cassin
Publisher and Editor
Andy Spalding
Senior Editor
Jessica Tillipman
Senior Editor
Bill Steinman
Senior Editor
Richard L. Cassin
Editor at Large
Elizabeth K. Spahn
Editor Emeritus
Cody Worthington
Contributing Editor
Julie DiMauro
Contributing Editor
Thomas Fox
Contributing Editor
Marc Alain Bohn
Contributing Editor
Bill Waite
Contributing Editor
Russell A. Stamets
Contributing Editor
Richard Bistrong
Contributing Editor
Eric Carlson
Contributing Editor
It’s not just your company where it’s happening. It’s every company, everywhere, all at once, and it’s undermining compliance. What is it? Uncertainty. … Continue Reading
As innovations create seemingly endless opportunities, we face new risks. That is especially true regarding the metaverse, a technology being implemented much faster than the laws that regulate it. So, where does that leave compliance?… Continue Reading
While performing a routine malware scan on my devices, I recently got an unexpected hit: Positive for Pegasus. It appeared that my phone had been compromised by the military-grade spyware wreaking havoc across the globe.… Continue Reading
Most major technology companies have bug bounty programs, where independent researchers compete against the company to find security exploits or vulnerabilities. If a bug is found, confirmed, and patched, the researcher is eligible for monetary compensation.… Continue Reading
Journalism professors will rap my knuckles for leading with a question (or two), but here goes: Are we designing our compliance programs all wrong? Are we programming our compliance programs for failure?… Continue Reading
Today’s hyper-transparent environment has given the public stunning opportunities to review internal communications from executives at leading companies and to pass real-time judgments on the strengths and vulnerabilities of their cultures.… Continue Reading
It has been almost a year since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 came into effect on May 25, 2018, and we are starting to see the first emerging patterns of GDPR enforcement.… Continue Reading
The news earlier this month that Google was to follow Facebook and ban all ads for cryptocurrencies wasn’t entirely unexpected. However, it did say much about the way such innovative technology is being misused.… Continue Reading
The New York Times asked who’s sitting near the big bosses at Google and Facebook. It turned out the best seats are now occupied by teams working on artificial intelligence.
“I can high-five Mark and Sheryl from my desk, and the AI team was right next to us,” Facebook’s chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer, told the Times.… Continue Reading
We have already looked at some of the common pitfalls of modern due diligence, from the brute force open-source intelligence (OSINT) approach of Google searching to the over-reliance on manually curated watchlists.… Continue Reading
With the growing number of data sources and changing regulation, compliance teams are under incredible pressure and scrutiny to implement the most thorough due diligence process available.
They are frustrated by the tools at hand, which are actually growing increasingly ineffective due to recent changes such as the “Right to Be Forgotten” rule. … Continue Reading
I cringe when compliance teams rely solely on Google to investigate and make decisions.
No offense intended to Google, but it’s simply not designed for sophisticated investigations. Yet, an overwhelming majority of compliance teams employ Google as their primary research tool.… Continue Reading