Mr. Powell, the architect of the new rules, has emphasized that the commission was compelled to rewrite the old regulations because of a string of federal court decisions in cases brought in Washington by the media companies.
While many enterprises may have taken the cybersecurity of third parties for granted in the past, increasingly stringent regulations influenced by a string of high-profile data breaches and the General Data Protection Requirement (GDPR) are changing that.
Those regulations grew out of a string of catastrophic events in the 1980s, among them a chemical leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, that killed thousands in December 1984, and a near-miss at a sister plant in Institute, West Virginia, eight months later.
The regulation explosion, along with a string of high profile scandals, means banks and fund managers are setting aside more money to improve their compliance and risk functions, which includes spending on risk technology and financial fraud detection systems.
Free's aggressive policy of having default ad-blocking is just the latest in a string of regulation-heavy moves.
A string of proposed regulations by the F.C.C. that has left cable companies feeling besieged.
Raj Date, the former banker temporarily leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, outlined a timeline on Tuesday for the Wall Street watchdog to unveil a string of new regulations.
Mrs. Whitman also said she would review a string of environmental regulations issued in recent months by the Clinton administration, including a clean-air rule for big trucks and buses that critics said would unwisely burden industry and the economy.
WALL STREET JOURNAL Consumer Bureau Readies Its New Financial Rules | Raj Date, the former banker temporarily leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, outlined a timeline for the Wall Street watchdog to unveil a string of new regulations.
It catalogues a string of abuses and serious breaches of regulations by what the GLA has described as "the worst UK gangmaster ever".
