Rich Santalesa

Attorney & lawyer focused on #infolaw #technology #privacy #cybersecurity #infosec #trademarks & IP; writer/editor, RichNet, rower, epee fencer & beekeeper.

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

@BjornLomborg Somebody better tell Harrison Ford.

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

@InternetLawCent Can we get you on record stating you'll commit to these same actions the next time a Democrat administration takes power and seeks to do likewise, as voiced in recent public statements from operatives like Susan Rice, Ro Khanna, etc.

[Scott @Thebigblackram]

You need an id to return cans in CT.

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

@NadavPollak Malarkey

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

@Beniwinn @johnkonrad Wrong. They were state of the art warships at the time.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate "experts" as "crazy people".

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

Ouch

[Augustus Melmotte @EnriqueDiazAlva]

These numbers are extraordinary. NYC has lost jobs in almost every sector for the last 6 years except "health and social assistance", which is essentially old people putting their relatives on Medicaid's payroll.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

By publishing this explicitly false story, the @FT has officially become tabloid trash for market participants.

Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea that Chancellor-Bank of England statute serving as a prototype for a Treasury-Federal Reserve relationship, FT journalists manufactured a story with the headline, “Scott Bessent praised Bank of England as model for tighter oversight of the Federal Reserve.”

These pathetic journalists have clearly fabricated a story to give the impression that both I and the Trump Administration are setting “about restructuring the relationship… at a time when President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the world’s most important central bank.”

Their mendacious assertion is based on vague statements from unnamed “financial industry executives familiar with the matter.”

In short, FT has literally manufactured an entirely fake policy position for me and the Administration. Other than furthering a maliciously false narrative of dysfunction and divisiveness, it baffles the mind as to why they would shred their already diminished journalistic credibility.

Over the past 10 years, I have written more than 20,000 words opining on the Federal Reserve decisions, personnel, structure, and modifications. Nowhere have I ever mentioned this ridiculous notion.

The Governor’s letters to the Chancellor have proven to be a useless and perfunctory device.

There is much to be said about the storied Bank of England, but any recreation of its operating framework on this side of the Atlantic has never been contemplated.

The shameful journalists and editors at the FT are shocking in their meretriciousness, lack of standards, and general intellectual libertinism. It is the worst tradition of Fleet Street to manufacture news rather than report on it.

They have brought irredeemable shame to their parent organization, Nikkei Inc., with whom I had previously held excellent relations.

In 2025, I laid out a comprehensive 6,000+ word review of each and every policy reform that I believe should be adopted by the Federal Reserve.

Read my actual, real thoughts on and proposals for Federal Reserve reform at the International Economy: https://t.co/0yQRXpMnK3

[Huff @Huff4Congress]

The prompts were simple.

First, I told ⁦@grok⁩ to look at every single Amelia meme on the Internet.

Second, I said: “Become Amelia, then make a video and tell the British people what you want them to know.”

Here’s the surprising result.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

I'm no historian but I don't think there's ever been a situation in the last 100 years where the people storming the churches were the good guys.

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

What is Wi-Fi 8? And why speed isn't your primary concern with the latest standard https://t.co/pMZA0NjqML via @SJVN

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

In FY 2025, the FTC received more than 2.6 million DNC complaints and 4.8 million new numbers were added to the DNC Registry. #FTC #DNC
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[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

Newly Approved CCPA Regulations Have Staggered Deadlines for Compliance. In other words California being California. #CCPA #privacy #infosec #cybersecurity https://t.co/BBeoQpebF0

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

Disney settles charges that it violated children’s online privacy protection law #COPPA #FTC #Disney #privacy #infosec #cybersecurity https://t.co/nervrFg92O

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

Another federal court sanctions lawyers over AI-Hallucinated citations backing unverified and inaccurate claims | JD Supra https://t.co/dRlOKa4ifN

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Connecticut Attorney General Announces First Settlement under Connecticut Data Privacy Act #infosec #CTDPA #cybersecurity #privacypolicy #privacy https://t.co/uOSya9n8ye

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

Almost 1/3 of executives in the U.S., 31%, cited cyber risk as their greatest threat, up from 22% in 2024, according to Beazley PLC’s Spotlight on Tech Transformation & Cyber Risk 2025 report, released Friday. #cyberrisk #cybersecurity #infosec #privacy https://t.co/iT620p1yCM

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

The seemingly endless Starwood/Marriott data breach litigation, dating back to a 2018 breach, continues... with yet another trip to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Opinion issued today, here, reversing the District Court again: https://t.co/emLsX1DnIk #databreach #infosec

[Rich Santalesa @RichNet]

Latest example of an agency going above and beyond their authorization. NJ's Division of Consumer Affairs openly rewrites and expands the definition of "personal data" in its issued Rules under the NJ Data Privacy Act https://t.co/T0YbrzVvzH