Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

The Austrian Lawyer Who Took On Facebook

Attorney Max Schrems got interested in the privacy issue while attending college as an exchange student at Santa Clara University. […]

Congress, SEC, Moving On Cybersecurity

One of the few bipartisan acts to be introduced in Congress recently is the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2017-18 (S.536). […]

Facebook Legal Takes A Media Hit

In a New York Times article about alleged misuse of the Facebook platform by Russian operatives, the slant is clearly […]

Yahoo Settlement Underlines Board Vulnerability

The email breach that exposed the personal information of 1.5 billion Yahoo users did not trigger a big drop in […]

What Is “Reasonable” Notification After A Breach?

A growing number of states have laws that mandate timely notification after a data breach, but these laws are short […]

Facebook GC In Center of Storm on Two Continents

Facebook is under pressure in the US and the UK to clarify how data collected on 50 million users, most […]

Did Facebook Data Leak Win The Election For Trump?

Cambridge Analytica, the voter-profiling company that assisted the Trump campaign, used personal data from millions of Facebook users. The money […]

Valuable Data, Lots of M&A, Make Healthcare a Fat Cyber Target

Healthcare is the second largest sector of the U.S. economy, and healthcare organizations experience more than twice the number of […]

When Cybersecurity Becomes A Securities Issue

Recent developments in securities class action litigation, and the related issue of the newly articulated SEC disclosure requirements vis a vis cybersecurity…

Geek Squad Routinely Reveals Computer Owners’ Information to FBI

A FOIA request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation reveals that the FBI pays Geek Squad employees to reveal information from […]

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