Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Facebook Spying Lawyers Can Be Charged

Two defense attorneys accused of snooping on the private Facebook account of a plaintiff suing their client can be prosecuted […]

Washington Braces For Net Neutrality Ruling

Major telecom companies last year appealed the FCC’s net neutrality rules, which placed unprecedented rules on Internet providers. The result […]

U.S. Company Loses $100M To Email Fraud

An unidentified company last year lost nearly $100 million to individuals who created fake email addresses and posed as vendors, […]

Appeals Court: General Liability Covers Data Breach Class Action

When data is made publicly available on the internet, it can be considered “published” under the terms of a general […]

Data Breach Class Action Against P.F. Chang’s Revived

The potential of fraudulent charges or identity theft stemming from restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s data breach gives class action plaintiffs […]

Creepy “Jigsaw” Ransomware Works Slow, Ups The Ante

More reason to avoid downloading attachments you’re not very very sure about. Named after the character in the “Saw” movie […]

Information Governance: Time For GCs To Step up

For most organizations today, the major problem is not information security, but information governance, writes Today’s General Counsel columnist Barclay […]

Draft Legislation Draws Tech Company Opposition

A leaked “discussion draft” of the encryption bill sponsored by Senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr has Silicon Valley seething.  […]

Law Firms Are Now Prime Hacker Targets

For some it’s an uphill battle, as they confront the entrenched belief that anything that does not directly support the business of the firm isn’t worth funding…

Uber Shares Data On 12 Million Riders

In its first ever transparency report, car-sharing service Uber revealed that between July and December 2015, it provided information on […]

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