Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Techies Viewing Recovered Customer Data Were Gov’t Informants

January 13, 2017

Some technicians working at a Best Buy Geek Squad facility in Brooks, KY, were doubling as part-time paid informants for […]

Hackers Can Get Credit Card Info Off Chrome, Safari

January 12, 2017

Browsers like Chrome and Safari that use autofill to fill in textboxes can be tricked into giving up your credit […]

Tracking Employees 24-7 Legal In Most States

January 12, 2017

No federal privacy law prevents businesses from tracking employees with a GPS or phone-tracking system. The practice is illegal without […]

Uber Shares Treasure Trove Of Driving Data

January 11, 2017

Ride-sharing giant Uber has granted city planners across the country access to its transportation data, something local officials could use […]

Best Buy’s Geek FBI Informant Ring Faces Legal Scrutiny

January 11, 2017

A recent lawsuit revealed that the FBI has developed eight “confidential human sources” inside Best Buy’s massive Geek Squad repair […]

Cybersecurity In International Arbitration

January 9, 2017

One more venue in which cybersecurity proves to be a potentially significant issue: An article in Practical Law from Latham […]

India’s Tech Savvy Youth Are Scamming Americans

January 5, 2017

Two Indian teens last summer tipped off the U.S. Federal Trade Commission about a massive scheme based in their country […]

2017 Will See Emboldened Hackers

January 3, 2017

In 2016, hackers were at the center of two remarkable events: the assertion that Russian cyber-operatives influenced the U.S. election, […]

Enigmatic Russian Hacker Alisa S, Now On U.S. Blacklist

January 3, 2017

A profile of enigmatic Russian cyber-expert Alisa Shevchenko, in the New York Times. “I am a human being. Part misfit, […]

Standing In Data Breach Cases

January 3, 2017

Many data breach and cybersecurity cases have faltered for failure to establish concrete harm necessary to support standing, in cases […]

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