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European Regulators, With a Big Stick, Eye U.S. Tech Giants

European regulators continue to scrutinize the biggest U.S. tech companies for possible antitrust and privacy violations, the New York Times […]

NJ Backs Off On A Double Message For Merchants

A recently signed law in New Jersey will relieve merchants from an obligation to collect personal data from gift card […]

Transferred Text Messages Bring A Dismissal, And A Lawsuit

When an Anheuser-Busch employee Victor Nascimento was issued a new iPhone, his old one got transferred to another employee. Nascimento’s […]

A Chicago Lawyer, Loathed In Silicon Valley

A specialist in suing tech companies for privacy violations, his targets have included Amazon, Google, Apple, and many others less well known, and he may have won as much $1 billion.

Obama Orders New Cybercrime Sanctions

This week President Barack Obama signed an executive order establishing a sanctions program that will apply to hackers and other […]

Facebook Tracking, Regardless Of Opt-Outs, Violates EU Law

A Belgian data protection agency has discovered that Facebook tracks the web browsing of everyone visiting the site, even if […]

Post-Sony, Hollywood Bolsters Cybersecurity

After hackers last year aired a trove of personal and business information from Sony Pictures Entertainment, Hollywood has begun the […]

Senate Hearings Scrutinize Cyber Insurance

Someone doing basic homework on this increasingly pressing topic will find plenty to chew on in this post from PropertyCasualty360, […]

Law Firm Cybersecurity Bemoaned In Citigroup Report

An internal Citigroup report, obtained by the New York Times, warned that law firms are at high risk for “cyberintrusions” […]

State AGs Step In To Protect Customer Data In RadioShack Sale

As the auction got underway this week for bankrupt tech retailer RadioShack, state attorneys general have stepped up to promise […]

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