Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Insurer Data-Breach Survey: What Happened, How, And What It Cost

October 18, 2015

The study was based on information provided by insurers who, without naming the insured parties, provided their most recent claims information…

Chicken Farm Doesn’t Cut It As Document Shredder

October 18, 2015

A privacy official in Canada has ruled that a nursing home’s contract with a chicken farm violates Canada’s Health Information […]

SCOTUS Opines: Do Cops Need Warrant To See Hotel Records?

October 18, 2015

A group of hotel owners challenged a Los Angeles ordinance requiring them to collect personal information about patrons and turn it over to on request…

Getting Data Out Of Europe After The “Schrems” Decision

October 15, 2015

The Court of Justice of the European Union’s Oct. 6 decision invalidated the Safe Harbor framework for transferring data from […]

Judge Opens Privacy Debate Over Smartphone Encryption

October 13, 2015

Last week, a federal judge in New York released an order asking tech giant Apple whether a government warrant seeking […]

Dow Jones Reveals Hack

October 13, 2015

The personal and payment information of about 3,500 Dow Jones & Co. subscribers was exposed in a recent hack, the […]

Smartphone Passcodes Can Take The 5th

October 13, 2015

In an insider trading case mounted by the SEC, the agency wanted access to the two defendants’ company-issued cell phones, […]

Don’t Count On U.S.-China Cyber Deal

October 12, 2015

“It’s a start” is the best that can be said for the U.S.- China agreement to curtail cyber-theft of intellectual property.

The Man Who Threw The Monkey Wrench At Silicon Valley

October 12, 2015

Doing research for a paper about privacy while attending law school in the U.S., an Austrian student contacted Facebook and asked to see all the data they had on or about him.

The Cloud Is Secure

October 9, 2015

In-house counsel find themselves in a conflicted situation with respect to the cloud: Confront the risk of sensitive corporate data […]

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