Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

How a Lawyer Handled a Ransomware Demand

July 6, 2021

An article in a freight industry trade journal describes how a South Carolina-based attorney guided a trucking company through a […]

Warning Re Trade Secrets: Employees With Access To Info Can’t “Steal” It

June 30, 2021

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Van Buren v U.S. dealt with a police officer misusing official data for his […]

Intelligence Report On Lockbit Ransomware Gang

June 29, 2021

A survey released in mid-June says that up to 80 percent of businesses that paid ransomware demands have experienced a […]

A Win For “Silent Cyber Coverage” In IL Supreme Court

June 24, 2021

Policy holders prevailed before the Illinois Supreme Court in a coverage dispute involving the closely watched Biometric Information Privacy Act. […]

Cyber Expert Investigating AZ Election Puzzles His Old Friends

June 22, 2021

The head of the cybersecurity firm leading the Arizona 2020 vote audit is a nice guy who just went off […]

Spike In Vendor-Related Data Breaches

June 17, 2021

Increased reliance on third-party vendors to perform tasks requiring personal information resulted in a sharp increase in data security incidents […]

Creepy AI Program Can Even Sound Like An AI Skeptic

June 15, 2021

The output of a program called GPT-3 is so compelling that it could be used to generate misinformation wholesale, at […]

Billionaire Slams Former SEC Internet Enforcer, Defends Cryptocurrency

June 8, 2021

In an interview, John Reed Stark, the founder and former chief of the SEC’s Office of Internet Enforcement, said cryptocurrency […]

Google’s Location Privacy Setting Was Bogus, Says AZ Lawsuit

June 3, 2021

It was nearly impossible for smartphone users to keep their location data private, even with the settings Google ostensibly provided […]

Third Try For Federal Data Privacy Act

May 26, 2021

A bill to protect people’s privacy when their data is collected by big tech companies went nowhere when it was […]

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