Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Appeals Court Eases Robocall Rules, And The Calls Keep Coming

“Proving once again that technology moves much faster than the law,” the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down significant parts of…

Data-Gathering Backlash Brewing

Writing in The Verge, Alexandra Samuel, a former online marketer, discusses the kind of questionable data-gathering tactics that were an […]

The Austrian Lawyer Who Took On Facebook

Attorney Max Schrems got interested in the privacy issue while attending college as an exchange student at Santa Clara University. […]

Congress, SEC, Moving On Cybersecurity

One of the few bipartisan acts to be introduced in Congress recently is the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2017-18 (S.536). […]

Facebook Legal Takes A Media Hit

In a New York Times article about alleged misuse of the Facebook platform by Russian operatives, the slant is clearly […]

Yahoo Settlement Underlines Board Vulnerability

The email breach that exposed the personal information of 1.5 billion Yahoo users did not trigger a big drop in […]

What Is “Reasonable” Notification After A Breach?

A growing number of states have laws that mandate timely notification after a data breach, but these laws are short […]

Facebook GC In Center of Storm on Two Continents

Facebook is under pressure in the US and the UK to clarify how data collected on 50 million users, most […]

Did Facebook Data Leak Win The Election For Trump?

Cambridge Analytica, the voter-profiling company that assisted the Trump campaign, used personal data from millions of Facebook users. The money […]

Valuable Data, Lots of M&A, Make Healthcare a Fat Cyber Target

Healthcare is the second largest sector of the U.S. economy, and healthcare organizations experience more than twice the number of […]

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