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Biometrics Is Litigation Flashpoint In Illinois

Biometric technology is just “a natural outgrowth of how humans have always told each other apart,” according to one attorney […]

Four Questions To Answer About New Privacy Regulations

Many companies, and not just in California, as of January 1 became subject to The California Consumer Privacy Act. Those […]

New Ransomware Threat: We’ll Broadcast Data You Won’t Buy Back

Purveyors of a strain of malware called Maze Ransomware have added another term to their extortion deal. Not only will […]

Plaintiff Lawyer Accused Of Extortion In Roundup Case

A Virginia plaintiff attorney has been arrested and accused of attempting to extort $200 million from manufacturers of a component […]

Cyberwarfare Does Not Equal Cyberwar, But Can Still Be Devastating

Many readers will remember the Stuxnet virus, which in 2010 infected computers in Iran and caused thousands of uranium enrichment […]

Have Algorithms Gotten A Bad Rap?

Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of behavioral and computational science at the University of Chicago, is the co-author of two studies […]

Managing Mountains of Data: Q&A with H5

Identifying and retaining data that has business value is critical, but that same data can pose risks. Today’s General Counsel […]

Nine Law Firms Sued For Alleged Role In $1.3B Ponzi Scheme

Following the conviction of Robert Shapiro for engineering a $1.3 billion Ponzi scheme, nine law firms have been sued for […]

Epic Insurance Q: When Is A Cyber Attack An Act Of War?

A 2017 cyber attack at drug maker Merck was said to have crippled more than 30,000 computers and 7,500 servers, […]

Low-Tech Public Defenders Just Barely In The Game

It’s possible to extract supposedly secure information from all manner of devices, almost without exception, but the ability to do […]

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