Data rights of individuals and corporations as pertains to international law. A major focus here is GDPR, as was EU Privacy Shield. Also look at technologies both enhancing and compromising privacy
By Ed Silverstein | September 11, 2017
Companies may want to tell employees that if they 'do not want the company to access information, please do not store it in our systems,' advises attorney Harriet Pearson.
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By Peter B. Skelos, Lesli P. Hiller and Robert M. Harper | September 11, 2017
Peter B. Skelos, Lesli P. Hiller and Robert M. Harper write: Email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumbler, online banking, online shopping and other forms of electronic communications comprise our digital footprint. They are seemingly ubiquitous and omnipresent in the life of our business, social, and personal affairs. But, on death, who has the right of access to a decedent's digital footprint? More importantly, what is the scope of that access? Can a fiduciary figuratively step into the decedent's shoes and gain full access to the decedent's digital assets and electronic communications?
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By Josefa Velasquez | September 8, 2017
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has opened an investigation into the Equifax credit reporting agency data breach that may have exposed 143 million Americans personal information.
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By Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte | September 8, 2017
Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists, Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte write: Big Data is a complex issue—different firms and individuals have different access to different sources of data, and want to use that data in different ways. This complexity means that the legality of some methods of culling and using Big Data remains unclear. A recent case signals a shift in the way courts may be viewing attempts to restrict one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate: data scraping.
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By C. Ryan Barber | September 6, 2017
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in Oakland ruled for Turn, saying that consumer contracts with Verizon required the privacy lawsuit to be sent to arbitration.
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By Cheryl Miller | September 5, 2017
A federal official with an anti-drug agency has asked California for demographic data about the 86,723 patients who have obtained medical marijuana user cards, raising privacy alarms among cannabis advocates.
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By C. Ryan Barber | September 5, 2017
A federal appeals panel on Tuesday rejected a digital advertising firm's effort to invoke Verizon Wireless' arbitration agreement to push a subscriber class action over data collection practices out of court.
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By C. Ryan Barber | September 5, 2017
With its third data security-related settlement in as many weeks, the Federal Trade Commission laid blame Tuesday on a "man in the middle"—a software program, designed to interfere with how browsers interact with websites, that left sensitive consumer information vulnerable. The FTC joined with 32 state attorneys general—including California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut—in faulting Lenovo Inc., a leading computer manufacturer.
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By Mike Scarcella | September 4, 2017
The Trump administration is moving forward with a spate of new nominees for the U.S. Justice Department and regulatory agencies, pulling lawyers from Big Law and in-house legal departments for top positions.
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By Ben Hancock | August 31, 2017
The decision is a victory for civil liberties groups who say they are trying to expose the pervasiveness of automatic license plate readers as a surveillance tool.
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