2019 presents businesses with new cybersecurity and privacy challenges: rapid advances in technology, sophisticated new cyberattacks and stricter privacy regulations here and around the world, just to name a few.
Continue Reading New Year – Mastering Privacy and Data Security in 2019
Data-rich companies like Facebook have a unique opportunity to capitalize on the recent surge in regulatory scrutiny and turn it to their advantage.
Savvy tech companies are attuned to public
Continue Reading By Pivoting, Major Tech Companies Could Benefit From Increased Data Regulation
The FBI reports that cyberattacks could overtake terrorism as the major threat to the country. According to the Department of Homeland Security, between October 2011 and February 2012, there
Continue Reading Vernick on Cyber Security in the Huffington Post
Much ado has been made in recent weeks about the FTC’s Do Not Track proposal, the push from Congress to protect consumers, and the response from Google, Microsoft and Mozilla
Continue Reading Online Privacy in the Open – Who Cares About the Faux Fight?
On February 10, 2011, the New York City public hospital system filed a lawsuit against its records management contractor over allegations that the contractor permitted the theft of unencrypted data
Continue Reading Health Data for 1.7 Million NYC Hospital Patients, Staff and Others At Risk
Last week, the federal government fined Cignet Health (Maryland) $43 million for violating the privacy rights of 41 patients by denying them access to their medical records. The fine levied
California State Senator, Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), who authored the state’s existing data breach law in 2002, has introduced Senate Bill 24 to strengthen the content of notices provided to
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Last week’s vote by the FCC on net neutrality rules raises new concerns and resolves very little about keeping an open internet. Let’s start with the basic issue of whether the
Continue Reading New FCC Net Neutrality Rules Raise More Questions than Answers
A recent analysis of the past year’s data breaches by Imperva concludes that, in 2010, there has been a nearly 200% increase over 2009. Conversely, the number of records compromised shrank nearly
Continue Reading Data Breach Report Card 2010: Data Breaches Up 194%, Compromised Records Down 95%
In the recent federal case in the Middle District of Tennessee, ReMedPar, Inc. v. AllParts Med., LLC, a split among federal circuit courts is apparent regarding the interpretation of
Continue Reading Litigation Update – Computer Fraud and Abuse Act