Effective September 1, 2018, *ALL* companies doing business in Colorado will have just 30 days to notify residents if their data was breached. That is just one of the new rules. The rules apply to both government entities and businesses, which is a bit of a surprise. Different laws, but basically the same requirements. What […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Multiple sources are reporting a feature of iPhone apps that is a major privacy concern. This is not new and it also is an issue on Android phones, but, for some reason, everyone seems to be highlighting the problem with iPhones. PERHAPS, that is because it it is being exploited in the wild on iPhones […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably remember when then Austrian law student Max Schrems started fighting a battle over privacy with Facebook. Now probably neither you nor I would want to pick a fight with Facebook’s legal team, but Max, a law STUDENT, said, hey, what the heck. That battle wound up at the CJEU – The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired ran a piece a few weeks ago with the title of this post. An alternative title might be “How to get yourself arrested and prosecuted“. While Wired’s heart was in the right place, they probably should have consulted an attorney before they published the article. The basic premise of the article is that you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has been ordered by a magistrate judge in Philadelphia to turn over emails stored abroad. While we don’t have all the details of the case, it appears to be related to a domestic fraud case. The emails in question are stored in a foreign country. The case is a domestic case. Last summer, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. All that is about to change and I don’t mean that the Constitution is going to change. Like the Apple-FBI fight earlier this year, Amazon is in a fight with the law and I don’t think it is […]
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