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The Death of Privacy?
Today, I propose we declare the death of privacy. In our technically advancing world, our personal privacy expectations must be reconsidered, re-conceived and redefined. We all expose ourselves through swipes, transactions, likes and tweets. Through handsets, television sets and mindsets, we voluntarily add our behavioral attributes to the associated handlers of our digital DNA almost… Read More
Weekly Digest for October 6th
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Weekly Digest for September 29th
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Getting rid of getbetterlinks
I noticed site content links being introduced through my Firefox browser today. Apparently a browser extension called Betterlinks had been added by Mozilla in the latest updates. Betterlinks supplies alternative locations for content that may be in competition with your site by influencing your searching. My rhetorical question for the day is “Who gets to… Read More
FTC Proposes Significant Changes to the Online Collection of Information from Children rule
The Federal Trade Commission (“Commission”) released on September 15, 2011, its long-awaited proposed amendments to its rule implementing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA Rule”). They are accepting comments until November 28, 2011. The Commission is proposing modifications to the COPPA Rule in three key facets:
Weekly Digest for September 22nd
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Weekly Digest for September 15th
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Weekly Digest for September 8th
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Machinery
“Some people are just cogs in a machine while others are the machine.” – Michael D. Peters
Weekly Digest for September 6th
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Easiest way to breach a bank? Just hold-em-mop!
On July 29, 2011, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced a $7,500 settlement with Belmont Savings Bank following a May 2011 data breach involving the names, Social Security numbers and account numbers of more than 13,000 Massachusetts residents. The bank has stated that it has no evidence of unauthorized access to or use of consumers’… Read More
Expanding Security Breach Notification Requirements in California
A new amendment to California’s security breach notification law will raise the stakes for businesses required to give notice of a data security breach affecting California residents. California Senate Bill 24 (“SB 24”), signed by Governor Brown on August 31, 2011, imposes detailed new requirements for the content of security breach notices. Significantly, SB 24… Read More
Weekly Digest for September 1st
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Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act – First Blush
The law does not lead, it follows. Our system is very reactive in nature. It tends to change, without my surprise, like people generally do as a direct result to negative events or influences. Smokers quit following the heart attack and our legal system create laws based upon past events. GPS technology has been around… Read More
Juris Doctor 144 of 161: The End is Near
The final push has arrived. The last remaining months before graduation. December will be here soon enough, but not soon enough for this student of law. I’m at the point where every class and every chapter takes a huge effort to drag myself through it. It really has little to do with law and everything… Read More
Weekly Digest for August 25th
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The PCI Challenge
It is frequently in the news. Reports have been written. Punitive and compensatory damages have been awarded. Companies around the globe have been challenged to find the resources required to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The prime PCI DSS objective is to protect cardholder data. The prime objective of… Read More
Weekly Digest for August 18th
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Weekly Digest for August 11th
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Insecurity
If you think that absolute security exists you would be absolutely incorrect. Speaking as a security practitioner who has been in the business for as long as there has been a security business, I’ll tell you with a straight face that no technology system exists that is completely secure or one hundred percent impenetrable. The… Read More
Reality Check
“A human loses contact with reality if he or she is not surrounded by validated information.” – Michael D. Peters
Juris Doctor 135-143 of 161: The Geek Shall Inherit the Universe
Cyber-espionage and Cyber-warfare poses the greatest threat to our society today. No longer are massive militarized forces with the most advanced weaponry the force to fear. The forces to be feared now are computer geeks. A single person or just a few cyber-savvy individuals working together as a team now possess the power to bring… Read More
Dropbox? More Like Dropball!
There has been a putative class action complaint filed on June 22, 2011, in the United States District Court, for the Northern District of California alleging that the popular cloud-based storage provider Dropbox, Inc. failed to secure its users’ private data or to notify the vast majority of them about a recent data breach. According… Read More