Update on Google Street View data collection: Congress asking for answers

While investigations on many aspects of Google’s wireless data collection practices are ongoing in the U.S. and many other European countries (most recently including the Czech Republic), the first major legal action against the company has…

Former acting cybersecurity czar provides legislative summary of bills in 111th Congress

Former acting cybersecurity czar Melissa Hathaway, who in early 2009 led the Obama administration’s 60-day review of cybersecurity policy and who is now a senior advisor working at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science…

Hard to believe Google’s wi-fi data capture was accidental, may or may not be illegal

With momentum building in many countries for investigations into potential privacy violations and other possible transgressions by Google related to its practice of capturing unencrypted wireless network traffic as a part of its Google Street View…

House appetite growing for cybersecurity, FISMA reform

No sooner did the Federal Information Security Amendment (FISA) Act (H.R. 4900) clear the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement, another cybersecurity bill was introduced and referred to the…

State laws complicate navigation of health data disclosure rules

As noted this week in a blog posting from Hunton & Williams, a ruling issued in February from a federal district court in Ohio highlights some of the legal complexities in navigating both state and federal…

Observations on the first Congressional attempt at an Internet privacy bill

In a widely anticipated step, a discussion draft of an Internet privacy bill in the House of Representatives was released today, giving observers the chance to see where Congress might be headed with such legislation. The…

Grand jury indicts man allegedly responsible for Las Vegas University Medical Center breach

In a follow-up to a HIPAA breach as Las Vegas’ University Medical Center reported last November, the FBI investigation into the matter has resulted in an indictment of the UMC employee allegedly responsible for selling data…