A federal district court judge in San Francisco who has presided over several cases against the National Security Agency (NSA) and its now-defunct warrantless wiretapping program appears to have finally been presented sufficient direct evidence of…
Citing the drastic changes in the technological landscape since the law was first passed, a coalition of tech industry heavyweights has launched an effort to persuade Congress to update or revise the Electronic Communications Privacy Act…
In a notice published yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the terms of a settlement to which entertainment chain Dave & Buster’s agreed stemming from FTC charges that the company failed to adequately protect customer…
One of the recurring questions in information security management is how much security is “enough”? For organizations that have adopted risk-based approaches to information assurance, the level of security protection they put in place is directly…
For quite some time we’ve been following the development of the legal debate in both the European Community and the United States over whether IP addresses can be considered personally identifiable information, and therefore handled under…
With all the attention focused on privacy and security these days, any significant development or incident gets tremendous online coverage. This is at one a good thing and a terrible problem. We’ve noted before the difficulties…
Today the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany struck down a law requiring telecommunications companies to retain individual user data on phone and Internet usage in case it is needed by law enforcement authorities in criminal investigations….
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