The 4th Amendment implications of location-based data have been a topic of active discussion, prompted in part by two recent federal Circuit Court rulings, and to a lesser degree by some outspoken opinions made both in…
With the addition of yet another privacy bill to the slate of draft legislation pending in Congress, this time in the Senate in the form of the Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010 (S….
From a legal standpoint, it appears that while many opinions exist on how privacy can be protected in the cloud, who should ultimately be responsible for that protection, and how law enforcement agencies and other government entities should treat cloud environments, there are more unresolved issues than there are settled ones.
In the continuing aftermath of the financial industry meltdown and the contribution to that failure of insufficient oversight of large portions of the securities markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed significant changes to its…
The U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia offered some new judicial insight into reasonable expectations of privacy when it issued a ruling this month overturning the conviction of an alleged drug trafficker because the…
A recent article on potentially troubling privacy practices by U.S. airlines posted on The Washington Post online highlights (unfortunately somewhat erroneously) some of the key differences in rules about personal data collection and use that apply…
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act passed as part of the Recovery Act in February 2009 included a variety of revisions included to requirements already in effect under the HIPAA Security…
Dark Reading
SecurityArchitecture.com