Dodging the Bullet
When the point of sale terminals at Target were hacked last December, issuing banks (the banks that issued credit cards to consumers) were on the hook for millions of dollars…
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Back to Vendor ListingsValuing Privacy
What’s your privacy worth? That’s not a theoretical or hypothetical question. Give me a dollar value. If someone were to read your bank statement, view your medical record, know your…
Faking Forensics
You have mail. Maybe. And that’s the problem. We admit electronic evidence into court and rely upon it in our day-to-day transactions all the time. But can we really and…
Clone Wars: Robolawyers Acting as Laywer, Judge and Executioner
Copyright lawyers are being replaced by robots – well, algorithms at least. And this is not good for lawyers. It’s also not good for copyright holders, and those who make…
How a Quirk in the Law Lets Google Own You
In general, it is illegal for people to read your email, intercept your text messages, or listen in on or record your telephone calls. In fact, the federal wiretap law,…
Do Employees Have an Expectation of Privacy at Work
Employees have no expectation of privacy at work, right? And this is especially true for government employees working on government computers on government networks? Right? I mean, the log on…
Through the Looking Glass
In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass” Humpty Dumpty tells Alice [the one of Alice in Wonderland], “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to…
Attorney Client Privilege and the NSA
The New York Times recently reported that the NSA, through intermediaries in Australia, was actively engaged in collecting communications between the Government of Indonesia and their U.S. law firm hired…
House of Cards
Packets is packets, right? Wrong. With the demise of the Net Neutrality standards, Internet providers are free to “prioritize” certain kinds of packets over others. Now this is nothing new. …
Die Data, Die
On Facebook’s 10th Anniversary, many people posted short videos taken from their “life” on Facebook. These included pictures, likes, favorites, etc. from their tenure as Facebook products – um, customers. …