The National Security Agency’s mass collection of telephone data does not violate the Constitution, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) ruled last week.…
In Volume l, I discussed the liability that Target may have to its customers as a result of the data breach. But that is only the beginning of Target’s potential legal…
In the wake of the massive Target data breach, consumers and others may be inclined to go to their lawyers and ask the stupidest question you can ever ask a…
Wow, what a year 2014 was. Most people write a “year in review” at the end of the year. I decided to beat the rush and write my 2014 privacy and security…
Wow, what a year 2014 was. Most people write a “year in review” at the end of the year. I decided to beat the rush and write my 2014 privacy and security…
In a groundbreaking and precedent-setting decision, United States District Judge Richard Leon on December 16 found that the NSA’s previously secret program to capture the “metadata” in every single telephone…
In this space, guest contributor Gail Bronson defended the NSA’s mass surveillance program, taking the side of former NSA General Counsel Stew Baker against that of Georgetown University professor David…
When I was a kid growing up in the Bronx, a high school buddy got a job as a “security tester” at the Alexander’s department store on Fordham Road. His job…
It seems that the Obamacare website, http://www.healthcare.gov, has had a spot of trouble lately. However, obscured in all the debate over the policy of the Affordable Care Act and all…
It recently was revealed that AT&T was selling call data to the CIA for $10 million a year. This is in addition to the millions of dollars the company was paid…