Commercial use of biometric data increased dramatically in recent years: some software are now able to recognize physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, retinas, hand and facial geometry, as well as voices. This technology makes people’s life easier as their hand or voice may be enough to access their phone or bank account, and one single click may […]
On September 23, 2016, Ronald Schwartz, a New York resident, filed a case and sought class-action certification on behalf of himself and other users against defendant Yahoo. According to the complaint, the Company “failed to adequately protect its users or itself from data breach”. The claim was filed after, on September 22, 2016, Yahoo issued […]
On July 14, 2016, the Second Circuit held that U.S. law does not authorize a warrant against a U.S.-based service provider for the seizure of e-mails stored in Ireland. In December 2013, a New York district court issued a warrant ordering Microsoft to produce all emails and private information associated with a certain account hosted by […]
On September 13, 2016, Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a new Cybersecurity Regulation to Protect Consumers and Financial Institutions. The first-in-the-nation proposal aims to protect consumer data and financial systems from cyber-attacks of terrorist organizations and other criminal enterprises. The Regulation requires banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions to maintain a cybersecurity program […]
The author discusses how and if big data should be used in both summonsing and jury selection. The full text is available at http://www.abajournal.com…
The author lists several questions you want to ask developers of Note-Taking and To-Do Apps to make sure that your data are secured. The full text is available at https://www.attorneyatwork.com…
According to this source and hearing transcripts on two motions to withdraw, Ovie Carroll, the director for the Cybercrime Lab at the Department of Justice, urged the federal judges present at a seminar to “use the TOR network to protect their personal information on their computers, like work or home computers, against data breaches, and the like”. Tor […]
On July 5, 2016, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a conviction for “knowingly and with intent to defraud accessing a protected computer “without authorization”. The former employee had his computer access credentials revoked and used the login credentials of a current employee to gain access to data owned by the former employer. The court found the […]
On May 30, 2016, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) – whose mission is to advise the EU institutions on the data protection implications of their policies — published Opinion 4/2016 on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield draft adequacy decision. According to the press release the Privacy Shield as it stands is not robust enough to withstand future […]
On May 25, 2016, Schrem’s website “Europe v Facebook” (website collecting information regarding class actions against Facebook) released a press update according to which the Irish Data Protection Commissioner may refer another issue to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) i.e., according to the website, whether “Facebook can continue to transfer data from the […]