The FTC agreed to “settle charges against 14 companies for falsely claiming to participate in the international privacy framework known as the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor. Three of the companies were also charged with similar violations related to the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor.” The Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, and Tennessee Titans were…
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Current debate in Congress that the FCC “should leave net neutrality enforcement to antitrust agencies that can bring lawsuits against broadband providers after they see evidence of anti-competitive behavior” as reported by PCWorld.
I was part of the panel discussing Net Neutrality on the KERA (Dallas Public TV) broadcast on…
A plaintiff confessed to his attorney “that the “Cerner contract” was not authentic…. that although there had been an actual contract with Cerner Corporation, that contract had been altered and had certain schedules attached to it that were forgeries.” In the case of LBDS Holding Company, LLC v. ISOL Technology…
A court ruled that the “cell site location information is within the subscriber’s reasonable expectation of privacy. The obtaining of that data without a warrant is a Fourth Amendment violation.” On June 11, 2014 the Eleventh Circuit of Appeals ruled in the US v. Davis since the evidence was found…
Continue Reading Conviction Upheld, Nonetheless a Warrant is Required for Cell Site Location Data
The May 2014 EU court’s opinion refers to a 1890 Harvard Law Review article entitled “The Right to Privacy,” co-authored by Louis D. Brandeis (later Justice on the US Supreme Court), which contended that individuals have the right to be protected: “Recent inventions and business methods such as instantaneous…
Continue Reading EU Court ‘right to be forgotten’ Ruling Relied on Brandeis’ Privacy Article
Given the size of the Big Data and IoT (Internet of Things) it is clear that we really have no privacy, just consider Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s opinion that “GPS monitoring generates a precise, comprehensive record of a person’s public movements that reflects a wealth of detail about her familial, political…
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The investigation of stolen laptop from Concentra revealed “a lack of encryption on its laptops, desktop computers, medical equipment, tablets and other devices containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) was a critical risk” as reported by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the US Department of Health and…
Continue Reading HIPAA Fine of $1.7 Million for Unencrypted Devices
Wyndham hotels failed to persuade a Judge to dismiss the 2012 suit filed by the FTC “for alleged data security failures that led to three data breaches at Wyndham hotels in less than two years…that led to fraudulent charges on consumers’ accounts, millions of dollars in fraud loss, and the…
