CIO from IDG reported that the first state to legalize Blockchain with this description “A record or contract that is secured through blockchain technology is considered to be in an electronic form and to be an electronic record.” The May 4, 2017 article entitled “Is blockchain technology secure for…
Continue Reading Arizona passes a law recognizing that Blockchain is secure!
Gardere’s recent webinar includes a discussion about the future legal issues of Blockchain. Of course I think Blockchain will change the world since bitcoin, which relies on Blockchain, and other Blockchain uses currently impact everyone on earth. You are welcome to watch the April 26, 2017 “Blockchain Legal Risks”…
Proofpoint’s report states that spearphising/BEC “have collectively scammed victims out of more than $2 billion globally” and that these “threats have hit more than 7,000 companies since the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) began tracking this type of scam in late 2013.” When I blogged about the FBI report…
A class action was filed against Bose which alleges that Bose “Unbeknownst to its customers, however, Defendant designed Bose Connect to (i) collect and record the titles of the music and audio files its customers choose to play through their Bose wireless products and (ii) transmit such data along with…
Continue Reading IoT Privacy Lawsuit- Bose sued for taking headphone data without consent!
My Guest Blogger Eddie Block (CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/G, CISA, CEH) is a senior attorney in Gardere’s Litigation Group and member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Legal Services Team who focuses on all aspects of information cyber security, including credentialing functions, firewall and IDS deployment and monitoring, and penetration testing, and…
Continue Reading GUEST BLOG: Do you know which 2 states don’t have data breach notification laws?
Reuters reported that a new Chinese law “would require firms exporting data to undergo an annual security assessment law….[and] would ban the export of any economic, technological or scientific data whose transfer would pose a threat to security or public interests. It would also require firms to obtain the consent…
Continue Reading Do you believe China’s new cyber laws are for real?
A recent interview with Terbium CEO Danny Rogers he reported that his research about the Dark Web that he “found that actually half the content floating around on [the Dark Web] is perfectly legal and benign…It’s the other half you really have to worry about – a lot of it…
Continue Reading Everything on the Dark Web is not illegal, only half!
My Guest Blogger Eddie Block (CISSP, CIPM, CIPP/G, CISA, CEH) is a senior attorney in Gardere’s Litigation Group and member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Legal Services Team who focuses on all aspects of information cyber security, including credentialing functions, firewall and IDS deployment and monitoring, and penetration testing, and…
Continue Reading GUEST BLOG: It’s time to wake up and figure out how GDPR affects you!
CSOonline reported that most IoT (Internet of Things) wearable companies that collection personal data “don’t carefully anonymize health-related data have effectively acquired what’s known as electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), ‘which puts you squarely in the HIPAA world.’” The March 29, 2017 report entitled “10 security risks of wearables…
Continue Reading HIPAA data risk in IoTs among 10 security risks with Wearables
The New York Times reported that Trump Administration plans to “roll back the regulation of broadband internet service companies…which were intended to ensure that no online content is blocked and that the internet is not divided into pay-to-play fast lanes for internet and media companies that can afford it and…
