BARRY BARNETT GUEST BLOGGER
Barry Barnett has been a Guest Blogger in the past, his Blawgletter provides great thoughts, and insights. I read his blogs regularly. Over the years Barry and I have had a number of cases together and he is an outstanding trial partner at Susman Godfrey.
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Continue Reading GUEST BLOG: eDiscovery Copying Costs Not Recovered
The recent “fair use” victory for Google allows Google Search to use the content of +20 million of books which may reshape copyright content on the Internet forever. Google Books “fair use” expands the scope of search engines without infringing copyrights even though the libraries who contributed the +20 million…
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A member of the Underground Intelligence Agency pled guilty for hacking “into multiple corporate, university and government computer networks… including access to supercomputers from a U.S. national security laboratory” as reported by Computerworld. 24 year old Andrew Miller pled guilty in August 2013 “to one count of conspiracy and two…
Continue Reading Hacker Sells Secrets to the FBI and Gets 18 Months in Jail
Apparently “American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe” as reported by the New York Times.
This is particularly significant given the size…
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Billions of cellphone locations are apparently collected daily by the NSA of the “whereabouts of cellphones around the world” according documents from NSA contractor Edward Snowden. On December 4, 2013 the Washington Post reported:
The NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires…
The best way to avoid ERP disasters and avoid litigation is to spend adequate time to work out complete and detailed ERP implementation contracts. It is also essential that the right individuals participate in the contract negotiations, including the business decision makers, financial leaders, IT leaders, and lawyers who are…
Continue Reading Good Contracts Can Help Avoid ERP Disasters
An international coalition of more 300 human rights, privacy organizations, and privacy leaders established policies “that governments must follow to protect human rights in an age of digital surveillance” which has been led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Access, and Privacy International. These “Necessary and…
US small businesses and churches were targeted by websites based in Montreal, Canada and as a result were bilked out of $14 million . After receiving more than 13,000 consumer complaints the FTC filed a Complaint against Modern Technology Inc. and 14 other related businesses (incorporated in Wyoming, Nevada…
Continue Reading Court Shuts Down Yellow Page Websites for Bilking $14M
A bad cloud contract can devastate any business, and a recent article “8 sure-fire ways to screw up a cloud contract” should be a wake-up call, but unfortunately many businesses learn the hard way. By way of example, a recent cloud contract that I negotiated contained no provisions…
In spite of news reports to the contrary, Yahoo’s CEO claimed that “Yahoo has never given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency. Ever.” On November 18, 2013 Marissa Mayer (Yahoo CEO) blogged that by January 8, 2014, Yahoo Mail will have “(SSL…
