Blog Posts Tagged with "Legal"
How the DOJ Looks at Compliance Programs Part I
May 22, 2012 Added by:Thomas Fox
Although often discussed in Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) or Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs), most compliance practitioners are not familiar with one of the most important sources of Department of Justice (DOJ) policy regarding the prosecution of corporations...
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Twitter Commits to Respecting Do Not Track with New Policy
May 21, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
This doesn’t mean Twitter will stop collecting all data on you. They’ll still be able to collect aggregate data about your browsing habits for analytics and security, but they won’t set a cookie and they won’t use data to suggest users to you or for tailoring your Twitter experience...
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Social Media Seeks Control Through TOS Enforcement
May 21, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
So far, social media companies have only sought to squash undesirable behavior on their platforms from third party commercial entities, such as spammers or those seeking password sharing, but in the future such litigation could be viable against individual users...
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Achieving Compliance in the Post-Acquisition Context
May 17, 2012 Added by:Thomas Fox
Trust cascades down each level of a company from the Board of Directors to employees and then to customers. Trust is equally important in the M&A context. These ideas are useful for the compliance practitioner when integrating a new acquisition into an existing compliance culture...
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Law Professors Cast Further Doubt on ACTA's Constitutionality
May 17, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
At issue is whether the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) had authority to enter into the controversial IP enforcement agreement on behalf of the United States when the Deputy U.S. Trade Ambassador signed ACTA in October 2011...
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Manager of Phishing Ring Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
May 15, 2012 Added by:Headlines
A principal figure in the domestic arm of an international “phishing” operation that used spam e-mails and bogus websites to defraud American banks was found guilty of bank and wire fraud, identity theft, computer fraud, and money laundering and sentenced to five years in federal prison...
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Growing Mistrust of India’s Biometric ID Scheme
May 14, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
In India, a massive effort is underway to collect biometric identity information for each of the country’s 1.2 billion people. The incredible plan has stirred controversy in India and beyond, raising serious concerns about the security of individuals’ personal data...
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Turn Compliance Beliefs Into Action: Impact Tone at the Bottom
May 11, 2012 Added by:Thomas Fox
This method is a good way for a compliance practitioner to get at ‘tone at the bottom’. By engaging employees at the level suggested you can find out not only what the employees think about the compliance program but use their collective experience to help design a more effective program...
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Drones, Secret Surveillance, and Classifying the Wizard of Oz
May 10, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The FAA finally released the names of the government agencies which applied for and received authorization to fly drones in the US. Unfortunately, the list did not include what drones were authorized, what they were being used for, or what information they were collecting...
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Communication is King in E-Discovery Matters
May 10, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
A common vocabulary is certainly emerging making dialog between counsel and technologists productive and effective. However, equally important is that lawyers engage their client’s technology team in dialog on e-discovery issues because when counsel fails, the fall out can be costly...
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Hackers Post Thousands of Twitter Account Logins
May 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Analysis of the data dump indicates that of the fifty-five thousand sets of account logins, around twenty-thousand were duplicates, and a large percentage were associated with accounts that were already suspended for violations of terms of service...
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Six Good Reasons to De-Identify Data
May 08, 2012 Added by:Rebecca Herold
Even though it sounds complicated there are many good methods you can use to accomplish de-identification. The great thing is, under many legal constructs de-identification is an acceptable way to use personal information for purposes beyond which the personal data was collected...
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DOJ: Any Protection is too Much for Cell Phone Tracking
May 08, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
For years, we've been arguing that cell phone location data should only be accessible to law enforcement with a search warrant. After all, as web enabled smart phones become more prevalent, this location data reveals an incredibly revealing portrait of your every move...
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Ninth Circuit Narrows Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Reach
May 07, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
The crux is the recent application of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act criminalizing violations of website terms of use and employer restrictions on employee computer uses, stemming in particular from what the statute’s term “exceeds authorized access” does and does not mean...
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Microsoft Continues Crusade Against Botnet Masters
May 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Google began alerting the registrants of more than three dozen Gmail accounts that were the subject of Microsoft’s subpoenas... The email addresses were already named in Microsoft’s initial complaint posted at zeuslegalnotice.com, which listed nicknames and other information..."
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FBI Overreaches with May First - Riseup Server Seizure
May 02, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Most troubling is the collateral damage. The search warrant authorized seizure of emails, communications, and files on the server, and records of IP addresses connected to the server. And the server was used by a wide range of people who had nothing to do with the bomb threats...
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