Socially Aware - Volume 5, Issue 2 - April 2014
In This Issue: - Employer Access to Employee Social Media: Applicant Screening, ‘Friend’ Requests and Workplace Investigations - Driving Under the Influence (of Google Glass) - U.S. Courts’ Evolving...
View ArticleCBP’s Approach to CEEs Continues to Evolve
On March 28, 2014, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) posted an updated version of its procedures for its Centers of Excellence and Expertise (CEEs) in response to a recent Federal Register...
View ArticleTCPA Connect
Two Recent Yahoo! Decisions Produce Differing Results for TCPA Liability - ..PA Court: Yahoo!’s System Not an ATDS: Yahoo! won dismissal of a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) suit when a...
View ArticleThe Highest Court in the European Union Strikes Down the Data Retention...
In a significant move, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (Directive) is invalid. This decision is expected to have wide-reaching...
View ArticlePUE, CUE and DCeP. Can Metrics Rescue Green IT?
Businesses’ technology estates consume ever-greater amounts of energy and, at the same time, the cost of that energy continues to escalate. Green IT initiatives seem to have little effect despite the...
View ArticleCyber Insurance: A Last Line of Defense When Technology Fails
As cyber risks increase, specialized insurance policies can protect companies, but only if those policies are appropriately tailored and negotiated. Daily news headlines reveal the escalating, and...
View ArticleKentucky Becomes 47th State with a Data Breach Notification Law
On April 10, 2014, Kentucky became the 47th state to enact breach notification legislation. Under the new law, companies that conduct business in Kentucky and hold consumer data of Kentucky residents...
View ArticleFlorida Court Says, “No Phishing Expeditions Allowed on a Plaintiff’s...
While it is true that social media has become one of the main sources for discovery in personal injury litigation, the basic tenants of discovery that apply to the standard document requests, also...
View ArticleIowa Breach Notification Law Now Requires AG Notification, Applies to Paper...
Iowa recently joined an increasing number of states that require notification of state regulatory authorities following a breach, as well as a handful of states in which paper records can trigger...
View ArticleBill C-31 Proposes Major Changes to Canada's Trade-marks Act
The Federal Government recently introduced Bill C-31, the Economic Action Plan Act 2014, No.1. Bill C-31 is an omnibus bill which makes changes to nearly 40 different pieces of legislation. Among these...
View ArticleFCC Authorizes Additional 100 MHz of Unlicensed Spectrum in 5 GHz Band (Part...
In our last post on this topic, we reported on the FCC’s adoption of an order authorizing the use of an additional 100 MHz of unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi and related network equipment. Now that the...
View ArticleRight of Publicity? First, Let Me Take a Selfie
“Oh, he wants to do a selfie,” President Barack Obama observed with amusement before gamely posing with Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz. Ortiz snapped the shot using his Samsung smartphone...
View ArticleGoogle and Microsoft Update Their E-Mail Privacy Policies
Google and Microsoft have both recently updated their policies regarding the privacy of e-mail contents. The updates are about different issues and were initiated in response to different events....By:...
View ArticleAmendments to the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP)
The Gambling Commission has recently published part one of three publications detailing the changes to be introduced to the LCCP to coincide with the new point of consumption regime in Great Britain....
View ArticleIs 4-3 the New 3-2? FTC Continues to Target Pharmaceutical Mergers
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) has often stated that merger analysis requires more than a simplistic determination that high market concentration leads to anticompetitive effects....
View ArticleHeartbleed Won’t Bring Cardiac Arrest for Ediscovery
How do you stop a security professional’s heart from beating? Two words: security breach. In today’s “Internet of Everything” environment, the impact of a security breach can be felt around the world...
View ArticleBitcoin – real, virtual or illegal currency?
The news about the indictment of Charlie Shrem, the former vice president of Bitcoin Foundation, and Robert Faiella in the US because of their potential involvement in the laundering of more than $ 1...
View ArticleTexas Department of Banking Issues Guidance on Virtual Currency
The Texas Department of Banking issued a supervisory memorandum clarifying the applicability of the Texas Money Services Act to various activities involving virtual currencies. The Department of...
View ArticleSEC’s OCIE Announces Cybersecurity Examinations Of Broker-Dealers And...
The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, or OCIE, previously announced that its 2014 Examination Priorities included a focus on technology, including cybersecurity preparedness....
View ArticleChanges of the Amended Regulations on Supervision and Administration of...
The Regulations on Supervision and Administration of Medical Devices was amended and promulgated by the State Council on March 7th, 2014, effective June 1st, 2014. The last version is from 2000. The...
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