A Rough Month for Consumer Reporting Agencies: Data Breach Incidents Are On The Rise and Now Convey FCRA Standing to Consumers

A few weeks ago, the broad range of companies that may be classified as “consumer reporting agencies” (CRAs) learned that they now face significantly increased data security legal risk through […]

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Super Glue Makers’ “Made in USA” Claims Failing to Stick

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced reaching a settlement in its lawsuit against Chemence, Inc., which the FTC alleged made “misleading unqualified claims that its strong, fast-acting glues are […]

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FCC Regulation to Affect Enterprise Broadband Expenditures

An ongoing regulatory development may have a substantial impact on the bottom-lines of many American businesses, but may not be adequately on the radar of the relevant personnel. The Federal […]

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FTC, LabMD, Tiversa:  Who to Trust, Who to Blame?

An emerging issue in cyber law is the role of data security firms and the methods they use to demonstrate value in trying to land clients. In particular: What do we think about […]

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The comment period for draft descriptions of two National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) retail cybersecurity projects closes this Friday, June 3. The projects are: “Multifactor Authentication for e-Commerce” and “Securing Non-Credit Card, Sensitive […]

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Antitrust Lessons from your Office Supplies

In 1997, office supply superstores (or OSSs) Staples and Office Depot tried to merge, but the deal was challenged on antitrust grounds by the Federal Trade Commission.  The companies tried […]

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Privacy Awareness Week: Raising Awareness About VPNs

The Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities Forum has declared this week–May 16-20, 2016–Privacy Awareness Week, during which privacy agencies from across the Pacific Ocean share information about privacy practices and rules.  This year, agencies like the […]

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A close friend recently reached out to me to ask some questions about what she needed to do to protect her family’s information.  After exchanging a few emails with her […]

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Nuremberg Symposium: A Study in the Law of Hate

In one week from Wednesday, on May 4, prominent American lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, and former Canadian Justice Minister, Irwin Cotler will chair the Nuremberg Symposium–a one-day seminar featuring Supreme Court […]

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Cryptography is the “technology used to store and transmit data in a particular form so it can only be read or processed by the intended recipient” and has been a […]

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