By Ed Silverstein | September 13, 2017
On August 1, a Delaware measure made it explicitly legal for entities incorporated in the state to use blockchain for stock trading and record-keeping.
By Ross Todd | September 13, 2017
Uber Technologies and a group of former executives have brought on lawyers from O'Melveny, Orrick, Latham, and Hogan Lovells to defend against a privacy and defamation suit brought by a woman raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi in 2014.
By C. Ryan Barber | September 11, 2017
In the months before revealing a data breach that potentially exposed the personal information of nearly half the adult U.S. population, Equifax Inc. turned to the firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington to help convince U.S. lawmakers to reduce penalties for companies that violated the federal fair credit-reporting law.
By Ed Silverstein | September 11, 2017
Companies may want to tell employees that if they 'do not want the company to access information, please do not store it in our systems,' advises attorney Harriet Pearson.
By Peter B. Skelos, Lesli P. Hiller and Robert M. Harper | September 11, 2017
Peter B. Skelos, Lesli P. Hiller and Robert M. Harper write: Email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumbler, online banking, online shopping and other forms of electronic communications comprise our digital footprint. They are seemingly ubiquitous and omnipresent in the life of our business, social, and personal affairs. But, on death, who has the right of access to a decedent's digital footprint? More importantly, what is the scope of that access? Can a fiduciary figuratively step into the decedent's shoes and gain full access to the decedent's digital assets and electronic communications?
By Josefa Velasquez | September 8, 2017
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has opened an investigation into the Equifax credit reporting agency data breach that may have exposed 143 million Americans personal information.
By Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte | September 8, 2017
Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists, Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte write: Big Data is a complex issue—different firms and individuals have different access to different sources of data, and want to use that data in different ways. This complexity means that the legality of some methods of culling and using Big Data remains unclear. A recent case signals a shift in the way courts may be viewing attempts to restrict one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate: data scraping.
By C. Ryan Barber | September 6, 2017
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in Oakland ruled for Turn, saying that consumer contracts with Verizon required the privacy lawsuit to be sent to arbitration.
By Cheryl Miller | September 5, 2017
A federal official with an anti-drug agency has asked California for demographic data about the 86,723 patients who have obtained medical marijuana user cards, raising privacy alarms among cannabis advocates.
By C. Ryan Barber | September 5, 2017
A federal appeals panel on Tuesday rejected a digital advertising firm's effort to invoke Verizon Wireless' arbitration agreement to push a subscriber class action over data collection practices out of court.
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