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Twitter Launches Operation 'Forward Secrecy'

Twitter is launching a new technology to thwart hackers from decrypting user information that could be useful for other companies concerned about security.
2 minute read

Legaltech News

Class Action Plaintiff's Third Bite at Apple Succeeds

Apple did not succeed in its attempt to dismiss a Second Amended Class Action Complaint in California federal court where the plaintiff alleged that Apple failed to prevent third-party apps on Apple devices from uploading user information without their consent.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

ABA Adopts Cybersecurity Resolution

During its annual meeting, the ABA House of Delegates adopted a resolution calling for laws preventing, deterring and punishing cyberattacks on lawyers' and law firms' computers and networks.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Senators Look to Make U.S. Surveillance More Transparent

With U.S. intelligence and Department of Justice officials looking on, senators on Wednesday laid out plans to make the government's data-gathering efforts more transparent.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Washington State Turns Up the Privacy for Social Media

On Sunday, Washington will officially become the 11th state to enact a law prohibiting employers from asking employees for their personal social media credentials.
5 minute read

International Edition

Handle with care – Hong Kong's new data protection laws in the spotlight

It would be an understatement to say that recent changes to Hong Kong's data privacy rules were a wake-up call for companies doing business in the region. The strict new Personal Data Privacy Ordinance (PDPO), which came into force on 1 April, has banned companies from using personal data in direct marketing without getting consent from the people being targeted. This threatens to curtail businesses' advertising campaigns and flood IT departments with opt-out requests.
8 minute read

International Edition

A chorus of cant – you can't trust newspapers on Leveson

I enjoy a laugh as much as anyone and the newspaper industry – and it is an industry – has done much to contribute to my mirth over the past two months with a series of pre-emptive strikes ahead of publication this week of recommendations from the Leveson Inquiry. Since I'm writing this the day before the report is issued on Thursday (29 November), what Leveson will recommend remains unclear, though the money has been on some form of beefed-up self-regulation with a statutory back-stop since day one.
3 minute read

International Edition

Media in a spin: how the Leveson Inquiry will affect privacy law

Will the Leveson Inquiry make a difference to press regulation in the UK, and where will it leave privacy law? Richard Lloyd assesses the results of the latest Legal Week Benchmarker, in association with Mishcon de Reya.
1 minute read

International Edition

McAlpine settles with BBC over Newsnight claims as ex-Tory pursues social media users

The scandal over a BBC report featuring allegations of child abuse by a former Conservative politician has placed renewed scrutiny on the legal implications of comments posted on social media sites such as Twitter. Following the Newsnight broadcast earlier this month, former Conservative Party treasurer Lord McAlpine rapidly became the subject of a number of allegations on social media sites, despite the fact he was not named by the programme.
3 minute read

International Edition

The BBC, Lord McAlpine and libel law

The past week has seen a series of extraordinary events arising out of a BBC Newsnight broadcast about sexual abuse in children's homes in North Wales in the 1970s and 1980s. This led to the wide dissemination of false allegations against the former Conservative Party Treasurer, Lord McAlpine and resulted in the resignation of the Director General of the BBC. The case gives rise to a number of interesting libel law questions and casts doubt on the appropriateness of a proposed new 'public interest defence'.
9 minute read

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