HIMSS: Increase Patient Data Breaches Despite Strict Regulations By: Maite Forrez According to “2012 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data”, commissioned by Kroll Advisory Solutions, a heightened focus on HIPAA…
Subpoena, Search, or Incriminating Statement
Subpoena, Search, or Incriminating Statement: Encryption Passphrases and Privacy By Max Abend CNET recently ran an article about a precedential case involving computer encryption. In one of only a handful…
Mobile Geolocation Services, EU
EU’s Article 29 Working Party adopted opinion regarding mobile geolocation services and required e.g. a prior informed consent from users. Yet The European Commission’s proposed reform of the EU's 1995…
Senator Franken’s Comment to NTIA Focuses on Location Privacy
Senator Franken’s Comment to NTIA Focuses on Location Privacy Page Hubben On April 2, Senator Al Franken, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law,…
Concerns over Government Access to and Retention of Communications and Other Data
Several recent NY Times articles reflect growing concerns over increasing government access to and retention of communications and other data here in the U.S.: Police Are Using Phone Tracking…
Does your level of Fourth Amendment protection vary inversely with the convenience of your digital life?
Does your level of Fourth Amendment protection vary inversely with the convenience of your digital life? Matthew Smith Today, Ars Technica published an excellent rundown of the various approaches that…
“Can You Track Me Now?…Good.” Do Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Location Data?
Kevin Frick “Can You Track Me Now?...Good.” Do Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Location Data? Last week, the question of whether law enforcement officials required to get a…
9th Circuit: ECPA protects domestic communications of non-US citizens
Mu-Chia Kao 9th Circuit: ECPA protects domestic communications of non-US citizens In Suzlon Energy Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit uphold a…
US continues to receive wholesale financial data from EU banking org. without a warrant
Hannah Bloch-Wehba US continues to receive wholesale financial data from EU banking org. without a warrant The Europol Joint Supervisory Body (JSB) recently released a report confirming that the U.S. continues to…
Supreme Court Ruling Prompts FBI to Turn Off 3,000 Tracking Devices
Patrick McCarthy Supreme Court Ruling Prompts FBI to Turn Off 3,000 Tracking Devices The Federal Bureau of Investigation is scrambling to comply with the Supreme Court’s recent decision…