Nick Bilton reports: Sony has declined to testify at a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, “The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers,” that seeks to understand how consumers’ private data is protected by corporations. […] The subcommittee sent a letter to Sony on Friday asking the company to answer a number of questions related to the…
Category: Legislation
Ninth Circuit Holds That Violating Any Employer Restriction on Computer Use “Exceeds Authorized Access” (Making It a Federal Crime)
Orin Kerr writes: I had though the world was safe from the nuttiness of the Justice Department’s broad theories of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the Lori Drew case. Not so. Readers may recall I once blogged about a similar case, United States v. Nosal, that raised similar issues in the context of an employee…
Sens. Franken, Blumenthal Ask Justice Department to Clarify, Enforce Data Privacy Law
Yesterday, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to clarify its interpretation of a critical federal law that protects the private and personal data of Americans. Recently, servers owned by Epsilon Data Management were hacked, exposing the names and e-mail addresses of millions of American consumers….
Pointer: Data breach law in Ireland – the current state of play
TJ McIntyre has kindly shared a handout for a presentation he gave on the state of data breach law in Ireland. You can read it on his blog.
Al Franken keeping eye on Epsilon breach
Tony Romm reports: Add Sen. Al Franken to the growing list of members casting a skeptical eye on Epsilon. A data breach that allowed hackers access to the names and email addresses of consumers who do business with Target, Best Buy, TiVo and other Epsilon clients led Franken (D-Minn.) on Thursday to vow to “do…
Data Breach Notification Laws Influence Storage Location Decisions
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Many companies that look to process and store sensitive data — including intellectual property — abroad as a cost-cutting measure are seeking countries with minimal data breach notification requirements, according to a survey of 1,000 senior IT decision makers by market research firm Vanson Bourne. The survey was sponsored by Intel’s…