Exploring technology law in cyberspace
On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect in the European Union. The GDPR requires companies to get permission from customers before sharing their data. A company that does not […]
A cyber insurance policy transfers risk to an insurance company for losses involving a cyber breach. However, a cyber insurance policy is not a substitute for implementing adequate safeguards to secure an organization’s network. Cyber […]
A class-action complaint filed against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (CA) describes how the companies violated the privacy of 50 million users in the summer of 2014. The plaintiffs filed the complaint in a California federal district […]
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the path for cyber breach plaintiffs to establish standing in their lawsuit against CareFirst. The Supreme Court’s refusal to review the lower appeal court’s decision to grant standing for the plaintiffs […]
On January 25, 2018, Allscripts, a platform service provider for managing electronic health care records, experienced a ransomware attack. The ransomware was a variant of the “SamSam” malware. Allscripts restored its systems with backups, but […]
Congressional committee findings show that cyber crimes pose a “severe threat” to the economic strength of the United States. The committee found that the threat continues to grow because law enforcement has limited resources to respond […]
Cryptocurrency is a decentralized payment system that operates with peer-to-peer transactions. The system adds each transaction to a permanent ledger, which is transparent to the parties. Processors, called miners, verify these transactions by solving hashing […]
Most states have data breach laws that require companies to secure the personal data of their customers, yet WIRED reported that only 50% of websites use the Internet’s secure HTTPS protocol. With the release of Chrome […]
Uber, a global transportation technology company, is facing lawsuits and government investigations after the company hid a cyber breach for a year. According to the City of Chicago’s complaint against Uber, in October 2016, hackers […]
The year 2017 marks the rise of the robot lawyer. This new concept provides legal help using bots, which have been around since the early days of the Internet. Programmers use bots to do any type […]
