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Financial Services Regulatory Highlights
White Paper Past June, the Department of Treasury released a White Paper on Financial Regulatory Reform calling on the SEC and CFTC to make recommendations to Congress for changes to statutes and regulations that would harmonize... [13 Nov 2009]
Data Retention Compliance
White Paper The firms received fines totaling $8.25 million ($1.65 million each), along with a requirement to review their procedures to ensure compliance with recordkeeping statutes and rules. Organizations that do not address data... [12 Nov 2009]
EMAIL CONFIDENTIALITY AND THE LAW: A SURVEY OF U.S. LEGISLATION ON EMAIL ENCRYPTION
White Paper Whether absolutely required by some statutes or simply suggested by other laws, proper encryption of email is unavoidably something that companies handling personal, financial, or medical data must now consider and in... [18 Jun 2009]
Create a Table of Authorities
White Paper If the user doesn't want to use the existing categories of citations, such as cases or statutes, one can change or add categories of citations. A table of authorities lists the references in a legal document, along with... [11 Apr 2008]
Spam king slapped with MySpace suit
News In the suit, filed last week in US District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, MySpace accuses Wallace of violating state and federal laws including the federal Can-Spam Act and California's anti-spam and... [28 Mar 2007]
Spam King gets a MySpace suit
News The News Corp-owned social-networking behemoth cited violations of multiple state and US anti-spam laws, including California statutes and the federal Can-Spam Act, in its case against Richter, who was the proprietor of... [23 Jan 2007]
HP to face civil suit over spying scandal?
News What remains unclear is under which statutes the state is considering filing. California's attorney general is close to making a decision as to whether it will file a civil suit against HP as a result of the company's... [30 Nov 2006]
Google 'profits from child porn', lawsuit claims
News It also accuses Google of violating federal statutes relating to child pornography and calls for the court to order that Google cease "advertising, promoting, or distributing" child pornography through its site or... [08 May 2006]
Google prevails in copyright suit
News Others were dismissed because Google was found not to be held liable under certain statutes. In a legal win for Google, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a writer who claimed the search giant infringed on his... [17 Mar 2006]
Computer Hacking and Liability Issues: When Does Liability Attach?
White Paper Both federal and state statutes impose criminal liability on hackers for computer crimes, as well as provide civil liability for violations of the statue. But often hackers are difficult to find, are judgment-proof, or... [16 Feb 2005]
FBI talks big, does little with spammers
News Jana Monroe, the FBI's assistant director of the cyber division, told the Senate Commerce Committee: "Such cases may be investigated and prosecuted as computer intrusion matters, or as online cyberfrauds which may lend themselves to a... [21 May 2004]
Want to visit the US? Now you have to show your biometrics...
News The US government is tight-lipped over how long the data will be retained, saying that it will be held and destroyed in "accordance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements" but doesn't detail which statutes... [06 Jan 2004]
US calls for VoIP regulation
News Most of the companies and organisations in favour of a national VoIP (voice over internet protocol) policy want to avoid a patchwork of different statutes sewn together from laws being drafted by at least a dozen states,... [30 Oct 2003]
Is vigilante hacking legal?
News Curtis Karnow, from law firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, stressed that while no court case has yet established precedent regarding the use of a limited counterstrike - revenge or vigilante hacking - to stop internet attackers,... [28 Feb 2003]
Microsoft hunts down Hotmail spammers
News In the absence of such a law, Microsoft relied on existing federal statutes including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Microsoft is turning up the heat on spam, filing a lawsuit to go after people it suspects of having... [19 Feb 2003]
