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David R. Johnson
It is (high) time to rewrite and modernize the law that regulates access to our private communications and to the detailed information those communications automatically create.
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Andrew Ramonas
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Steven Salkin
President Barack Obama's administration on Feb. 12 released its much-anticipated voluntary cybersecurity framework, giving U.S. companies a common handbook on how they can try to fend off hackers.
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Gregg Fisch
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Michael Campbell
As of Jan. 1, 2015, the ACA begins to impose certain health coverage requirements on employers who have at least 50 employees. Even though its implications are almost a year away, it is not too soon for employers to prepare for the Employer Mandate. Employers would be wise to figure out if the mandate applies to them, understand the potential penalties that can be imposed on them and, taking into account all of the various considerations, decide if they want to pay or play.
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Jenna Greene
Hoping the third time will be the charm, the FCC announced on Feb. 19 that it will craft new rules for net neutrality that will pass muster with the courts.
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Kirk Ogrosky
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Jeffrey Hessekiel
For multinational corporations, reducing the risks and concomitant expenses associated with corrupt employee behavior must be a priority. This article discusses the benefits of embedding compliance doctrine within operations, and how businesses could market integrity and compliance to gain a competitive advantage.
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Min Lee
Companies that create and distribute mobile apps are under increasing pressure to protect user data. In 2013, the FTC and the California Attorney General each published privacy recommendations for mobile apps. Among other things, the FTC urges "privacy by design," advising companies to build privacy protections into apps from the outset.
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Bradley S. Shear
Students and schools around the country are utilizing new digital technologies in ways many people did not imagine at the turn of the century ' and those technologies offer great promise. Unfortunately, the current legal framework designed to protect student privacy and safety has not kept up with the rapid advancements that have been created by the Digital Age.
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Samuel Fineman
The FCC failed again in its attempt to regulate broadband Internet service providers. On January 14, a unanimous three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the FCC lacked the legal authority to write certain rules governing the management of data on the Internet ' popularly known as the "network neutrality" rules. The decision could leave companies such as Netflix Inc. and Amazon, Inc. facing higher charges for the fastest service.
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Cheryl Miller
For privacy advocates, these are heady days.
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Jonathan Bick
In November, a European court ruling forced an American Internet service provider to remove content from servers located in the U.S. and block the transfer of content to European and Asian users. This ruling resulted from the Internet search results of an Englishman who asserted that his French Internet privacy rights make it illegal to distribute Internet images of an individual in a private space without that person's permission.
