Pauline Toboulidis | October 16, 2017 | American Indian Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations, Data Privacy, Liability Insurance
The below is a sample of some recent and upcoming events featuring topics that may be of interest to our readers. White & Williams Coverage College 2017 The eleventh annual White and Williams LLP Coverage College is coming to the Pennsylvania Convention Center on...
Stephen E. Henderson | September 22, 2017 | Data Privacy, Policing, Sentencing
As with most new things, the big data revolution in criminal justice has historic antecedents—indeed, a 1965 Presidential Commission called for some of the same data analysis that police departments and courts are today developing and implementing. But there is no...
Adam Levin | September 19, 2017 | Data Privacy
With the announcement of Verizon Up, a new wireless rewards program that provides users with customer incentives, first-dibs opportunities on things like VIP tickets and other exclusive deals, we thought it was time to review how reward marketing plans work. First,...
Craig A. Newman | September 13, 2017 | Data Privacy
Since the massive data breach at Equifax Inc. was disclosed late Thursday (see our blog here), the news has only gotten worse for the Atlanta-based credit monitoring agency. Here’s a brief chronological recap of what we know so far: ▪ On July 29th,...
Daniel Solove | August 29, 2017 | Data Privacy
Recently, HBO suffered a massive data breach. The hackers stole unreleased episodes of Game of Thrones and have been leaking them before they are broadcast. Episodes of other shows were also stolen. The hackers grabbed 1.5 terabytes of data including sensitive...
Alex Swoyer | June 1, 2017 | Data Privacy, Policing
Legal experts say Congress and the states need to step in to protect Americans’ privacy rights from the proliferation of voice-activated personal assistant devices such as Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home, after a murder case in Arkansas raised questions about how much...