New Jersey Becomes Third State to Approve Online Gambling, More to Follow New Jersey has joined Delaware and Nevada among states that have legalized intrastate online gambling, while Massachusetts, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa and Mississippi are considering similar moves. As states look for a big payout in revenue from such measures, recent studies have analyzed past…
Facebook-Instagram Deal to be Delayed by FTC Antitrust Probe Reports are circulating that the $1 billion Facebook-Instagram deal could be put on hold by as much as a year while the FTC conducts an antitrust investigation into the deal. As the New York Times indicates, “[t]he government could also be interested in whether a company is killing…
TED’S TUBES Year of the Hacker (Con’t) Tennessee Cyber Harassment and Cal Data Breach Update SSL Certificate Provider DigiNotar Hacked, CIA Among Victims DigiNotar, a Dutch SSL certificate authority, has belatedly revealed that in July hackers caused over 500 fraudulent certificates to be issued including certificates for Facebook, Skype, Mozilla, Microsoft Yahoo, Android, Twitter and domains owned…
CAPITOL WATCH Privacy, Data Security Movement and E-Personation in California WSJ Report Triggers Congressional Privacy Inquiry After a Wall Street Journal investigation into the use of tracking technology at the top 50 websites revealed that the sites placed “an average of 64 pieces of tracking technology – like cookies – onto users’ computers” which may not have…
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