Concurrent with the Obama administration’s press conference in which he discussed reforming current procedures under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the administration released its legal basis for its collection of “telephony metadata in bulk.” The legal white paper has not exactly wowed Obama’s supporters or critics in Washington. Many commentators have objected to seemingly circular…
ROBERT ELLIS SMITH RETURNS TO CLBR TO DISCUSS PRIVACY AND MOBILE APPS With California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ enforcement action filed against Delta for its lack of privacy policy for its mobile app and the FTC indicating that it is investigating mobile compliance with children’s privacy protections, mobile privacy has become the hot domestic internet…
FTC Cracks Down on Senders of Spam Text Messages Promoting “Free” Gift Cards Defendants Were Responsible for More than 180 Million Spam Text Messages The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on affiliate marketers that allegedly bombarded consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted spam text messages in an effort to steer them towards deceptive…
CYBER ATTACKS FROM IRAN, CHINA & RUSSIA – OH MY! CLBR Veteran Stan Stahl Updates Us on Cyber Security The past few weeks have seen headline after headline and report after report about major Cyber Attacks against the U.S. and U.S. businesses from Iran and China and of an emerging marketplace for Cyber…
Global E-Commerce Sales Surpasses $1 Trillion A report by eMarketer states that global e-commerce sales have surpassed $1 trillion for the first time in 2012. Total sales will reach $1.3 trillion in 2013 led by the big four – United States ($385B); China ($181B); United Kingdom ($142B) and Japan ($140B). China’s market has tripled…
Maryland Attorney General and President of the National Association of Attorneys General Doug Gansler has followed California’s lead and launched a privacy enforcement unit. We spoke with Attorney General Gansler in November on Cyber Law & Business Report and prepared a profile of him in connection with the show.
