If you don’t have to keep it, then don’t keep it. If you have to keep it, encrypt it…
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| Business Organizations, Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Because Bitcoin is fungible and greatly fluctuates in value on a daily basis, Bitcoin users will need to track their cost basis for each Bitcoin obtained and determine whether they have gain or loss on the subsequent exchange of…
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| Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Taxation
A central theme of several Justices’ comments and questions was how a decision finding Aereo’s business to involve public performance could affect Dropbox or other cloud storage providers where consumers store performance…
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| Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
A professional services firm is only as good as its providers and the right program in place can help you to also attract and retain the high caliber talent you need to stand out from the rest…
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| Business Organizations, Law Practice Products & Services
The decision affects every employer with an arbitration agreement and every employer that wants to avoid class and collective actions, which should be all of them…
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| Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Remedies, Labor & Employment Law
Although it is a widespread exploit that has been undetected for two years, whether or not a CGL policy covers data breaches allowed by Heartbleed should turn, simply, on whether the policy covers data breach at all…
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| Business Organizations, Communications & Media Law, Insurance, Science, Computers, & Technology
Full text copy of S.2206, aka the "Let Me Google That For You" Act, introduced April 3, 2014, by senators Tom Coburn and Claire McCaskill to, among other things, curtail the National Technical Information Service's practice of…
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| Business Organizations, Government Contracting, Science, Computers, & Technology
Threats to data privacy are not going away, but establishing appropriate security measures up-front, performing regular stress-tests on a security system, putting in place procedures to address a data breach and implementing…
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| Business Organizations, Communications & Media Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The vulnerability caused by the Heartbleed bug circumvents the purpose of OpenSSL: encryption. Therefore, the conclusion would appear to be that any data breach during the time of OpenSSL vulnerability would be reportable…
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| Business Organizations, Communications & Media Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
In your experience, what’s the most important role that a startup CEO should fulfill? That’s the question we put recently to JD Supra contributors, many of whom have spent years working with successful entrepreneurs in various…
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| Business Organizations
Well settled rules that govern the taxation of transactions involving the sale or exchange of property, or the issuance of property in exchange for services, also apply to convertible virtual currency…
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| Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Taxation
The good news is that there is at least one type of marketing activity out there that will fit your distinct approach to things…
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| Law Practice Products & Services, Law Firm Marketing
Three strategies to build powerful business relationships that you can start working on today, from attorney, mentor, in-house counsel Josh Beser…
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| Law Practice Products & Services
Notes from a fascinating presentation by Heather Morse and Jonathan Fitzgarrald, hosted by the LMA's Bay Area Chapter. The focus: Generational Marketing: Strategies and Tactics for Engagement with Boomers, Gen Xers, and…
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| Law Practice Products & Services
Will forward-publishing your patent help or hurt you in the long run? Sonos’ announcement this week that they will forward-publish patent applications has created quite a debate in the patent realm.
Ideas are the lifeblood…
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