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Outlier or Trend? A Possible Narrowing of the Border Search Exception for Electronic Devices

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As we wrote in a note back in December 2020, the border search exception to the Fourth Amendment is a powerful investigative tool relied on by law enforcement to gather critical physical and digital evidence because it allows...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

SEC Adopts New and Burdensome Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted rules requiring public companies to quickly disclose “material cybersecurity incidents” and to annually disclose material information regarding a company’s...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] Police Tech Conference & Expo - February 28th - March 1st, Mississauga, ON, Canada

Hosted by CI, the inaugural Police Tech Conference & Expo provides the unique opportunity to experience hands-on the latest technology solutions specifically tailored for law enforcement. Learn how new devices and services...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - October 28th, Louisville, KY

Looking for compliance training and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance training, including updates on the latest news in regulatory...more

Oberheiden P.C.

Received a Search Warrant? 10 Facts You Need to Know

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Several federal agencies rely on search warrants to gather evidence in support of their law enforcement efforts. If you have received a search warrant from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

FBI Privacy App Lures Criminals

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If you want to keep tabs on criminals, build them a clubhouse. Provide them a comfortable place to relax and discuss their business, and you can learn about their contacts and activities. The strategy is not new....more

Knobbe Martens

Lessons From the Complaint Against Uber’s Former Chief Security Officer

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On August 20, 2020, former Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan was charged with obstruction of justice and misprision of a felony for knowingly concealing a hack of Uber in 2016. Based on Sullivan’s complaint,...more

Oberheiden P.C.

Is “Fraud Tourism” The Next Big Thing? How U.S. Government Money Ends Up Abroad

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How much of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) will end up in the hands of bad actors? With several hundreds of billions of dollars in the PPP bucket, fraud, misuse, and misdirection of funds is already being identified...more

Carlton Fields

Devil in the Details: Gilbert King on Truth and Transparency in the Judicial Process

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Attorney David Karp and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gilbert King, author of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, discuss the importance of access to historically...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Facial Recognition Technology: A Primer for Practitioners

Facial recognition is a rapidly evolving area of technology with myriad potential commercial uses. Reflecting the rapid growth in this area, regulations related to facial recognition are changing across all levels of...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Unreviewed Preservation Requests Likely to Continue

The Ninth Circuit recently heard an appeal that challenges a common tool of law enforcement: “f” letters. Under section 2703(f) of the Stored Communications Act, law enforcement may compel providers of “electronic...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Year One of Trump’s DOJ: An Overview of the Four Major Categories of Offenders

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This article is the second in a series analyzing the Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics for Fiscal Year 2018, recently released by the United States Sentencing Commission. As discussed in our first article, the...more

Reveal

Where Does eDiscovery Fit in the Facial Recognition Conversation?

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For most of us, the concept of facial recognition – like so much technology of the last decade – began as a sci-fi detail we accepted on the big screen but didn’t give much thought to in our day-to-day lives. Then one day,...more

The Volkov Law Group

Compliance Program Evolution and Proactive Strategies (Part III of III)

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Sometimes what folks label a “new idea” is not so much of a new idea as the application of an old solution to a new discipline.  I do not mean to be cryptic, but I am going to explain my point by referring to an area where I...more

BCLP

Sharing Threat Indicators With The Government

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After a security incident is identified organizations often consider whether to share information concerning the incident with government agencies. If the incident involved criminal conduct, federal law enforcement agencies –...more

BCLP

Avoiding Management Struggles When it Comes to Data Breaches: Part 4

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The best way for a company to handle a data breach is to be prepared. As we discuss in our data breach readiness handbook, preparation includes, among other things, drafting an incident response plan, reviewing...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Fraternal Order of Police data breach

The nation’s largest police union recently suffered a data breach enabling hackers to steal hundreds of private internal documents including bargaining contracts, the names and addresses of several police officers, and...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Drones: New Technology, New Opportunity?

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The guidance states that drones recently “have emerged as a viable law enforcement tool.” In addition to affirming DOJ’s commitment to civil rights and privacy laws, the guidance imposes rules on who can order drone support...more

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DOJ releases guidelines on drone operation by federal law enforcement

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Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published guidelines for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or, as more commonly called, drones, by federal law enforcement. Currently, the FBI is the only agency using...more

Holland & Knight LLP

The New FBI Study on Active Shooters – Is Your Workplace Safe?

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The FBI's much anticipated study of active shooter incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013 was released at the end of 2014. This federal study is the first of its kind and its findings are eye-opening, dispelling...more

Baker Donelson

Preparing for an Active Shooter Incident in a Health Care Facility

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The Ober|Kaler Health Care General Counsel Institute presented this webinar discussion of key considerations in addressing an active shooter situation, including specific considerations within health care facilities. Not only...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Status Updates - January 2015

Fake-out stakeout. For several months now, we’ve been covering the increasingly prevalent use of social media by law enforcement agencies conducting criminal investigations. In one such instance, the FBI sent a link to a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Status Updates - November 2014 #2

..Bad chords. A European musician’s attempt to stop a negative concert review from continuing to appear in Internet search results is raising questions about whether the EU’s “right to be forgotten” ruling could prevent the...more

Cozen O'Connor

Your Client is Hacked and Personal Information is Leaked Online – Now What?

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You are general counsel to a company, and your CEO steps into your office, clutching his iPhone in one hand and wiping sweat from his brow with the other, and tells you that a compromising photograph of him was stolen from...more

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