No Password Required: An FBI Special Agent's Journey from Submarines to Anti-Corruption to Cybersecurity
The modern business technology landscape has been drastically altered over just a few short years. With these changes, eDiscovery and legal professionals have had to scramble to deal with the downstream effects to...more
When the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended in December of 2006 to include “electronically-stored information” as an information category subject to discovery, even the most visionary eDiscovery practitioners could...more
On May 3, 2023, in an aggressive move that pushes the boundaries of its authority, the FTC proposed sweeping changes to Facebook parent Meta’s business practices after alleging that the company violated the commission’s 2012...more
On May 3, 2023, the FTC announced that it is proposing a blanket prohibition preventing Facebook from monetizing youth data. The Commission alleges that the company violated the 2020 privacy order and now proposes new...more
In this corner, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC): "Facebook has repeatedly violated its privacy promises,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “The company’s recklessness has...more
Monica Harris, business product manager for EDRM Trusted Partner, Cellebrite Enterprise Solutions, sits down with Kaylee & Mary to talk about highlights of 2022, predictions for 2023 and the launch of Cellebrite's addition of...more
Editor’s Note: On October 19, 2022, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on the potential impact of Apple’s iOS 16 release on the area of eDiscovery. With iOS 16, new chat manipulation and security features have gone...more
Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority (PPA) recently published its position on the duty to inform when collecting and using personal data. This is an important position, as it clarifies how to design the interface with the...more
On September 2, 2021, EU regulators fined Facebook-owned chat service, WhatsApp, £225 million (around $266 million) for failing to fully disclose its user data collection and sharing practices. This is the second largest fine...more
WhatsApp started notifying its 2 billion users last month about an update to its privacy policy. Most of its users probably didn’t look at the details, and simply clicked “I agree” when the notice popped up on their phones....more
Facebook, the parent company to WhatsApp, is reporting near-record low revenue growth. Thus, presumably in an effort to monetize WhatsApp more heavily, WhatsApp recently announced changes to its privacy policy: as of...more
The latest lame-duck Covid relief package proposal would trim about 150 billion dollars (and a number of key sticking points, including funds “to bolster state and local governments, and a temporary coronavirus liability...more
The Situation: An investigation launched in 2016 by the German competition authority was meant to determine if Facebook was abusing its market position with its imposition of "misleading" data protection policies. The...more
On 7 February 2019 the German antitrust authority (Bundeskartellamt) found that the extent to which Facebook collects, merges, attributes to and uses data in user accounts amounts to an abuse of a dominant position on the...more
The German antitrust authority (FCO) has ordered Facebook to stop collecting data outside Facebook’s platform without the user’s “voluntary consent.” The decision breaks new ground because it links data protection and...more
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) became effective last Friday, May 25. That same day, the non-profit NOYB (from the colloquial “none of your business”) filed lawsuits against Google, together with...more
Tobias Boelter, a University of California Berkeley cryptography researcher claims that last year he found a security flaw in WhatsApp’s encrypted smart phone messaging application. The flaw, which relates to the unique...more
The European Commission's proposed e-privacy regulation sets forth obligations on handling electronic communications and clarifies obligations for seeking consent for the use of cookies. Meant to bring the e-privacy directive...more
Personal data is a valuable corporate asset. At times, the personal information collected from customers (such as email address, mailing address, phone number, etc.) can be a company’s most valuable asset. Unfortunately,...more