Category Archives: Data privacy

Cloud Computing: Part 3 of 3: Plus and Negatives Around Cloud Computing

Part 3:  Plus and Negatives Around Cloud Computing It is not a trivial task to migrate systems, data and users to a new system and especially one that exists in the cloud. However, companies that do so successfully achieve visibility into spending on cloud resources and manage the lifecycle for each instance, gain the ability…

Cloud Computing & Jurisdiction: Part 2: A Primer

Part 2: A Primer Cloud computing, which is relatively new, could lead to some novel problems concerning jurisdiction.  Generally, in civil lawsuits, a company is charged with producing relevant documents that are under its “custody and control.”  This typically means that a company is responsible for producing its documents without regard to where the documents…

Cloud Computing Caveats: Part I: Take Time with the Details

Part I: Take Time with the Details  Switching to a cloud can save money by lowering IT and data center support costs, improving performance and scalability, and reducing storage costs.  However, stakeholders and counsel should be cognizant that cloud computing presents various legal issues around control and custody of data, data preservation and collection, data…

Increase in Wireless Communcations Creates New Privacy Issues

Increase in Wireless Communcations Creates New Privacy Issues by Daniel B. Garrie & Daniel Gelb  The growth in ways to communicate wirelessly – whether at work or at home – raises a number of exciting and frightening privacy implications for individuals, companies and employees. Are you at risk? [REQUEST A COPY]

Social Networking: Opening the Floodgates to Personal Data

Social Networking: Opening the Floodgates to Personal Data I hope this message finds you well. I’d like to share my latest article with you, entitled “Social Networking: Opening the Floodgates to “Personal Data’.” Dr. Rebecca Wong and I recently published this in the Computer and Telecommunications Law Review. The article discusses how users of social networking…

Personal and Corporate Responsibility for Searching, Preserving and Producing Information

In March 2009, a court noted that a corporation’s failure to adopt appropriation information polices can results in potentially costly legal sanctions. While sanctions themselves may or may not be substantial, the legal fees leading up to the sanctions will likely to be weighty. See, Phillip M. Adams & Assoc. L.L.C. v. Dell, Inc., 2009…