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Privacy
20 articles on privacy from the Law & Forensics team.
January 15, 2026
Smaller Firms, Big Obligations: What the Amended Reg S-P Now Demands
The SEC's amended Regulation S-P now requires broker-dealers and advisers to maintain incident-response programs and notify customers after a breach. Here is what smaller firms must do.
January 16, 2025
Facing the Deepfake Crisis: Insights From Enterprise and Legal Frontlines
The rapid advancement of deepfake technology has introduced unprecedented challenges across industries, fundamentally transforming our digital trust landscape through sophisticated corporate fraud and emerging legal…
January 9, 2025
Banks’ Reactive Approach To Fraud Is No Longer Sufficient
Banks today face a formidable challenge in combating fraud amid rapid digital transformation. Despite significant investments in security, fraud incidents continue to expose critical vulnerabilities. Traditional…
September 26, 2024
Inside the Clubhouse: The Growing Cyber Threats Facing Country Clubs
Country clubs have become increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals. Members entrust these institutions with highly sensitive information, including names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, and…
August 16, 2024
8 Tips for Businesses to Achieve Compliance and Avoid Fines Under the CPRA’s Data Minimization Requirements
Organizations that prioritize data minimization and stay up to date with changes in privacy laws and regulations will be well- positioned to meet the privacy challenges of the future.
February 3, 2023
Law & Forensics Supports an Automotive Multinational in Privacy Compliance
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March 2, 2020
Making Heads or Tails of the California Consumer Privacy Act
Sadly, like most pioneers in their field, the CCPA contains drawbacks that hinder its impact in addressing growing privacy concerns. Above all, the CCPA lacks the mechanisms necessary to achieving its purported…
August 29, 2019
The Wider Implications Of The California Consumer Privacy Act
Without a federal standard for digital privacy legislation, states are left to their own devices in enacting internet and data privacy laws. The result is a cacophonous patchwork of state legislation, leaving…
July 19, 2017
CyberLife: Social Media, Right-of-Publicity and Consenting to Terms of Service
The past few years have seen a surge of activity in right-of-publicity litigation related to social media. Cases such as Fraley v. Facebook and Perkins v. LinkedIn addressed social media websites’ unauthorized use of…
June 15, 2016
White Paper – Client Data: Secure as the Weakest Link
In this new white paper, published by Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute, authors Daniel Garrie and Rhea Siers examine some of the vulnerabilities that law firms face in keeping their own internal data and…
February 26, 2016
Privacy Vs. Accessibility: Can They Coexist In Cyberspace?
The public safety versus privacy debate regarding cybersecurity and end-to-end encryption has entered the mainstream of society and jurisprudence. One need look no further than the very public Apple Inc. v. FBI…
June 12, 2014
Strategic Assertions: Evading the Patent Marking Requirement
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June 26, 2012
Limiting the Affirmative Defense in the Digital Workplace
[](/assets/uploads/2020/06/workplace-scaled.jpg)From 2009 to 2011, there were more than 30,000 sexual harassment claims filed in the United States. The ubiquitous availability of digital technology devices has…
June 22, 2010
Data Protection: The Challenges Facing Social Networking
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January 1, 2009
Impersonation of Life “The Perils of Social Networking”
As the user realizes their dilemma, their brow becomes furrowed and drips with sweat caused by frustration and concern. While they wring their hands with despair, they ask themselves, “How could this have happened?”,…
December 1, 2006
The Legal Status of Spyware
The law provides those whose private information is being misused little recourse and provides little protection for those legitimately mining information. Even though large-scale breaches grab the headlines, many…
October 19, 2006
Demystifying Clickstream Data: A European and U.S. Perspective
data and by analyzing the extent to which such data is protected.
June 25, 2006
Introduction: Creating Legitimate Digital Privacy Rights for Internet Users
[](/assets/uploads/2020/06/privacy-2-scaled.jpg)Privacy has become a complex legal issue as technological advancements have created a multitude of ways, both physical and digital, that one’s privacy rights can be…
June 14, 2006
Electronic Discovery and the Challenge Posed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
[](/assets/uploads/2020/06/oxlay-scaled.jpg)While the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was intended to protect and increase publicly held corporations’ accountability, lurking in the background are judicial inequities resulting…
June 12, 2006
Voice over Internet Protocol and the Wiretap Act: Is Your Conversation Protected?
[](/assets/uploads/2020/06/wiretap-scaled.jpg)10101101: Is this sequence of digits voice or data? To a computer, voice is a sequence of digits and data is a sequence of digits. The law has defined 10101101 to be…
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