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Encryption Law
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International Financial Law Prof Blog
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Remarks at the Global Cyber Security Summit
I am reminded of a story about a young schoolboy who was assigned to describe Socrates. The boy wrote, “Socrates walked around giving people advice. So they poisoned him.” I hope…
Inside Privacy
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Warns Against Warrant-Proof Encryption
In a speech delivered at the United States Naval Academy on October 10, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein waded into the public debate between data privacy and law enforcement interests.…
Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
Time to Review Your Encryption Classifications – BIS Updates Primary Purpose Exemption
By Kelley Drye
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently published changes to its encryption regulations in an effort to simplify the text and focus the scope of controls. The biggest change…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Will IBM’s recommendation to encrypt the universe provide better cyber protection, or just profits for IBM?
By Peter Vogel
The Washington Post reported that “IBM argues that universal encryption could be the answer to what has become an epidemic of hacking.” The July 17, 2017 article entitled “To battle…
Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
BIS Alert! New Encryption Controls Guidance Posted
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has posted long-awaited updates to its guidance regarding changes to a number of encryption-related provisions in the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). The…
Consumer Protection Connection
New Mexico Enacts Data Breach Notification Law; Tennessee Reinstates Encryption Safe Harbor
By Sheila Millar, Tracy Marshall
New Mexico is the 48th state to enact a data breach law. That law, the Data Breach Notification Act (HB15), is scheduled to take effect on June 16, 2017. Alabama…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Third Circuit Holds Criminal Defendant in Contempt for Refusing to Decrypt Hard Drives
In a precedential ruling, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals this week upheld a lower court’s ruling holding a criminal defendant in contempt for refusing to decrypt two external hard…
The Right Coast
Apple, Google, Microsoft in crosshairs of WikiLeaks allegations
Nearly a year after a unified front of companies fought the FBI's attempt to hack the encrypted iPhone of a terrorist, the biggest consumer tech names (Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft) are facing…
The Right Coast
Apple, Google, Microsoft in crosshairs of WikiLeaks allegations
Nearly a year after a unified front of companies fought the FBI's attempt to hack the encrypted iPhone of a terrorist, the biggest consumer tech names (Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft) are facing…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
WhatsApp Security Flaw, Lawsuit in Germany
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…