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Encryption Law
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Facebook Takes a First Step Toward Mass Adoption of Encryption
By Steve Gold
This week, the social networking service Facebook quietly announced that it will begin making PGP encryption available for communications from Facebook to its users. While this step, in itself, is…
Data Counsel
Lost, Unencrypted Laptop Leads FINRA to Fine a Broker-Dealer $225,000 for Violating Reg S-P
With the recent focus by the SEC and FINRA on cybersecurity for broker-dealers and investment advisers as a backdrop, FINRA recently brought and settled an enforcement action under SEC Regulation…
Data Law Insights
Technology Coalition tells the President: Encryption Back Doors are a Bad Idea
In an open letter to President Obama, 143 of the nation’s most well-known businesses, trade associations, academics, and organizations urged the President to promote strong encryption technologies. The letter was…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Why there’s no room for surveillance backdoors in the modern privacy landscape
With a high-profile court decision declaring the NSA’s reading of the Patriot Act illegal, pundits and politicians alike are scrambling to see the fate of the act will be at…
Password Protected
How Difficult is it to Break Encryption?
Whether it’s in discussions of public policy or discussions of best practices, encryption is all the rage right now. In fact, it’s been all the rage for centuries, but with…
Password Protected
Congress Talks Encryption
The Information Technology Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform of the US of House of Representatives last Wednesday held a hearing on encryption technology and potential US…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
It Isn’t Just Readership: Mobile Privacy is Surging Ahead of the Desktop
Hacks are everywhere these days. But if Apple’s new security measure is as good as it says it is, mobile internet may have the leg up on fixed internet. [caption…
LawSites
Techshow Preview: TitanFile to Show New Browser-Based Encryption
At ABA Techshow next week, the file-sharing platform TitanFile will be demonstrating its new integration with Credeon, a highly secure, browser-based encryption technology developed by Hitachi Solutions America Ltd. The…
Of Digital Interest
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 Encryption Declared “No Longer Acceptable” to Protect Data
On Friday, February 13, 2015, the Payment Cards Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (Council) posted a bulletin to its website, becoming the first regulatory body to publicly pronounce that Secure…
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Attention, Health Insurers: Unique Encryption Requirements in NJ
By Theodore Augustinos, Troutman Pepper Locke
As further analyzed in our QuickStudy, available here, New Jersey has enacted a new law (P.L. 2014, c. 88, codified at N.J. Stat. Ann. §§ 56:8-196 - 56:8-198) effective August…