Data Security & Privacy

Update: Google’s Threats to Leave China Highlights the Need for Better Data Governance Controls

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  In a follow up to the developing story between China’s response to Google’s threats to leave that market, The New York Times reported today that many corporations are starting to voice their concerns about the amount of government-backed surveillance in China.  Security researchers in Canada found that "an automated espionage system based in China […]

Data Security & Privacy

Google’s Threats to Leave China Highlights the Need for Better Data Governance Controls

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  Google, Inc., announced today that it will stop censoring its search results in China, and possibly pull out of the country completely, after it was discovered that Chinese hackers had tricked human rights activists into exposing their e-mail accounts to outsiders.  According to The New York Times, the hackers were trying to break "into the computers […]

Business Law

Court Rules Personal E-mails Private Even if Sent from Government Computers

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  A Federal District Court judge ruled in December that personal e-mails from a government employee that were sent to his attorney from government computers is private, which challenges the popular notion that government employees do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy at work.  Whenever I talk about expectations of privacy in the workplace, I am quick to point […]