Business Law

Amazon’s Data Center Outage Highlights Cloud Computing Risks

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“Redundancy, Redundancy, Redundancy.” Any good risk management tool is predicated around this mantra, and yet today, in a highly unusual incident, Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers’ went blank.  Client sites from Foursquare to Reddit were rendered inaccessible Thursday, and there is no communication from AWS personnel as to why the system went down.  I wonder how much […]

Business Law

Como se dice “le Doit al’Oubli” en Espanol? “Right to be Forgotten” Debate Emerges in Spain

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A few weeks ago I blogged about how the French government is demanding information repository companies, like Google, Yahoo, et al, allow its citizenry to be completely wiped from oblivion on the Internet.  I think what is most intriguing about “le Doit al ‘Oubli” is how it highlights the distinct differences between European and American viewpoints […]

Data Security & Privacy

Round 2: NLRB Goes After Private Company for Reprimanding Reporter’s Twitter Comments

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The increase in frequency over firings related to public comments posted on social media sites is an emerging area in employment/labor law.  Recently, I followed the case of a Connecticut ambulance company who fired its employee over rants she made on Facebook about her supervisor.  The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) asserted that such communications […]

Business Law

Lesson from Epsilon E-Mail Breach: Better Data Governance Need by Service Providers

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  Due to a “massive” breach by the marketing firm Epsilon, an unknown amount of names and e-mail addresses were exposed that could potentially lead to phishing attacks by organized criminal elements.  Epsilon is a service provider which handles e-mail marketing lists for hundreds of clients, including giants like JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, Target, and Walgreens.    The […]